LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 181, 24 July 1893, Page 4

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY.

Ths Auckland Star of Tuesday, August 4tb, 2891, says :— Buby Kennedy is a obild of only eight summers, and ten days ago her name was not even known to uc. To-day, she is an ebject of very ecmsiderabla interest m the community, owing to her very clever interpretation of the part of " Little Lord Fauntleroy," at the Optra House last week. Little Buby Kennedy ia a born actrees, and if hiitriooia talent be hereditary, she must posßsss it m a narked degree, for her antecedents are remarkable for intimate association with the stage. Her father Mr J. J. Kennedy, one of the most versatile of Colonial comedian*, while her mother is a daughter of Mrs Waiter Hill, than whom there is no actress more generally popular, or more highly esteemed by the theatre-going portion of the public ot New Zealand. Therefore, it might almost be said of Buby Kennedy that she was born and. cradled on ths stags, and hßr histrionic genius has devolved upon her by nature's own law of suo cession. Little Buby* made her first appearance when she was only five years of age, as " Little Willie" m •• East Lynne." She has since appeared m the "Forlorn Hope,', " Smarty Tims." " The Newspaper Boy," " Mary Morgan" m " Ten Nights m a Bar Boom," " Sybild Milton" m "Cnrrent Caih," "Peepa-boo" m Bret Earte'B " Mlias." Little Buby Kennedy, during an interview ia Auckland, related some pretty stories aiad succeeded m making a highly favorable impresßicn on the interviewer. One episode she relates with great pleasure. At a certain hotel there wss a sick man m the next room, and. (not knowing he was ill) she wag reciting her parti aloud m bed. The landlady came up to close the door, so that he should not be annoyed, when he begged h«r to leave the door open, adding, "I have enjoyed myself very much listening to that little girl," and many other pretty stories ware told. Little Buby, when asked the sceae she liked best, replied, " The scene where I go to sleep on Dearest's knee, and say— God kaep you all the night — God bless you all the day." she is unquestionably a clever little mite, and tbare is little doubt she haa a future before her m the profession for which nature has fitted her.