JOYS OF A PRISON.
WIRELESS AND A THEATRE. " Sing-Sing is like a palace compared with Ellis Island," said Mr. "Nelson Keys, the actor, who returned to England a fewweeks ago after a fifteen months' visit to America. Ifis visit to Sing-Sing to entertain tho convicts, he considers one of his most extraordinary experiences. "I found before me an audience of between 1100 and 1500 men, each garbed, not in tho uniform I imagined, but in white shirts and grey trousers. Each man's linir was beautifully trimmed and brushed, and the men looked quite happy and as fit as fiddles." The convicts enjoyed the privileges of smoking and of wireless, said Mr. Keys, and they possessed a wonderful jazz band. Successes of Now York were given in the lovely theatre in the prison. Mr. Keys, who had to visit, Ellis Island because his servant was detained there pending the solution of a difficulty in the passport, said the conditions there were too pitiful. The people were herded together like cattlo, and had only half an I «wch day*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 16 (Supplement)
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