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Dame Sybil Thorndike DEATH OF MOTHER (Reuter —Special to "The Dominion.”) Louden, March 21. Sadness attends the home-coming from New Zealand of Dame Sybil Thorndike, the great, actress, for her mother's death has removed a constant inspiration to her. It was Mrs. A. M. Thorndike’s continual care to forward the careers < f her gifted children—Dame Sybil and her brother and sister. Mr. Russell Thorndike and Miss Eileen Thorndike. She used to arrange tlie plays in which Russell and Sybil took part as children, and which Dame Thorndike has so delightfully described in her memoirs. When Dame Sybil achieved her great triumph in Bernard Shaw’s “St. Joan” in London, her mother was at the hidden organ which plays during the cathedral scene, ami she did not miss a single performance. Yet Mrs. Thorndike always maintained that she did not. bring up her children. but left them alone so that they carved out their own careers.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 4
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