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Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 Out West
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Revusical.

In this western revusical, Little Hermie (aka George Ward) is the Sheriff of Lame Dog Gully (Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 1923, p.2). A review of the 1923 Sydney season notes:

The Ward and Sherman Company have ingeniously woven a wild west episode, with concomitant guns and violence, into their new revue, Out West... The stark verities of cowboy life hardly fit in with the idea of dainty ballet girls, soft romantic music, love, and love-making, but given a shoutingly funny sheriff like "Little Hermie Shultz" and an intermediate link of burlesque is supplied, which quite satisfactorily unites the contrasting elements of the story (Sydney Morning Herald 21 May 1923, p.5).

One of the scenes mentioned takes place in the Lame Dog Bar, complete with a 'handsome group of girls.'

A 1927 advertisement provides some conflicting information, however, when it indicates that 'Little Hermie the umbrella mender [met] heaps of trouble from the bold bad men' and that 'Bert Le Blanc [was] the valiant sheriff' (Argus 21 May 1927, n. pag.).

Production Details

  • 1923: Fullers' Theatre, Sydney, 19-25 May.

    • Director George H. Ward; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe Ward and Sherman Company.
    • Cast incl. Charles L. Sherman, George Ward (Hermie), Les Warton (Mike O'Brien), Harry Burgess, Richard Butler, Mabelle Morgan, Miss Curley Sherwood, Ida Merton, Dorie Tointon, Phyllis Whisken, Nessie Monroe, Mercia Elliott, Gladys Nyholme, Ida Fielder, Zoe Midgley.

    1924: Fullers' Theatre, Sydney, ca. January/February.

    • Director George H. Ward; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe: Little Hermie and Company.

    1924: Harry Clay's Sydney city and suburban circuit, February/March.

    • Director George H. Ward; Producer Clay's Bridge Theatre Company.
    • Troupe Little Hermie and Company.
    • Cast incl. George H. Ward.

    1927: Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, 21-27 May.

    • Director George H. Ward; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe George Ward Revue Company.
    • Cast incl. George H. Ward, Bert Le Blanc, Abe Cohen), Carlton Chase, Ern Delavale, Will Beresford, Lily Vockler, Winnie Edgerton, Valerie Rougal, Grace Savieri.

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This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive
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