JENNIE LEE DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 963, 5 May 1930, Page 9

JENNIE LEE DEAD

ACTRESS WHO LOST HEAVILY IN AUSTRALIAN BANK LIFE ENDS AS PENSIONER LONDON, Saturday. The death has occurred of Mis..Jennie Lee, an actress, who lost all her money in the failure of an Australian bank in the ’9o’s, when she received a benefit performance. Miss Jennie Bee, who married Mr. J. P. Burnett, an author and playwright, made her first stage appearance at the Lyceum Theatre, London, in January, 1870, in “Chilperic.” She later toured America with the late E. A. Sothern in “Our American. Cousin.” She later was for two years at San Francisco, where she created her wellknown part of Jo, in “Bleak House,” and she repeated her success in 1876 at the Globe, London, in this part, and later in many parts of the world. She went to Australia, and was there until 18S5, when she returned to London, and played until 1910. For some time Miss Lee has been a pensioner of King George’s Pension Fund for Actors.