Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name is on the theatre page where a brief notice states that her play, Abie's Irish Rose, is to be seen on Broadway. It is also to be seen in Philadelphia, in Chicago, in Fort Smith, Ark., in Pueblo, Col., in Augusta, Me., and in Sydney, Australia. Next April an eighth company opens in London. Last week the Manhattan company, with its 2,000th performance, equaled the world's record for consecutive performances.* Abie's Irish Rose has run for four years and eight months on Broadway, has been seen there by 1,750,000 people...
...Mayo has just returned from Australia where he has been carrying on his investigations. "In Australia," he continued, "this change will have important consequences especially, for geographical remoteness and economic necessity must inevitably result in an ultimate development closely similar to that of the United States, Europeans, by circumstance and training, are unfitted to understand what this means; there should be no such difficulty for Americans. Australians therefore are entitled to hope that in the immediate future America will come to know more of Australia. The Pacific Ocean and its many problems lie between these two civilizations...
When questioned concerning the political situation of Australia, Dr. Mayo replied that the chief problem which afflicts Australia is occasioned by her geographical position...
...Australia," he said, "is a large employ continent with a population of under six million. To the immediate North and West there are over eight hundred million Islanders and Asiatics. Australians, rightly or wrongly, have conceived it to be their duty to hold Australia for the white races. They have been led to this not only by knowledge of the former problems of the carly Australian settler, but also by considerations of the present racial problems of South Africa and the United States. This has led to the much discussed "White Australia" policy. This is the one question on which...
...population of Australia is under six million, the greater proportion being resident in or about the six capital cities. There are six universities, one in each of these cities. The largest is the University of Sydney, the two smallest are the Universities of West Australia and Tasmania. Australians lead an open air life: games are possible the year round. The most popular sports are cricket, tennis and football. In the two former Australia has for many years disputed the world's supremacy...