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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 15

In private life pantomime dames and famous comedians are charming people.. They stop making gags that bring a scowl from the gallery boys, and have much more interest an some property bn which to till the soil than they have in green-room properties and grease-paint. Which, of course is only to he expected. Such a person is Mr Arthur Stigant, a comedian who has been to New Zealand as a ‘‘dame’’ five times already, and is always ready to engage on another trip to the Dominion. He ia the quiet jolly type of Englishman who appreciates the open air and camaraderie of the colonies, hut he is never ashamed to say where he was born. “Chatham, Kent,” he says. * “Panoramas in the garden at an early age, theatricals in the nursery, histrionics in extenso and here we are. What about it?” Mr Stigant will appear next Thursday as “Mr Meebles,” the much-harassed magistrate in “The Boy,” the latest J. C. Williamson musical comedy. Electric gates for bee hives, which will register ’the number of arrivals and departures on the part of bees, have been designed by an American Government official. A plaice 13 inches long travelled in three months 175 miles from the East Coast of England to the English Channel, according to the investigations of the Ministry for Fisheries. A square mile of spruce trees near Breechin, in Forfarshire, caught fire, and burned furiously, many people having to flee quickly out of the danger zone. Talking-machine records of the voices of leading men are being made on copper discs, said to last 10,000 years, and stored in the Prussian State Library.