ACTORS OUARREL.
CASE VENTILATED IN COURT. 3Y CABLE —PRESS aSSOCJ ATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON, Jan. 24. Seymour Hicks engaged Kenneth MacLaine, an actor, for an 18-,Aveeks’ tour at £ls per week, saying: “You can do the part on your head. ’ In a love scene, Avhen Hicks AA r as calling Mrs Ilicks “Darling,” MacLaine stood betAveen tlie lovers. Hicks became extremely cross, and at the fall of the curtain dismissed MacLaine. The second act AA-as before the King’s Bench Division. MacLaine: “Hicks becomes extremely unreasonable on the stage. He does not realise AA'hat he is doing. Anybody is liable to make a mistake on the first night.” Hicks: “Nobody, living or dead, could haA r e made a ghastlier mess. 1 told him he could do it on his head. It Avould have been better if he had done so.”
The Judge: “Pay MacLaine a fort night’s salary and fourteen guineas ex pended on clothes.” (Curtain.)
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 January 1927, Page 5
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