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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 296, 3 September 1918, Page 6

Writing from Sydney, Mr. .Robert CJW'ig, now produciug director at the Sidney Tivoh, says"We aro having wonderful success with our revues here. "Samples" Company Ims just finished a three weeks' revival, and we intend reviving the "Million Dollar Girl" also. "Time/ Pleaso," has been a big moneymaker. lam opening on : Saturday week a new I'evue, "Honi Soit." John Junior goes into this revue. \ou.wiU remember him with "Turn to the .Right." It may be of interest to you to "know that I am putting into it a sketch entitled "Kitty Nobody," yritton by two New Zealanders. . It is a complete short play running ;,hout twenty minutes, and to my thinking the best short play I have ever read. The cast 'will comprise Miss Beatrice Holloivay, John Junior, and John de j.accy. Miss Beatrice Holloway l.as made wonderfully good in revue iverk, and Barry Lupino has never doiw anything quite so good as his many performances in "Time, Please." Sir Bernard Mallet, in a 1 lecture at the Eoyal Institute of Public Health, gave some figures as to the effect of the war upon populations. On f.lin standard of 1913 Grcat_ Britain lost 650,00Q potential lives owinc to the fall in tho birth rate, which is the direct conseauenco of tho war. "The war," says Sir Bernard Mallet, "bv the fall in' births which it has occasioned, has cost tho belligerent countries in Europe not less than 12,300,000 of potential jives. While tho war has filled the graves it has emptied tho cradles,"