GIRL KILLED BY STAGE FRIGHT.
Paris, August 24.—Stage fright killed Lucie Maniera, a young Parisieune who was making her debut as an actress at Vichy after having won honours at the National Dramatic Conservatory.
She had played distractedly, and her throat had so contracted that she could hardly produce r. sound. At the end of the lint ait her associates found her pale and exhausted and tried to give her encouragement to go <;n for the second act.
As she started to make an entrance her heart Muttered wildly and the stage physician advised against her continuing. But the girl, unwilling to embarrass the company, gave a lurch and went on, simply saying: "I am unsuited to this business and will abandon the stage forever after to-night." During the second act she forgot her lines and the audience was painfully conscious of the awful struggle the young actress was making to spur her memory. Presently the spectators saw her fall backward dead. She was handsome and robust. Aftei a post-mortem examination the doctors said she was killed solely by excessive emotion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11783, 12 October 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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