FAMOUS COMEDIAN DEAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 11

FAMOUS COMEDIAN DEAD

PASSING OF WILL EVANS. Mr Will Evans, the comedian, died in London on April 4. He. had been ill at his homo at Brixton Hill fo r some time with paralysis of the brain. His death removes one of the fast-dimini-li-ing bund of music-hall artists whose names were known practically all over the world. t Air .Evans won fame fur his famoiiburque sketches, “Building a Chicken I House” and “Whitewashing the ■ -ilI ing,” and for ten years he was a lead ing comedian in the Drury Lane pan tomimes. Owijlg to ill-health, accentuated by the strain of his performances, he abandoned the music hall stage lot musical comedy, lie had toured in the principal halls of Europe, the I int. -l States, and Australia. Besides being a (dever comedian. Mr Evans wrote many of tin* sketches ind songs which helped him to fame, and he was part author of “Tons of Money” and “ I’he Other Mr Gibbs. Alls Evans said that she ami hei hu* Hand had intended going to the I’nitcd States. I'hey had considered a contract and the strain of the rcheaisiil-. she feared, was partly responsible •'■.o-j i his illnes . ‘ allow the payioent for the bridge t" be 1 I made out of the loan lahml for the I purpose of improving the main street. Night, watchman. A deputation from tin- (’haniber of ('ommerce. comprising Messrs L. F. Baird. B. Gibbons. A. W. Ashwcll ami W. Jack (secretary) waited upon the council with regard to the nightwatchman. The ( haniber paid the accident insurance premium for the man and asked that the council make a grant or arrange to have the man included in the council’s poliiy. The request was referred to the fin I ance committee for COirrid H.Uion and 1 report.