IN THE BLOOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 26

IN THE BLOOD

London Stage Stars and Families Some interesting remarks on stage families in the London theatre are given in a recent number of the “Daily Mail.” Sam Livesey is rehearsing for the new Daly’s Theatre musical piece, “A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur,” and two of his sons are playing in “Rose Marie” at Drury Lane. Fay Compton Is back in “Secrets” at the Comedy, and her 17-year-old son, Harry Pelissier (son of the late Henry Pelissier), is making his first appearance on the stage in “Follow Through.” So the story of stage heredity goes on. Henry Ainley has a son beginning as an actor at tile Old Vic.; and Huntley Wright’s attractive young daughter, Betty Huntley Wright, recently deputised with success for Ivy St. Helier in “Bitter Sweet.” The examples of "acting in the blood” are seemingly endless. The Terry family continues to be foremost iu this branch of heredity. Phyllis Neilson-Terry is acting ill London; her brother, Dennis NeilsonTerry, is on tour with a revival of “Typhoon” (in which the late Laurence Irving made one of his greatest successes); Mabel Terry-Lewis is in “The Skin Game”; and John Gielgud, who has Terry blood in his, is at the Old Vic. There are two Hales —Binnie Hale and Sonnie Hale—in current London musical pieces; and Grade Fields’s brother. Tommy Fields, is with her in “The Show’s the Thing.” Sybil Thorndike has a daughter, Mary Casson. acting with Sir Gerald du Maurier in “Dear Brutus,” and Nancy Price's red-haired daughter, Joan Maude, is with Mathesou Lang in “Jew Suss.”