ARTIFICIAL FEET FORA MUSIC HALL ARTIST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43214, 13 August 1907, Page 4

ARTIFICIAL FEET FORA MUSIC HALL ARTIST.

By a marvellous piece of surgery, Miss Dot Stephens, the well-known music hall artist, was enabled to appear early in July art! Her Majesty's Theatre, Walsall—the town she left one day last October to meet with a terrible accident on the railway. (Miss Stephens, who was under a long engagement on the Moss j St<oll j tour, was travelling in a corridor coach en route for Glasgow, when she fell l through one of the doors, and was hurled on the track. A! passing train crushed 1 both her feet, leaving only the heel of the left foot and the large toe of the right intact. She was taken to ,the General Hospital at Wolverhampton', where Dr. Dent amputated l the crushed portions of the feet. Miss Stephen’s face and head were also Very severely injured, and her left aTml was badly cub Messrs Stoll, Bannister Howard, Lennon gave benefit matinees and arraged' cricket, matches for her,, and certainly not one of her friends imagined! that she would! ever be aible tlo ‘work’ again; but the. Wolverhampton hospital staff were not to be beaten, and she was fitted with artificial feet (at a cost of £200) so wonderfully madei as entirely to escape detection. Am “Express” representative found Mies Stephens, who bears a striking resemblance to Miss Edna May, at her home. There is not! a trace of a scar on her face, and the feeti which peeped from under the long skirt were as dainty and “real” as possible. “I cam walk ai couple of miles without any fatigue and without the . aid of a stick,” she said! ’ hinaily. “In fact, I walked ali over the Earl’s Court Exhibition the other night. “I hope to do sketches at the piano during, my tour, as well as some new songs, and I am looking forward keenly to getting back work.”