ELLEN TERRY'S VISIT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 55, 11 April 1914, Page 6

ELLEN TERRY'S VISIT.

The great actress, Ellen Terry, is to pay Australia and New Zealand a visit shortly. If you want to derive pleasure and get an insight into the career of Ellen Terry read "The Story of My Life," a book which ought to have a great run again in* Australasia. Miss Terry gives in her delightful reminiscences an intimate picture of her married life, when at the age of 16 she became the wife of G. F. Watts, the painter, who was of course very much older than his bride. This is the actress's description:—"l was delighted and my parents were delighted, although the disparity of age between my husband and me was very great. It all seems now like a dream —not a clear dream, but a fitful one, which in the morning one tries in vain to tell. I was happy, because my face was the type which the great artist who married me loved to paint. I remember sitting to him in armour for hours, and never realising that it was heavy until I fainted! The day of my wedding it was very cold. Like most women, I always remember what I was wearing on the important occasion of my life. On that day I wore a brown silk gown, which had been designed by Holman Hunt, a quilted white bonnet with a sprig of orange blossom, and-1 was wrapped in a beautiful Indian shawl. I 'went away' in a sealskin jacket with coral buttons and a little sealskin cap. I cried a great deal, and Mr Watts said, 'Don't cry; it makes your nose swell.' The day I left home to be married I 'tubbed' all my little brothers and sisters, and washed their fair hair."