NEVER AGAIN!
ACTRESS AND AUSTRALIA.
LONDON, September 28.
"We all have our weak moments, and it was' certainly one of- mine when I decided, to go to Australia," writes Maisie Gay, the revue artist, in her book, "Laughing Through .Life." . Her complaints are largely against, the theatrical profession, but Australians generally receive some caustic criticism.
"Even in America," she writes, C T was never made to feel such an alien. Australians have very little use for the English. They are essentially an outdoor people. The women dress badly and the men worse. The Australians incline mofe towards the American than towards the English in many tastes."
Other charges include the lack of a sense of humour. Audiences, she says, like anything blatant and obvious, and do not understand subtlety. She ends the Australian chapter of her book with this: "Nothing could persuade me to go to Australia again. Even now, when anyone mentions Australia, I think of those 1 dreadful expressions, 'bonza,' 'goodob/ 'too right,' 'coo-ee,' and liell/ "
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 234, 3 October 1931, Page 9
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