MORBID CURIOSITY.
MISS SAVnXJE AS ACTRESS.
EXPLOITATION OF NOTORIETY.
LONDON. September 7.
It is % reflection on theatre audiences that Miss Irene Savidge, who obtained notoriety in the recent Hyde Park case, should ’have been approached by theatrical producers .with a view to giving her a part ini a certain production.
It is reported that an offer was made to Mr, Barry O’Brien by an agent .who had “acquired Miss Savidge’s services.” Ifl is further stated that this was O’Brien’s reply: “Mr O’Brien/ is not in the least interested in Miss Savidge, whom he presumes is the; person concerned in a rep,ent police investigation. He feels it is most undesirable) that the stage should be madte the medium for satisfying the morbid curiosity which ao section of the public may have in an individual whc> has apparently no other claim an entertainer than the public interest ah© has created by her appearance in a very unpleasant case. He thinks it is dteplorable tha,t any attempt should be made to exhibit on th© stage the gifts of a ladjy whose modesty has been established in a court of law.” VARIETY ARTISTS’ PROTEST. The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the Variety Artists’ Federation,
“Th© general Council of Executive Committee bf the Variety Artists’ Federation, having considered the possibility of Miss Irene Savidge being stunted as a music hall artist, record their strongest disapprQjval that the music hall stage should be used as an, exploitation ground for people with no stage experience, and whose only opportunity to pose thereon from notoriety in recent proceedings, and in the name of the V.A.F. protect against engagements Of thia kind being foisted upon the British public, as entertainments.”
Mrs Savidge, interviewed, said! there was no question of her daughter going on the music halls. The negotiations related to the “legitimate” stage. Mrs Savidge added:—
“Irene had no idea previously of going on the stage, but shq has been approached with offers, and if the present negotiations a,re satisfactorily concluded it is quite possible that she might accept’ one of them. It is too early, however, to say anything definite yet.”
Miss Savidge is carrying on her occupation as a wireless valve Inspector at New Southgate, N.
Mr Syrett!, Miss Savidge’s solicitor, in a statement, referring to the resolution of the V.A.F., said: “I do not see that this concerns us at all. Miss Savidge will not appear on the music halls. We have been, approached by a person who is anxious for Mi ss Savidge to go on the Tegitjimate’ stage. Negtiatiobs axe pending, but nothing has been settled.”
“No person of common sense,” c,qmments the Daily Mail, “will doubt that, whatever histrionic ability Miss Savidige may possess, her. sole recommendation in the eyes of the theatrical managers who have been approached lies in th© publicity that recent legal proceedings, have given tq he,r name. Th© commercial exploitation of mere notoriety might possibly fill a theatre for a short time, but it would not be; for the gpqd> of the profesisioni, and it would not pay in th© long run. We hope, therefore, .that we have heard the last of this unfortunate proposal.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5352, 16 November 1928, Page 1
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