THE MAN FROM KANGAROO LAND IS STILL HOPPING ALONG.
SAM ROWLEY KIND REGARDS TO ALL FRIENDS.
AUSTRALIA'S LITTLE COMEDIAN.
A COMEDIAN WITH A BIG VOICE.
DIRECT FROM THE ANTIPODES.
Variety, Nov. 23, 1907 The personal squibs that once filled pages of the self-styled "Bible of Show Business" also filled a real need: without them a performer might be forgotten.
Today the battle for bookings is usually fought on other fronts, but self-advertise ment in Variety and other trade papers survives, a kind of tribal custom to which just about everybody in the business succumbs...