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Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 Thirty Thousand Miles a Minute
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Revusical.

The Theatre records that two of the features of this first-part entertainment were 'Art Slavin's staggersome make-up as a spiritualist, with big goggles eyes and a profusion of red curly hair' and the freak appearance presented by Fred Webber as Adolphus Quince. The critic suggests, too, that Slavin was 'the life and soul of the revue' (February 1918, p.41).

Notes

  • Described in advertising as 'A Fast Production.' Some advertising also refers to the production as Three Thousand Miles a Minute, while one review calls it Twenty Thousand Miles under the Sea (Australian Variety 18 January 1918, n. pag.).

Production Details

  • 1918: Bridge Theatre, Newtown (Sydney), 12-18 January.

    • Director Art Slavin; Producer Clay's Bridge Theatre Ltd; Scenic Art Alec Stagpoole; Stage Manager Ted Gabriel.
    • Troupe Art Slavin Revue Company.
    • Cast incl. Art Slavin (spiritualist), Fred Webber (Adolphus Quince), Will Carlyon, George Crotty, Alice Walton, Ida Jarvis, Lily Thompson.

    1918: Harry Clay's Sydney suburban and south-west NSW circuit, ca. January-February.

    • Cast and production mostly as for previous Bridge Theatre season.

    1918: Harry Clay's Qld regional tour, May - ca. July.

    • Business Manager Wally Edwards; Producer Clay's Bridge Theatre Ltd; Tour Manager Art Slavin; Music Director Mary Chesney.
    • Troupe Harry Clay's Musical Revue and Vaudeville Company.
    • Cast incl. Lalla Brooke, Clyde Cameron, George Crotty, the Four Kings, Ida Jarvis, Wal Rockley, Art Slavin (the Spiritualist), Lily Thompson
    • Musician Mary Chesney (piano).

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This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive
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