LOTTE LEHMAN.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 21

LOTTE LEHMAN.

The famous songbird, Lotte Lehman Austrian prima donna, has announced her intention of becoming a naturalised America. In a statement she said- "I am quite Aryan? I Save not been expelled from Germa^nv but Ido n^t IS Quite See toS?^ 1' Si sa?Prt SS lifl/SS iorLaS!e^elAfr Ving at * formance attended by him. When choosing the title of "Dear Octopus" for her new play, Dodie Smith (writing under her own name and not under the pseudonym of "L. C. Anthony"), indicated that the name is not that of a person, but of an idea the meaning of which the end of the play itself suggests. She is a popular playwright at Home and her plays are always sure of long runs c ...

H. K. Ayliff, the popular producer at Malvern, focal point of the worlds dramatic interest every year, was born at Grahamstown, Sduth Africa; he is the son of the Hon. Jonathan Ayliff. Henry Kiell Ayliff, to give him his full name, started life as a painter— won a three years' scholarship at the Royal Academy School in London, and then spent a further two years in Paris and Italy. His inborn love of the theatre interfered with his artistic studies, to a certain extent, for he interrupted his painting to learn voice production and elocution. He drifted to the stage, his first part being that of Sivla Tosh in Barries "Little Minister," at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln. He made his first appearance in London, in 1908, playing Postman Kelly, in Hall Caine's "Pete" at the Lyceum, where he now spends as many as thirteen hours a day rehearsing five different casts for Malvern. In 1921, after an excellent study in "The Two. Shepherds," for the Birmingham Repertory people, he stayed on to produce "Candida" for' the society. He it was who gave Sir Cedric Hardwicke his first post-war engagement in a curtain-raiser to "Candida" in 1922. He also staged "Cymbeline" in modern dress.