COMEDY IN ONE ACT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 23, 19 April 1927, Page 1

COMEDY IN ONE ACT

TRAMCAR THE STAGE THE QUIET YOUNG MAN Francis Sharp must have thought he was a stage comedian. The tramcar was bowling along up Hobson Street when he rose unsteadily to his feet and tried to engage some of the fairer members of his audience in a little bright and sparkling conversation. His effort fell flat, so he started to sing. Nothing was thrown at him because the audience had nothing but tram tickets to throw, so he gave up singing and started to wander up and down the car. A young man who had been taking more than a passing interest in Sharp’s comedy efforts advised him to sit down, but the would-be comedian was not to take counsel from anyone.

At the next stop he invited the young man to step off the car and have —in his own words —a “stoush.” The two stepped off, and the quiet young man, who happened to be Constable Goebel in plain clothes, promptly arrested him.

“Forty shillings or seven days!” said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, when Sharp, a dishevelled young man of 35, was charged with being disorderly while drunk.