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Photo courtesy of the Mitchell Library. From Australian Variety (27 September 1916)
Andy Kerr Andy Kerr i(A97736 works by) (birth name: David McFarlane McLachlan Kerr) (a.k.a. The Coogee Bunyip)
Born: Established: ca. 30 Dec 1867 Edinburgh,
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
; Died: Ceased: 9 Oct 1955 Kirribilli, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 1 On Your Nut Jack Kearns , Harry Sadler , Sadler and Kearns , Andy Kerr , 1916 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revusical.

In this production, set in a Sydney boarding house, the cast of characters includes a young army recruit, the boarding house keeper (Mrs O'Flanagan), and various lodgers and local residents.

'The curtain rises on a festive boarding house scene,' records the Theatre magazine in its review of the 1916 Princess Theatre production. 'The guest [is] a young fellow in khaki [who] is going to the front... Then the front-cloth descends. After it comes down Mr Kearns appears in the guise of an Irish M. P. from Goondiwindi (Qld), looking for "an ould friend of mine phwat keeps a Sydney boarding-house - Mrs O'Flanagan."' (March 1916, pp.46-7).

In his search, he meets a number of other characters representing different types of Sydney residents, and, says the Theatre critic:

In that way the audience are provided with a lot of humorously skittish stuff. In turn songs are given by Peter Brooks, Harry Sadler, Cliff O'Keefe, Billy Maloney, Beattie McDonald, Vera Kearns, Violet Elliot and Mr Kearns himself... Finally the front-cloth is raised once more disclosing the boarding house - this time with the lodgers at the table more or less busy on a meal, and the landlady flying about here and there. Then Mr Kearns enters. The keeper of the place, Mrs Flanagan, is the ould friend he is looking for! Then the fun - in which all the boarders participate - follows fast and furious (March 1916, pp.46-7).

1 Does Punting Pay? : Theatrically Discussed Andy Kerr , 1915 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Theatre Magazine , August 1915; (p. 31)
Andy Kerr's reply to an article in the previous issue of the Theatre Magazine in which four thespian 'pros' discuss his wealth (including Kerr's £550 missing diamond ring) and the ordinary punter. The magazine's editor inserts his own comments into the letter at various points.
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