LIFTED INTO BOAT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3184, 1 April 1911, Page 9

LIFTED INTO BOAT.

ACTRESS DESCRIBES HOBBLESKIRT ADVENTURE.

Morris Shiemrock claimed £S 12s m the Westminster County Court (London) for making costumes, supplied to Mrs Bonnett, an actress, whom he sued in her professional name ox Miss U-ii- ' Miss - Clifford contended that one of the cosutmes was useless, the hobbleskirt preventing her from walking, and the tight £ leeves of the jacket stopping the circulation of the blood. The defendant’s solicitor said she had 1 supplied the material.. . , , ... Judge Woodfall: Will it not be the quickest way to put the things on? Miss Clifford quickly appeared m the hobble-skirt with a .jacket to match. The skirt, she said, was looser now, because it split in her attempts to walk in it. (Laughter.) “It took me three hours to go irom Twickenham to Richmond,” she added, “and at the ferry I was stuck on the bank unable to get into the Ijoat. They had to lift me in—(Laughter)—and I had to be lifted out. Then I found I couldn’t get into a ’bus, and I had to have a taxi-cab home. (Laughter.) That was the only time I wore a hobble.” Judge Woodfall found there had been an acceptance by the defendant. He had 1 to decide these cases in a rough and ready way, hoping to do justice to the parties. He allowed half-price for the jacket, and on the whole gave judgment for the plaintiff for £5 and the court fees.