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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 13, 1928
Page
12
A fragmented, satirical critique on critics and audiences craving different forms of entertainment. It argues that professionals from lawyers to officials prefer lighter, more entertaining works over serious drama, highlighting a clash between intellectual and popular taste.
A critic riffs on theatregoers and reading habits, arguing clever revues attract distinguished crowds while serious drama draws workers. He catalogs titles and readers from surgeons to train conductors, noting varied tastes and class-based assumptions with sardonic humor.
The passage muses on devoted reading of detective stories and music, contrasting taste and virtue. It recalls a father’s advice to value genuine music, cautioning that forcing a career can ruin ability. It links detectives and critics to Shakespearean insight.
A fragmentary note describes a huge cistern large enough to cover an area the size of Trafalgar Square and mentions Nelson and chapels. the text is garbled with missing words.
The Millaa Millar column reports unsettled weather forecasts for about a week with hopes rain won’t be prolonged. It covers advertising plans for the Tableland in Victoria, a proposed Tableland Floraeat Association, and supporter meetings to aid settlement and development efforts.
Maureen Brownlee describes a bustling cattery exhibition featuring Persian cats with silky fur and green eyes. Owners prize elegant specimens, emphasize grooming, and prepare for judge scrutiny as May fair promises prestige for prize winners.
A legendary Mersey tunnel street planned to run beneath Liverpool and Birkenhead links two arterial roads from Yorkshire through Lancashire. The multi lane underwater route will carry two million vehicles daily, with 18 60 mph speeds, lighting, and a vast construction effort.
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