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patronizing , the Age dismissing the play as ' too slight to make a whole evening's amusement ' . Louis Esson complained he was unknown in the Punch office . Robert Ross was enthusiastic in Ross's Monthly . The play stood , he said ...
patronizing , the Age dismissing the play as ' too slight to make a whole evening's amusement ' . Louis Esson complained he was unknown in the Punch office . Robert Ross was enthusiastic in Ross's Monthly . The play stood , he said ...
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In any British drawing room comedy played on an Australian stage a butler or a country house was a fixed ... bottle or a mouthful of ' something stronger ' if they were asked to play the part of a woman from Fitzroy in an Esson play .
In any British drawing room comedy played on an Australian stage a butler or a country house was a fixed ... bottle or a mouthful of ' something stronger ' if they were asked to play the part of a woman from Fitzroy in an Esson play .
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Other writers in England made fun of the Australians , advising them in their own interests to learn to play leg theory quickly or play cricket with tennis balls . That fine old English literary gentleman , J. C. Squire , a con ...
Other writers in England made fun of the Australians , advising them in their own interests to learn to play leg theory quickly or play cricket with tennis balls . That fine old English literary gentleman , J. C. Squire , a con ...
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Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia [vol. 5] Volume 6 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Feb 2009 |
| ISBN | 0522843522, 9780522843521 |
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