Miscellaneous Items

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1563, 8 April 1920, Page 42

Miscellaneous Items

A message from New York states that Miss Mary Pickford, the famous film actress, who is known as the “world’s sweetheart,” giving evidence at Menden, near Reno (Nevada), sobbed while relating that the jealousy shown by Owen Moore (her husband) against Douglas Fairbanks was without foundation. She smiled at the judge when he pronounced a decree nisi on the grounds of desertion since 1917. Miss Pickford had been living in seclusion for some weeks, pending the publicity of the court proceedings.

“The All Diggers’ Company,” actors back from active service with English and Australian experience, are staging at the Playhouse, Melbourne, “Mademoiselle Mimi,” a comedy of the war, under the Tait management. The play is being produced by Captain Keighley, M.C., lately with Hugh Buckler and Violet Paget, in England, and formerly with Julius Knight and Andrew Mack. Referring to the lady member of the company, the “Australasian” has this to say:—“One of the best things of the evening is Mr. Lindsay Kemble’s Mimi. A girlish figure, very daintily frocked, managing her arms, also her ankles, , quite in the mode, Mr. Kemble’s girl challenges criticism. His voice is better than that of the majority of ‘dashing soubrettes’ in vaudeville, quite as good as some pantomime boys have possessed, and, with Hughie Glennon, he. or she —for the terms are constantly confusing—dances gracefully. Mimi’s best song was ‘I Ne’er Meant to be a Naughty'' Girl.’ ”