A LITTLE DRAMA.
REAL LIFE INCIDENT. SEYMOUR HICKS ANGRY. (Received Tuesday 11.25 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 24. Air Seymour Hicks engaged Kenneth MacLaine, actor, for an eighteen weeks’ tour, at-£ls weekly, saying “You can do ■the’part on your head.” In a love .scene, when Hicks was calling Airs Hicks “darling,” AlacLaine stood between tho lovers. Hicks 'became extremely cross, and at the fall of the curtain dismissed AlcLaine. , , . The second act was before . the King’s Bench Division. AlacLaine .said: “Hicks becomes extremely unreasonable on the stage. Ho does not realise whafe be is doing. Anybody is liable to make a mistake on the first night.” Hicks: “Nobody living or dead could have made a ghastlier mess. 1 told him he could do it on Ms head. It would have been better if he had done so. ’ ’ The Judge: -“Pay AlacLaine a fortnight’s salary and fourteen guineas expended on clothes.” Curtain.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 January 1927, Page 5
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149A LITTLE DRAMA. Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 January 1927, Page 5
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