STAMPEDE AVERTED.
INCIDENT IN A THEATRE
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.'
BRISBANE, This Day A fire which resulted in £IO,OOO damage to adjoining premises, caused a scare among a big audience in the Theatre Royal. A stampede was starting, when Mr Detisne, a leading member of the theatre orchestra, seizing a fiddle commenced playing, and with his wife jazzed about the stage. The audience gradually quietened and resumed their seats, and they dispersed quietly n little later by order of the firemen in view of the threatened spread of the flames.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 November 1922, Page 5
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