COMEDIANS IN TROUBLE.
A ROUGH PASSAGE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, July 27. Mr Bert Gilbert, and Mr Harry Shine, two trading eoruojlians of Mr Williamson's Pantomime jDompany, took prominent parts in a serious act during the trip of the s.s. Wimmera across the Tasman Soa. Bol.li artists liad deck cabins, and on Wednesday a heavy sea came 011 board and burst open Mr Gilbert's door, completely flooding (lie cabin and ile occupants. Tho partition between the two cabins was also shattered, so that Air Shino get his sharo of the deluge. Mrs Gilbert had a narrow escape from serious injury, as tho door of the cabin, when torn away bv the sea, was lurried across the bunk on wliich she slept. Mr Shine's subsequent efforts to rival tlio Maori prophet Itua in pushing' back the Pacific (it is claimed by some of Rua's followers, at all events, that he has power to push back tho sea) was the least- successful of the many parts lie has undertaken.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14277, 28 July 1908, Page 5
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168COMEDIANS IN TROUBLE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14277, 28 July 1908, Page 5
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