WOMAN'S LONELY DEATH
FORMER POPULAR ACTRESS DISCOVERY OP MEMOTRS LONDON, April 21. Formerly one of tho most, glamorous of the Gaiety l girls and (lie toas>t o[ London, Miss Ataidie Hop, aged 56, died alter a fall while living lonely and ill in a I'addington apartment house. At tho inquest to-day the. coroner gave.'a verdict of accidental death, accelerated by chronic alcoholism. Tho divorced wife of Major Charles Dudley Ward, cousin of Lord Ksher, Miss Hope's last stage part was as tho mother of tho principal boy in a Jack Buchanan revue.
Miss Hope's typewritten memoirs, found among her papers after her death, recall her Armistice Night theatre triumph, after which she tried to cross tho Strand for supper at tho Savoy Hotel. "1 never reached there," she wrote.
"Same huge Australian soldiers took hold of me, and I found myself careering down the Strand perched on their shoulders. It really did not nutter — everyone went mad that night."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19315, 4 May 1937, Page 11
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