BARE-LEG CHORUS
_ .4. THRILLS AND VICAR LONDON. Jan. 15. Edgar Wallace will have to watch Rev. H. <!. Wilks, vicar of T'pper Thong, whose thriller entitled , "Karstcin'" has been staged at I lolnilirtb. lorkshive. Mr. Wilkes played the name part of a German scientist-criminal who poisons his beautiful ward to secure her fortune-, and pushes the body into a coffin bidden behind a sliding panel. The greatest thrill came when the audience saw an illusion of flesh growing on the girl's skeleton. Many of the onlookers turned away and hid their faces in their handkerchiefs. Mrs. Wilks was in the coffin and the vicar's bare-legged beauty chorus. "The Thongbirds." danced and sang. Mr. Wilks admitted thai he gol his inspiration while walking in Hie graveyard of his church.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 11
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