ACTRESS’S SACRIFICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 9

ACTRESS’S SACRIFICE

GAVE ALL FOR HER HUSBAND REPAID BY TREACHERY Broadway is buzzing with the tragedy of a young actress who .lacrificed everything for her husband, only to lose him in the end to a night cluh butterfly (writes a special correspondent from New York). He was an actor, too, and both had struggled along on small-time vaudeville. The beauty and personality o£ the girl charmed a producer, who approached her with a splendid offer to appear in his next musical production. It was the opportunity of a lifetime, hut she rejected the offer when the producer refused to include the husband. Another year passed, and the bus* band, a handsome fellow, applied for a role in a feature moving picture production, and got it. He made no such stipulation as had his wife before him, and for a time she was forced to do. “a single” iu -vaudeville. Again the producer approached her with his offer, aud she was about to accept it when the husband lost his job with the picture people, and begged her to revive their old act. So she turned the producer down again. And then, after two years, her husband suddenly left her for a night club dancer. This time she apEi'oached the producer, and told him she was ready to sign with him If he still wanted her. He did, but after one week of rehearsal he told her sorrowfully that she would not do. The vital spark, the vivid personality, was missing. And so she has gone back to vaudeville on the small-time circuit.