MARION TERRY DEAD
HAD SUCCESSFUL DAYS ON LONDON STAGE LAST OF QUARTETTE British Official Wireless Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Thursday. The death is announced of Miss Marion Terry ,the last of the four beautiful sisters who were famous among playgoers. Though her stage career was always overshadowed to some extent by that of her sister, Ellen, it constituted a 50 years’ record of great successes, with all the great actors of her day, including Irving, Bancroft, Tree, George Alexander and Charles Wyndham. Versatility was a feature of her art. Miss Marion Terry, who was 7 4 years of age, was a sister of Ellen, Kate and Florence Terry, all of whom were well known on the London stage. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, on July 21, 1873, as Ophelia in the late Tom Taylor’s version of “Hamlet.” Her first London appearance was at the Olympic as Isabelle In “A Game of Romps.” One of her last stage performances was at the Globe in 1923. when she played Principessa Delhi Cercola in “Our Betters.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1057, 22 August 1930, Page 9
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