Left the Stage

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 14

Left the Stage

Ivy Shilling, Dancer, Returns to Australia SUCCESS ABROAD “Yes, I have definitely decided to leave the stage,” said Miss Ivy Shilling, the noted dancer. New Zealand theatre-goers will remember Miss Shilling when she danced in J. C. Williamson productions before the war. Her last tour of the Dominion was with Violet Loraine. She left Australia, her home, in 1914, and went to London, where she was soon in demand by London managers. Miss Shilling made a great hit in “Shanghai,” a spectacular show which was playing during the war. Other successes were in “Watch Your Step” and “Three Cheers,” with Sir Harry Lauder. In 1920 Miss Shilling returned to Australia and appeared in “The Lilac Domino,” but returned to London again at the end of her contract. Two and a-half years ago she was engaged to appear in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York, but while rehearsing she injured a leg and has since been unable to dance, though she has played in motion pictures. Miss Shilling is now on her way to Australia to see her people, and will then return to London, where she proposes to live in future. Last year she paid a visit to London from California, where she had been living, and it was the pathetic sight of seeing some of the older actresses trying to “come back” which made her decide to leave the stage while she •was still a favourite with the public.