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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 8, 1940.

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Elliott, who died yesterday.

BEAUTY that was breath-taking gave Maxine Elliott her fame on the stage; uncanny shrewdness for in- vestments gave her a fortune, while poise and dignity gave her a place in the most (exclusive international 80- ciety, where kings came and went as intimates.

She was white haired and old, but the things she had won were never diminished her name, her fortune and her place among the great.

which soon were to include King Edward himself.

For several years, beginning in 1896, she was the leading star in Nat C. Goodwin's company, and played everything from "The Cow- who-boy and the Lady" to "The Mer- chant of Venice." When she began

From the little girl ***I watched the sea gulls from her with Goodwin's troupe, sho was the married to George McDermott, a New York inwyer of prominence, but divorced him that same year and married Goodwin in 1898. The marriage lasted only 10 years, for in 1908 she refused to live any longer with him, and allowed him to get a divorce on the ground of desertion.

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father's cargo ship, in blustery harbours of New Eng- land, to the aging, but immense ly self-possessed woman who sat in the sun outside her famous Riviera chatenu and watched kings, dukes, princes and prin- cesses diving in her swimming pool, was a long period, and a long career.

It was a career which the god- the United Press Associations, who dess of luck protected unfailing- either wholly or in part without previously, and Maxine Elliott never

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MAX MALINI

The Magician

at

tions at aca are probably account ed for by the necessity which the Nazi authorities feel to distract the attention of the German public from the ignominy of the Graf Spee.

This theory is supported by the haste with which the Berlin broadcasting authorities put on the air one night a special pro- gramme to celebrate "the glorious German air victory this afternoon"—a typical piece of

broadcasts.

of

the

Wo hear much about the solidarity of the people behind their Fuehrer, but the Fuehrer has little faith in their ability

a

constant

| "achievements" which,

not completely faked, are greatly exaggerated.

knew the usual fate of the ac- tress-oblivion. The only thing she missed in life was lasting domestic happiness.

over

suffered.. neglect. That could

the

SHE reached her height in Elliott's Theatre opened in Times fall of that year, when "Maxine Square, the only New York theatre bullt, owned and operated by a wo man since the long forgotten days of Laura Keene,

She had saved her money, and her own business Intuition was of the first order. It was she who planned the theatre, she who su- pervised ita building, and she who Lee profied thereby-along with Shubert.

There was a rather thick 'veil' of mystery around her first meeting

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Remember, Nottie-no more sweets for the childron to-day. I'm very careful about what goes in their tummics!"

Someone

said:

Suppose you'd months off

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·by

HOWARD MARSHALL

not have never stepped off hard pave--

holiday; IX months'

financial cares; unlimited NOT that Maxine Elliott never be said about a woman wing with King Edward VII, which took resources; where would I go? had a New York theatre bearing place one sunny summer day at her name, whose beauty captivated Marienbad. However it happened, What a question! What a King Edward VII, whose fabulous there is not the slightest doubt that hope, incidentally. But never

charm caught the chateau was saved from flames one her beauty and day, not by the local fire depart- king off balance and resulted in a mind about that.

friendship that lasted until his ment, but by the British Navy- be in the harbour. no less part of which happened to death.

He was often nt her English

At once I am tempted to say that I should buy a small boat and follow among her guests home, Hartsbourne the example of Alain Gerbault, the Her real name was the good, Manor, which became д brilliant French Davis Cup player. sound. Yankee name of Jessica centre for society, royal, theatrical, Dermot, and neighbours and rela-literary and otherwise. tives in Rockland; where she was born on Feb. 6. 1871, always re- ferred to her as Jesalen, even when

she was famous.

bought Harts- bourne Manor in 1910, she

Gerbault sailed into the blue, you may remember. Much to the con- sternation of his friends, who could not understand why lawn tennis did not satisfy him.

WHEN Maxine announced that she would retire from who built a boat himself and jour-

ments.

There are no vast cities in New- Zealand. The towns there are still are con- compact. Even if you demned to work in an office, you! can step outside when your day is

done and fish or shoot or ride or bathe to your heart's content.

The country is it your door, free- and unspoiled.

Here, even when we can escape, it is preserved against us and covered. with bungalows at that.

I am a little tired, let me admit, of the snobbery and convention, the shams-and-smug-self-satisfaction,-the- airs and graces of the old world. So did Captain Joshua Slocum,

I would like to spend my six The name Maxine Elliott

neyed in it alone around the world, months in a real country. And New suggested by Dion Boudicault. Her

the stage, and this she did, for a younger sister, Gertrude, also took time.

But three years later she was Alone, save for a goat, who embar-Zealand fills the bill.

It may not have spectacular the name Elliott; she too became back in London, making a success rassed him by eating his only chart.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's

"I sat long on the starlit deck,"

scenery to offer an actress of the first order and in

me, though it is: wrote Joshua in his log, "thinking of beautiful enough. It may not cater ships and watching the constella-

for the sophisticated sightseer. And: heaven be praised for that. What it tlons on their voyage."

There's

could will offer me, apart from trout fish-- peaco for you. 1 spare some of my six months for the ing, is warm hospitality and that odd:

machronism-e man's life. constellations.

Vincent Sheean.

under the best Influences,

*

Order of the Crown.

until

when she went

сп

A

Give me, therefore, a country'

To Get Tough Again which is alive.

50 almless 'a BUT, perhaps,

journey is not permitted by the conditions. I must name my destination.

Then how about America? ** Well, America would be interest- ing but exhausting.

Nazi showmanship, designed to keep Germans from thinking of other things.

Also, the German public are married Sir Johnstone Forbes-play, "Joseph and His Brethren." Robertson, renowned English repeatedly warned

Then came the Great War, and Shakespearlan actor. One of their penalties for listening to foreign daughters, Diana, is the wife of even she was caught in its flood,

She went to Belgium, in charge of her own ambulance, and worked was there stendily As a little girl, Jesalca

and intensely

We need time to sit and think. They're Neighbourly aboard ship much of the time in the end of 1910,

HAVE many New Zealand friends.. Maine, and at Oakland, where her back to New York for the first time Never did we need it so much.

a home. in seven years, wearing the Belgian And never were we so afraid of it.

They are grand folk, kindly and skipper father also had

In between whiles we need to fend She went to a convent school in!

for ourselves. We are becoming straightforward. They don't judge n Roxbury, for a while, but heri It was King Edward VII who

and put sek, certainly,

are neighbourly. And that's my Thoy to take bad news. The German beauty, pure and rather austere, made Canses a favourite and fash atrophied. I manage to shave my-man by his wealth, but by his worth.

winter and summer resort and her figure, which was superb, lon

clothes. I raise my food to my more than we are in London. war spirit must be kept up with brought her rapidly to the New for English and American society, mouth and transport my 15st. to

There are other places, I don't- succession of York stage. She was only 16 when and it was Maxine Elliott's chateau bus. But what else do I have to doubt, which I should do well to in--

vestigate. when she arrived there, and at once fell went that kept many social figures achieve to survive the dally round?

coming to the Riviera during the depression-ridden 1930s. It Waz That is why I think a small boat

I like living things. The post does:" built in 1930 at a cost of £79,000, would be stimulating and satisfac- rouse in me any sentimental one of the few chateaux of the re-tory.. Not a luxury liner, but a boat not glon which open directly upon the which depended upon my efforts for nostalgia. ER first job was with. 3. S seat stands 30 feet above the its voyaging.

Willard in a minor part in the water, and in the grounds is a pri-

vate swimming pool.

English society popular play of "The Middleman"

visited at the at Wallack's theatre. That was in 1890. She stayed with Willard for place so often that it acquired the three years, and learned the funda- nickname of 'The House of Lords." mentals. She worked hard, learned: with thoroughness and never for:

But why do we travel, when all is: got. This she had to do, because, beautiful though Maxing was, and HERE were brilliant parties there.

sold and donat To escape from oure- keenly intelligent, nevertheless she The Duke of Windsor and his

Well, it depends what you demand solves? I right do that, I suppose, were her good was not an actress by instinct and American wife

of your six months, Personally, in the South Seas. Or at Ball genius. For her it was a learned friends, and there were some historic have no wish to idle. The best kind where the moon, they tell me, is profession, which took much learn-political arguments around the Elliott of holiday is not complete laziness, fatal to the susceptible.

dinner table, with such varied per- but change of occupation.

1. might excape into the rest India sonalities as Windsor, Anthony Eden, This summer, for example, I hope-not, mark you, the India of Umn-

Churchill and Somerset to spend some of my spare time and chota pegs and hill stations.. For a season she played second Winston

building a wall of old bricks. A And Tibet-there's a country to Rose Coghlan In "Diplomacy," Maugham taking part. "London Assurance" and "Forget After the Great War, the life of purposeful wall down one side of a

Ronald Colman took it under his Me Not" and then was engaged by Maxine Elliott was a peaceful one, collage garden. That will be true which interested me long before Mr.

boneficent,wing In "Lost Horizon." and I should live Augustin Daly, playing leading parts and her maternal instincts found recreation.

So in New Zealand I

Tibet and theflowered-alled? in his theatre, in comedy, melo- their outlet in the care she took with drama and 'Shakespears. In 1895 her many nieces. For a long time on a sheep station and do a job of

and the wide beaches of the Moluc sho went over to London with Daly's she even used to design their dresses work, I should ride, and enjoy the valleys of the Himalayan foothills:

best trout fishing in the world. All these are straight fights company, made hit and began to

I should, in short, toughen myself cas and the forests of the Amazon There were, 'to be sure, one or Much different aro the attacks acquire tho British friendships two

adventures. There was that up again. I have a horror of growtheso offer un escape.

But. that would not be my purpose.. ing soft. Not that I want to keep which the German air force is

time when her chateau almost burned pulling my chest out and progressing should travel for discovery. developing against small British of sen power laid upon his down, and there was another time, in a constant series of physical might even find myself. To that end

In Florida, when she was rescued jerks,

should not seek the last strongholdsi

the but that was the

quiet places of the craft buch as trawlers and finish. soldier. The Nazis' preference from drowning,

for firing their guns, bombs and extent of the excitement. She No, the softness of life in a great of romance or the

wanted peace and found it she cly, with its synthetic amusements earth., n.,

A real country would bo my quest. Ing amacke. These outrages, 45 machino-günä. at victims who never wished publicity for Its own and its comforts, and its artificiality, Plus Tax Mr. Churchill has pithily said, A country where people have not yet. arte cortain man was not meant been driven to artiiciality. A indicate the exasperation of tho | which only they could find enuso sklápiz chang A to burn out his brief life in cities, friendly and healthy country.And. enemy, who feels the long arm" for satisfaction and pride.

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Aerial encounters off the German coast are Assuming larger proportions. It was to be expected that the enemy would resist in strength the enterprises that the Royal Air Force has been regularly conducting in that quarter. The British losses have not been light, but the Nazis' have been more serious. That our bombers 'should prove more than a match for the Gor- man fighters is significant. In encounters near the British coast the raiding bombers have had much the worse of it.

Ing:

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and cut them out herself.

view. In. 30 years.)

Very well. Without hesitation, should go to New Zealand?

Why New Zealand?

If six months are dropped into my lep out of Eternity. I want to savour- Ithem in reasonable: quietude.

She lived, as she wished, mistress of her household and herself.

it makes me shudder, to think that New Zealand rings true, on every r., thousands of youngsters in London count.

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