- Postoperative pet anti-licking Elizabethan collar The Empire Actors: stars of Australasian costume drama

In the decades from Federation to the 1920s, live entertainment was an integral part of the Imperial world, and performers were the first generation of truly global marketeers. In epic tales of royal splendour and Napoleonic conquest, of heroic gladiators and Christian sacrifice, of musketeers and courtesans, hussars and doomed princesses, Arab houris and Oriental mandarins, international stage celebrities transported Australasian audiences into identification with the older, more powerful civilisations from which they had come.