MRS THAW AS A DANCER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 17

MRS THAW AS A DANCER.

APPEARS UNHERALDED IN REVPE AT LONDON HIPPODROME. Mrs Harry Thaw appeared in the popular revue, "Hullo. Rag-time!" at the London Hippodrome on Wednesday night, June 11th, under the name of May Nesbit, audi performed a glide-waltz with the dancer Mr Jack Clifford. Mrs Thaw, in amber and beetle-green. with her dark brown hair streaming down ber back, proved a lively exponent of the riot dunce, which is performed in the "Exhibition Ground" scene. Thc climax was a wild whirl round aud round in the air by the beautiful young American, with her hands clenched behind her companion's neck. Her appearance had not been heralded to ihe audience in any way, with thc result that the hearty welcome usually accorded to a newcomer by a Loudon audience was not forthcoming: but that the measure of applause eivcn was not discouraging to Mrs Thaw was evidenced hy her subsequent remarks to an interviewer. She said she felt in,,re than grateful for the fair manner iu which she had been received by the audience. "1 am here," she said, "not as Mrs Harry Thaw—not as a •freak,' to be stared at because of my connection with a tragedy—but as a light- '■ stajte artist, which has been my profession and which, thanks to my meeting with a representative of Moss* Empires in New Y'ork, is my profession today. "I was delighted when my efforts were greeted as they were to-night. I felt a little bit nervons when 1 first dashed upon the stape. but by the time the first dance was halfway through ' f «J' comfortable and at homo.