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Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 Blighty Leave
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Billed as 'an original military episode', this sketch is played out over three scenes: Pay Office, London; On the Way to Essex; and The Home of the Ipple Family (Pat Hanna Collection program No 3 - 1927/1928, Performing Arts Centre, Melbourne).

Notes

  • This sketch may also have been known as Chic and Joe on Leave.

Production Details

  • 1923: Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane, 29 November - 5 December. Director G. P. Hanna ; Producer John N. McCallum (in association with G. P. Hanna) ; Music Director Mena Raymond ; Troupe The Famous Diggers ; Cast G. P. Hanna, Joe Valli.

    1927: ca. December, Gardens Theatre, Adelaide. Producer J. C. Williamson's Ltd (in association with G. P. Hanna) ; Director Pat Hanna ; Troupe Pat Hanna's Famous Diggers ; Cast incl. Pat Hanna.

    • The program held in the Pat Hanna Collection (PACM) indicates that this sketch was produced during the third week of the Adelaide season.

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First known date: 1923
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form y separately published work icon Diggers in Blighty Pat Hanna , Ed Warrington , Wilfred King , Bert Reid , 1933 1932 (Manuscript version)x401956 Z1452267 1933 single work film/TV humour

Lanky and phlegmatic Chic Williams and his short and resourceful friend Joe Mulga face ten days in the stockade for absconding with five jars of rum from the Quartermaster's stores. At the same time, a British intelligence officer, Sir Guy Gough, is seeking to outwit a German spy ring, run by Von Schieling and a French adventuress. Chic and Joe, Corporal Joe McTavish, and Captain Jack Fisher help trap the spies and gain invaluable information. They are rewarded with ten days' leave in London, where Captain Fisher has a romantic involvement with a young woman named Alison.
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Subjects:
  • 1914-1918
Settings:
  • c
    England,
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    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • London,
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    England,
    c
    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
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