MISS FANNY DANGO.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 481, 14 April 1909, Page 3

MISS FANNY DANGO.

There are five sisters in this family, each of whom has gone on the stage and distinguished herself gracefully; Miss Letty Lincl, who was out here many years ago with Frect Leslie and Nellie Farren, so many years ago that Miss Fanny, the younsest of the family, hardly remembers that there was a New Zealand in those days. Then there is another sister, Miss Milly Hilton (Miss Lydia Flopp), who finds hers a very good stage name/and a fifth who morses her own artistic, personality in the name of Mrs. George Grossmith, jun. Miss Dango has known plenty of-hard work in London and the provinces, and, for the past eighteen months, she has been working in Australia without a break, which makes her regard her visit to New Zealand as in the way of a holiday. Sho had many weeks in pantomime, playing tho part of Jill in "Jack and Jill," and she is glad to be out of it and back in musical comedy. ''Pantomime is too exhausting," she says. "You never rest; you have to bo always on the watch, always on tho 20—here a littlo bit of a finale, and there an entrauce—always you aro changing your costume, and, when you aro behind the scenes., great pieces of scenery come charging down and rolling over you before you can get out of tho way. It is ayful, and then it lasts tho whole evening from halfpast seven till eleven." No wonder musical' comedy seems more attractive to those who make it. In "Tho Merry Widow" Miss Dango has only a littlo song and dance part—the part of Fi Fi—"Gabriello Ray's," she explains. The chief parts in "Tho Dairymaids," and "Tho Girls of Gothenburg," are hers, and she finds it hard to say which is her favourite. Both aro pretty and bright, but she wishes "The Duchess of Dantzig" could have como over here. She is charming, and tho part of the little royal ward was one Miss Dango lovod. Ono of Miss Danso's achievements in Australia was to learn a musical dancing comedy part in throe days—pretty quick work—and Miss Dango looks quite" pleased with herself till she adds, honestly. "Hut I forgot the duet, not only part of it, I forgot the whole, and at last I had to say, 'Oh, I can't £0 011.' But the audience was L verv "ood. and didn't seem to mind at all."