TRAGIC NEWS WITHHELD WHILE YOUNG AMATEUR RECEIVES OVATION
While a six-year-old gvl, Joyce Taylor, was smiling and blowing kisses to a laughing and cheering audience in a London Theatre, other members of a company of local amateurs presenting ’ the fihow were in tears of sympathy in the wings. News had reached the theatre that Joyce’s mother had just died. Relatives had to decide quickly whether to tell the child of her loss or allow her to continue and enjoy the last night of her week of t’riumph. The news was withheld, and, all friends, and, in comparison with the home, the child convulsed the crowded theatre with a precociously clever impersonation of Nellie V/allace.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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114TRAGIC NEWS WITHHELD WHILE YOUNG AMATEUR RECEIVES OVATION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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