TIMARU NEWS
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr and Mrs Peter Gresson (Ashburton) will be the guests of Mrs C H. Gresson (Selwyn street) for Christmas.
Mr and Mrs G. Heasley (Ashburton) will be the guests of Mrs J. J. Heasley (Nelson terrace) for Christmas. Mrs J. B. Callaghan (Riccarton) is the guest of her parents, Mr and Mrs J. O’Leary, Olipua road. Mr and Mrs J. G. Sutherland have arrived from Hobart to visit their parents in Timaru.
Miss Ailsa Campbell will arrive from the North Island to-day to visit her parents. Mr and Mrs W. D. Campbell, Wai-iti road.
Mr and Mrs E. D. Wilson (Nelson) and Miss N. James (Tolaga Bay) are the guests of Mrs J. Wilson, North street.
Mr and Mrs F. Chapman (Cadogan Flats) are visiting Queenstown. Mias Amy Nevill-Smith (Sophia street) left yesterday to spend some weeks at her cottage at the Downs, Geraldine. Miss Chrissie Nevill-Smith (Sydney) will be her guest. Mr and Mrs Earl Andrew (Wellington) and Miss Mary Bridges (Dunedin) are expected to-day to spend the holidays with Mrs G. A. Bridges, Selwyn street.
Mr and Mrs J. H. B. Scholefield (Nelson Flats) will leave to-morrow to visit Dr. and Mrs Guy Scholefield, Wellington.
DEATH OF AN ACTRESS
MISS VIOLA TREE
Miss Viola Tree, eldest daughter of the late Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, has died in London at the age of 54. With intelligence, individuality, versatility, and a good training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she made disappointing progress with her stage career.
Then, quite suddenly, she found herself as an actress. She appeared in Ivor Novello’s “The Truth Game” as a wild gawky woman whose sole dramatic function was to be laughed at; and it turned out that, because Herbert Tree’s daughter had been expected to take herself, and be taken, with high seriousness, the English stage had been losing the services of a really gifted clown. From that time onwards she was seen only in wildly comic parts, and made in middle age a reputation such
as her decorative youth had never brought her. One of her sons is on the stage under the name of David Tree.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22592, 23 December 1938, Page 2
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