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The Theatre
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Fix this text["Registered at the G.P.O. Sydney fori
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Fix this textAn illustrated jYtonthly devoted to the Stage.
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Fix this textPrinted and Published by John W. Ekdv, Theatrical & Commercial
Fix this textPrinter, corner of Market and Kent Streets, Sydney. ’Phone 3647.
Fix this textAugust Ist, 1907.
Fix this textThe Theatre.
Fix this text“The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage,
Fix this textWhich God and Nature do with actors till.”
Fix this textThomas Heywood.
Fix this textManagerial Notices.
Fix this text“The Theatre” is devoted to the advancement of Theatrical
Fix this textInterests, and is published on the Ist of every month. Price
Fix this text3d., obtainable from all newsagents or booksellers, or posted
Fix this textfree from Head Office on receipt of Annual Subscription of 3/6.
Fix this textLiterary Contributions to The Theatre are cordially invited,
Fix this textwhich must be addressed to The Editor, 19 Market Street’
Fix this textCity, and in every instance bear the full Name and Address of
Fix this textthe Contributor as a guarantee of bona fides.
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Fix this text—must be forwarded to Publishing Office not later than 24th
Fix this textof each month for publication in ensuing issue.
Fix this textArrangements have been made for Agencies in Victoria, South
Fix this textAustralia, Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia, New
Fix this textZealand, South Africa, and London for the sale of ‘ ‘ The
Fix this textTheatre,” also for receipt of Advertisements for same.
Fix this textJOHN W. EEDY,
Fix this text’Phone 3647-
Fix this textProprietor and Publisher.
Fix this textEditorial.
Fix this textNowadays when, to use a commonplace expression, every-
Fix this textbody goes to the theatre, it has ceased to be an affectation
Fix this textIntervals.
Fix this textto speak of the entr ’ante in referring to
Fix this textthat pleasant interval of expectation
Fix this textwhich comes between the one act of a
Fix this textplay and the commencement of the following scene. The
Fix this text“ wait,” as it is termed by those purists and professionals
Fix this textwho prefer the mother-tongue to foreign importations,
Fix this textalways offers the element of agreeable variety—a variety
Fix this textindeed which is infinite, depending as it does on a series
Fix this textof circumstances which in themselves will be found never
Fix this textto repeat themselves. The thousand and one side influ-
Fix this textences which take a most important part in the question
Fix this texthave to be considered. First, of course, comes the position
Fix this textof the interval as regards the progress of the piece ; the
Fix this textinterval between the first and second acts possesses a
Fix this texttotally different character to that between the following
Fix this textacts. The waits on a first night differ widely from those
Fix this textof subsequent performances, as the audience perhaps is
Fix this textoften made only too well aware. Who, again, can calculate
Fix this texthow vastly the whole aspect of the wait is influenced bv
Fix this textthe spectator’s state of mind? Has he hastily swallowed
Fix this texta meal to be in time for the first scene ? It being specially
Fix this textintimated in the bills that it is most important for the
Fix this textproper understanding of the piece that the audience should
Fix this textbe seated before, etc. It is manifest that the aspect of
Fix this textthe wait on the mind of such a spectator must vary con-
Fix this textsiderably from that produced on the happy spectator who
Fix this texthas dined comfortably and finds himself seated cosily
Fix this textsay between two charming lady acquaintances with whom
Fix this texthe finds he is “getting on ” admirably ; though it must be
Fix this textadded, as a balance against this, that in spite of a good
Fix this textdinner a troublesome neighbour may ruin one’s whole
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Fix this textthe interval, especially if it be a prolonged one, on the
Fix this textmind of the spectator troubled with tight boots, which
Fix this texthave, of course, been duly trampled on bv the various late
Fix this textarrivals—whose seats are invariably the furthest from the
Fix this textavailable gangways—and who, in addition, persist in ad-
Fix this textjourning between each act to the outside lobby for a few
Fix this textwhiffs of a cigarette, or else a pilgrimage to the shrine of
Fix this textBacchus. The feelings of the spectator in the front stalls,
Fix this textplaced near the trombone, or the well-worked big drum,
Fix this textmust necessarily largely affect, and in a most varied
Fix this textmanner—according to the music played—the aspect of the
Fix this textwait. The pleasure of having to endure a well-sustained
Fix this textdraught from an open door or carefully contrived ventil-
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Fix this textinterval, even more successfully perhaps than the stifling
Fix this textheat which seems, in spite of all our modern improvements
Fix this textconcomitant of the theatre.
Fix this textAgain, is the piece by a friend or, better still, by an
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Fix this textWHAT MEN DRINK
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Fix this textWHISKY ABOVE SUSPICION
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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