Cirrus@Austlit

The comic characters 'Bluey and Dopey,' portrayed by Nat Hanley and Harry Coyle are believed to have made their public debut on Harry Clay’s Sydney circuit in 1922. Dopey (played by Coyle), was written into Hanley’s original revusical Cowboys and Cowgirls, with the author playing Arizona Jack. Soon afterwards Hanley conceived the character Bluey, and he and Coyle quickly established another Australian comic partnership in the vein of Stiffy and Mo (Roy Rene and Nat Phillips), Ike and Morris (Bert Le Blanc and Jake Mack) and Dinks and Oncus (George Wallace and Jack Paterson). Like Dinks and Oncus, Bluey and Dopey may only have been seen by Harry Clay’s audiences. Another known Bluey and Dopey reveusical was Demons of the Deep (1922).

[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]