"A THEATRICAL REMINISCENCE."
Tothe'Edifc>r«Hhe M Timaru Herald." "Sir, —On leading the above this morning, I thought I r "imist have been asleep for a number of years: (like N dear old Bip Van Winkle) wfthotttrknowing it. You say, "Mr Lingaid. is now a man of seventy. The audience .jast night cou'd not have : suspected that-he had- anything like that number of'yearVtoKs credit." Will you ' let me add I. never suspected it till I read iypur "Brrtuni Emmen," this morning. [With the kindpermission of my mother 'and father, 1.-ivas present at my birth, No. 48, Queen's" Terrace, Clifton, Bristol, England, an es^'eight-years must have been "A Lmgard ; ". on your part. The "Our Boys" you speak so highfyjafv&a engaged and bVonght dnw* the Boyal, Melbourne, ;to New Mr William Hoskms being , the; : Jpcal_ manager. " Our Boys" ran in Melbourne for eleun weeks 1 to crowded houses, at'that time the longest nm in Australia... .' '.- ' I am, etc, HOBACE LINGARD. i Slay &4T*-. i'/ "■• -" - ■
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12669, 3 May 1905, Page 4
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160"A THEATRICAL REMINISCENCE." Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12669, 3 May 1905, Page 4
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