WAS SHE AMERICAN?

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10725, 24 October 1928, Page 9

WAS SHE AMERICAN?

ELLEN TERRY’S DAUCHTER’S

DOUBTS

Was Dame Ellen Terry at) American citizeii P. V - .

This unexpected, question was raised by the great actress’s, daughter, Miss Edith Craig, when she told a “Daily Mffil’,’ reporter: - “I do not quite know when; my mother’s will will be proved. lam wondering if the question of her nationality will have anything to do With it.

,-i . a I- am not-certain whether my mother was ah American citizen or not. She was married to an American, Mr.''James Catfcw, the actor, in the -United! Staths, so' she very probably Was. It would be strange to think Ehat Dame Then Terry was an American, wouldn't it-F” IvEilen Terry matried Mr. Carew at l'ittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1907. While nothing lias been arranged about 'the future of the old cottage at Teiithrden, in Kent, where Ellen Terry died, Miss Craig hopes that ft::may be preserved as a memorial to her inathertitHo' idea of : doing this, -was first mentioned in the;. ’ “Daily Mail;” Miss. jOrhig-r said: “I should hot like, it to be sold, or to come into other people’s tiands. “It would n'ot ibe efisyc ; f6r me to preserve the cottage’ myself, and T should be, very glad if the suggestion that it . should ho acquired by public subscription or a. national body could be realised. “I should’ like the cottage kept just as ’it- is! There are many objects in jt of historical interest- from •the point of view. of: the theatre: -My mother had collected a number of things which formerly belonged! to fiimous players. Slic had' a ’ Bible arid > some ’car-rings belonging;' to Sarah' Siddons, and manv Articles which once belonged to Henryy If-