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‘but we are not bound hand and foot by labour as they are here.’
Many Australians, touchingly naive in response to what they saw, were
The awful thing about Australia is that one can see no hope for them, they are so union-ridden, and have such a lack of individuality, that there seems no chance for their people.
‘the whole of Melbourne seemed to close in on one and no matter how you hacked away at the work, you just couldn’t get through’.
his knighthood had become sacred to him.
But ruthlessly applied ambition now held, Vivien saw, a fascination for Olivier which he never quite shrugged off again.
it had also virtually no living culture of its own.
The rare commercial theatres that visited New Zealand from Australia played very safe,
the ‘substitute royal’ factor of the Oliviers was again to play an enormous part in their attraction.
In contrast to Sydney, they saw little drunkenness or wild behaviour.
What particularly heartened everyone, however, was not only the size of the audience but its quality.
