COMEDY OF TWINS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1929, Page 3

COMEDY OF TWINS

STORY OF A BLACK: EYE. Until a fow weeks ago it was impossible for the parents of Harbloan and Ivadell Kramer, a pair of pretty cabaret dancers well known in London, to tell “t’other from which.” In all the 23 years of their lives these twin sisters have been exact counterparts of each other,' even to the extent of inflections of the voice and those intimate little personal mannerisms that usually distinguish the average twins. And then, suddenly it became possible for everyone to tell them apart. For Ivadell left her theatre a few evenings iigo with a black eye. II was her siser Harblean who had wrough this sudden and dramati'* change-—with her own, dainty little fist*. It was their first serious quarrel, and the cause was, as might ho expected, a man. • Ivadell was awaiting her sister in her dressing room when in walked Billy Carr, who. when he is not busy with his saxanhone in the jazz band world, is ( Harblean’s sweetheart.

Mistaking Ivadell for Harblean Ojjrr hc threw his arms about her and kissed her, and the more Ivadell struggled and attempted to explain the more his ardour increased. It was only when the door opened and an enraged Harbloan confronted them that lie realised that there might be some' thing wrong. There soon was. Enraged a.t wluit she considered to |be her betrayal bv her sister.. Harbloan landed* out with her fist and duly decorated her sister’s eye. Explanations followed later. There* were apologies all round, but Harbeo.n was determined that such a thing should never happen again. A London newspaper s*ys, “Promptly the next morning she visited a plastic surgeon and arranged for her nose to he tilted and her dimple removed ! From sketches presented to her she selected a definitely retrousse nose, and the doctor quickly got busy. “For a week the twins looked as though they had survived a bad car smash, but now Tvadell’s eye is back in shape, and Harblean’s nose, is out of plaster. “There is no doubt at all as to who is who, and on one is hotter pleased than Billy Carr. For • stage purposes the twin resemblance is cleverly maintained by the use of cosmetics. S* everybody is happy.”