SECRET MARRIAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 9

SECRET MARRIAGE.

WELL-KNOWN WRITER, WEDS ACTOR IN HER PLAY. LONDON. Lan, 3. Miss Naomi Ik>yd''-Srnitb, the drama-lie critic and author, v.-1 to feeeived a legacy ojf £SOOO from Mrs. Hamilton-Fellows, a daughter of thw lute Sic Frederick Wills, of the Imperial Tobacco Co., haft disclosed, the fact that sho v.as secretly married to tho American actor, Ernest Milton, The latter acted in Australia til the play, " Potash and Perlmfltler." Mrs. Milton was bo impressed by hr*r | husband's acting that she could not for* j u«?t him. She wen' to see him reptatcdly, j and finally v.joft' a p! ; «y» in vTiieh )u; wan | able to star. It was produced at the Every, f man Theatre, aoil they met (nqtmitly at ! the rehearsals. I M;> Naomi (jwiadys I'ovd(,-Sn»Ut (now Mr.v. Milton) H ft wcli komvn London journali&t and author. For ?/mo years fiini was dramatic critic for Umi YVfi&t* j minster Gazette whea that pajjwr was ono i of tin- leading London Liberal pipers, and | the was the literary editor and conduct id ! the well.known competitions pag« of tho : Weekly WeMmir»*ter, a feature since copied hv other papers. fjorne of tho • most brilliant scholars and writer-, were i contributor* to her enmprtit ions.