IN TWO ACTS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVV, Issue 18, 25 January 1927, Page 5

IN TWO ACTS

I A THEATRICAL DIBPUTE LOYE SCENE SPOILT, SEYMOUR HICKS AT LA\s Prea3 Association—Copyright, Australian end N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, January 24. Mr Seymour Hicks, the well known actor, engaged Kenneth McLaine (actor) for an eighteen weeks' tour at £ls weekly, saying: "You can do the part on your head." In a love scene when Hicks was calling Mrs Hicks "Darling," McLaine stood between the lovers and Hicks became extremely cross, and at the fall of the curtain dismissed McLaine. The second act was before the King's Bench Division. Mr McLaine said, in Court: "Hicks becomes evtremely unreasonable on the stage. He does not realise what he is doing. Anybody is liable to make a mistake on a first night. Mr Hicks: "Nobody living or dead could have made a ghastlier mess. I told him he could do it on his head, and it would have been better if he had done so."

The Judge: "Pay Mr McLaine T? fortnight's salary and fourteen guineas expended on clothes." Curtain.