VESTA TILLEY.
" NEVER AGAIN." * LADY DE FRECE KILLS HER. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, August 8. "What! Go back to the stage at my age? Not likely! My farewell performance was Hi years ago." Lady de Frece, better known to millions of theatregoers as Vesta Tilley, thus scotched the rumour that she is to return to tho British stage. Silver-haired and gracious, yet as lively as the days when she sang "The Piccadilly Johnnie With the Little Glass Eye," lovely Vesta Tilley has just returned to England after living for the past 12 years in Monte Carlo, where her husband, Sir Walter de Frece, died last year. "I adored Monte Carlo—town of so many happy memories—but it is a great thrill for me to be back in dear old London once again," she said. "But don't believe any stories you may hear that I intend to go before the footlights again. No—nor the arc-lights of the film studio. I finished with Vesta Tilley in 1920. lam now 72, and 1 hope to occupy 'what time I can enjoying everything the British theatre can offer—but it will be on the auditorium side of the footlights. The theatre is still in my blood —but not as Vesta Tilley."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 11
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