STARTED BOBBED HAIR CRAZE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 22

STARTED BOBBED HAIR CRAZE

Madame Polaire, the great French comedienne whose icasplike waist once -fitted into a man's collar , and whose legs were insured for £.10,000, wants to save her pretty villa on the shores of the Mediterranean from the moneylenders and sell it to an Englishman for a song. She means this almost literally.

SO incensed is the artist concerning what she calls the French tax collector’s “ignominous behaviour” toward her that she hopes some of those who applauded her at the Palace and Coliseum in London in the past will now come forward and bid for what is left of her crumbling possessions. “I would give it all away and send my old blind mother to the poorhouse rather than yield to the money sharks,” she said to an interviewer. “Ah, monsieur, if it were not for my mother and my dogs I should kill myself. As it is. I will stump along the highways of France as a vagrant rather than satisfy the greed of some people. “I liave never known the value of money,” she said, “and never saved a penny. As an artist I did my best to make good, and I think I succeeded. That beautiful villa of mine is all I possess. My old mother is there blind and helpless. “It is the place I saved out of the grand collapse of my money affairs. In It I had accumulated some wonder-

| “Young Woodley,” once banned by j the censor in London, is now playing lat the Savoy Theatre. It concerns life in the English Public Schools and is ! rather outspoken. At a preliminary rehearsal of “Rio Rita,” held at the Grand Opera House, Sydney, recently, Gladys Moncrieff showed that she is now singing, if anything, more beautifully than ever. Jack Cannot and Hector St. Clair will head a new musical comedy company, to be formed by WilliamsonTait, Ltd., for country tours in “Tip Toes,” “Whirled Into Happiness” and “The Cabaret Girl.” Other engagements include Gladys Hermes and Mona Barle.