SALARY ARREARS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1932, Page 3

SALARY ARREARS

ACTRESS CAUSES SENSATION. VIENNA, June 28. A famous actress caused a sensation in Vienna to-day by sending her lawyer to seize a theatre’s takings, in order to recover arrears of salary amounting to £SO. The heroine of this drama of business behind the scenes is pretty Liana Haid, the blonde star, who is well knovvu to film audiences in England a« the personification of the Viennese type. She recently finished an engagement of 100 performances at the Burgertheatre in “The Maid foom Vienna,” a musical comedy, in which she received £ISOO for playing the part of a sweet-looking, gohleii-hearted, laughing heroine, a part that seemed to picture her smiling self Amusomeiit was caused when it was revealed that the “golden-hearted frank-in,” who, in real life, is Baroness Hymerley, had ordered her lawyer to seize tile contents of the Burgertheatre till, in order to recover the sum of £SO still owing her. Tn vain the mau i ftgq,r pointed put thatthe theatre mas iirOliffi-ulties‘owing to the pressure of tile times, and even the Metropolitan Opera stars in 'New York had agreed to drastic cuts, that Ids chorus "'iris had not been paid for davs,i .anil that many artiste had been obliged to walk.; to and fronT'sjhe ‘theatre, as tlicv had not received money with which to pay their fp|* r *». But I'-e eold(«n-1ie?rt:'d girl "'as ndauvr’t. Wldlo the aiid'enoo gathered for her hist iimhl'- performance her inwver s-ized the till, an,] the strugcHng theatre was dealt if|s death blow. Th« performance was cancelled at I lie 1-st minute, nionov was r-'tnnicd. end scores of penniless artists were thrown out of work.