ROUGHS IN LONDON THEATRES.
LONDON, March 6. Scotland Yard has declared war on the organised gang of gallery roughhousers, which for weeks has been taking all the joy oat of every new show to open here. Half-a-dozen American productions have, suffered, but as an equal number of German plays now running in London were accorded tho same treatment, it is befieved tho campaign is directed against all foreign invaders of the London amusement field, and not against Americans alone. The authorities' decision was taken as the result of trouble at Saturday's initial appearance of Matheson Lang in are American success, "Tho Bad Man," where there were so 1 many bad men in the gallery that Mr Lang hesitated to make his curtain speech at tho close. The. first American show to suffer was "You'd Be Surprised," at the Covent Garden Opera House. Peggy O'Neill in "Plus Fours," and Mario Tempest in "Good Gracious, Annabelle," had to go through similar ordeals.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16116, 3 May 1923, Page 8
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160ROUGHS IN LONDON THEATRES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16116, 3 May 1923, Page 8
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