WHY I AM COMING BACK.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 201, 18 August 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

WHY I AM COMING BACK.

THE 'GIBSON GIRL" CHATS ABOUT HER INTENDED RETURN TO THE STAGE. By CAMILLE CLIFFORD. I am coming back to the stage to play in ''Razzle Dazzle , the new review at Drury Lane, bcxause I ice! ! must have something to do. I have been doing little thing;- lite knitting socks and sewing shirts, but this is not enough to keep me occup'ed Every woman seems hard at work these days, and I do not like to bo one of the idb ones. I .would help to nurse the wounded 'f I had had any experience of nursing, hut as I have not I shall have to oo content to do my share, however small, m helping to entertain all those who have fought and are goingjto fight ior us. 1 SHALL BE TREMBLING. Perhaps you may think that the stage is a small thing ,: n these moment. ous times, hut I should like to point out that to the men who are doing ine fighting the theatre is a very important thing indeed. I believ/e that most of those who get leave from the Arm r and Navy and come to town look upon a visit to a ''good show" with sheer, boyish deiight. That being so, it may justly be claimed that all who help to pror : de entertainment for our soldiers and sailors e.re doing what they —the soldiers and sailors—want them to do. Tlv.it knowledge is very precious and .r great reward in itself. Tt is ten years- ten long years! - since I was last on the stage. I havenever wanted to go hark. But now thechance has come and I am taking it. I shall do so in fear and trembling Even the thought of facing an audience again absolutely terrifies me. and when I agreed to go into the "Razzle Dazzle" I begged that my part should be as tinv as possible! That's a queer sort of thing for an actress to say, :sn*t it?

NICE TO BE REMEMBERED. What I shall have to do in the revue I do not know at the moment of vrriting this article. I expect, however, that I shall he a "Gibson Girl" again. That is, of course, how I made my name; although lam afra : d it was a reputation founded on rather slender grounds. Still, it is very nice to know that one is remeniKered. The Press linv? been charming about my return to the stage. When I was in America recent!/ 1 met Charles Dana Gibson for the first time—"sat"' tor him, as a matter of fact—and lie paid.mo the vary great compliment hv saving that T was a perfect " Gibson Girl" typ.\ He said that to draw me "took hiin hack years'' *o the days when he was do ng the "girls" which made him famous all over the woriu.