MISS MARIE NEY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 36, 11 August 1930, Page 13

MISS MARIE NEY

NEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS

Dressed in a seventeenth-century frock, with slashed sleeves and a large green hat, for her part of Milady in "The Three Musketeers," Miss Mario Ney granted an interview to a writer from the "New Zealand News" (London). Miss Ney, who left New Zea♦land only six years ago, is now numbered among London's leading actresses. When asked how she liked musical comedy after "straight" plays, Miss Noy said: "You musn't call this musical comedy. This is a romantic musical play, and I don't need to sing at all in it." She was enthusiastic about the treatment of the management, who oven provided the company with free arti-ficial-sun baths, to keep them in good trim. With' regard to the attitude towards young people from overseas trying to break on to the stage, Miss Ney said that it was "Most generous.' There is none of tho 'jealousy of tho theatre'^that one reads about. I was very well treated when I first arrived. Of course, I had had five or six years of acting in-Australia and Now Zealand before I came here. I got into Sybil Thorndike's company, touring with 'The Lie,' almost immediately, ij talked a little Irish manager to a standstill, and at last he said:' 'You had better come along to-morrow,':> and j next day I was signed up."

Mis Ney expressed a hope that some day she would be able to tour New Zealand with her own company, and said that the best advice she could give to young actors overseas was just "work."