GREAT LIGHT FAILS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 7

GREAT LIGHT FAILS

DEATH OF ELLEN TERRY MOURNED BY NATION (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.; LONDON, July 21. The death is announced of Dame Ellen Terry; aged 80 years. She had a peaceful end in her simple cottage home near Tenterden, Kent. Quite recently she was enjoying the sunshine in the tiny garden she loved. She had a heart attack on Tuesday and gradually weakenedThe whole nation pays tributes to one representing all that was best in 'English womanhood, but there is no mourning, for this is her own wish expressed on the flyleaf of Thomas A'Kempis' "Imitation of Christ," the last book she read. Here were found a few touching little sentences in her writing: "Let there be no funeral gloom, my dears. When I am gone thiiik of me as withdrawn into dimness. lam yours still, and you are mine. Remember all that is best and forget the rest." Hence the simplest service is being arranged at the village church on Tuesday, thence the cremation of the ashes which are to be laid in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, where she often worshipped. The King and Queen sent a message to Edith Craig: ."We are grieved to hear of the death of Dame Ellen Terry, who will be mourned by thousands who have known and loved her art." AMERICAN EULOGIES 'Australian Press Assn.—United Service.' NEW YORK, July 22. "The one great light on the Eng-lish-speaking stage has gone out," says Ethel Barrymore, speaking of Dame Ellen,,,Terry. Many other American stage stars add.their tribute. Dame Ellen Terry was born at Coventry in 1848. 'She first appeared on the stage at the age of eight years, playing Mamilius in "A Winter's Tale." In 1858 she acted the part of Arthur in "King .Tobn," and five years later made her appearance as a regular performer, playing . Gertrude in "The Little Treasure" at the Haymarket. From 1864 to 1875 she practically retired from the stage, but in 1875 she mad* a great success as Portia at the old Prince of Wales Theatre, where she remained for some time under the Bancrofts, playing in "Moncv," "The Lady of Lyon§," "Mask's and Faces," and "Ours." In 1876 she joined the Court Theatre, where her most notable character was Olivia in Wills' play of that name. In 1878 she first appeared at the Lyceum with Sir Henry Irving, with whose brilliant, successes her name is inseparably connected. She was three times married, lastly, in 1907, to Mr. James Carew.