STRANGE INSURANCE
£IO,OOO POLICY FOR ACTRESS. LONDON, October 4. With an ex-undertaker as a stage band, and with the# leading :iecL insured for £IO,OOO lest something might happen \vh?a she is hanged, the season of continuous Grand Guignol has opened in auspicious eir*ciimstances at the Duke of York’s Theatre.
The programme consists of four shockers and two ticklers.' The* ticklers are quite funny; so are parts of the shockers. The actress whose neck is insured is Miss Lydia Sherwood. She has to twirl at. the end of a rope for sometime—but here weight is borne by a wire.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1932, Page 6
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