ACTRESS'S THRILLS.
Muriel Starr, who has been appearing in " The Silent Witness," in Melbourne, has a good laugh when she recalls her experiences on her first New Zealand tour years ago. She visited towns hitherto unpatronised by theatrical companies, and at one place where stage lighting was primitive, to say the least, she nearly collapsed at the sight of a flickering bicycle lamp shedding its light on the dead body in " Within the Law." " Laughter took tho place, of horror on my face," said Miss Starr, " and I am afraid that was the end of me and the play." Miss Starr said that she was " broken up," <m another occasion, by a humorous stage happening. But this was on the first night of " The Silent Witness," at the Palace Theatre, Sydney. Miss Starr, as Helen, was relating her tragedy when a black cat put its head around the wings of the scenery. This started a giggle among the audience, which swelled into laughter when the cat, after a good long yawn, walked as on hot bricks across the stage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18879, 29 November 1924, Page 8 (Supplement)
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