RISING TO THE OCCASION.
An outburst of cheers had greeted the hero, as he delivered a dramatic oration against the villain at the conclusion of the first act of a melodrama.
Just as the curtain should have descended, a hitch occurred, for the front cloth refused to come down, owing to the obstruction of a gabled cottage that stood in the wings.
The scene-shifters were at their wits’ end how to overcome the difficulty. But the leading man most nobly rose to the occasion.
"Ha !" he cried as the lights were lowered, and the stage drew darker, "a storm is coming on, and my poor but homely cottage must surely suffer. I must take it in and so make secure against all harm." Then, shouldering the offending cottage, he staggered off the stage. The threatening storm broke, in the shape of thunderous applause from the delighted audience. 'Sites:.-
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 7
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