THRICE REPORTED DEAD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 August 1925, Page 10

THRICE REPORTED DEAD.

JENNIE LEE’S STORY. •JO’ POOR IN OLD AGE. LONDON, Aug. S. “This is the third time my death has been 1 ©ported,” says Jennie Lee, ret'errincr to a report from I-os Angeles, where the death of a Jilm actress of the same name caused the confusion. “I was staying in Sydney,” she says, • when I saw a newspaper placard announcing the death of a famous actress. I bought the paper and was surprised to read my own obituary. The second occasion was in 1909, in London, when the death of an American actress who had taken my name misled the London newspapers.” Jennie Lee, now 67 years old, is living a.one in two rooms in London, .-she Ts in comparative poverty, and is suite ring from acute arthritis. Jennie Lee made her first appearance on the stage at the London Lyceum on January 22, 1870, in the comio opera ‘‘C hilueric.” Later, she played in New York and San Francisco, _appearing in the latter city in 18/5 in tier famous part of Jo, in "Bleak House.” Her subsequent career was associated almost entirely with this plav, in which she toured the world. She marired Mr. J. P. Burnett, an actor and playwright.