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Observer, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 27 May 1916, Page 22

J. Hartley Manners, the author of "Peg o' My Heart/ is said to haA r e already made considerably more than £200,000 out of the royalties on the play. Mr Manners was in Australia many yeans ago with Charles Cartwright, and Dlayed in ' 'For gfct-Me-Not," ' 'The" Ironmaster," and other pieces produced by that entrepreneur. @> ® ® There is a perfect craze at Home just now among the fair sex for teacup fortune-telling. They say the new Lady Mexhorough, like the Duchess of Portland, had her marriage foretold by means of the leaves left in her tea-cup. It is quite a common thing after afternoon tea in fashionable drawing-rooms in Auckland to "read,, the tea-leaves." Woman's curiosity to peer into the future is as keen as it has always been. .