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NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 3

Once when George Rignoid was running Her Majesty's. Sydney, a> visitor • drooped *m while a rehearsal was on. Not" knowing Rignold, . and thinking, from his off-hand manner and working, clothes that George was a mere hireling, he demanded the production of 'someone -more important. Hereupon Rienold exploded : "Young man, m this office, save the Creator, no one is more important than I." This reminds us once when Mr Rignold was complaining; to Kock, his property master, that the bricks used m '-'Youth" were.. not sufficiently natural, he wrathfully kicked one across the stace, saying, "Now, is tnat any thing like a brick ?" It happened to be a- real -one* and' -George had to wear a slipper for weeks arterwards. . In America recently (as m thousands of cases m the past) two brothers and a wronged husband, who arranged their sister's ruin and his wife's dishonor by .killing the seducers fatally dead, were honorably acquitted by juries. In sanctimonious, sinful Ghristchurch, I>he other day, a young fellow named Walter George Blood smashed 'on the jaw a man named David Kcnnard. whom Ire had been led to believe had tried to his sister., and, as Kennard worked for Blood's mother and was useful m her business, neither woman would tear testimony whfn 'Rlood was 'summoned fo v assault, and an unfeeling ]YTa>'Lsl -rate, with no chivalry m his sou. and the heart of a frog, fined the avon?T of his sister a oui-d and costs. Unquestionably t-hey do these things better jn. America. I