MARIE TEMPEST’S JUBILEE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 June 1935, Page 6

MARIE TEMPEST’S JUBILEE

REMEMBERS NEW ZEALANDERS. “THANKS TO ALL THESE FRIENDS.” (Our Own Correspondent—By Air Mail) LONDON, June 8. The Marie Tempest matinee —golden jubilee of her first appearance on the stage—at Drury Lane, was a brilliant affair, attended by the King and Queen, and everybody of note in the theatrical world. And here is Miss Tempest’s thanks to the London “Daily Telegraph,” which organised the matinee. “I am going to ask you to add to your kindness by allowing me to thank the countless friends in England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Calcutta, Madras and every corner of the earth I have visited in my wanderings for their kind letters and telegrams. “When I come to my comrades of the theatre, I feel that my debt of thanks can find no adequate expression, From one o’clock last Sunday they were in the theatre till ten o'clock at night, rehearsing the plays and the Players’ Masque, hanging about for tedious hours "waiting to be called. ‘H am also deeply grateful to the great artists who contributed to tho brilliance of the afternoon. Mr John McCormack, Miss Evelyn Laye, Mr George Robey, Miss Mary Ellis and Mr Ivor Novello. But I cannot really enumerate all those to whom I B.m indebted—the list is unending. ro these dear kind friends I can only say I am so deeply indebted that I must remain their debtor all my life. Will everyone on the stage yesterday ho generous enough to accept this as a personal letter of sincere and heartfelt thanks? To all, my grateful love.”