STRIKES IN AUSTRALIA
DION BOUUICAUI.T DISGUSTED
(liv Telegraph—Press Association)
AUCKLAND, .lan. Mi
Dion Bmieicnult: is disgusted witli A usi iiilia, iiml lias made up his mi ml never to re I urn to it; Strikes ami petty interferences with tlu* transport services have, in his opinion, rendered, the life of a tonrino theatrical producer intolerable. In' future lie proposes to remain in Kurland. Speaking of his plans, the veteran aetor-manaocr said that on the completion of his forthcoming South African tom he intended to abandon acting and coniine his attentions to producing plays.
“Australia and New Zealand have both heen my favourite overseas countries.” he remarked' “hut. after my recent experience in the Commonwealth it is useless to expect: me to return. In Melbourne the railways and shipping services were held up. and we could not move out of the place. To get from one city to another with my baggage, which runs? into I don’t know how many tons, entailed a long succession of annoyances and expensive delays. It is simply not worth while to travel 24,000 mile:-; to Australia and back to he worried with continual strikes and 'bomb outrages. ’There were, six strikes during the six months .1 was in the country. It is trade unionism gone mad.”
AN ACTOR’S RE.MARKS
SYDNEY, January IS
The actor Boueieault’s interview at Auckland, in which he said he was disgusted with Australia, etc., and that ho would never return, is featured in the “Sun” newspaper, side by side with what purports to he his farewell remarks here before leaving ifor New Zealand, one sentence of which may he cpioted: “ We shall always think of our very happy associations with you both theatricallv and socially.”
The Run ” heads this up “An Actor Mind.” “Dul Boucieault Change It?”
The “ Sun ” also publishes a second Auckland interview in which Boucieault hastens to explain his condemnation referred solely to Australian strikes and agitators. .). C. Williamson’s general manager here, expresses the opinion that an entirely wrong impression has been placed on Boueieault’s farewell observations.
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