GREENSTONE TIKI

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 18

GREENSTONE TIKI

ANNA NEAGLE'S FATHER

GIFTS TO HIS CHILDREN

(By Air Mail, from **The Posts* London Representative.) LONDON, March 27. [ The late Captain W. H. Robertson left personal articles to his children, [Allan Robertson (retired naval officer), Stuart Robertson (the well-known singer), and Anna Robertson (who is known all over the world as Anna Neagle, the film actress). Mr. S. Robertson receives his father's war medals and rings. To Anna he left a 300-year-old greenstone tiki, which belonged to a Maori princess. "A Maori chieftain gave it to my father," she said.,"l don't know whether I shall wear it. It is said to contain the princess's tears,, and might bring tears to my eyes." Captain Robertson left the residue of his estate of" £1878 to his second wife, Mrs. E. D, Robertson. In his will the testator wrote of his children: "I express my gratitude for the affection, loving care, and loyal duty with which, they have blessed their late mother and myself." "He was a marvellous father,'" said Anna Neagle to the "Daily Mail." "I owe him a lot. Quite rightly, he did not want nne to become a professional dancer at' 12. He sent me to a boarding school to keep me away from the stage. But when he retired and I reached school leaving age. he said: 'If you still want the stage, go ahead.' ' "All, my studio friends knew and loved him.. He used' to come and watch production for hours. He gave me lots of useful advice, and always attended my premieres." . Captain Robertson had a brother in New Zealand.