FIRE AT A PICTURE THEATRE.
AUCKLAND, Oct. 22." At-tEer Windsor Theatre at Powsonby, last' nigfit an- alarm of fire was gfven. Despite thV smoke and -flames wliieh were-issuing from the box used by" the cinematograph operator at the opposite end" of th'e Kail", the singer, with gfeat presence of mind, broke forth afresh in tKe popular chorus, "It's a long', long way to Tipperary.".. Some of tbi audience occupying the back seatsi m.a^ f nts^ for *he main door, but j with" tlie aid'of the, orchestra the singer:j soon had" a number joining in the air, and before the song ended the outbreak had' been suppressed with the aid of"a fire-extinguisher.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 4
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111FIRE AT A PICTURE THEATRE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 4
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