ACTRESS’S DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1931, Page 6

ACTRESS’S DEATH

UNWILLING TO DISAPPOINT ADMIRERS. LONDON, November 12. Wish Wynne, the music-hall and broadcasting artist, after an heroic fight for twelve months against pain, did not recover after a -serious operation. Last year she resumed bi’oao casting under the greatest difficulties,’' and collapsed. Recently she left her siok-bed anu broadcast, not wishing to disappoint her admirers, but again collapsed. A further operation was impossible, and she -died in .St. Bartholomew’s uubpital, where Ispr husband, Bernard Kitchen Nee, a. New Zealand paimst, who formerly accompanied his wife’s impersonations, is now » medical •student, pursuing studies which were interrupted by the ' war. It was planned that she should give up the stage when he qualified. They Intended to live in Australia with their twelve-year-old son. [Wish Wynne was born in London in 1882. She appeared in London and the provinces in melodrama, comedy, and musical comedy,, took up concert work, and in 1910 adopted the musichall profession, finally becoming a well-known 8.8. C. performer. She toured in the United States in 1910, 1911, and 1912, and after the war she toured Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa-.]