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The

STAGE

Was what they called Maxine 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 Gone gave her a place in the most exclusive international so- ciety, where kings came` and, went as intimates.

She was white haired and old, which soon were to include King but the things she had won were Edward himself,

name, diminished-her her fortune and her place among the great.

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Arrangement

never

Fur several years, beginning in 1896, sho was the leading star in Nat C. Goodwin's company, and played everything from "The Cow- From the little girl who boy and the Lady" to "The Mer- chant of Venice." When she began ' watched the sea gulls from her with Goodwin's troupe, she

the married to George McDermott, a father's cargo ship, in blustery harbours of New Eng- New York lawyer of prominence. but divorced him that same year land, to the aging, but immense and married Goodwin in 1898. The marriage lasted only 10 years, for ly self-possessed woman who sat

she refused to live nny in the sun outside her famous in 1908 Riviera chateau and watched longor with him, and allowed him to get a divorce on the ground of kings, dukes, princes and prin- desertion, cesses diving in her swimming pool, was a long period, and a long career.

**

fall of that year, when "Maxine

SHE reached her height in the It was a career which the god-Elliott's Theatre opened In Times Square, the only New York theatre built, owned and operated by a wo- man since the long forgotten days of Laura Keene.

the United Press Associations; who redess of luck protected unfailing- arta wholly or in part without previously, and Maxine Elliott never

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

Desperate Nazis

THE great discrepancies be tween the British and German accounts of the latest air opera tions at sea 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 Nazi showmanship, designed to keep Gernians from thinking of other things.

Or that Maxine Elliott ever TOT

suffered neglect. That could

had

She had saved lier money, and Intuition was of her own busincas the frat order. It was she who planned the theatre, she who pervised its building, and she who profited thereby-along with Lee Shubert,

#12-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

102

"Remember, Nettie-no more sweats for the children to-day. I'm very careful about what goes in their tummios!"'

said:

Someone Suppose you'd months off

6

by

HOWARD MARSHALL

IX

holiday; months'

no have never stepped off hard pave--

a

There was a rather, thick veil of mystery around her first meeting never be said about a woman ing with King Edward VII, which took resources; where would I go?

day at New York theatre bearing place one

sunny summer

What a question! What her name, whose beauty captivated Marienbad. However it happened, King Edward VII, whose fabulous there is not the alightest doubt that hope, incidentally. But never

charm caught the chatenu 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

hls until ment, but by the British Navy- death. to less part of which happened to be in the harbour.

among her guests at her English home, Hartsbourne the example of Alain Gerbault, the Manor, which became brilliant French, Davis Cup player. centre for society, royal, theatrical, literary and otherwise.

Her

real name was the good, sound, Yankee name of Jessica Dermot, and neighbours and rela- tives in Rockland, where she was born on Feb. 5, 1871,-always-rc- ferred to her as Jessica, even when

she was famous.

:

He was often

WHEN

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น

丸

Harts- Maxine bought bourne Manor in 1910, she

the stage, and this she did, for a

SUCCESS

At once I am tempted to say that I should buy a small boat and follow

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.

So did Captain Joshua Slocum, who built a boat himself and jour-

ments.

are con-

There are no vast clties in New Zealand. The towns there are still

if you compact. Even 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 at your door, free and unspoiled,

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

I am a little tired, let me admlt, of the snobbery and convention, the- shams-and-smug-self-satisfaction, ihe... alrs and graces of the old world..

I would like to spend my six

The name Maxine Elliott was auggested by Dion Boucicault. Her the stared that she would red, from neyed in it alone around the world. months in a real country. And New: rassed him by eating his only chart. It may not have spectacular younger sister, Gertrude, also took time. But three years later she was Alone, save for a goat, who embar-Zealand Alls the bili. the name Elliott; she too became back in London, making a

"I ant long on the starlit deck,"

me, though it is Herbert Beerbohm Tree's

beautiful enough. It may not cater un actress of the first order and in Sir

wrote Joshua in his log. "thinking of scenery to offer

And ships and watching the constelia for the sophisticated sightseer. Johnstone Forbes-play, "Joseph and His Brethren." Also, the German public are married Sir

English

heaven be praised for that. What it renowned Robertson,

Then came the Great War and tions on their voyage," repeatedly warned of tho

for you. I could will offer me, apart from trout fish- Shakespearian actor. One of their

There's peace

anachronism-a man's life. penalties for listening to foreign daughters, Diana, is the wife of even she was caught in its flood.

She went to Belgium, la charge of spare some of my six months for the in, is warm hospitality and that odd Vincent Sheean.

her own ambulance, and worked constellations, brondcaats.

and intensely until

They're Neighbourly As a little girl, Jessica was there steadily

We need time to sit and think. when she went

need it so much, We hear much about the

aboard ship much of the time-in the end of 1010,

HAVE many New Zealand friends: They are grand folk, kindly and solidarity of the people behind Maine, and at Oakland, where her back to New York for the first time Never did we

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

Order of the Crown.

In between whiles we need to fend

are becoming straightforward. They don't judge a their Fuehrer, but the Fuehrer skipper father

a convent school in

ourselves. We She went to has little faith in their ability Roxbury, for a while, but her

It was King Edward VII who

put on my They are neighbourly. And that's- certainly, and self,

10 my more than we are in London. winter and summer resort clothes. I raise my food to take bad news. The German beauty, pure and rather austere, mode Cannes a favourite and fash atrophled, I manage to have my-man by his wealth, but by his worth.

and her figure, which was superb, lon

There are other places, I don't war spirit must be kept up with brought her rapidly to the New for English and American society, mouth and transport my 15st. to a

of York stage. Sho was only 16 when and it was Maxino Elliott's chateau bus.. But what else do. I have to doubt, which I should do well to in-

figures succession

vestigate. constant

she arrived there, and at once fell there that kept many social

coming to the Riviera during the achieve to survive the daily round? "achievements" which, when

Was 1930s. It depression-ridden

That is why I think a small boat under the beat influences.

built in 1930 at o cost of £70,000, would be stimulating and satisfac- not completely faked, are greatly

one of the few chateaux of the re- tory. Not a luxury liner, but a bont not exaggerated.

gion which open directly upon the which depended upon my efforts for

above the its voyaging. It slands 30 feet water, and in the grounds is a pri vate swimming pool.

a

Aerial encounters off the German const aro 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

HER first job wna with. E.

S

Willard in a minor part in the popular play of "The Middleman"

at Wallack's theatre. That was in

seu.

at the

English society visited 1890. She stayed with Willard for place so often that it acquired the three years, and learned the fundn-alckname of "The House of Lords." mentals. She worked hard, learned with thoroughness and never for- got. This she had to do, because,

enutiful though Maxine, was, and UIERE were brilliant parties there.

were her keenly intelligent, neverthelens sho The Duke of Windsor and his good was not an actress by instinct and American wife

for

To Get Tough Again $0 aimless BUT, perhaps,

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

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

Why New Zealand?

I like living things. The past doce

rouse in me any sentimental: nostalgin,

Give me, therefore, a country which is alive..

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

If six months are dropped into my lap out of Eternity, I want to savour them in reasonable quietude.

But why do we travel, when all is said and done? To escapa from our

I might do that, I suppose,.

Sens. Or at Ball,

Well, It depends what you demand selves?

moon, they tell me, ta

have not been light, but the worlus. For her it was a learned friends, and there were some historie of your six months, Personally, I in the South Nazis' have been more serious, That our bombers should prove

ing.

in his theatre, in comedy, mele- their outlet in the care she took with

her many nieces. For long time on a sheep station and do a job of

Tibet

·a

of holiday is not complete laziness, fatal to the susceptible. dinner table, with such varied per- but change of occupation.

I might escape into the real India.. Bonalities as Windsor, Anthony Eden, This summer, for example, I hope-not, mark you, the India of Uma

Somerset

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

wall of old bricks. A building a

And Tibet-there's'

country" more than a match for the Ger- to Rose Coghlan in "Diplomacy." Maugham taking part. man fighters is significant. In "London Assurance" and "Forget After the Great War, the life of purposeful wall down one side of n

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

So in New Zealand I should live beneficent wing in "Lost Horizon," Augustin Daly, playing leading parts and her maternal instincts found recreation.

and theflowered-filled the raiding bombers have had

drama and Shakespeare. In 1895 she even used to design their dresses work, I should ride, and enjoy the valleys of the Himalayan foothills.

and the wide benches of the Molue- much the worse of it.

she went over to London with Daly's and cut them out herself.

best trout fishing In the world.

I should, In short, toughen myself cas and the forests of the Amazoni

these offer us escapos; All these are straight fights.company, made a hit and began to

There were, to be sure, one or up again. I have a horror of grow

But that would not be my purpose. two adventures. There was Much different are the attacks acquire the British friendships

for discovery. I! time when her chateau almost burned Ing soft. Not that I want to keep which the German, air force is

in R constant series of physical might even find myself. To that end

I should not seek the last strongholds. In Florida, when she was rescued

jerks. developing against small British of sen power laid upon his down, and there was another time, pulling my chest out and progressing I should travel

No, the softness of ilfe in a great of romance or the quiet places of the craft such as trawlers and finish soldier. The Nazis' preference from drowning, but that was the

extent of the excitement. for firing their guns, bombe and led peace and found She city, with its synthetic amusements earth.

A real country would be my quest.. ing smacks. These outrages, as machine-guns at victims who never wished publicity for its own and its comforts and its artificiality,

A country where people have not yet.

to artificially, A Mr. Churchill has pithily said, cannot strike back is a policy in sake. (She did not give an intere that's what frightens me

view in 30 years.) pamerkan

to burn out, his brief life in cities. friendly and healthy country, And It makes me Ahudder to think that New Zealand rings true on avery thousands of youngsters in London count.

indicate the exasperation of the which only they could find cause enemy, who feels the long arm for satisfaction and pride.

that

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

1

1 am certain man was not meant been driven

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