VAUDEVILLE EXTRAORDINARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1910, Page 4

VAUDEVILLE EXTRAORDINARY.

. »_ DISTURBANCE AT THAMES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) , THAMES, this day. A lively scene ensued outside the Miners' Union Hail last night on the conclusion of what was termed a "vaudeville entertainment." Posters of a company with a good repute had been dis- ; played, but last night when the curtain rose to a good house, it was ex- . plained that the members of the Com- , pany advertised had not arrived. The : principal asked the audience whether i they Avould go on, and received a reply in the affirmative. The performer and i his Avife endeavoured to keep the audi- \ once amused and entertained, and se- ; cured assistance from another person, who sang and recited. The audience i bore it all good humouredly, but a finale ; ill the shap of alleged farce proved too ] much for their fortitude and patience. : When the curtain was hurriedly lowered, . •the audience congregated outside, and : made a demonstration which would have developed into a riot had it not been for the timely intervention of the police. The female performer Avas escorted to her lodgings by the police, but the male, after secreting himself in the hall for an hour, took his departure through a window, and over a fence.