BEAUTIFUL QUADRUPLETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

BEAUTIFUL QUADRUPLETS.

FOUR SISTERS ALL ALIKE. NEW YORK, MAN " SEES THINGS." "Good morning, Miss June," said a representative of the Sunday Chronicle to a young girl recently. " I'm Jane," said the girl. " This is June. And here are Jean and Joan." The journalist was speaking to one of a beautiful family of quadruplets who arrived in England to appear afc a London theatre. They are the sisters Gilmartin, from Chicago.

So alike are these quadruplet sisters that when they are dressed in similar costumes it is impossible to tell which is which. *

" Often when we have all four been at a dance," the second from the right said, V a young man has come up to me and told me what a wonderful dancer my sister is, when I have been the only one of the four ho has danced with. "We used to have quite a gamp through people being unable to recognise us apart. When one of us had arranged to meet a boy we would draw lots to see who would keep the appointment, and we were never found out, although we played that trick on quite a few boys who knew us fairly well. " Not so long ago we were staying at a New York hotel, and were the cause of a prominent man signing the pledge. He was sitting in the breakfast room when one bf us arrived. When the second one came in he rubbed his eyes and blinked. On the arrival of the third hp spilt his coffee and made a dash for the door. In the doorway he collided with the fourth, and collapsed.

" We learned afterwards that the man had been out on a 'bust' the night before, and that ho imagined he was 'seeing things.' The fact that we were, as always, dressed alike, may have had something to do with his complaint."

The four sisters are believed to be the only quadruplets on the stage.. They specialise in acrobatic dancing-