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Northern Advocate, 4 May 1933, Page 8

John Masefield’s drama ‘‘Good Friday’’ accounted for its second victim in Christchurch recently (says the “Christchurch Times”). At one stage of the proceedings it is necessary for Procula, ''wife of Pontius Pilate, to simulate stabbing herself. On this occasion Procula's dagger stuck in her girdle when she attempted to draw it, and, in her hurry to synchronise the movement with her “lines,” she’ struck too accurately and made a considerable cut in her arm. The stage was quickly reddened with real blood, and the services of a doctor were required as soon as the actress came off. The previous victim was .Miss Molly Carrington, who has since made a name for herself on the European stage by her work in Shakes pea rea if and other productions. She, too, was flurried by her dagger refusing to draw quickly.