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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 January 1927, Page 9

“He was a man of marvellous energy; lie had no time for the people who did not exert them selves and jwst took things .as they came.” In these words Maurice Moscovitch, the Russian actor visiting Christchurch, described to a Christchurch reporter Arnold Daly, the actor who was burned to death in New York on Thursday last. Moscovitch. who knew Daly well, said that he was" an actor who always did reliable work. At times he attempted too much, hut lie alwavs deserved credit fnr being a trier. He had a passion fo." coad plays, and New York laughed him to scorn when ihe gave there the first nroduetinn in Eln'dish of Strin-lw»-.r’s “The Father.” Six years ago [ Da 1 v w n nt to R!n gland to produce some coed olavs. hut the managers would not give him a theatre, so he left the ecuntrv full of anger at his fruitless Inn-nc-s. “Poor fellow—what, a terrible end he had !” said Moscovitch. BABY ON OCEAN LINER. Aboard the Remuera in the tropics a lady while nursing an infant fell asleep, and the baby’s face and arms were exposed to the sun with dire effects. One of the engineers promptly applied Q-tol with marvellously good results and earned the mother’s gratitude. He had learned of Q-tol when the “All Blacks’’ were aboard. —Advt.