GHOST CARRIES ON
SEEN AT DRURY I/AXE
The Drury Lane ghost carries on. Four people on the stage during a recent forces broadcast said they saw it in its favourite upper circle seat, the rest of the circle being empty at the time. Mr. MacQueen-Pope, whose family has been associated with the theatre for 200 years, says he has seen the ghost some two dozen times in the last thirty years. He talks of it as an old friend. It seldom stays long, he says, its visit the other day lasting about ten minutes, at the end of which it vanished through the wall at its usual spot. A charwoman who had never heard of the ghost, once reported its presence in the circle to Mr. Pope; once he saw it at a distance of 12 yards. It has, however, never revealed itself to members of the Psychical Research r Society, who have sometimes waited for it for hours on end. It is about 150 years' old.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 304, 24 December 1941, Page 9
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167GHOST CARRIES ON Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 304, 24 December 1941, Page 9
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