Beppy de Vries May not Visit N.Z.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 22

Beppy de Vries May not Visit N.Z.

Contract Ending DUTCH ACTRESS CHARMED WITH STAY IN AUSTRALIA New Zealand may not see Bepps de Vries after all, says an Australian exchange. She returns io Europe in May. “I can honestly say that my stay in Australia has been the happiest experience of my stage life,” said Miss de Vries in Melbourne recently. “It was with some misgiving that I accepted an engagement, because this was a strange country, and a long way from home. But I never felt 1 was a stranger here. On the contrary, I have gained many lifekms friends. I came for six months, end next month will have been here a year. “I shall leave Aus.ralia at the end of May, because I have to be back to Europe, but I shall certainly return in a year or two. “It has been very satisfying to see the public appreciation of good couuc operas such as ‘Madame Pompadour and ‘The Student Prince.’ comic opera is coming into its own again in Europe, where jazz is dyinj out. I know of many good modern comic operas which could be tratto* lated into English and produced wita success here.” Miss de Vries has received an from Flo Ziegfeld, in New York, anfl she will return to Europe by ® America, so that she may personate enter into negotiations with him. b will also visit Hollywood to moving picture studios. The jouniej will be broken first at Honolulu, Miss de Vries intends to have * W 1 holiday. She was intended for “j New Zealand tour of “Madame Pompadour” and “The Student Prince. Heard io “Caroline,” noW , played by Irene Vanbrugh ana Boucicault in Sydney: *‘Thert»; ways something melancholy in getujfe what one wants.” “I think Id to see Dr. Cornish. To be talk about oneself without fear at terruption is cheap at a guinea. * woman is more desirable when unattainable.” “Illusion may - foundation of our happiness.” * * * g. One of the fruits of suo-eas .. . be made the subject of a CIU Sfcj S paragraph in the London is what one reads of Mr. Powell, previously Walter Cheese*"* of Christchurch, in the “Daily icle”: “I also saw Templar - *', and his wife, Ida Molesworth, for Monte Carlo. They made a tune out of ‘White Cargo.’ Mr. p has the reputation of dream*** & tremely well, so he was pay more than four guineas „ luggage on his Riviera wararoDe. Perkily smart in speech modish in dress, Prudence jp gives an excellent P erfor ? “Caroline,” in Sydney. sb€ % just the serious note as req* a light, freakish comedy says a. Sydney writer. * * * __s H When Gladys Moncrieff a by “Rio Rita,” she will be a huge chorus and balwlgirls will be engagelPin tbef *T £ ristl** and there will be 30 roai® ft Miss Moncrieif will open 0* - James’s Theatre, Sydney. ** [ season of the Gonsalez OP* 4 Jr . pany. The Fuller i tends to present ‘Rio Rit* ; elaborate scale.