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Walter Dwyer's refrain: Why pick
Tne?'
Marie Ney is itere.
nay ?
Wiho will say her
All's fair in love and war—and at
week-end picnics.
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Everything comes to him who waits
—even 4-he 'waitress if he waits longenough.
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Wedding bells ring for four vauiieviliuns
shortly. The "joy boys" are
mixed -up in the scrimmage.
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_ Reports from all corners of Australia
suggest that our gaols are run.
the savages of th# community.
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"The Profligate" is a play .that makes
you tii-ink seriously—about .hubbv and
•his past .capers if you happen to he a
married lady.
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"Wasn't April 1 an inauspicious
date on v/hich. to open the Soldiers'
Appeal against starvation? Or are
-the soldiers humorists even in starvation?
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G. T. Collins, representative of tlie
"Boodletin " appears tc have struck a
•poorish time in -the West as the representative
of the Xationalist profiteering
sheet.
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Lottie Tate -of- .the inimitable Four
Tates or the Tate Family as -they -wore
afterwards called, has consiceived something
strikingly novel in the way of
vaadevi-l'e production, and Dennis has
the goods for his opening at the Melrose.
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The first round of a free speech fight
j was opened on the -FremantVe Esplanade
last Sunday. :Ben' Jones, II.UA.,
declared the Esplanade open to the
j people on a show of hands -being taken!
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"The Woman God Forgot," is described
as a superb super-star. Wonderful
what an attraction -that sort of
woman lias for .the man God doesn't
remember.
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A Fremantle benedict savs (He always
thought ±hat a mule was the most o-b-
, stl nate -creature in existence
he sot spliced, however, he has" modified
his opinion coasiderah'"
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Inter-state "contacts" interned on
Garden Island declare that Inspector
, Rossiter is the right man in the right
place, even if -the contacts- are lie .
j wrong bipeds in the wrong platfe.
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J The CanSille Trio continue with their !
j lightning aerobatics at die Shaftesbury. '
• They promise oromi.se somerhing- somerhinp- different diff<=-r»n+ when
Denies operas 'the Melrose on Good Friday,
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"Taffy" Davies, M.L.A., had "a
stormy open-air meeting" at Collie.
Perhaps the "late of the AXF." helped
to stir them up. as well as the fact
that "Taffy" was a Labor twister.
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"England has given Australia six
submarines." "Submarines -jire likely
to be prohibited by the League of Nations."
How very kind England is to
us:' to be sure.
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The Perth City Council, so declares
the redoubtable Dicky Haynes, KLC., in
the St. Pat's procession case, "is a band
of rogues who meet together and spend
the ratepayers' money."
Our Sunday contemporary says that
"civilisation, in slaughtering millions
of its males etc." Civilisation? 1 Why
not call a spade a spads, and say "barbarism"?
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Messrs. Watson, Pagden, Morley and
Christy, of the Shaftesbury quartette,
"want a girl," tout they are rather particular.
They smg all about the
pathetic subject this week.
By no means . "moral" drama
"The Profligate." But some of the
^uncing young bucks of the city will
learn a a. nrrin.t point or -two J-ut-rk from fmm it.
It it hits '
•hard at .the refieetdon apparatus of the
common or
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garden
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male's anatomy.
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Marie Ney's acting is characterised
•by its wonderful versatility, almost
uncanny knack of interpretation, and s
its dramatic poorer and vigor, added to
which a fine figure and that inexplicable
thing called stage personality.
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Georgie Pagden looks -the part when
he sings "Robin Red Breast" at the
Stoafte&bury this week. The old saying.
"alwavs robin, always has. been M
robin, and always will be robdn." however,
doesn't appiy to Dennis' show.
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"Sleep as an Educator" was the last
Sabbath-eve stunt at the Perth Spiritual
Chupeh. Much of the educational
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effect depends, of course, on .the spirit;
and more, very -much more, on- who a
fellow eleeps with. " ,,.
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Editor Pryor of the Sydney "Boodle
tin," a former employee of the Broken
Hill Pi oprietary -Company, reflects the
Proprietary mirror on the p^jpes of a
one-time radical publication. Shades
of J. F. Archibald and James Edmond!
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In addition to "The Profligate,"
Marie Ney's repertoire includes such
successes as "The Gaj- Lord Quex,"
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"Tyranny of Tears," "Charlie's Aunt,"
"His House iii Order" and "An Ideal
Husband."
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- A proposal made that the late Lord
Forrest should
be buried
in ^King's
Park.
The board replies quoting .the
Cemetries Act to show
it cannot be
done.
That is the advantage of having
Karrakafta Cemetery Boas as secretary
of the park board as welj.
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The Perth branch of the R.S.A. has
decided to "impress upon the executive
summary
action in the case of Mr. J.
O'Neill."
Looks like a continuation of
the "Stand him agin a wall."
Anyhow.
let -them try any "summary ae<tion"
and see what will happen.
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Bunbury "HeraId" is responsible for
the information that at a civic reception
to returned soldiers* "Mr. Percy
Dennis, of the
Shaftesbury Theatre,
sang "Shipmates o' Mine."
May we
expect Percy on the Shaftesbury bill
shortly, and was he "tryin' it on the •
dawg"
first?
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"Dunno" Lefroy always
misses an
opportunity.
He had pne to become
famous by being the first man to cross
Australia in an aeroplane, but he "decided
not to avail himself of the opportunity."
Of course he would.
Nobody
who knows him
would expect .
anything different.
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Let • the Councillors ask Dicky Haynes
to read Section 364 of the Municipalities
Act.
And then let them inquire
his reason for calling -'hem "a
band of rogues."
The three per cent,
business is the dead limit.
What is
the total spent to date in gammon and
guzzle?
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The theatrical disorganisation t'other
side, consequent upon fhe antics of the
'flu, has proved a blessing to us theatrically
in the West. But for the said
'flu holding back several big new productions
in- the harbor citj- it is doubtful
if Marie Xey -would have "keen able
to lit in- a Perth season.
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"The Profligate," Pinero's merciless
indictment of the libertine class
of
high society, is a play with a 'kick, or
rather several kicks, in it. A lot of
bold, bad mea .mightn't like it because
they jvilt leave the theatre after
the .performance with their conscience
•bug toiling- them hard.
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Guide Dawson of the YaJlingup Cave
is an all-rounder.
He is electrician,
fisherman,
carpenter,
butcher,
milkman.
and sundries, besides guide.
In
his time he vhas guided some 117,000
people through the great cave—and got
the late Frank Harney stuck in "Harney's
Pinch."
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Any contacts who mislay an. infant
while quarantined
Garden
Island
may glean comfort from the -feet that
a 10ft. 3in. carpet snake, with three
full-grown fowls concealed in its interior,
has been shot on that salubrious
resort, A "sarpint" that can getaway
with three chooks at one sitting would
regard baby - merely as an entree. »
Both the leading daylies in Victoria
—the "Age" and "Argus"—have been
publicly branded by Parliament as deliberate
liars. Drastic measures of this
description are unnecessary
in
this
State—our daySies
-label
themselves.
F'riiistance. -tw-o successive pars i'to. last
Monday's "Vest" state—anent the industrial
turmoil
in
John
Bullion's
country: "The majority of the miners
have resumed work."
"Miners decide
to -continue strike.
A frallot of the
miners resulted in twenty-one .thousand
declaring for tiie continuance of
the strike, ad fifteen thousand against
it." The Tory press cannot tell the
1L
truth—even "by accident.
the ;ghastiy official cjame-of its gaolers
at FremaniSe.-, I^obod^ iiae even been
suspended. We suggest that the
.wrongfully flogged man toe a.uthtfrised
to administer five lashes to Hughie
Hann, the head serang of the pjisoa.
j That would at any-rat© "even-up" the '
' tragedy.
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The ten Victorian "cissy boys," who
looked on their strike-breaking expe-
; dition as "a good trip," .were maely "
• disillusioned by the -warmth of then*
; reception, hath at Premantie and GaiPk
: den Island. "We didn't know," they
whimpered. Yet for days before the
Osterley left Melbourne the veiy dogs
were •barking- it in. the streets-of the
chief crties
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The R.S.A. conducted no heresy Ti»nt
when Burkett's mob howled down a
girl—Adela Pankhurst—the m6st deliberately
organised hooliganism ever
seen m Perth. But Joe O'Neill and Itoio,
Gorman are on the carpet for befife
suspect of yelling at snoozer 'Mfllln,
"Who, in many countries, "would have got
more than hoots from the unfortunates
he has duped. The "officab" crowd
will land the R.S.A on the rocks'as
sure as dawn, broke this morning.
As instance of the aitle support
Mane Ney brings West for iher -Berth,
season, the pay roll- has a snug iit-tle
^ J z L f ^ M.itehell, Wbo~ a year
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Turn
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combination. Other notables are Reg".
< ' OIira<i ' !^te T?, f Julius Knight -eom-
' p a n - a n d Plumpton Wdison, a bigpart
man well known in the Australian
xneatriL'al world.
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"To make good laws and break bad
ones" Fremantle's Taibor member declares,
is the first duty of a legislator.
Then, by way of a start,- Ben - fractured
a particularly rotten: law hy
declaring last Sunday that henceforth
and hereafter the Fremahtie- Esplanade
shall be open to the people who
own it, for whatever ' purpose, and
whenever, they wish to use it. Even
for tie "natural -purposes" alluded to
some time ago by a beefy, huii-necked
and boce-lieaded humble. • /
The works of Ibsen, the master dramatist,
are the most difficult of all- to
play, Marie Ney, the young English
.actress however, t-ecenUv achieved
wonderful suesesses with t&em at'- the
Sydney Palace, yrhere she starred for a.
•lengthy season and houses, crowded
every night. Miss Ney and company
arrived in Perth , durang-the week,''and
will open a season. , at _ Hfe .J&ajesty's'.
Theatre^jon A.pril 12, beginning with.
"The Profligate" lie most famous of
al l the wizard Pi Hero's
works.
far-famed
The crumbijjg State Government—
the poor old thing that •ean'-t even suspend
a gaoler who, illegally ihanjgs or
S ^ t
. j -f , lli>L<iIi3 - unaerwo-od
dropped over ifc-e sidfe'like a-dead
marine so sobn as he accomplished a
life deadheadship son 'the railways^ and
'row Gardiner has .pulled out of -the
sorry -sweepstakes. And the kidstake
who f oisted the" I^tfoy^crowd
on to a deranged State are' fcowlirig- for
total disruption of their craven handiwork.
The hypocrites'". We have la-,
deed the Scribes and Phariseesi etffltf
with us. * *
The tardy request—made by a ^Eew;
and one -kme lorn sena&tor—i
for a Judicial inquiry into the emeafnJ-
Shaw wireless scandal affords a staining
example of the esprit-de-corps Existing
among politicians. WilliVhat
to he "urged" to investigate on*
of the foulest pieces of jobbery iihat
has ever disgraced political- life in Ausralia.
A gai^g that needs /'-uiging^' in
uch an affair as the "rpb& stakes'* uner
notice would. ..in .most civitesedt
ountries, be urged" to take "a -rest fot
ix or seven years an an establishment
which 'hominy is the-most prominent
tem on .the menu.
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Anyone who has put in any time
bout wharves knows what lovely liars
he shellbacks" can be when opporunity
offers. Lattferly ,the "Vest" has
ad an impressionable juvenile doing
he shipping notes. He fell to a little
story told him by a-bo'-eumabout the
Halifax explosion and the "Vest"
calmly printed it. . Listen to €hfc—
' The third officer and the chief steward
who were standing on theygpn "platform
of the Middleham Castle were, blown
away, and. while the latter was .wver
seen again the former wafe. told by v a
doctor .who attended him in hospital
that he been picked up oh shore
three miles. from his. ship." Now, '
calmly ask hoW much life would be left
in any living creature blown-THREE
MILES through the air and. let down
with a big bump on hard ground• It
Is the best lie we have seen in minjt-for
a long time. It even beats the winthe-war
fatriots.
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