THEATRE DECLARED BLACK
STRIKE OF MUSICIANS GRAMOPHONE REPLACES ORCHESTRA. Press Association—By Telegraph - Copyright HOBART, December 28. (Received December 28, at 12.1 d p.m.) The Musicians’ Union has declared black the Theatre Royal, where a play, headed by Muriel Starr, is running, because the management installed an automatic gramophone in place of the orchestra. The theatre employees ceased work, and pickets endeavoured to dissuade the public from patronising the show, which, however, continues with volunteer attendants and scene shifters. The strikers are chagrined at the public’s full-house support of “ tinned music.’i
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Evening Star, Issue 20060, 28 December 1928, Page 6
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90THEATRE DECLARED BLACK Evening Star, Issue 20060, 28 December 1928, Page 6
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