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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14159, 7 September 1909, Page 6

Twenty-fix thousand pounds a roar, or five times the salary of the Prime Minister, is said to have been the amount of money which Miss Marie Dressier, who has entered upon her first managerial venture at the Aldwveh Theatre, was earning as a vaudeville artist. If it was true, sho deserved every penny of it, for never was there a lady artiste who could turn tears to laughter in such a manner. She cannot resist a joke even when telling you the pathetic story of her early struggles. "We were all starving at home." she says, " and I recognised that if I didn't go ahead and do something, it was a cinch that we should starve to death. I reckoned that I wasn't pretty enough for a man to marry me, so 1 joined an opera company. The management promised me £5 a week. I lived on the pro mi.so, and learned about 70 parts in different comic operas." There are at the present time 13 prisoners in the New Plymouth goal serving indeterminate sentences. Of these, 11 are males and two females. Besides these the gaol contains several prisoners serving sentences, at the expiration of which they ■will begin their indeterminate sentences, they having been declared habitual offenders.