MISS GENEVIEVE WARD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 793, 16 April 1910, Page 10

MISS GENEVIEVE WARD.

Miss Geneviove Ward, the celebrated? actress, who visited Australia some 25 years ago,.has just reached.her 72nd birthday. She is still playing the tragedy queens of. Shakespeare. . Her, hair ia white, but her dark eyes have the burning fires of enthusiasm in them still, and her powerful face is modelled on the line 3 of the,' tragic- Muse, and is as expressivo and vivacious, as when, more than half a century, ago, she sang as Lucrezia Borgia at La JScala; in Jlilan.' Like Ellen Terry, Dr. Futnival, ■ Lord .ltoborts and other young people who ■ put - to shamo the weary old men and maids o! 21 and thereabouts, she holds the secret of perpetual youth. -One part of the secret is,-mental activity and con-' tinual interest in life. "I- never have timo to think of aches and pains, and wrinkles and old age," said, lliss Wardl "It, is people who think of thoso things who grow old soonest." Another part of tho secret is physical activity. "I do my four miles walk a day," said this young lady of 72, "and always do Sandow exercise before breakfast. While I have been in. Belfast I have gone for glorious walks with .Mr. Benson up the Irish hills outside tho town, and tired him out."

At a brilliant "At Home," given by a society woman, a ■ pianist of worldwide reputation was asked to perform. When ho had .finished, the-lady's young daughter was nvado to sit down and play,her now piece.. "Now, .teU me, Hcrr -," said the fussy mother to tho great artist, "what do you think of my daughter's execution." "Madam," ho. replied, deliberately, "1 think it would bo a capital idea.".

In these days of fashion, no one should havo grey hair. . It is looked upon as a bar to employment. Grey and faded hair is (msily restored with the Excelsior Hair Restorer applied daily, and is to ..bo had for 2s. Gd. j)cr bottie from Frank Shaw, Qualified CfiemistrOptician, Medical Hall, Manners Street, ami tho Cecil Buildings, Lambton Quay.—Advt. .

Fashion now demands larffe-sized oysters—Alderman Sanders, of Colchester. ' i .