Misfortune of a Playwright
A playwright who once earned £3OOO a week in the West End was charged at Kingston-on-Thames with begging. He was Sidney Barker Pitt Bowkett, aged 65, and his successful plays included “Lucky Miss Dean,” produced at tho Criterion, “The Mummy,’’ at the Comedy and “The Superior Miss Bcllinder.” He also at one time acted in Shakespeare. Bowkett, who seemed ill and weak, said a well-known playwright, had now promised to help him. P. C. Smith said that before his arrest for begging, Bowkett had bought chloroform and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance on several occasions. Bowkett, who denied begging, said he was in hospital for two years and left against medical advice. In the excitement of being free ho took chloroform, but he promised never to take it again. Bowkett was bound over on condition that lie left Kingston.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 194, 18 August 1936, Page 5
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146Misfortune of a Playwright Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 194, 18 August 1936, Page 5
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