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Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1916, Page 6

GABY DESIA'S AT THE THEATRE ROYAL. This is what the movies are doing- for you on Monday, May 22. Bringing before you, as in life, the most celebrated favorite of the footlights, Gaby Deslys, a name familiar in Rome or Rotterdam, in Moscow or Madrid. Her life not only reads, but actually has been, a very big romance. It is not given to every woman of ordinary birth to captivate a reigning monarch. And this is what this chic little woman did when King Manoel of Portugal foil a victim to her beauty and cleverness. Think of it, the daughter of a Parisian cabman, who all but mounted the throne of Portugal, and who was considered to be one of the main causes of the revolution in that country, and who, when the hour of danger approaeh- | ed, by her tact and woman's wit helped her royal lover to safety. Since that time, she has become still more famous as a premier danseuse, playing to record houses both on the Continent and the Old Country. As showing Mademoiselle Deslys' undoubted popularity, when a prominent musical director visited the Homeland recently, lie endeavored to secure a contract for Australia and Ww Zealand, giving the highest fee ev :lil j,i to any 'imported artist, bni w»' ■ ;SUC . ccssful oVJng to the fac< j'' .. moiselle DcSiys was b00,.'. ' , I for three years, ft was <■('>■• ..liknlv