ACTRESSES WHO WILL NOT WORK
THEATRE CHANGES After 28 years at Daly’s Theatre, partly as stage manager, partly as general manager, Mr. J. Garrett Todd is retiring. Speaking of the changes in the production of musical comedy in his time. Mr. Todd said: The best production at Daly’s was "The Merry Widow,” in which Miss Lily Elsie first won fame. Mr. George Edwardes kept Miss Elsie waiting under contract for two years till he felt sure he had the right part for her. The reason there are so few young actresses for musical comedy these days is partly that young actresses do not bother to work. How many of them take fencing lessons?—in my opinion, the finest thing in the world for stage deportment. Of Mr. George Edwardes, he said: "Having found a promising young actor or actress he nursed them and provided them with singing masters, dancing masters, fencing masters, dentist*, and hairdressers.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 16
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