THE THEATRE
(By "Sylvius.")
"Over There." It has remained for Geo. 11. Cohan, tho gifted writer of "Seven Keys to Uauljkilo" ami "Hit-thc-Trail Holiday" (wliic i .Ur. Fred Niblo is bringing to Ansjralia), to wi-ito the most populor patriotic song in America. This is "Over There, a. soil}! that hit the spirit of tho moment, precisely. The refrain, which goes to lliu air of a, bugle cull, runs:— Over there, over there, Semi tho word, send the word, ovcx thero ■That the Yanl;s are coming, The Yanks are eomiuß. The drums tnm-tiimmiim everywhere. St> prepare, say a prayer, fiend the word, send the worcl to pre■iiare. We'll be over, we're comins oyer, And we. won't come l.mftv till it f - over over there. The Fuller Theatres. I'robablv in no other part of I Sri tain 'Overseas 'is vaudeville so well pvovulod lot' in llio niitlit.T 01 lliealverf as it is in ill.? Ni'w Zciilatnl centres. Tlianks ly ;h .. -IV.. I''i!.lk'r, this form of theatrical e ; v.'i-taiiniiont, .-o perpetually ill la\oiir, is (.;.nwally.aiv«> ni «u«l (and even ' ,v:;>w ii\ some Cm>.'\l accommodation as j is n ,;\i,b(l |~n inuring dramatic, com|,v>" m.i i■■ l i'ii tympanies. Wo only liavn ! vi'"Wellington as an example. One t hears 11expression, "L like II w i _vi a j v s'. its .superior acoustics, the liuire i eo arrainsment ,<>f the seats, i ~H> ti>.- i vl«w "obtainable from every i.'vat in liu! auditorium." In Auckland ' i!i,' Oiv-ra jlea.io compares tavourably ! vi't'i ;M!V theatre '.a Australasia, and tho ; -.literal ions to tl'.o Princess Theatre of s iViv vears ago brought that house quite i up ki date. Tho Fuller? 'believe in ownj in- theiT own theatres rather than easing or renting. They arc alxni-. to rebuild the old Xutional Amphitlicatio (tho home ol' boxing in tho days or larrv Folev aad Peter Jackson) in t.ydiiey." Tho,'theatre occupies a iino central silo in' Cast lereagh Street, and would have been rebuilt years ago but ici' certaiu restrictions which have evidently been overcome. Mr. Henry A. "While, who built His Majesty's in A\ ellinglon, and Iho theatres at Timaru, Hastings. Blenheim, ami elsewhere, lias 'been retained to design the new theatre lo replace the. Canlerbnry Hall in Juristchurch (recently destroyed by lire). Iho consistency with which the Fullers have insisted on jnovidi Dfr comfortable and well-appointed theatres in the centres wh"re thev are located will always have, as it has hat', its own reward at the box office. Biscuit Proud. There are some parts of Connecticut, U.S.A., where a certain home-made biscuit has a great vogue. Xow some oi the scenes in the .T. and X. Tail; production of "I)o Luxo Annie" at: the Melbourne King's are laid in Connecticut:, anil it will lie remembered that: a board-inghouse-keeper, Mrs. Gilniorc, inlroduccs some biscuits which resolutely defy . Jimmy Filr.patrick to bite them. This episode always causes a laugh, but ii was productive of .indignation when {he play went on tour through Connecticut a few mouths ago. The inhabitants who saw tho play (bought that the author was making' fun of tho local bis- ■ ciiit, while a lady in one of tho towns visited declared that Mrs. Gilmorc was • a caricature of her good self introduced ; casually for tho enjoyment of her neighbours. " What; intensified the joke was 1 that her biscuits were her proudest ; achievement-, and she was naturally nf- '. fected by Jinnny's implied contempt for " (ho dainty. It "required all the liian- ' agement's tact to explain that tho, au- ' thor could not possibly have been lliinic--5 ing of her when lio drew the character } of' ilrs. Gilmor.\ How Derek- Hudson Died. i The parents of tho lato Lieutenant , Derek Hudson, a baritono who became c very popular here, in tho _ princiI pul role iu "Gipsy Love," and in various other comic opera characters, have I- forwarded to his widow a letter describ:l ing his death. .Mrs. Hudson is still apII pcaring with the ,T. C. A\illiamson Musi--0 eal Comedy Company under tho stagename of Kileen J)awn. Lieutenant Iltidson, v.h.o was iu the Flying Corps, was h vprV seriously wounded, death following V on blood-poisoning, which had supervened s on serious burns contractcd when hi; n machine came down in llaiues. 13v a d later mail Mrs. Hudson received from the same German centre a letter of court- dolenco from Lieutenant "Ward, Austra- " linn Flying Corps, the address of whoso t. family on this side she would bo pleased to know. Mr. Ward has safely in his p. possession tho gold watch presented by d the Koyal Comic Opera Company lo Mr. Hudson beforo lie enlisted.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 11
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