Playing in Cairo

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 22

Playing in Cairo

Marie Ney’s Travels Meeting With Ola Humphries Marie Key, writing: to a friend in Sydney on her return from Cairo where she had been playing leading parts in Shakespeare with the company that goes out tinder Government contract, had some interesting thing® to say. “We had King Fuad in for our last night at Cairo —he knows no English, but followed the play—‘The Merchant’ with a French translation.” she wrote. “It was very interesting in e e ti n g Lori Lloyd, who carnet - * every play, anl spent most of his time in the wings, where he confessed to enjoying th* play more. “I enjoyed the week in Alexandria. This was quite new to me—Cairo I had visited some fotr years ago. Alexandria is modern —very modern - kept thinking I must be somewhere in France —it has little African about tt“We picnicked one day in th“ desert on the way out to look setta—a tumble-down village witii quaint Arabian Xights-like houses. Tn*’ ornate fretted windows, much broken and in disrepair, but very Eastern and picturesque withal. “I met a Princess Hassan at Continental-Savoy Hotel in Cairo, wn-J used to be Ola Humphries. I heard of her in Australia, and *no she played there three years ago. confessed she would like to act aga and play ‘a downright mother pan with plenty of heart in it.’ “Glad to be home again, th°u?.ti inexperience of Shakespeare in EgJv was interesting.” # Marie makes no mention of her - Zealand footballer to whom it was »» she was to be married this yeai.

Claude Saunders, who toured Zealand with Richard Taber n Zat So?” has been trying his me*- a America- He has signed up'7. .- s Hollywood agent, and is chance on the films. In the roe f 0 f he is rehearsing for the premi--“Legitimate Lovers,” his P ar * uorone specially written for Everet. ton. m Dan Rolyat. the comedian. died » his house at Brixton, London, aged 47. Born in Birmingham, h - -y-g on the stage on the advice . e Leno, the comedian. He score e outstanding success of his career as “Simplicitas in in n dians.” While he was playing tour at Xewcastle-on-Tyne n* from the horse which he rode _ s scene and fractured his spin- - vC accident, which occurred when. years after his London debut _ Dairymaids,” he was in a 1 jjjs to fame, had a serious to subsequent career. He f et of the West End stage in “Miss Holland,” and played in other in comedies. But he had aru nam c luck, though even a year ago n was still well known in the a halls of the provinces, and «e a popular pantomime figur*-- j, e tour, with his wife 10 months ago was found to be suffering from __ of the toneue. His first t» the riages—with Florence Smithson, singer, and Constance Worth, » actress—were dissolved. Iti P life his name was Alfred Tay o