A record in China-smashing was confessed to by Evelyn Hope, when she told overseas listeners, in one of the 8.8. C. “Women’s War” series, how she did her war time shopping. She claims to have broken 1,369 plates. Not. fortunately, in war time, or her shopping might have been a great deal more complicated. She broke the plates one at a time —as “The Farmers’s Wife.” The. play ran for 1369 performances and in one scene she had to smash a plate. That play Would surely be too costly to revive in war time—for a long run, anyway.'
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1942, Page 5
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