THE TAKING TAITS.

NZ Truth, Issue 138, 8 February 1908, Page 4

THE TAKING TAITS.

, In the theatrical, world anything is permissible, probable and possible. To-day J. C. Williamson is top-dog m Australasia, and may he remain so for years to come. Harry Rickards has got his load on, our own .Fullers are on the high-road to fortune, and there is the smaller fry. who snap at the sundry sprats and trust yet to come out as successful entrepreneurs. Now, just at present exploiting New Zealand aro tw* Taits, who endeavor to run anything or anybody, from a moving picture to a Madame Butt. No doubt run liing Madame is a , profitable move, though this paper isn't .inclined to think that the Taking ■ Taits will make any big name for themsdv_* m this world. They are .a r pair of shalrks, and it is just as well "to see how the voracious pair are endeavoring to come to the front as success* ful managers. Everybody who is any-, body knows full well that it wag due Ito the enterprise of the three McMahons that a film was taVeu of ' tho incidents Of "Robbery Under- Aims," j which that firm is showing with great success m the Dominion. They were put to considerable expense and loss of time m superintending its proauction, and it was a success. They raf»»«'_d the Taits,' the greedy grab-, alls, any Australian rights, and the two Taits, who . have more money, perhaps, behind them than tlie Macs, set about to get a film of their own, and set up m opposition, and the result recently was that hoth the MicITvbon picture and the Tait reprosan-t<j.t-ion of "Robbery under Arms** were shown simultaneously m Perth. W.A., which shows, if nothing el&e. what dog? in-the-mancer the two. greedy Taits are. One thing, however, is curtain, they willvnever be great threatical people m Australasia, for the simple reason that' they're not popular, and nobody cac*f» tuppence for them, ond would as soon tell them to go to Hell as look at them. Anyhow. the Taits are after every bone. What with ' Clara Butt m one portion of these, southern colonies, and "Rohherv Under A<rms'? picture m another, it looks ns if I_# Taits are extremists. Still, r_,a_win_ a guinea to hear Butt is roMbery without the arms. "Truth" m_*fct sev something concerning p-thwa'cra. nected with the Taits, "but to w*a!4* It will keep. - .