HIS FINAL EXIT.

NZ Truth, Issue 63, 1 September 1906, Page 4

HIS FINAL EXIT.

The Curtain Falls on "Old Ned " Holloway.

The last of a long line of the actors of the gilded past m Australasia, m the person of Edmund Holloway, took his last cue, at Melbourne, on August '18.

. Mr Holloway, who for many years has been spoken of as *'Old Ned Holloway," partly from affection and partly to distinguish him from his brother, W. J., and his nephew, Charles Holloway, both of whom are famous as actor-managers, was, one of the old school of actors who were so well-read and trained m their profession that it was almost impossible to misplace tdiem m a cast. Of course, as he grew older and waxed weighty and stiff of joints/ his scope was more restricted, as he was hardly of the type of man upon whom the role of Romeo would sit gracefully ! A bluff old boy, with a voice like the growl of distant thunder, Ned was vastly popular, and as an "old man," a "heavy father," a boatman, or such, he could not be excelled. There are more funny and risky stories told of and around Ned Holloway than an- other man m the Australian, and none enjoyed hearing them repeated better than himself, however much the joke might be against him. Among those with whom Mr Holloway was associated, and who would "be waiting to welcome him across the divide, were such noble old 'boys as John P. Walsh, J. B. Steele, George Coppin, Lachlan McGowan. Walter Hill. Tom Burford, Sam Poole, and others. Ned will be m good company whichever route he took on his journey to "thab bourne from which no traveller returns."