EXCITED THEATRE-GOERS.
WOMEN FIGHT r WITH HATPINS;
The opening of a four* nights' season :by the ' Plimmer-Denniston Company in Ballarat last week was - marked by an excited rush to gain admittance to witness the performance of " Nobody's • Daughter." ' Half an hour before the play began a crowd blocked the ::■ street, and •• when the 1 door was opened there was ,a wild rush. Three women were knocked ' down, and several fainted in the crush. Hatpins were used by the women in order to save themselves from the crowd/ and the police had some difficulty in restoring order Fortunately nobody was injured. , • j ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14746, 31 July 1911, Page 8
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