"DR. BILL"

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 20 May 1892, Page 3

"DR. BILL"

Notwithstanding the up propitious weather lasb nighb, the Opera House was packed in the lower parts, and the dress circle was also well filled. " Dr. Bill " has certainly caught on, and bhe audience was in screams of laughber from tbe rising to the fall of the curtain. Anybhing more absurd than " Dr. Bill " would be difficult to imagine. It is a comedy thab will alwaya bake with the mass, and perhaps tbe funniest sibuabion in the three acts is the kangaroo dance. This has bo bo seen bo be bhoroughly appreciated. "Dr. Bill" will be repeated tonight, and until further notice. Apropos of "Dr. Bill," Miss Kemble tella a good sbory. Ib was ab Brisbane, during a strike of stage hands, who had formed a Union and demanded that nob less bhan six men should be employed to do bhe work of threo. Two burly Irishmen, altogether unacquainted with stage business, had been secured, and one of them was told off bo attend to the drop scene. At a certain stage ofthe "Dr. Bill" embroglio. Miss Kemble haa gob a key of a room dropped down her back, and while she ia on bhe sbage ehe has to undo the neck of her dress to secure ib. The wabchful flyman saw thia, and suddenly down came the drop wibh a run in bhe middle of bhe acb. "Whab did you do bhab for." cried Miss Kemble. "Sure, Miss, I thought ib waa undressing you were, and sure you wouldn'b have me leb bhe public see you do bhab ?"