The theatre : an illustrated monthly devoted to the stage

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Sydney : W.J. Moulton, 1904-1912
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Vol. 5 No. 9 (1 August 1907)
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The Theatre  

No 9. Vol. V.  

["Registered at the G.P.O. Sydney fori  

(.Transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

■With which is incorporated THE PLAYER.  

An illustrated jYtonthly devoted to the Stage.  

Price. Threenen CP  

’ vjrviivv.  

Printed and Published by John W. Ekdv, Theatrical Commercial  

Printer, corner of Market and Kent Streets, Sydney. ’Phone 3647.  

August Ist, 1907.  

The Theatre.  

“The world’s theatre, the earth stage,  

Which God and Nature do with actors till.”  

Thomas Heywood.  

Managerial Notices.  

“The Theatre” is devoted to the advancement of Theatrical  

Interests, and is published on the Ist of every month. Price  

3d., obtainable from all newsagents or booksellers, or posted  

free from Head Office on receipt of Annual Subscription of 3/6.  

Literary Contributions to The Theatre are cordially invited,  

which must be addressed to The Editor, 19 Market Street’  

City, and in every instance bear the full Name and Address of  

the Contributor as guarantee of bona fides.  

All Alterations in Advertisements—if allowed for in Contract  

—must be forwarded to Publishing Office not later than 24th  

of each month for publication in ensuing issue.  

Arrangements have been made for Agencies in Victoria, South  

Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia, New  

Zealand, South Africa, and London for the sale of ‘ ‘ The  

Theatre,” also for receipt of Advertisements for same.  

JOHN W. EEDY,  

’Phone 3647-  

Proprietor and Publisher.  

Editorial.  

Nowadays when, to use commonplace expression, every-  

body goes to the theatre, it has ceased to be an affectation  

Intervals.  

to speak of the entr ’ante in referring to  

that pleasant interval of expectation  

which comes between the one act of  

play and the commencement of the following scene. The  

“ wait,” as it is termed by those purists and professionals  

who prefer the mother-tongue to foreign importations,  

always offers the element of agreeable variety—a variety  

indeed which is infinite, depending as it does on series  

of circumstances which in themselves will be found never  

to repeat themselves. The thousand and one side influ-  

ences which take most important part in the question  

have to be considered. First, of course, comes the position  

of the interval as regards the progress of the piece the  

interval between the first and second acts possesses  

totally different character to that between the following  

acts. The waits on first night differ widely from those  

of subsequent performances, as the audience perhaps is  

often made only too well aware. Who, again, can calculate  

how vastly the whole aspect of the wait is influenced bv  

the spectator’s state of mind? Has he hastily swallowed  

meal to be in time for the first scene It being specially  

intimated in the bills that it is most important for the  

proper understanding of the piece that the audience should  

be seated before, etc. It is manifest that the aspect of  

the wait on the mind of such spectator must vary con-  

siderably from that produced on the happy spectator who  

has dined comfortably and finds himself seated cosily  

say between two charming lady acquaintances with whom  

he finds he is “getting on ” admirably though it must be  

added, as balance against this, that in spite of good  

dinner troublesome neighbour may ruin one’s whole  

evening’s amusement. Who can calculate the miseries of  

the interval, especially if it be prolonged one, on the  

mind of the spectator troubled with tight boots, which  

have, of course, been duly trampled on bv the various late  

arrivals—whose seats are invariably the furthest from the  

available gangways—and who, in addition, persist in ad-  

journing between each act to the outside lobby for few  

whiffs of cigarette, or else pilgrimage to the shrine of  

Bacchus. The feelings of the spectator in the front stalls,  

placed near the trombone, or the well-worked big drum,  

must necessarily largely affect, and in most varied  

manner—according to the music played—the aspect of the  

wait. The pleasure of having to endure well-sustained  

draught from an open door or carefully contrived ventil-  

ator is point well calculated to affect the aspect of the  

interval, even more successfully perhaps than the stifling  

heat which seems, in spite of all our modern improvements  

concomitant of the theatre.  

Again, is the piece by friend or, better still, by an  

enemy Is one, in fact, in any way personally interested  

WHAT MEN DRINK  

At MAYMAN’S HOTEL  

WHISKY ABOVE SUSPICION  

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