BLAZE BEHIND SCENES.
ACCIDENT IN “ PEEP SHOW” (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 4. During a performance of the “ Peep Show ” at the Opera House last night, an accident happened to one of the company, Miss Phyliss Porter, by which she was severely burned about the arms and shoulders. The audience heard a loud bang and simultaneously, a girl’s scream. There was a moment’s pause in the performance, when one of the performers whispered to the orchestra, who struck up an air out of the usual routine, and the play went on. That was all the audience knew, but behind the scenes Miss Porter’s costume was alight, and before the flames could be extinguished she was badly burned. J . First * id w as rendered by a memuer of the audience, and later Miss I orter was take || to hospital, where sue is now reported to be doing well. Ihe accident was due to the explosion of a fuse.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17032, 4 May 1923, Page 1
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