THEATRICAL CELEBRITIES.

New Zealand Mail, 18 January 1900, Page 45

THEATRICAL CELEBRITIES.

; - (No. 4 —MISS IDA HOLBEIN.) jn view of the importaxjt and popular position- which descriptive :i vo"calißm ■ oboupies with fhe public a chat in which Miss .-Idit Holbein,ells .her experiences he interesting. When- soen Ut her private residence 3, Victoria Parade, Melbourne, Miss Holbein disclaimed any pretention to popularity; but certain, it is that-her every appearance is greeted by audiences “with deserved applause. - ' “You have .had l a number of successful ;;tonfs; we - eaid .the 'interviewer. - j V; ‘,T think T: can 6 say ’ that” said tlie Urtiste. “I have been with lilr Harry Richards’s companies at the Tivoli, Sydney, with the Cogill Bros., with'Messrs York and Jones and other combinations.!’.' . J. • “How did your recent tour to Perth result?”' . ■ ( -“Very satisfactorily so far as professional success went.' I filled.a seven months engagement, in: Western Austra'portion, of ■' the time *1 was iricapacitated through influenza. Terrible burning me in the back of the head and in the limbs. Fearful throbbing .’headachefe and feverishness, made my existence a misery. Then great prostration came on, and I became too weak to exert myself at all. Digestive troubles occurred causing nausea and total loss of appetite, in fact I could eat nothing. Great despohclency crept over me/and' despite .stalled medical treatment I did not recover. My weakness increased until I was in Stibh a help less state that I felt I was dying. My friends at this juncture advised hie to take Dr Wiliams’s Pink Pills. I used several boxes of. them altogether, and before I .had finished, the first box improvement was manifest. . They seemed to enrich my blood, to tone up ffiy nerves, and give me. strength. In a Week or two a rosy colour came into inr pale cheeks,, and everyone said I looked marvellously better. A fortnight after that I was completely cured. Headaches, pains, and loss of appetite had gone, and I felt, quite bright and cheery at my release from sickness. Dr Williams’s Pmk Pills are a most efficacious medicine. When other remedies fail they seem to go right to the root of disease. Miss Holbein speaks truly when she says Dr Williams’s Pink Pills Sought to the root of disease. This is the reason they cure many apparently diverse _ ailments such as rheumatism neuralgia, sciatica, dyspepsia, ladies’ ailments and irregularities, nervous prostration, debility, loss of flesh, after -eflects ot fever, pneumonia, consumption dysentry, erysipelas, skir. diseases, rickets, etc. Sold by chemists and storekeepers, and by the Dr Williams’s AlediSH* Company Wellington, Price three shillings per box, six boxes sixteen and sixpence. Miss Ida Holbein’s recent appearances ir. Sydney with Mr Harrv Rickards s combinations have met With well merited success. /,.../-