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London, May 4.

At the New

NOTED ACTRESS DEAD.

HOW MISS JENNIE LEE WON FAME AS "JO”.

FIFTY YEARS ON STAGE.

have given rise to a misunderstand. The Famous Players Guild willing. "Saint Joan" was in fact begin its activities with a play call- taken off from the New Theatre in od "Women," by Edith and, Edward October, 1924, after 244 perform- Willia, which will open at Brighton ances, because Miss Sybil Thorndike on May 10 and on May 27 will be had to fulfil an already postponed brought to the New Theatre, where tour of "The Lie" in the principal the Guild has arranged with Mr. provincial cities. The run was not Bronson Albery and Mr. Howard ended, but suspended; it was re- Wyndham to present Mr. Owen sumed at the Rogont Theatre in

Miss Jennie Lee, the veteran Nares in a series of plays. "Wo-January, 1925, and ran for another actress who won world-wide fame by men" gives Mr. Nales an effective 132 performances.

her impersonation of Jo, the cross.. part as a best-seller who puts the itself "Saint Joan" played during ing-sweeper, in the dramatised vor Foroines of his "affairs" into his its last week to the biggest businesssion of Dickens's "Bleak House," novels. Five of these women meet the theatre has ever known.

has died in London at the age of In the play; Mr. Narea will thus be

72. surrounded by a bevy of actresses. including Mise Grizelda Hervey, Miss Dorothy Black, Miss Kay Hammond, Miss Jane Amstell, Miss Lydia Sherwood, and Miss Joyce Kennedy. There seems, indeed, to be a strong feminine flavour about the Guild production, for the second, the Walter Hackett play. with Miss Marion Lorne in the lend, which is likely to open on the night following "Women," is called "The Way to Treat a Woman."

The Grafton Theatre, the new ven- ture in Tottenham Court Road which was talked of some while ago, has now come to the point of uponing. Its policy will be

to

produce A variety bill of plays and turns: the plays will be given without the usual waits between curtains; the interval will be used to separate the main piece of the evening from a variety performance of short numbers, to consist of "music, miming, dancing, clowning, skits, satires, slapstick, poems, monologues, and other, OH There is yet uninvented, turns."

Was

Miss Lee, whose death bad been reported on three previous occasions, had a professional career of over Afty years. She was a Londoner born and -bred, and

the daughter of Edwin George Lee, the water-colour artist and etcher. She went on

the stage in her 'teens, playing for some years in boy parts, principally in comic opera and

The Union Dancing Show at the Coliseum has been so successful that it will

be continued indefinitely and Mr. Ernest Thesiger's show of tableaux of Chelsea China has had to be postponed. To-morrow a new spectacle, "Laces and Graces," will be introduced in place of the Toy Town serie: There are now seventy-five girls in the ensemble, and the whole thing constitutes a triumph for British dancing. AL Her first appearance wae in the Palladium, to-morrow, the pro "Chilperic" at the Lyceum In 1870. gramme will include the coloured In 1875 she went with Sothern to comedians "Buck and Bubbles" and the United States to play Mary the sixteen Glazeroffs, a troupe of Meredith In "Our American Russian singers and dancers. Jack

Cousins," in which Sothern made Payne and his Band will be at the Holborn Empire this week.

The Repertory Players' perfor mance arranged for next Sunday has been unavoidably postponed; but on May 25 they will present, at the Strand Theatre. "How to be Healthy Though Married," by HM. Har wood and Tennyson Jesse.

**

comedy,

Dundreary famous. It was during

this trip that she first appeared as Jo, the part which brought her in- stantly to the front. For twenty years after her name was associated almost continuously with this part.

Her last stage appearance was at the Lyric Theatre in 1921, when she appeared as Jo at a matinee, in aid of the Charles Dickens Memorial House.

It was through the encouragement of Dion Boucicault that Mr. Burnett dramatised "Bleak House.", Madame Janauschek had in her repertory a play founded on "Bleak House," in which she doubled the parts of Lady Dedlock and Hortense. Misa Lee was cast for Jo in a casuni way, but the character fascinated her, and Boucicault was so enthusiastic

The four weeks' revival at the Royalty of "Our Ostriches" starts a revolving stage, and a permanent on Wednesday. The first act is company of professional players and now set in Hyde Park on an carly producers is to be engaged. Plays summer day, and the second in a in rehearsal for early production are tenement. The cast includes Miss "The Searcher," by Velona Pilcher: Ailsa Grahame, Miss Elizabeth "The Wedding Breakfast at the Chesney, Miss Clare Greet, Miss May Eiffel Tower," by Jean Cocteau; and Haysac, Miss Dorothy Hall, Mias "Tojuro's Love," a contemporary Katie Johnson, Miss Norah John- Japanese play by Kikuchi Kwan. son. Mr. Martin Lewis, Mr. Arthur Short sketches by Franz Molnar. Vezín, Mr. Kinsey Peile, and Mr. Peter Spencer, and A. J. Talbot are Frederick Leister. Mr. Reginald also in preparation, while turns to Bach is producing the place, as hojo, This Mr. Burnett did, and the be seen in the near future include | did seven Pears ago. the work of Lopokova and Penelope Spencer. Writers to be given a chance in the future include, I see, Miss Gertrude Stein. What fun!

about her performance that ho

urged Mr. Burnett, Miss Lee's hus band, to write a new verslon around

play proved a great success,

Miss Lee was one of the pension-

at

Protests against "pin pricking and objectionable supervision" at telephone exchanges were made the Belfast conference of the Union of Post Office workers.

A meeting was held at the. Man- sion House in support of the Bri- tish Empire Film Institute's-com- palgn, and to inaugurate a fund of £10,000,

The Everyman Theatre production of "Ghosts" with Sybil Thorndike era of King George's Pension Fund for Actors. Of late years she had and the complete cast will be trans-suffered much from arthritis. ferred to the Arts Theatre, from Mr. C. B. Cochran and Mr. Wednesday to Sunday next. Mean- Maurice Browne will begh their while following upon the successful international season at the Globe production of "Magda" in German on May 26 by presenting the Ger- at the Arts Theatre; arrangements man-Italian actor Alexander Moissi have been made between Mr. J. T in "Hamlet," and Tolstoy's Re-Grein and Lady Wyndham to pre- demption." Molesi, a charming, sent the play in English at the New unaffected

person, who de- Theatre to-morrow week. Miss clares that it 13 his am- Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies will play bition to play in

English, the title role, which she has already has acted, all over the world but played in German, and others of the never in London.

He has played German-speaking cast who will be in Reinhardt's productions of aeen in the British version are Mr. "OEdipus Rex" and "Everyman," Guy Pelham Boulton. Miss Joan has been seen in "The Doctor's Clement Scott, Miss Ann Stephon- | — Dilemma" 600 timca, in Hamlet son, and Miss Mary Pilgrim. New- 1,000 times, in "Itedemption" comers to the cast will be Mr. George 1,400 times, and

fami- Merritt (who plays the father), liar with all the great Shake Miss Clare Harris, Mr. Eric Port- spearean roles, as well as the famous man, Mr. Earle Grey, and Mr. roles in Pirandello, Goethe, Schiller, Alexander Sarner.. "Magda," once After Molasi, Mr. a favourite part of M Patrick and Ibsen. Cochran and Mr. Browne will pre- Campbell, was last seen in English a` sent the Pitoeffs and their company few years ago at the Playhouse, from the Theatre des Arts, pro-when Miss Gladys Cooper, played bably about June 9 or 10.

The the part. According to present ar-

third attraction will be the Japanese rangements at the New Theatre, players, now at the Theatre Pigalle the play can only be put on for a in Paris, headed by the famous limited run of a fortnight, but it is Tokujira Teutsui,

As announced last week, Mr. Leslie Henson is now taking the ipart formerly played by Mr. W. H. Barry in "A Warm Corner" at the Princes Theatre, and, needless to say, playing it with gusto and in the true spirit of farce. The. - whole

hoped to transfer at the end of that time to another theatre. In fact, Mr. Grein and Lady Wyndham con- template an extended season in which Miss Ffrangcon-Davies will be seen in a number of Ibsen and Sudermann playa.

Mr. Charles B. Cochran- an- play goes with a lively, swing. At nounces that she will transfer her the Prince Edward Theatre "Reproduction of the all-woman play Rita" is greatly improved by Mr. Nine Til Six" from the New Edgar Wallace's revision. The Theatre to the Hippodrome, Golders story has been considerably enliven Green, to-morrow week.-D. P. in ad, and the book is now much bet- Sunday Times. ter able to hold its own against the attractions of the spectacle which❝ this musical comedy affords; the whole performance, in fact, is a good entertainment. At the Apollo, Mr. David Horne has now returned to the cast of Insult," which is doing well. And I am glad to be able to record that "Honours Easy" at the

BRITISH PLAYERS.”

Fine Reception in Budapest.

The Arat, British theatrical com- pany, to visit Budapest since, the war has scored an enormous auccess.

St. Martin's, reaches Its oneThe expectations with which Mr.

hundredth performance next Wed; nesday.

My remarks about the run of "The Apple Cart", last Sunday seem to

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Edward Stirling's company, “1710 British Players" were awaited aro declared to have been amply fulfil- ed

The critic of the "Fest! Hirlap" finds the British actors "masters of the semi-tone, the choked or swal- lowed wards of cursos or sigha crushed between the teeth, there is something, in them of the feather- weight French directness and of the heaviness of the German real- Ism, and in this ducky mixture they come near to the Hungarian seting. They also resemble, os in that they mute the sharp effects and never overdo naturalism." And he gives an opinion very common In Hungary

""The British" are the world's most elegant people. Their elegance is simplicity. Not only in dress—in everything.

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