“COPY-CAT.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 November 1925, Page 8

“COPY-CAT.”

THEATRICAL ROW

DANCER DISMISSED

LONDON, Oct. 17

The Australian actresses, Clarice Hardwicke ajid Mildred Nichoils, were mentioned in the Dow Street Police Court yesterday when Miss iM.ua Nirska, a dancer in “Rose Marie/' now being produced at Drury Lane, complained that Lee Ephraim, one or the managers, had threatened Jier with violence, and had used fierce language. Counsel for the defence remarked:

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scornjed,” and explained *tnat .\l iss Nirska and Hardwicke took two curtains nightly. Everything went well until Miss Hardwicke became indisposed, and Miss Nicholis, who understudied her, persisted in copying Miss Nirska.’s elaborate curtsey.

The management refused to interfere when Miss Nirska complained, after which iMiss oSJirska. refused to take the curtains. Mr. Ephraim spoke sharply to her in her dressing-room, saying that he was determined to maintain discipline. The magistrate dismissed the summons. °

Miss Nirska did not appear in “Rose Marie” last night, her understudy taking her place at a minute’s notice. It transpired subsequently that she had [been refused admission to the theatre. The doorkeeper handed her a letter terminating her agreement, and she was not allowed even to visit her dressing-room.