BUST!
A good story told by Mr. Matheson Lang a little while back concerns an incident ■which occurred during a Shakespearean festival at Stratford-on-Avon in which he took part.
We were—-he said^-doing about ten different pieces in the week, and this meant a fearful amount of work for everybody, especially for the stage hands and the property man. And behold! the property man was Irish.
At the end of the week, when the poor chap was nearly dead with hard work, some "props" that were essential for« the last performance of all were missing, and during a frantic search in the property room the Irishman's eyes alighted upon a little plaster bust of Shakespeare.
"Take that, ye spalpeen, for writing plays!" he yelled in his despair, and smashed the thing to atoms.
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Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 35, 7 February 1929, Page 3
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