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Tonight and Saturday, March 9th

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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 gave her a place in the most (exclusive international so- ciety, where kings came and went as intimates.

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She was white haired and old, which soon were to include King but the things she had won were Edward himself. never diminished-her name, For several years, beginning in her fortune and her place among 1896, she was the leading star in Nat C. Goodwin's company, and the great.

played everything from The Cow- From the little girl who boy and the Lady" to "The Mer- watched the sea gulls from her with Goodwin's troupe, she

chant of Verifce." When she began father's cargo ship, in the married to George McDermott, a blustery harbours of New Eng- New York lawyer of prominence, land, to the aging, but immense- but divorced him that same year and married Goodwin in 1898, The

Wag

Hongkong Telegraph.ly self-possessed woman who sat marriage lasted only 10 years, for

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In the sun outside her famous in 1988 she refused to live any Riviera chateau and watched longer 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.

SHE reached her height in the fall of that year, when "Maxine

It was a career which the god-lett's Theatre opened in Times

the United Press Associations, he rodess of luck protected unfalling-Square, the only New York theatre

serve all rights and forbid republication,

arrangement

either wholly or in part without previously, and Maxine Elliott never built, owned and operated by a wo- mun since the long forgotten days knew the usual fate of the ac-of Laura Keene. tress-oblivion. The only thing

She had saved her money, and she missed in life was lasting her own business Intuition was of 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

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the first order. It was she who planned the theatre, she who su- pervised its building, and she who profited thereby-along with -Lee Shubert..

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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"Remember, Nottic—no more swoots for the childran 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

no have never stepped off hard pave

months' holiday;

unlimited ments.

Snancial cares;

There was a rather thick vell of NOT that Maxine Elliott ever Buffered neglect. That could

mystery around her firat meeting; never be said about a woman who with King Edward VII, which took resources; where would I go? There are no vast cfiles in Now had a New York theatre bearing place one sunny summer

Zealand, day at

The towns there are still ** her name, whose beauty captivated Marienbad. However it happened,

bre What a question! What a compact. Even If you

cbn. the attention of the German King Edward VII, whose fabulous there is not the slightest doubt that hope, incidentally. But never can step outside when your day is

demned to work in an office, you. done and fish or shoot or ride, or bathe to your heart's content.

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

that Insted until hils

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

He was often among her guests nt her English home, Hortsbourne the example of Alain Gerbault, the Monor, which became a brilliant French Davis Cup player. centre for society, royal, theatrical, literary and otherwise.

chateau was saved from flames one her beauty and cham enught the public from the ignominy of the day, not by the local fire depart- king off balance and resulted in a mind about that, Graf Spee.

ment, but by the British Navy-friendship

death. This theory is supported by no less-part of which happened to

be in the harbour. the haste with which the Berlin

Her real name broadcasting authorities put on sound,

was the good, Yankee name of Jessica the air one night a special pro- Dermot, and neighbours and rela- tives in Rockland, where she was gramme to celebrate "the

born on Feb. 5, 1871, always re- glorious German air victory this ferred to her as Jessica, even when afternoon"-a typical piece of Nazi showmanship, designed to keep Germans from thinking of other things.

Also, the German public are repeatedly warned of ponalties for listening to foreign broadcasts,

not completely faked, are greatly exaggerated.

she was famous.

Vincent Sheean.

under the best influences.

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VHEN

Haris- "Maxine bought bourne Manor in 1910, she announced that she would retire from

winter and

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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.

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

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

I who built a boat himself and jour- would like to spend my neyed in it alone around the world. months in a real country. And New Alone, save for a goat, who embar-Zealand fills the bill. rassed him by eating his only chart.

- It may not have spectacular to offer me, though it is beautiful enough. It may not cater for the sophisticated sightseer. And. heaven be praised for that. What it will offer me, apart from trout ish- ing, is warm hospitality and that odd

hachronisma man's life.

There's peace for you. I could spare some of my six months for the

We need time to sit and think. Never did we need it so much, And never were we so afraid of it.

They're Neighbourly

There

The name Maxine Elliott WER suggested by Dion Boudleault.

Her

the stage, and this she did, for a younger slater, Gertrude, also took time. But three years later she was the name Elliott; she too became back in London, making a success

sat long on the starlit deck," an actress of the first order and in Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's married Sir Johnstone Forbes-play, "Joseph and His Brethren." wrote Joshua in his log, "thinking of scenery

ships and watching the constella- English renowned the Robertson,

Shakespearian actor.

Then came the Great War and tons on their voyage.”. One of their: daughters, Diana, is the wife of even she was caught in its flood.

She went to Belgium, in charge of her own ambulance, ond worked constellations, We hear much about the As a little girl, Jessica was there steadily and intensely until aboard ship much of the time-in the end of 1916, when she went solidarity of the people behind Maine, and at Oakland, where her back to New York for the first time their Fuehrer, but the Fuehrer skipper father also had a home. in seven years, wearing the Belgian

HAVE many New Zealand friends.. In between whiles we need to fend They are grand folk, kindly and has little faith in their ability Roxbury, for

She went to a convent school in Order of the Crown.

for ourselves. We are becoming straightforward. They don't. Judge a a while, but, her It was King `Edward VII who to take bad news.

The German beauty, pure and rather austere, made Cannes a favourite and fash- atrophied. I manage to shave my man by his wealth, but by his worth. self, certainly, and put on my They are neighbourly. And that's war spirit must be kept up with and her figure, which was superb, lon

summer resort clothes. I raise my food to my more than we are in London. brought her rapidly to the New for English and American society, mouth and transport my 15st, to a મ constant succession of York stage. She was only 16 when and it was Maxine Eillott's chateau bus. But what else do have to:

are other places, I don't "achievements" which,

when she arrived there, and at once fell there that kept many social figures achieve to survive the daily round? doubt, which I should do well to in-

coming to the Riviera during the

vestigate. depression-ridden

19309. It

That is why I think a small bout built in 1030 at a cost of £79,000, would be stimulating and satisfac- I like living things. The past does one of the few chateaux of the re-tory. Not a luxury liner, but a bont not rouse In me any sentimental gion which open directly upon the which depended upon my efforts for nostalgia. Aerial encounters off tho

above the its voyaging. was with. E. Ste. It stands 30 feet HER frat job German const assuming Willard in a minor part in the vate swimming pool.

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water, and in the grounds is a pri- larger proportions. It was to be popular play of "The Middleman" 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 Hght, but the Nazis' have been more serious. That our bombers should prove more than a match for the Ger man fighters is significant. In encounters near the British coast the raiding bombers have had much the worse of it.

a Wallack's theatre. That was in English society visited at the 1890. Sho stayed with Willard for place so often that it acquired the three years, and learned the funda- nickname of "The House of Lords."

ing.

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To Get Tough Again BUT, perhaps,

$0 aimless

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

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

Why New Zealand?

me,

therefore, a

country:

Give which is alive.

Then how about America? 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:: sald and done? To escape from our-. Well, it depends what you demand selves? I might do that, I suppose,.

mentala. She worked hard, learned with thoroughness and never for- got. This she had to do, because, beautiful though Maxino was, and THERE were brillant parties there. keenly intelligent, nevertheless she. The Duke of Windsor and his were her good was not an actress by instinct and American wife genius. For her it was a learned friends, and there were some historie of your six months. Personally, I in the South Sens. Or at Ball, have no wish to idle. The best kind where the moon, they tell me iš profession, which took much learn-political arguments around the Eallott of holiday is not complete laziness, fatal to the susceptible.

dinner table, with such varied per- but change of occupation. sonalities as Windsor, Anthony Eden,

I might escape into the real India. This summer, for example, I hope not, mark you, the India of limn- Somerset. For a season she played second Winston Churchill and

to spend some of my spare me and chota pegs and hill stations. buliding a to Rose Coghlan in "Diplomacy," Maugham taking part.

wall of old bricks. A "London Assurance" and "Forget

And Tibet-there's a country After the Great War, the life of purposeful wall down one side of a 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..

Ronald Colman took it under his- Augustin Daly, playing leading parts and her maternal instincts found recreation.

beacficent wing in "Lost Horizon." in his theatre, in comedy, mele their outlet in the care she took with So in New Zealand I should live

For a long time

Tibet and the flowered-filled. on a sheep station and do a job of drama and Shakespeare. In 1886 her many nieces. she went over to London with Daly'a she even used to design their dresses work. I should ride, and enjoy the valleys of the Himalayan foothills All these are straight fights, company, made a hit and began to

and cut them out herself,

best trout fishing, in the world. and the wide benchen of the Moluc- at 9.30 p.m. Much different are the attacks acquire the British friendships There were; to be

I should, in short, toughen myself cas and the forests of the Amazon. sure, one or two adventures. There that up again. I have a horror of grow--those offer is encope,

Was which the German air force is

But that would not be my purpose... ilme when her chateau almost burned ing soft. Not that I want to keep developing against small British of sos power. laid upon his down, and there was another time, puming my chest out and progressing 1 should travel for discovery. I

In Florida, when she was rescued jerks,

n- constant. series of physical might even And myzelf. To that end craft such as trawlers and finish-soldier. The Nazla' preference from drowning, but that was ther

I should not seek the last strongholds No, the softness of life in a great of romance.or the quiet places of the excitement. Sho ing smacks. These outrages, asmachino-guns at victims who never wished publicity for it own and ita comforia and its ariifciality, }

for firing their guns, bombs and wanted peace and found it. She city, with its synthetic, amusements earth. Mr. Churchill has pithily said, cannot strike back is a policy in sake. (She did not give an inter- indicate the exasperation of the which only they could find cause

view in 30 years.); qu enemy, who fools the long arm for satisfaction and pride."

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She lived as she wished, mistress föf her household and herself,

that's what frightens me.

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A real country would be my quest..

A country where people have not yet

I am certain man was not meant been driven to artifdality A It makes mo shudder to think that New Zealand to burn out his briet life in elites, friendly and healthy country. And. rings true on every· thousands of youngsters in London count."