FROM THE STAGE TO POLITICS.
LADY DIANA COOPER’S CHANGED PLANS. Help for Husband. Lady Diana Cooper; who since early this year has been playing alternately the parts o£ a nun and the Madonna in “The Miracle/ ' has decided to abandon the stage temporarily for politics. She announced to the correspondent of a London paper last night her determination to return to England in a fortnight’s time to assist her husband, Mr. A. Duff Cooper, in the Oldham division, where he has been chosen as Conservative candidate. “It is my duty, as well as my pleasure,” she said, “and I shall be immensely proud if 1 can contribute to my husband’s success. “I believe he will be elected.” Mr. Morris Gest, the producer of “The Miracle,” when Lady Diana acquainted him with her decision, made her promise to return to this country in time for the Christmas production of “The Miracle” at Cleveland (Ohio). He then turned to me and observed “I never doubted the soundness of England, but I am more convinced of it than ever when I see a young and brilliant Englishwoman interrupt a highly lucrative and successful stage career and travel 9,000 miles to help her husband, whom slio loves devotedly. ” RIVAL HOSTS. Meanwhile an amusing state of affairs has developed in the city of Cleveland, which has guaranteed Mr. Morris Gest £70,000 for a throe weeks’ production of “The Miracle’ ’ in the great hall where the Republican National Convention during the summer nominated Mr. Calvin. Coolidge as Presidential candidate.
The leading hotels, together with the chief business men of the city, have all subscribed to the guarantee, and they are now engaged in a lively altercation as to which one of them is to have the privilege .of entertaining Lady Diana when she returns from the political battlefield to resume her stage veil as a nun.
Mr. Gest’s suggestion is that the hotel proprietors shall decide this knotty question by drawing lots.
When the 700 members of “The Miracle* 9 company heard of Lady Diana’s approaching departure they sent a deputation to her to wish her success.
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Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 60, 18 December 1924, Page 1
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351FROM THE STAGE TO POLITICS. Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 60, 18 December 1924, Page 1
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