AUTHORESS RETURNS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 12

AUTHORESS RETURNS

MISS ROSEMARY REES STAY IN NEW ZEALAND Revisiting the Dominion after an interval of three years the New Zealand novelist and actress, Miss Rosemary Rees, arrived from Sydney by the Monowai yesterday for a stay of indefinite length. She is at present the guest of Mrs. A. M. Ferguson, Victoria Avenue, Remuera. After a few weeks in Auckland Miss Rees proposes to go to Gisborne in order to visit two nieces, Mrs. B. de Lautour and Mrs. A. L. Singer. On her way from England Miss Rees spent nine weeks in Sydney and nindo inquiries regarding stage and film work, only to find that there was a lull in film production after the making of "Thoroughbred" and "The Flying Doctor." Theatrical activity was in much the same state for the time heing.

Asked whether she had more novels in contemplation Miss Bees replied that she had not at the moment. "I have just had one published—'Miss Trinton's Shipwreck' " —she said, "but 1 do not suppose that .it has reached Now Zealand yet. It is about a party of people wrecked on a Pacific Island, the whole thing troated lightly, and there is nothing about this country in it. I have had inquiries for the serial rights from the Woman's Pictorial in London and also from a women's paper iu Melbourne. That is unusual and rather a compliment, seeing that it comes aftei publication date." Miss Pees added that her "New Zealand Holiday," for which she had collected material on her last visit, had now appeared in a cheap edition. Two of her early novels, "April Sang" and "Wild, Wild Heart," were being reprinted in America. New Zealand had gained much extra goodwill in England latelv through the tour of the All Blacks. She had been present at tho Hotel Metropole when Jack Lovelock, the famous distance runner, who was a great advertisement for the Dominion, had been presented with a writing desk of New Zealand woods as a tribute from the sporting and athletic organisations of New Zealand. The All Blacks were there and each received from Lord Bledisloe a silver ashtray as a gift from himself and Lady Bledisloe, together with a silver cigarette box from tho New Zealand Association in London.