London Boom in Musical Comedy
COMEDIAN TALKS OF CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND The British public is not receiving mechanical music sympathetically in the opinion of Dan Agar, the comedian who has arrived in Australia. Mr. Agar has been brought out by White and Edgely .o be principal comedian in their musical production “Love Lies,” which will be staged at the King’s Theatre, Melbourne. He was in Australia under the J. C. Williamson management some years ago. Mr. Agar said that the talkirg film boom seemed to be dying in London. At one picture theatre he attended the crowd applauded for several minutes when an announcement was thrown on the screen stating than a programme of silent films would be shown the next week. The sudden boom in musical comedy productions could be taken as indicating that the theatre going public of London preferred flesh end blood to shadows where light musical entertainment was concerned. More than 20.000 musicians were suddenly thrown out of employment in an incredibly brief period when the talkie boom started, added Mr. Agar, and many of them were still unemployed, although some of the theatres had re-engaged small orchestras to accompany vaudeville turns with which most talking film pro j grammes were supplemented.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 846, 14 December 1929, Page 31
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