Julius Knight, Old-timer
= ‘THE Lady of Lyons’ used to be almost as safe a stand-by as ‘East Lynne.’ I only saw it once and I’m afraid I laughed a good deal when I shouldn’t. It really was a bad play. But those were the days." "Do you think that is because we're getting old, or were they really the days?" : "They were different somehow. The theatre itself was different. When Julius Knight first came to New
Zealand in the ‘nineties, the cinema wasn’t thought of-at any rate in its present form. By the way, I saw his first performance in this country-it was in the ‘Sign of the Cross.’ A play was a play of flesh and blood and gorgeous scenery, and there was all the romance and glamour of the theatre. Why, 'you could smell it. The cinema has a far larger following to-
day, but it hasn’t the same kind of appeal. We had our favourite actors and actresses, hadn’t we? We could see them in flesh and blood, and not as shad-ows."-(Tribute to Julius Knight, 2YA, February 27.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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181Julius Knight, Old-timer New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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