ACTRESS BADLY BURNED.
THE PLAY GOES ON. WELLINGTON, This Day. During a r performance of "Peep Show" at the Opera\House last night an accident happened to one of the company, Miss Phyllis Porter, by which she was Severely burned about the arms and shoulders. The audience heard a loud bang and simultaneously a girl's scream. There was a moment's pause in the performance, when one of the performers whispered to the orchestra, who struck up an air out
of the usual routine and the play went on. That was all the audience lenew. Behind the scenes; Miss Porter's coqtume was alight, and before the -flames could be extinguished she was "badly burned. First aid was rendered "by a member of the audicnce and later Twig* Porter was taken to hospital, -where she is now reported as doing well. The accident was due to an explosion of fuse. —Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 4 May 1923, Page 5
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