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THE THEATRICAL WORLD. " ] took .% gambler's oh-aaiee and went to Broadway—the. wily place where you can make good." < Tlie cJiance was all m Mr Jeiwio Patrick 1 * favor (says the ' Sydney Daily Telegraph'). Aided bv natural gifts which soon brought him to the forefront Mr Patrick? as leading man wit.h David Belasco for tluree and a-half years in America, .lias appeared Hiocesfifullv in many first-class plavs since leaving Australia. Ho returned to "Svdnev by tlie Sonoma, to attend to private affairs, whack will shortly take him to Now Zealand. ~,,,-, Speaking of his experiences, Mr Patrick smiling! v recalled how someone remarked to him before his departure from •' Let me tell you. my boy. there are 10,(JW actors out of work in America. 1 suppose von will be east as leading man on Broadway." Fortune favored, him ; a lew vears later, and that prediction, offered satirically, was fulfilled. Sine© then he ha<» appeared under eneagement to Morocco. Klaw and E'rlanger, Frohman, and lse.lii.sco. Ho has a, greait admiration for Belasco's genius in theatrical production: "A man who seeks for the best in youth, •encourages ideas, and with a great -staff around him."' Mr Patrick enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, but after being in camp for some months rheumatistn" laid him low, necessitating his discharge. He is visiting Dunedin, where his falhe.i- (Mr William Patrick, donor oi tho Hockeu residence for the purpose of a soldiers' club) died recently. After settlintr up faniilv affaius he will return to Sydney. "Theatrical business m New York is booming," says Mr Patrick, "lo u see. too, types of people in New York today the citv man never saw before. They aro coming' in from all the places outback to greet their boys home from the war—and a tine type of folk they .are."
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Evening Star, Issue 17036, 6 May 1919, Page 6
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