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A Breezy Budget of Personal Pars jj
' OST juvenile gent in the
theatrical management
, line is young' Sudholz
of the Leslie Harris
Bio, show at Queen's
Hall. ' S. .is a round
faced youth with the
cleaij complexion' and
open smile of a1 board
lng school girl who hasn't learned to
say dicken, and who hasn't been con-
taminated hy reading Mainly About
People in the dailies. Got into the
«how business like .this. Was once
hired to ron a casual errand for
J. C. Williamson, latter being struck
by his smart intelligent appearance.
On hearing that he had no regular
employment J.G.W. took him on, and
raised him gradually from errand
boy to the position of confidenitiai
associate. Up in. Queensland s pal
of ' Sudholz's dad heard young J5.
express a wish for £250 to purchase
a Williamson "Bio-Tableau." The
pal gave young S- a cheque for the
»mount in the morning, same being
returned an three months." Smdholz
now sits behind a nice bit of lucre,
(Oui can afford to dispense with the
"Mr." when speaking to sporting« re-
porters,
Perth harbors a teetotal policeman
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Miss Contralto Clara Butt, shortly
to arrive in W.A. stands six feet
two in. her hose.
Death last week grabbed -a South
'Orse politician named ' Inkster. . What
a monicker for a pressman !
. Governor Bedford once had leanings
towards the laurels of a comic singer.
A judiciously-thrown egg cured him of
his complaint.
leslie Harris, the arch-humorist now
1 at Queen's Hall, has a double in
Jack Tracey of the Victoria Park
Hotel.
Ins ' the dull - lexicon Jot a W.A. '
i weekly's personal column there is no
room for anyone who isn't one of
?three things:-An insurance Berang, a
Perth Club man, or a native oí South
'Qss ! !
A L:ul:nn;ca in a Boulder ; Block
hotel declares himself a legitimate
successor io the Portland millions.
This paper once met a weird derelict :
at Pindirmic with corks around his j
hat, and his pct theory was that he j
was a step-mother to Shakespeare
and Ned Kelly.
Beauchamp Day, the ped downed by
Australian Postle, looks anything1 in
the street but a lightning athlete,
Has "degenerate" writ large over his
painfully English fea tares, rabbit
teeth, a centre hair-part, and a
? glazed Jackeroo eye completing the
tout ensemble. No casual stranger
would suspect Day of being able to
be athletic enough to keep himself
warm,
Referring to a well-known foreign
born bung of Perth this paper three
years ago wrote,
"My leedle frauleins .
-Till haT plenty beans
Ven ever dey marry dere blokes."
And last week bung married off
one of "dose leedle frauleins," - the
dowry being £5000 and a house at
Highgate 1
Prime Minister Deakin has declined
to have any academic honors inflicted
on him by British Universities. It's a
wonder no Colonial politician has jib-
bed before. The alleged distinction
involves about two hours' standing
up in a most uncomfortable position,
and being barracked, more or less
derisively, by à howling high-spirited
mob of undergraduates. And when
the spectacle culminates in a man
.like Forrest or Bent being solemnly
invested with the title of Doctor ol
Civil Law, the derision doesn't seem
out of place. . Deakin has more horse- ?
sense than most of* them.
Beeent Colombo letters tell of a
now ex-Westralian, big, beanded, good
loolàng, single, and exceedingly
bland. Said gent was THE lion of
I cocoanut society at the time of writ-
ing, every dusky eligible sighing like
a" shoe-forge for the fat, amiable wink
of the bulky Adonis. And even the
Governor's push languidly exerted
themselves to make a vice-regal fuss
of the political potentate from - Kal-
goorlie.
And this was none other than our
dear friend, Stanniforth Smith !
Off to England on a holiday ' jig»
Jack Peterson, of the City Hotel,
Perth racecourse, and Dicky Holmes'
private office. J.P. is ai breezy sport,
who amassed big boodle in the early
Coolgardie days ? in transporting ¿il"
very swampers and their swags from
York and Northam . to Southern
Cross, to Bayleys', or Hannans' -Pind.
Pulled out just before the * railway
made the game a gone-bung business,
and has. ever since been bungung %
and around' Perth. Is owner of ©ev"
eral speedy gees, which have caught
the judge's eye of; aforetime, and paie
for their, stable . grub.
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Perth owns a publican rejoicing iv
the niclvhame of "Kinky." During the
t -
Christmas holidays among those stay- i
rag ai, his; pub were a. number <oîf ac-
tors and several pressmen. '.One morn-
ing a boarder came across Kink, sit
"ting down, looking as miserable as a
fowl in a duck-dbnd» "Ypnf dsia't look
happy," said the boarder. " 'Appy I
'Appy !" replied K. with emphasis.
""Them hactor blokes come 'ome about
cine in the morning and lines ' their
tripes with my food, 'ari a hour after
them damned paper chaps comes 'ome
an' kicks stinkin' *ades out of the
bl&nkv ¡gong. 'Ow can a man be
'appy ?"
Shortly to arrive in "W.A. wine ami
mine magnate, Hans Irvine. . H.l.
is a rubicund gent with silver thatch,
about 20 years older than its owner. 1
Has vast vigneron interests in Vic-
toria, his champagnes and brandies
having been also scattered around :
advertising London at enormous ex- '
pense.. Has a big share of gilt
edged Black Hange scrip, and even
i at this primitive stage, has turned j
[in £25,000 through pluck and judici- j
j ous speculation. Never passes thro- j
ught Perth without calling in on his^
old manager, Phil Glenoran Goyle, in j
whose cellar Hans delights to put
the uninitiated through ¿he mysteries j
of champagne making.. . Likewise
rarely visits ; Perth without being the j
host of 'a big driving and dinner1
party, the wines and. tucker lox th*
saki junkets being the especial care
oTHA,
Hrs "Sigma'* Nanson, who left fr...
London this week, typifies what is
best in the latter-day school of she
scribes. Westralian bom (Geraldton)
some thirty odd (very odd) years ago,
"Sigma" had few chances of picking,
up the craft she has lately adorned so
brightly. Was as a youngster sharp
at general comprehension, but a
dullard in.the ordinary routine of
scholastic curriculum. It was sub-
sequent to her marriage with the
ex-"polrbical-grasshopper" that Mrs.
Nanson developed her latent talent,
her unbiased quasi-political article on
thc grasshopper's maiden legislative
speech being a fine effort and
a brilliant change from the old
stodgy "Notes in the Ladles' Gal-
lery." "Sigma" is also a grafter of
vast energy and indomitable pluck.
Writer ^recollects seeing her flashing
off copy at top speed in her apart-
ments in the "West Australian .'
chambers what time her heart was
sore and aching for the little daught-
er lying dangerously ill in the next
room. "I'm busy," she said simply
to "a casual caller, '^rat step in «nd
j have a cup of tea and please don't
j mind me running arvay now and
, then." And as the running away now
and then was to cheer and nurse her
! sweet-faced baby hovering, near thé
Black Shadow-, tie grit. of-, tbs iblevjer
penwoman strpck . Home.- "Sigma,'* j
has library- talents far above the j
reporting of "pretty «weddings," and ]
dozen retailers of tabby-cat chronicles. ^
Fred Schruth, whose name looms
so large this week in connection with
swagger wedding at Claremont, as a
"From such," said some big politician,
"we draw our best colonists." F.S.
in the early days of Westralia's
awakening, strove early and late in
pursuit of the lucre which he now
enjoys. Getting in early when Perth
was a half-deserted village, and the
news from the Fields was one day
aglow with the glamour of gold, and
the next was clouded by the dark
spectre of failure and famine, he
opened out as mine bung of the Ro-
yal Hotel, which subsequently became
the meeting place of Coolgardie men,
all clans, from Phil Hargan up to
Llewellyn Williams, making Schruth's
their depot. Later-on when even
bank managers grew affable and cross-
ed hot and dusty streets to chat
with the prosperous publican, F.S.
enlarged his sphere of operations, and
invested heavily in Collie coal, timber
and tín companies. Everything he
touched turned to gold, so keen was
his financial nose for detecting when
to buy and when to sell. Has maide
several trips to Europe, from which he
usually brings back musical momentoes
of a kind not usually preserved
in ecclesiastical museums. Why
he got his best-known nick-name was
humorous. A breezy battler from the
Fields seeking! a mate in Perth bailed
writer up. " I want to find Bob
Gorry," said the breezy battler, "and
I can't' think of the name of the
pub. But," he continued, "it's some- .
thing like d--n, it, or blast it, or
something like that." Writer ponder
ed. "Where is it?" he asked. "Some-
where near the railway gates," he
answered. "ls it Schruth's,"' we
asked."That's lt!" he exclaimed, "I
knew it was something like "God's truth!"
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