HISS ISABEL WILFORD
MAKES GOOD AT WEST END THEATRE AUDIENCE CHEERS FOR FIVE MINUTES AN INSTANTANEOUS SUCCESS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 25. (Received October 26, at 11.10 a.m.) Miss Isabel Wilford, the New Zealander, who was in Australia lour years under Williamsons, was the centre of a remarkable scene at the Lyric Theatre when she unexpectedly replaced Tallulah Bankhead in the ‘ Garden of Eden,’ owing to illness, between the second and third .act. The audience was most enthusiastic, and did nob allow the orchestra to be heard, checmig for five minutes—the whole length of the interval.’ Seldom has there been such an instantaneous success at a West End theatre.
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Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5
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111HISS ISABEL WILFORD Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5
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