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VETERAN COMEDIAN’S DEATH. LONDON, June 10. The veteran comedian, Mr William Rokeby, who dropped dead on the stage at Brighton, was game to the end, and his last curtain was perhaps his best. While suffering intense pain with heart trouble, ho persisted in keeping the audience convulsed with laughter till the curtain camo down. Then he fell dead on the stage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 7
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