1 must not miss the return of Miss Mabel Love {0 the stage, on. which she started 82 years ago at the age of 11, following in the footsteps of mother and grandfather. "The name any mean little to the present ere ration. Yet 40 years ago every schoolboy had a photograph on his study walls of Mabel Love, or, ext favourites, Marie Studholme or tone of the Dare Sisters. She last (ed, with Robert Loraine, in 1912, then left the stage to bring up Ker children, who now are married and have children of their own. So Miss Love accepts an offer to return to the stage and play a maternal part. Not that she might not readily play something younger. Although her wavy golden hair, which was one of her special charms, is silver, she looks anything but elderly, with firm face. slender figure and' quick graceful mien. The stage is kind to some.
In contrast it is rather pathetic to read that May Yohe, at the age of 69, has lately regained her American }Rationality in order to qualify for {public support. She was one of the greater luminaries of London in the gay nineties, any survivor of which will remember her as "Little Christopher Columbus." Then she married Lord Clinton Hope and wore the famous Hope diamond, which is said always to bring bad luck. It Iseems to have done so for her. Her marriage was dissolved and she ultimately, after T think two other ventures, married an American, although this alone did not make her American again, She tried the stage again, and once appeared in Shanghai. But the slones of the gay nineties had gone.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.