“THE WOMEN”
PLAY WITH ALL FEMALE CAST. Although there have been a number of plays with all male casts, among them being “Journey’s End," until the production of “The Women” there has only been one drama produced within memory, with a cast comprising exclusively women, that is an English play called “Nine Till Six,” which dealt with the lives of girls in a Regent Street dressmaking establishment. Following an Australian season. “The Women” will be presented to New Zealand audiences. Seven American artists are coming from America to play the leading roles, the leading lady being Irene Purcell, who has played leading roles in films, and Mary Dees, who was Jean Harlow’s stand-in. Mary Dees saved the picture “Saratoga,” in which Jean Harlow was at work with Clark Gable when she contracted her fatal illness last year. "The Women" has a total cast of -10 women. Chorus. “Is it a good show?” “Well, not bad. They advertise a beauty chorus of seventy, you know, and quite a number of them don’t look a day over sixtyfive.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 5
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176“THE WOMEN” Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 5
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