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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 420, 1 February 1909, Page 3

■. ■ Mr. .Arthur Bourchier, tho well-known London actor, his wife (Miss Violet Vanbrugh)! and a fullrcompany have (according to -an- Australian.;paper) ; entered 'into an agreement .with , . Air. 'Clyde- Meynell,'-repre-sentinfr Messrs. Meynell, and Gunn, for a tour of Australia next year.. Mr. Bourchier :is a .''versatile' actor of ' strong>.persoriality, .whose successes in Londonv and the provinces'hare been many;: Some : of the plays in which'ho lias been prominently concerned in London: are' "Brother, -Officers,"' "The Chili--Widow,' , •■-'■-"Mamma,'- , ;.' "Iris;" "The Whitewashing of .-■Julia," ■ "The Walls of Jericho," v "Simple Simon," and "Tho.Morals of Marcus,!' most of thorn in the capacity of manager, as well as leading actor. He is the son of the late.Captain Chas. Bourchier of the'Bth.Hu6sars, and while at Oxford became a leading member of.'' the. Windsor Strollers' and Old Stagers' Societies, and with the aid of tlie Tice-Chancellor. (Dr. Jowott) and Mr. W.;L. Courtney he founded tho Oxford University Dramatic Society in 4870, and erected ■a theatre at Oxford.' Miss Vanbrugh is a sister of Miss Irene Vanbrugh: (Mrs. ,Dion Boucicault), and".was born in Exeter in 1867, the daughter of Preboudary Barnes, of Exeter Cathedral. She has done'some fine work in.the Shakespearean repertoire, namely, as Ann' Boleyn in "Henry VIII," Cordelia in ''King Lear," Olivia in .'Twelfth Night," Portia,-etc ; , but she has done notably well in a long list of dramas and comedies generally in; association : with her talented, .h'usr band; ,'Evidently Mr. and Mrs, Bourchier think the example of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar kJ AEche auite eooa enough to emulate, • ,