SYBIL THORNDIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20481, 5 February 1930, Page 17

SYBIL THORNDIKE.

/ FRIEND OF WOMEN. Miss Sybil Thorndike, who recently presented a now Napoleonic play to Loudon audiences —" Madame Plays Nap ' — lias a great belief in women's aims and women's work. She likes to have women about her, and all her business management is dona by a woman secretary. "It was my husband who converted me to the women's interest," sho told a newspaper representative. " That, was in the very early days of our friendship, before wo were married. He insisted on taking mo off to a sultrage meeting; said I ought to feel ashamed of myself for never having been to one before." r . Miss Thorndike, apart from her stage work, docs a great deal for women's interests., While on tour she spent much of her time attending civic receptions, visiting, institutions, and so on, in which women were closely concerned. She has become a great friend of that brilliant woman Mrs. Philip Snowden, and they have the most interesting talks together on all subjects that are absorbing the feminine thinkers at the moment.