A POOR SHOT. The village hadn’t even a cinema, and when a filth-rate theatrical company came there it was an event. Tonight they were playing ‘ The Madness of Mabel Mudguard,’ but the intervals were long, and the audience impatient. To keep them quiet a versatile member of the cast, who had been on the music halls, undertook to do a knifethrowing turn. Ho threw knife after knife, slowly hut surely pinning his pretty assistant between two rows of gleaming blades. Sometimes the knives missed her by only a hair’s breadth. The-audience watched the exhibition in stolid silence for some time. Then a disgusted voice at the back <pf the hall remarked audibly: “ Bill, let’s clear out. The old fool’s missed ’er again.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 20135, 27 March 1929, Page 15
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122Page 15 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 20135, 27 March 1929, Page 15
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