CRYSTAL PALACE, MT. EDEN
‘Splinters,” the picture at the Crystal Palace Theatre, is the very spirit r> f the British Tommy shown in a series of fragments of humour, pathos, *°ng and dance by trio famous concert Party whose efforts made a little oasis of forgetfulness in a dreary world of hiud. monotonv and danger-—fragments *rtdch helped to maintain the morals won the war. The general commanding a certain division wished that “they could get something to amuse the men in the evenings. Couldn’t they organise Home sort of a show —a concert party or something?” So “Splinters” was born and it lived t’> become the greatest of all wartime revues. This fact has kept it tunning continuously on the English ®tage for the past eleven years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 15
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127CRYSTAL PALACE, MT. EDEN Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 15
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