LONDON CHARITY PLAY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27368, 5 June 1954, Page 2

LONDON CHARITY PLAY

Elsa Maxwell Hits Back At Critics PRAISE FOR PRINCESS MARGARET (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, June 2. Seventy-one-year-old Elsa Maxwell hit back at the critics who had hard toings to say about the charity play *The • Frog, * of which Princess Margaret was the assistant producer, says the “Evening Standard." She summed up the criticism as “the first unsporting thing I have met in Britain. The critics have hit below the welt. These babes in the wood are doing a job for charity and should not be criticised at all.’* _ Maxwell was especially sorry for Billy Wallace—“he has worked so hard. And Princess Margaret, the assistant director—“ She’s a wonderful kid.’’ But America’s leading party-giver was delighted with the “Evening Standard theatre critic Milton Shmman’s description of herself: “Like a small stranded whale.” “rhat’s pure heaven,” she said. “I love other people poking fun at me almost as much as I love laughing at myself.”