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The bulletin

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Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 75 No. 3885 (28 Jul 1954)
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Contents

The Bulletin 1
Jeppelts DRURY LANE'S THEATRE ROYAL Is London’s OLDEST PLAYHOUSE 1
Advertising 1
PEA-PICKERS' SEQUEL 2
The Red Page Norman Douglas 2
Stephen Potter on Humor 2
Bladen and Piecot 2 , 35
Souvenir Section 35
Reviewed Briefly 35
Advertising 2 , 3
The Bulletin 4
A CHANGE OF HEART 4
Twin Obsessions 4
Moorilond Election-year 4
No title 5
PLAIN ENGLISH Indo-China and After 6 , 7
POLITICAL POINTS 7
Society "AND IT'S PRINTED WITH WIMBLES INKS" 8 , 9
A MUSIC LESSON 8
NOBLE REPRESSION 9
AS USUAL 9
PERSOMAL ITEMS 10
No title 11
ABORIGINALITIES 12 , 13
MY VALLEY 12
Old Reliable 12
THE PAPER-BARKS 13
NO SALE 13
Business.Rollery.Etc. 14
Advertising 14
MAORILAND FINANCE AND INDUSTRY 15
Advertising 15
The WILD CAT COLUMN 16 , 17
Advertising 16 , 17
Women's Letters SYDNEY 18
MELBCUBNE 18
SUNDRY SHOWS INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE 19
Stage and Music 19
Talkies 19
Advertising 19
Serenade 20 , 34
THE WATER-JUMP 20
Advertising 21
The Night DAD LEFS FOR CHINA 22 , 23
Advertising 22 , 23
SERVICE DEPARTMENT 24
Advertising 24
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 24
Advertising 24
"Go outside! Go outside and eat grass!" Lady Lights of Learning 25 , 34
SPORTING NOTIONS 26
Advertising 26
Changes on the Clarence Earle Page's Home-river 27
A Bush Paper of the ’Nineties 27 , 34
UNCABLED ADDITIONS INDONESIA 28
Advertising 28
German Character 28 , 29
Advertising 28
Japan and Communism 29
Dragnet Digest 29
Advertising 29
THE OTHER FELLOW'S MIND 30 , 31
Advertising 31
THE MAN ON THE LAND "DON'T WORRY, I'M SENDING IT TO GRAZCOS." LAMB AND CROW 32
GET IN EARLY 32
Wool Forecast 32
Advertising 32
Illustrated Hint 32
Farm Hints 32
Advertising 32
Clay Ribbons 33
Advertising 33
Sugar Agreement 33
Handling the Bull 33
Sorghum 33
The Weather 33
Kale 33
Crosscuts 33
Advertising 33 , 34 , 35
“THE BULLETIN” CROSSWORD No. 288 35
Advertising 36

Text

The Bulletin  

CARTOON COMMENTARY  

“The Bulletin,” Vol. 75—No. 3885  

Wednesday, July 28, 1954  

Price 9d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for transmission by Post as Newspaper  

Jeppelts  

DRURY LANE'S THEATRE ROYAL  

Is London’s OLDEST PLAYHOUSE  

IN spite of wartime casualties there are in  

central London today no fewer than fifty  

theatres of which the oldest, still standing on its  

original site, is the world-famous Theatre  

Royal, Drury Lane. The Lane takes its name  

from Sir William Drury who lived there in the  

reign of Henry VIII. Previously it was known  

as the Via de Aldwych, being the road which  

led from the Danish settlement around St.  

Clement Danes to the hamlet of St. Giles. In  

the time of the Stuarts it was an aristocratic  

quarter, but by the opening of the 18th century  

it was already on the downgrade. Among  

notable residents were Nell Gwynne and Oliver  

Cromwell, who lived there in 1646.  

The first Drury Lane Theatre was opened by  

Killigrew in 1663 under the distinguished  

patronage of Charles 11, who was regular  

patron once his eyes had alighted on the comely  

features of Nell Gwynne. This original theatre  

was destroyed by fire and rebuilt by Wren in  

1674, but this building later followed similar  

fate. The Drury Lane Theatre of today is the  

fourth of that name to stand upon the original  

site. It was opened in 1812 with Prologue  

written by Lord Byron.  

Until the end of the 18th century the Players  

at Drury Lane were entitled to claim certain  

privileges which included the right to wear  

Windsor uniform, the right of attending the  

Sovereign on State occasions and the right to  

shoot on Crown land without licence.  

Drury Lane has known all the great players  

of the English stage—Garrick, Keene, Sarah  

Siddons, the Kembles, Irving, Tree and many  

of the stars of pantomime and the great modern  

musical productions which are feature of  

today. But of all the grand companies of  

players who have trod the boards at Drury  

Lane, none has achieved the fame of “pretty,  

witty” Nell Gwynne who became the mistress  

of Charles 11.  

The theatre is one of the largest in the world,  

providing accommodation for 3,000 people and,  

it would seem, almost that number on the  

stage so large is its size. Because of its vastness  

and its suitability for large scale musical pro-  

ductions such as “Oklahoma,” it has, in recent  

years, specialised in this form of entertainment.  

In its early days Drury Lane Theatre was  

frequently the scene of riots for such reasons  

as leaky roof or the inclusion of “Papists and  

Frenchmen” among the performers.  

As result the theatre enjoyed, until recent  

times, the distinction of having two sentries  

mounting guard at the door.  

An old custom is still observed annually on  

Twelfth Night when the “Baddeley Cake” is cut  

and eaten on the stage by performers and  

principal guests.  

£ HOUSE  

dfg  

OF SEPPELT  

PRODUCERS OP  

EXTRA DRY SOLERO • ROYAL PURPLE PARA  

CHATEAU TANUNDA BRANDY • GREAT WESTERN CHAMPAGNE  

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