Renee Kelly Returns to London

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)

Renee Kelly Returns to London

A Busman’s Holiday

“I’ve just seen 14 plays in less than a fortnight, in New York,” said Renee Kelly when I met her with her husband taking their first London “airing”—rather a foggy one —after a three years’ absence touring South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, says a London writer. “We came home via New York, and had a regular busman's holiday,” Miss

Kelly continued. “Thrillers are still awfully popular there and some are extremely ingenious. In one theatre a ‘murder’ is committed in the stalls every night. It was the most hairraising play I have ever seen!” Miss Kelly went on to tell me of an odd, but delightful, gift that was handed across the footlights at “Daddy Long-Legs” first night at Melbourne. “It was just a decorated basket,” she explained. “But when I opened it a darling little baby kangaroo jumped out and hopped right across the stage. I’ve never heard such a roar as the audience gave when they realised what it was!” Unfortunately, Miss Kelly could not bring her pet home with her. “I hated to leave it behind, but it had to be fed with a bottle every four hours and would never have stood the voyage.”