AFTER 13 YEARS
George Musgrove’s Will To Be Proved FORTUNE FOR NELLIE STEWART Nellie Stewart expects to make a slice of fortune by taking probate of George Musgrove’s will. When Musgrove died at Killara in 1916, nobody bothered to take probate of his will. It didn’t seem worth while, says a Sydney paper. He had made, lost, and remade fortunes, but before he died the fairy goddess Luck had forsaken, him. Australia’s great stage favourite of a few years ago, Nellie Stewart, whose real name is Eleanor Stewart Row, was associated with Musgrove in many notable productions, especially “Sweet Nell of Old Drury,” and she was named in the will as executrix. Now, after 13 years, she is going to apply for probate of the will because of the discovery that Musgrove owned the rights of “Sweet Kitty Bellairs” —written in 1903 by David Belasco, the celebrated dramatic author and entrepreneur—a play which the Paramount organisation intends to produce as a talkie.
Before a licence can be issued for the talkie, probate of Musgrove’s will must be taken out. A notification of her intention has been given by Miss Stewart, with leave reserved to the other executor to come in and prove.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 26
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202AFTER 13 YEARS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 26
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