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Bijou Theatre 217 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC

Photograph, Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, Farewell to Carrie Moore.

After undergoing some unspecified ‘alterations and improvements’, the Bijou sprang back to full-blooded theatrical life on 15 March 1913,with the arrival of American vaudevillian Bert Le Blanc in The Grafters, ‘a two act musical burlesque by a company of forty American artists’. A month after the close of this twelve-week season the Bijou’s lease was taken up by the burgeoning Brennan-Fuller vaudeville circuit.

Their first presentation, on 5 July 1913, was a four-week season of musical comedies starring Carrie Moore. A season by a company from Sydney’s Little Theatre followed this on 16 August, but the Age critic was moved to record: ‘The Bijou does not at present form a particularly cheerful house for the production of a smart new comedy. Time has dulled the decorations and dust has set its mark upon the furnishings’.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -