HANGED HERSELF ON STAGE.
AUDIENCE THOUGHT IT ACTING. Paris August 17. Pretty Georgina Weymouth, an English chorus girl, committed suicide on the stage of the Folios-Bergere Wednesday night, hanging herself in lull view of the audience.
The last- scone of the burlesque being played called for a simulation of suicide by an unfortunate lover. Alice had boon performing the part for two weeks, the audience being deceived by her hooking herself up behind her back on a concealed belt.
On Thursday night the agony of the actress elicited frantic applause and laughter, the contortions of her body being deemed an excellent imitation. When the curtain went down the girl was dead. A letter was found in wliicli she declared her purpose to kill herself, but did not cxplai. her motives.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 231, 8 October 1901, Page 4
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