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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1924
Page
1
A Christmas boxing day stage scene shows a pantomime director helping carpenters while a scene-shifter boasts of being Mary Pickford. Gertie and Phyllis joke about men as Maurice, seven, learns wedding cake is tied to Henry VIII’s marriages, appreciating the cake’s taste.
A witty dialogue unfolds with confusion over a proposal answer turning positive to negative. Mrs Nuwed recalls a friend sharing a floor polish recipe mislaid, sparking a humorous suspicion about its use in a dinner pudding.
A new recruit on his first day salutes wrong, claiming ignorance of the C.O.’s rank. The colonel roars, the recruit replies he’s only a private, sparking a brief exchange that ends with no Christmas leave.
An absent-minded professor staying over Christmas boasts he has four shirts on, counting the one he left in, after being told to wear a clean shirt each night. Court dialogue follows with a quip about five years and a pun about laundresses.
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