Mr Va'n Biene surprised his audience the other night at a performance of "The Broken Melody” at Glecthorpes. a little Slaeo on tho Lincolnshire side of the [umber, when he uttered the following little speech with considerable warmth: —"Gentlemen. I allow smoking in this theatre. It la one of tho few in which it is allowed. I leave it to your good taste. But I cannot, and will not. allow you matches in'such an extraordinal way as you do. It's not often I lose my temper to an audience. I have been in this country too long to do so. I have played this play nearly 3000 nights, and if you go on striking matches you take every line out of my head. Therefore, you must a very bad performance. and I am sorry; but if you do it I shall give no performance at all!" The Allisons, who recently toured the Dix circuit, were at the Palace Theatre, Leicester, when tho last mail left London.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4824, 29 November 1902, Page 7 (Supplement)
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