MAGGIE MOORE

Southland Times, Issue 19821, 18 March 1926, Page 6

MAGGIE MOORE

DEATH AT BIRTHPLACE. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright) Melbourne, March 17. Private advice announces the death at San Francisco of Maggie Moore, the wellknown actress.—A. & N.Z. Maggie Moore, as well known an actress in Australia as Nellie Stewart, went to Frisco just a few years ago to spend her declining years where she was born in 1847. She made her first appearance on the stage there in 1871 and while playing in a stock company in that city she met and married Mr J. C. Williamson. In 1873 she appeared as Lizzie Stofel in "Struck Oil,” which met with instantaneous success. In 1874 she went to Australia and made her first appearance there in July of that year in the same part. Going then to England, she appeared with her husband at the Adelphi on April 17, 1876, in the same part, repeating her success. The play ran over 100 nights there. Returning to America, she again played “Struck Oil,” and subsequetly played in "The Chinese Question,” “Yulie” and “Our Boarding House.” She again visited Australia in 1879 and from that date onward settled there. At the Theatre Royal. Melbourne, in February, 1880, she played Josephine in “H.M.S. Pinafore”; at the Opera House in May, 1881, Ruth in “The Pirates of Penzance”; July, 1881, Buttercup in “H.M.S. Pinafore”; December, 1882, Bettina in “La Mascotte.” She subsequently played innumerable parts in every class of performance—drama, comedy, burlesque, opera-bouffe, musical comedy, farce and pantomime. In 1886 she played Katisha in “The Mikado” and starred in “Meg, the Castaway.” At Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sydney, on July 24, 1924, she was the recipient « a testimonial benefit (realising nearly £1500) to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her first appearance in Australia, on which occasion she again played Lizzie Stofel in an act of “Struck Oil.”