RUNNING FOR SEVEN YEARS
OLD-FASHIONED MELODRAMA. BURLESQUE PROVES POPULAR IN LOS ANGELES. Written 100 years ago as a grim preachment against the evils of drink, melodrama, "The Drunkard, in burlesque version, has been running in Los Angeles since July, 1933. Its closest rival is "Tobacco Road,” in New York, which has been running seven years, but opened five months later. First to produce "The Drunkard’ in America was P. T. Barnum, of circus fame, who reputedly brought it from England. It ran more than a year in New York in 1843, and was seriously applauded. During its current Los Angeles season, twelve actors in “The Drunkard” have married. The drinkcrazed hero has tossed oil fifty gallons of watered coffee that looks like whisky on the stage. Many movie stars from Hollywood have seen the play more than twenty times. Between hissing the villain and cheering the heroine, audiences have consumed a million and a half bottles of beer and 25 tons of pretzels. An audience of 350 fills the little theatre nightly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 9
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172RUNNING FOR SEVEN YEARS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 9
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