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Miss Ellaline Terries tells the following story of her funniest Christmas experience; though, as she says, the fun “ was not very obvious at the time. “ It was during the_ run of ‘ His Excellency ’at the Lyric Theatre. By mistake I was shut in at the theatre, and found myself wandering alone down to the stage with only the Cinderella cat for company, and a huge statue of Rutland Barrington. The great iron curtain was down, and I could not find a soul anywhere. The fireman, _ who should have been there, was neither to be seen nor heard, he probably, in honour of the season, having gone to toast success to the play. “ Mr Seymour Hicks, my husband, came to fetch *lne; and for an hour he, with the aid of a policeman, tried to get me out, but in vain. A crowd collected, but alas ! the one person wanted —■the fireman—could not he found to release me. At last Mr Hicks climbed on to a great glass portico and managed to get me out. He was naturally very, indignant with the fireman for shutting me up, but in consideration of the Christmas season he got off very
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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 14
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