TRAGIC NEWS WITHHELD WHILE YOUNG AMATEUR RECEIVES OVATION
While a six-year-old girl, Joyce Taylor, was smiling and blowing kisses to a laughing and cheering audience in a London Theatre, other members of a company of local amateurs presenting the show were in tears of sympathy in the wings. News had reached the theatre that Joyce’s mother had just died. Relatives had to decide quickly whether to tell the child of her loss and withdraw her from the show or allow her to continue and enjoy the last night of her week of triumph. The news was withheld, and, all unconscious of the sorrow at home, the child convulsed the crowded theatre with a precociously clever impersonation of Nellie Wallace. - __
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 26
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119TRAGIC NEWS WITHHELD WHILE YOUNG AMATEUR RECEIVES OVATION Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 26
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