VANITIES AND VAUDEVILLE.

NZ Truth, Issue 578, 15 July 1916, Page 5

VANITIES AND VAUDEVILLE.

The not "wanlty" of one man v* & thing abhorred by hU< nolßhbor. One man may bo tttrlvins: to play a cornet, and, to a neighbor who baa a mwdcai oar, the weird nobms may bo an nbomlnanco. Borne men have, n weakness for playing up their powter on hornea, whlU; the next-door neighbor bulldn up J)l» bawbeea week by week. Seotmnen, !lh a rule, cannot tmderatmid th» Australian** love, for the honw. Homo inonthH nincc it wi\n announced thut one prominent Bcotuman In tho Comtnonwcnlth — tho Qovernor-Goneral, to bo explicit— hud decided to turn up 'anna* till after the end of the war. No question* wcro <u*kod »« to whether lilk Ex. had done Ivlk dry bit on the uncertainties of Randwlek or Fierningtnn, whether he bad a sufficiency of uncoU looted briefs to paper the wn!l« of C»overnmont Hotme, or whether it won ulmply a fact that he took no Interest In »low home*. Ko, Indeed, (t wan ulmply mado to appear an If he hud frivtrn up a hobby, and he waa applauded for hl« patrlotiHm. It would appear, however, that hi* Kx. hrtj* not foresworn all Mm hobble*. According to reporln, H!s Kx. and hia mlmtui attended a vaudeville nhow m Melbourne la«t vtonk. It may be that bin Kx. doe« not rolUb racing, while he doe* roHnb a bit of 'orlrite at a \*a.ud«rllte Nhuw. Everyone to hi* tajite, of course, but wo take It there would bo a« much virtue In e««hewlnK vaudeville n» there So pntrlou»tn m forsuwearluK U»e prad».— Sydney 'TruOj."