LEE WHITE

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 15

LEE WHITE

CHEERFUL “STAR” WHO IS ALWAYS SMILING. Miss Lee Whited the cheerful star, is usually smiling. TShe is, thp champion optimist of the stage. L is said that if she failed on -the stage she’d thank Heaven for her- health; if she failed in health she’d thank Heaven she had the income she has a ecum iA a tied, end ‘ *if ' nhtr I<jst both - healtth aitd income she’d say, “Ah,, well, what’s the use of one without the other?” But Miss Lee White is in no danger of losing either her income or her health. As she puts it in her own bright way, “Health helps me to be useful.” - And surely, onfe'who is able to delight- ifhohsandb' m'ay well claim that she is decidedly useful. Away from the stage Miss Les White finds interest in several outdoor ®part», her height being no drawback to the avidity with which she pursues her recreations, Mention of her height recalls the story thatsome years QB° Signor Marconi received a telephone message from a friend asking could a -wireless, installation he fixed up m a theatre»at once. “Of course,” replied Marconi, “what’s the trouble?” . “Well,” was the response, “Lee White has just met Little. Tich, and- wants to talk to him.” The star prefers stories about others to stories about herself, however, and although she is deeply interested in spiritualism her breezy disposition compels her to laugh over and retail this story, that probably would not meet with Conan Doyle’s full approval. At a spiritualistic seance the medium succeeded in getting in touch ■ with a departed lady; ■ “Do vou like your new surrounding?” she was asked. “Well,” was the response, “it is very nice here, very charming and all that—-but, well, you know, it’s not Sydney!” Miss Lee White during her stay in Sydney, has received some dozens of letters from stage-struck girls asking her advice. .To. all she has pointed out the fact that stars are not discov-, ered in a night. To those not specially -endowed by nature for the fight for fortune behind the footlights, Miss White thinks the future must be rather frightening. To those plucky souls who dare all things and are determined to embark on a thoatrioal career -she offers this advice: be careful of your appearance, keep your tempers, don’t let little troubles upset you, tolera-te the- ill-humours of the stage-manager, for he*s not always an ogre at heart, persevere, and all the time work like Helen B. Merry. rrzz HISSED IN PUBLIC ON HER WEDDING DAY. “My sweetest kiss occurred at Glasgow immediately following my marriage —when I was made Mrs Clay Smith,” said Miss Lee White to the “Times” reporter. “I’ll never forget how the Glasgow folk enjoyed the scene. Perhaps it was rash of me to allow Clay to kiss me before those curious people who had heard that the wedding was to takq place, but, there, bridegrooms will do these things, crowd or no crowd 1 “And that kiss gave them the cue for a hearty send-off at the railway station near by. You know the old ditty, ‘Now you’re married, we wish you joy ?’ Well, they all crowded round the carriage and roared this, but when’ they came to ‘Kiss her once, hiss, her twice, kiss her three times over,’ we enthusiastically carried out their ad-vice-—but not until we drew down the carriage blind as the train steamed out of the station.” 1 Clay Smith (who ia a light comedian as well as Lee White’s husband) says that his chief occupation in ' life is basking in the reflected glory of his spouse. He says he feels like the successful son of a more successful father. He has been addressed in various terms, but the most exacting experience he baa had of late was during a rehearsal. One of the property men would call him “Mr White,” and another, doubtless in the belief that black is only a degree of white, dubbed him “Mr Black."

“But,” says Mr Clay Smith, “since I married. Lee White, and we have gone round the world together, I have been addressed as Mr White, Mr Black, Mr Brown, and Air Grey. “In Honolulu, a native official called me Air day White. Now I’m waiting for the man who will call me Mr Lee Smith.” - A NEW SONATA ROMANCE AND STRONG EMOTION FROAI THE VIOLA. Mme. Adeline Delines recently <gave a song recital at the Aeolian 'Hall, and sang a varied programme with much charm of manner. Fox some of her songs Air Lionel Tertie had arranged effective viola obligatos. The singer was at her best in a group of songs by Hamilton Harty and Roger Quitter. , The concert (says the “Daily News”) was made specially interesting' by the first performance of a sonata for viola and piano by Arnold Bax, played by Air Tertis and the composer. His success with the Fantasia-Concerto for viola made a sequel almost a matter of course. _ In the new sonata Air Bax has carried his experiments further, and enlarged the expressive scope of the viola.

In the passages associated with Sancho Panza in his “Don Quixote,” Strauss has shown us what the viola can do in the way of high comedy; here we have the excursions into the domain of romance and strong emotion. Tne sonata ia_ in three movements. The first is passionate, and ends in a whisper. The lovely principal melody is heard in the later movements, too. The second is a lively scherzo; the last expresses violent gaiety, with more than a 'hint of sardonic irony. Tne work, magnificently played, left an impression of considerable poetical and musical power. KITCHENER FILM DENIAL THAT THERE IS A BAN.' LONDON, November 28. Mr Justice Lawrence, in the Chancery Court, continued for a week the injunction to prevent the exhibition of the Kitchener film at the Leicester square kipema. The matter; came up on a motion by William Herbert Peroy in an action against B. and H., Ltd., and Arthur Freeman. Mr Jenkins, K.C. for Air Freeman, said that his client’s affidavit put an entirely different complexion on the matter. His case was that Percy and B. and H., Ltd., were all mixed up. He held the sole United Kingdom rights in the film, which had been .much altered to suit official criticisms. It had never. been., banned. It had never been submitted to the Brijbish Board of Censors. L- Bookbinder and David Hyajns, the sole of B. and H-, Ltd., were also directors of Percy and Partners, Ltd. The secretary of the two companies was -the same, and the registered office was the same. Air Freeman took the the Leicester square \ kinema for three months at a rent, calculated at the rat© of £5,100 per amftrm. Counsel said that Percy knew, quite well that the film was going to he exhibited.-