ACTORS OUT OF WORK
APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. Received February 9, 8 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. The talkies’ inroads on the legitimate stage continue. Last night the curtain rang down finally on drama in one city theatre, with Richard Bellairs, an Australian actor, pleading for life in the final scene. Then it rose to display Bellairs in real life making an appeai that Australia’s own actors should be given a chance. He denounced American talkies in strong terms and the small audience applauded. The speaker said that people were patronising canned’’ drama to the detriment of their own fellow citizens, who were trying to give them clean entertainment. Several shows have closed, throwing hundreds of men and women out of employment. It is not that Australian plays were no good, as some which were unable to get a hearing here were having long runs abroad.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 34, 10 February 1930, Page 7
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