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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 9

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Miss Horothea Baird (Mrs. TI. .B. Trviing), the well-known actress,- who played “Trilby” in Tree’s first production of the pay, died at Broad.stairs, aged 58. Her acting in the title role of .“Trilby” in October,'. 1895. when she was 20, evented a sensation. Miss Baird mado-. her first appearance on the stage with tho Oxford University Dramatic ' Society as Iris-- in! “The Tempest,” iin ruard, 1.594. In the. following June she joined/Air. "Beil Greet’s. company, playing Shakespearean roes. In 1896 she married Air. IT. K. Irving, elder son of Sir Henry Irving (who died i'n. 1919). She was ‘the original ; Mrs,. (Darling jp “Peter Pan.” She vTptired' from'(the'stage ( in 1912. since • when she ‘bald devoted 1 herself to Infant -welfare -'work <

Th ( , rats are in-for a lean time in the United States. Students at the bMassa-chusets' Technical School have built, a. rat-trap consisting of a midget “cannon” and photoelectric cell rigged .up in such a. way That' rats. are put “on the. spot'’ as they amble down , tbsir favourite pathway and intercept the ligh lionnr For neonoTny.’s sakft,,,th(> ,“cfiniionba]l” is tied to a. string and operated ‘on the principle of the popgun.

. Mrs. On r o’in o Mfirrioth. a forinen laundry ;workor. ,of Mitcham. ftn'rrev. and th<v oldest woman in London. i R IOR. Phf! :;,r.olebrntofl '. lior • birthday Avrth a tf dakes and ale” nawtr at, the Mayday Hospital', , Thornton Heath, Surrey, where - she, has been living since Mav. . “M rs. . Mcrriott eats, and , sleeps well/’, said one ‘of the .staff of the hospital;! • w Sh 8 Ipcdcs /forward,, more than anything, to a. igliiss »y ■stout which the doctor has : ordered' for her every 'day.” 1 Mrs- Marriott worked until she . was.. 86.

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