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POVERTY POINT has moved again! With the demolition of the Criterion Theatre the strip of Park-street which used to be P.P. and the club upstairs are no longer available, but the actor goes on in spite of everything. He now — in his numbers — frequents the Poverty Point Club at 113 Bathurst-street. All the old vaudevillians, men and women, and many of the younger ones, are at home here to friends and prospective managers. If you should need a sword swallower this Christmas . . .a bare-back rider, a clown for a circus, a lion-tamer, a flying trapeze angel, a patter comedian, a juggler or two, tumblers, ventriloquists, or
just song-and-dance troupers, they are all to be picked up on Poverty Point. Monday morning, as usual, is the day they congregate in their numbers for the potential "shop." Bert Howard, the Mayor of Poverty Point — his insignia of office is the outsize gold watch and chain his grateful subjects bestowed upon him — has a little company of good troupers from his municipality now giving a vaudeville show at Manly. Bert
knows all the talent there is to burn in Sydney. He uses it so often, giving free shows once a month — and some times oftener — for Canon Hammond's colony, and he takes concert parties, in the nature of mixed vaudeville, to prisons regularly. There is no one so ready to help in charity as your Poverty Pointer. He knows. So does the female of the species. |
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