ACTRESS'S LETTER
"THE WOMEN" ALL BUSY
Many New Zealanders will remem ber Miss Doris Packer, who playea here some time ago in Clare Boothe's comedy "The Women." Miss Packer (who in private life is Mrs. Roland Edwards), writing recently to a friend in Sydney, said:
"The show business In New York, generally, is good, and one of the surprises has been the great success 01 ■Charley's Aunt.' Nobody thought thai the old comedy would be so well received.
"There is a feeling for English plays, and Emlyn Williams's' 'The Corn is Green' has opened with Ethel Barrymore. 'I Killed the Count,' which was so successful in Sydney, is being produced at one of the out-of-town try-oul houses. Musicals are having tremendous success —there are seven smashhits on Broadway.
"Lan Keith has a very good radio contract in Chicago, and although radio pays the big money in America, it is hard to get in. Helen Hayes receives 4000 dollars for one Sunday night programme. The girls of 'The Women' company are all doing something. Jess Rogers is in Hollywood, and I have heard that Irene Purcell is to marry somebody she met in Australia."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 16
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193ACTRESS'S LETTER Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 16
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