Noted Artists for Australia

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 910, 1 March 1930, Page 25

Noted Artists for Australia

AMERICAN COMEDY STAR The well-known American comedy actress, Edith Taliaferro, has been engaged by J. C.. Williamson, Ltd., for a tour of Australia. Miss Taliaferro, who first appeared on the stage in 1897, won recognition early in her career in the role of Lovey Mary in the American production of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (produced in Australia in 1908 (when Miss Ada Dwyer appeared with so much success in the title-role). Later Miss Taliaferro confirmed her reputation by her performance in Chicago as Margaret Grey in “Brewster’s Millions,” and then gained one of her chief successes in the title-role of “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” produced in Boston in 1910, and a few weeks later at the Republic Theatre in New York. Two years later she made her first appearance in London in the same role, at the Globe Theatre. Since that time Miss Taliaferro has appeared in a comprehensive round of leading characters in the Broadway theatres. She is a sister of Mabel Taliaferro, who was here in 1906 as leading lady with William Collier in “On the Quiet” and “The Dictator.” J. and N. Tait have engaged Louis Graveure, tenor, to visit Australia this year. Mr. Graveure, who will leave Vancouver for Sydney on May 28, has achieved a great reputation as one of the leading concert singers of America. Last season he sang over a wide* territory in the United States, and then fulfilled a four-minutes’ engagement as leading tenor in opera in Berlin, under the baton of Bruno Walter, one of the finest of presentday conductors.