NOTED ACTOR DROPS DEAD

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 11

NOTED ACTOR DROPS DEAD

Sir Guy Standing

POISONED BY SPIDER TWO YEARS AGO

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 25, 5 p.m.)

Hollywood, February 24.

Sir Guy Standing, the actor, died from a heart attack while chatting with an employee in the offices of a motor agency. The employee asked him how he felt, and lie replied lie was excellent and had never felt better in his life. A second later he fell to the floor.

Friends traced his deatli indirectly to the bite of tlie “black widow” spider two rears ago during the filming of “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.” Apparently he recovered, but recently he complained of pains in the legs, but refused medical care. It is believed the poison affected his heart.

Sir Guy Standing, K.8.E., C.8.E., iate of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was the son of the late Mr. Herbert Standing, The late Sir Guy Standing was born in London, made his first appearance on the stage in “Wild Oats” (with Sir Charles Wyndham) in August, 1889. and within 10 years was accepted in the West End as an actor to be reckoned with. He played “leads” in “Liberty Hall,” “The Liars,” “Joseph Entangled.” and supported Lena Ashwell in "Mrs. Dane’s Defence” and "The Shulamite." He was also a success in "The Servant in the House” in 1910, and was Pendleton in “Daddy Longlegs,” in Chicago, just before the Great War broke out. On that occasion he at once joined the R.N.V.R.. served throughout the war, and in June, 1918, was created a Knight Commander of the British Empire in connection with his services as a member of the British War Mission to the United States of America. In recent years Sir Guy Standing has lent refinement and distinction to' old man parts in screen plays produced nt Hollywood. M.P. COLLAPSES Death After Making of Speech (British Official Wireless.) (Received February 25, 5.30 p.m.) Rugby, February 25. Sir Henry Jackson, M.P. for Central Wandsworth, collapsed and died after delivering a speech at a dinner last night. Sir Henry Jackson, who was 61 years old, was an authority on traffic problems and was chairman of the London Traffic Advisory Committee. Before entering politics he practised as a physician and took a prominent part in municipal work. The Parliamentary by-election made necessary by Ills death brings the total of by-elections now pending to six.