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A notice entitled Mr Lazar's Benefit is published on page 3 of this issue. In the notice John Lazar 'returns his most grateful thanks to the Public for the very liberal patronage he received on his Benefit Night ...'
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A column, republished from the Launceston Advertiser entitled 'The Boomerang', on page 4 of this issue includes correspondence 'to the Editor of the [Irish newspaper] Cork Constitution on the principles of throwing the 'New South Wales Boomerang'. The correspondence is by a J. Ryan and dated Cork, Jan. 13, 1838. In this correspondence Ryan mentions being 'in company with a young gentleman who was going to ... take exercise in the throwing of the Boomerang' and that Ryan himself had 'with [his] young friend a few days previous, been engaged for the first time in the same exercise...'.
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Victoria Theatre,
single work
column
(p. 2)
A column by the author (William Kerr?) complaining to Joseph Wyatt, the proprietor of the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, about the actor Albert Spencer (1811-1854) being drunk on stage. The author adds that '... the Colonial public do not feel inclined to allow themselves to be insulted and the stage polluted by the presence of a drunken buffoon...', and a warning to Wyatt that if 'offenders against decency' are allowed to continue 'the dress circle of [the] Theatre will very soon present but "a beggarly account of empty boxes".'
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Mrs Taylor's Benefit,
single work
column
(p. 2)
A short column about the benefit for the actress Maria Taylor (ca. 1813-1841) due to take place at the Royal Victoria Theatre on 23 August 1838. The author (William Kerr?) praises Taylor writing that she is 'a talented and industrious, and consequently a deserving actress ... inferior to none, and superior to most of her competitors'.
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Royal Victoria Theatre : Mrs. Taylor's Benefit,
single work
advertisement
(p. 3)
An advertisement for performances on 23rd August 1838 at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, 'under the patronage of Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer ... and the Officers of the Squadron' to include the 'Melo-Dramatic Drama in three Acts founded on one of Sir Walter Scott's most Popular Tales called, The Knights Templars', an 'amusing Drama, in 1 Act, founded on an Historical Anecdote, entitled the Rival Pages' and the 'highly Laughable Farce of the Rendezvous'. This advertisement includes a description of the scenes and lists the actors and the names of the characters they portray for each play.
