DUNEDIN AUDIENCES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 938, 27 February 1908, Page 16

DUNEDIN AUDIENCES

Dunedin has recently been under the .ash as the worst show town in New Zealand (says the Otago Witness), but had its detractors done a round of the shows in the city last week, they might have been inc’ined to give the subject another thought. At any rate it would have set them pondering. “ Give the Dunedin public what it wants,” remarked a wellknown and experienced theatrical manager to .he writer the other evening, “and it will prove one of the b°st show towns in the Dominion.” This is very trueDunedin evidently wants a great contralto, a big circus a fine picture show, and attractive vaudevi’le. Such was the demand last week. The Clara Butt concert was packed ,to overflowing the tents of Wirth’s Circus swayed with exciting crowds. West’s Pictures have drawn the mu titude to His Majesty’s, while the Princess Theatre has been crowded to witness the splendid vaudeville show. Give Dunedin what it wants and it will fa 1 !

over itself to spend its money, but give the public what it dosen’t want, and no town in New Zea'and can rival it in staying away. •