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Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive
Charles L. Sherman Charles L. Sherman i(A104738 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Social Climbers Social Vamps George H. Ward , Charles L. Sherman , Snapshot Revue Company , Fullers' Theatres , 1927 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revusical.

Described as 'a social splash in society' (Sydney Morning Herald 9 June 1923, p.2). One of the songs incorporated into the 1923 production was 'Mother in Ireland,' sung by Les Warton.
1 Whose Wife? George H. Ward , Charles L. Sherman , Snapshot Revue Company , Fullers' Theatres , 1923 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revusical.
1 Out West George H. Ward , Charles L. Sherman , Snapshot Revue Company , Fullers' Theatres , Clay's Bridge Theatre Ltd , 1923 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revusical.

In this western revusical, Little Hermie (aka George Ward) is the Sheriff of Lame Dog Gully (Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 1923, p.2). A review of the 1923 Sydney season notes:

The Ward and Sherman Company have ingeniously woven a wild west episode, with concomitant guns and violence, into their new revue, Out West... The stark verities of cowboy life hardly fit in with the idea of dainty ballet girls, soft romantic music, love, and love-making, but given a shoutingly funny sheriff like "Little Hermie Shultz" and an intermediate link of burlesque is supplied, which quite satisfactorily unites the contrasting elements of the story (Sydney Morning Herald 21 May 1923, p.5).

One of the scenes mentioned takes place in the Lame Dog Bar, complete with a 'handsome group of girls.'

A 1927 advertisement provides some conflicting information, however, when it indicates that 'Little Hermie the umbrella mender [met] heaps of trouble from the bold bad men' and that 'Bert Le Blanc [was] the valiant sheriff' (Argus 21 May 1927, n. pag.).
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