MR. EDWIN GEACH.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 668, 24 December 1902, Page 14

MR. EDWIN GEACH.

It was in December, 1895, that Mr Edwin Geach plunged into that proverbial tide that either leads to fortune or failure. For a time forsaking journalism —being then a young Melbourne freelance with decided theatrical inclinations, and under the father of all present managers the Hon. George Coppin—he started his career as a theatrical manager. In that remarkable short space of time Mr Geach has risen from the lowest rung of the proverbial ladder, and has climbed into the position that to-day he stands out as one of the leading men of the

road. Three times he has travelled rotund the world, with six tours of New Zealand, and can talk “ shop” from W® Bluff, in the South, to far away Mandalay in the North, and from Cairo in the West to fascinating Tokio in the East—surely a record that would take a lot of beating. Amongst his latter day geripl successes is the phenomenal tour of the great Carl Hertz, whose triumphant tour of the world still lives in pleasant memory; whilst the tpur of Spnaji Macdonald, under Mr management, has still a strong riyal in his present venture, in which he is associated with that desirable London comedian Mr George Willoughby, namely, “ The Wrong Mr fright, ’* is generally voted one of tlje successes of the day. All his experiences and travels have taken place in the short space of seven years.