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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1531, 28 August 1919, Page 32

Miss Helen Fergus, who plays character parts with the Allan Wilkie Company so excellently, will be well remembered by playgoers of a couple of decades ago, when she visited New Zealand periodically as a leading member of Chas. McMahon’s dramatic companies. She has passed on her talent to her daughter, Miss Nellie Ferguson, who was the female spy in “Seven Days’ Leave,” and creator in Australia of the title role in “The Bad Girl of the Family.” Miss Fergus finds it pleasant renewing her many old Auckland friends before the footlights. • • < > Mr. Scott Colville reports steady success with the Dandies, who have been strongly reinforced since their last appearance in Auckland 9 « 9 « Mr. Victor Beck drops a line from Christchurch regretting that he has had to cancel several good propositions in the attraction line owing to the impossibility of getting companies over. • '999 Wish Wynne, the famous English comedienne, whose characterisations stood out as cameos, is going to America to appear in musical productions under the Charles Dillingham management. Miss Wynne toured Australia and New Zealand some three years ago under the Fuller banner.