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ELLEN TERRY.
THE CHINA MAIL,
Ellen Terry was thrice married, ANGRY WRESTLERS. first to an actor, then to Watts, the famous artist and, quite late PASSES AWAY AT RIPE OLD in life, to an American actor
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named Mr. James Carew, who survives his wife.
FAMOUS ACTRESS.
London, Saturday. The death is announced Dame Ellen Terry.-Reuter.
SUPREME ACTRESS.
of
Ellen Terry was England's most popular actress throughout a large portion of the Victorian epoch. While associated with the late Sir Henry Irving she was supreme in Shakespearean parts such as Beatrice, Olivia, Rosa-
Dame Ellen Terry.
mund, "The Shrew," Ophelia, Juliet. It was in comedy that she chiefly excelled and few actresses have ever equalled her in Shakespearean comedy parts. She had charm and beauty as well as a wonderful intelligence for portraying such parts as Beatrice and Olivia. Occasionally she ventured parts such as Lady
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ways great portraying any Shakespearean character she
essentially
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dienne, not 2 tragedienne. Her long association with Henry Irving greatly increased her popularity, and. the combina- tion of Irving and Terry was the outstanding glory of the English stage for very 'many years. ASSOCIATION WITH STAGE.
Ellen Terry was
born in February, 1848, daughter of a family that had long been asso- ciated with the stage. She made her first public appearance when merely a child under. Charles Kean. She first appeared with Irving in "The Taming of the Shrew," and subsequently joined the Bancrofts. For some time she was with John Hare's Com- pany. Early in the 'seventies she had established her reputa- tion as England's most popular actress. In 1878 she joined Irving at the Lyceum and during the next twenty years the fame of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry was world-wide.
LOTS OF VITALITY.
A "Daily Mail" reporter, -des- cribing how the famous actress celebrated her 76th birthday,
"To-day I feel my age very lightly, and the longer I live the more I realise that we have long lives but we learn so little."
SYDNEY CONTEST DEVELOPS INTO FREE FIGHT.
EXCITING SCENES.
In
Sydney, June 18. wrote:-
Exciting scenes were witnessed "Miss Ellen Terry, the actress,at Rushcutters' Bay Stadium after celebrated her 76th birthday and the referee had declared Hugh throughout the day there was a Nicolls, the American wrestler, the continuous stream of gifts from winner on a foul over his country- friends and admirers.
man, Walter Miller, to-night. the fifth round Nicolls lifted his op- ponent bodily, and hurled him over the ropes. Miller after regaining his feet, calmly entered the ring. the referee, meanwhile, ordering Nicolls back. Miller walked to wards his opponent with his right hand clenched, and with a short left to the chin floored Nicolls, referee intervened, and struggling with Miller dragged him away and ordered him to his corner.
In the afternoon she went to sce Charlie Chaplin's new filma, "A Woman of Paris" at the Tivoli. "Chaplin has again shown me what a wonderful artist he is," she remarked, "and I can imagine no more perfectly produced film from the part point of view.
"I love the films very much, but the theatre is my real home On Friday I am going to see Back to Methuselah, and I am not in the least afraid of the strain of the five consecutive nights."
The
on a foul, and immediately he rush- Nicolls was declared the winner ed to Miller's corner and landed a blow. Miller closed with him, and Stadium officials and seconds strug- gled to separate the wrestlers. The
In the evening Miss Terry police prepared to intervene, and listened in to the London wireless ordered Miller to leave the, ring, programme and heard the an-Nicolls' seconds, with the officials, nouncer wish her many happy re- dragged him to his corner, and the turns of the day."
crowd became intensely excited as the American fought to free him- him. self from the grip of those around
LAST APPEARANCE, Ellen Terry's last appearance on the stage was at the end of 1920, when she read the prologue to an English Nativity play at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead.
and eventually Nicolls was hustled Miller went to his dressing-room
through the ropes. The finishing She was created a "Dame" of incident happened as Nicolls was the British Empire in 1925. Up passing through to his room, when till quite recently she took an another wrestler attacked him, but active interest in many affairs, a brawl was averted by the inter- particularly connected with the vention of police and civilians. stage,
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LOVE OF SHAKESPEARE. alone in the night," Ellen Terry
"Sometimes, when I wake up SOCIAL LEGISLATION once said, "and I think about all the goodness there is, I cannot
INDULGENT ENGLAND. find words of my own to express
The plea of an old criminal that my thanks, and then I find myself he had reverted to crime because speare in the dark. For Shake-a strong comment from Mr. Hay reciting whole pages from Shake-It was so hard to get work draw speare has said it all. Hasn't he? Halkett, the Marylebone magia- Shakespeare, just as they taught
"Why don't they teach children trate. me? I never went to school, but indulgent country do for such men my father taught me half a dozen as the prisoner. Lavish outdoor re lines every morning, even before lief was provided by the guardians, I knew what the words meant workhouses were made available, But it all sounda so beautiful. Shakespeare is good enough edu- casual wards were kept open, cation for anybody. They teach where, instead of having to work children, all the wrong things, like galley slaves, poople had a nowadays."
very easy time, and, in addition,] unemployment beneft was given.
140 ILL AFTER A BANQUET.
New York, June 9. A hundred and forty persons, mostly students at high school, have been taken ill after attending 1.
a commercial
banquet to celebrate the winning of a competi- tive drill by the cadet company of the school. Several of the students are reported to have been seriously affected.
What more, he asked, could an
All this munificent social legisla- tion for making everyone as com- fortable as possible involved enor- mous rates and taxes, and the people who had to pay them were being reduced to great straits.
Miss Joan Norton, daughter of the late Mr. John Norton, the well- known Australian journalist, cele-; brated her twenty-first birthday by giving £10,000 to Sydney University.
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