Cirrus@Austlit

Buggins comments on the tableaux depicting St John's Apocalypse, on display at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and mentions J. Sheridan Moore's lecture on the display's subject matter. Buggins offers the view that there was 'an awkwardness' in Moore's delivery and that he 'gave the impression of being afraid of giving offence to the audience'.

Buggins then discusses the preceding week's productions at the Prince of Wales Opera House: W. J. Lucas's The Man with the Iron Mask, Tom Taylor's Still Waters Run Deep and Charles Mathews' Little Toddlekins.

J. Sheridan Moore provides an explanation for the 'awkwardness' in his lecture at the at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts perceived by Buggins. Moore states: 'Just as I was moving to the platform on the evening referred to, I was told ... that "the authorities" had been stimulated to regard our Diorama with suspicion, and that there were some half-dozen detectives or policemen in the Hall, to serve as a body of censors on the series of pictures which I had undertaken to explain. I confess that on hearing this ... I was a little flurried'.