Press Clippings for the week ending
Saturday, 2 October 2004

A random selection of cuttings
from newspapers and magazines

Jules Poiret's hand-painted dresses for chorus girls, London, 1917 'Why Hand-Painted? '"A great quantity of brocades, charmeuse, chiffons, crêpe de Chine, etc, much of which is hand painted, being prepared for the new Empire revue," according to the Press agent has been stolen from the Hanover-square shop of M. Jules Poiret, the French Futurist costumier. Fancy using labour nowadays on hand-painted dresses for a beauty chorus! (The Weekly Dispatch, London, Sunday, 18 February 1917, p.6a) * * * * * * * * Millie Sim progresses from revue to Shakespeare, London, 1917 'More revue artists have an idea at the back of their minds that they can play Shakespeare, but few of them are given an opportunity to carry out their desires. And for that we have to thank the managers. But for one – Millie Sim, the daughter of Millie Hylton – has done the trick. She appeared in Odds and Ends at the Ambassadors, and, I believe, was to have been seen in a Palace revue. Now comes the news that she has been playing Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor – and under Sir Herbert [Beerbohm] Tree's management too! But then Millie Sim is more than a revue artist!" (The Weekly Dispatch, London, Sunday, 18 February 1917, p.6c) * * * * * * * * Daisy Dormer in London Pride, 1917 'Another variety artist is going into the legitimate. I hear that Daisy Dormer has been engaged by Gerald du Maurier to play the part of Cherry [originally played by Mabel Russell, Wyndham's, London, 6 December 1912] in the touring company of London Pride. (The Weekly Dispatch, London, Sunday, 19 August 1917, p.6a) * * * * * * * * Regine Flory to appear in Paris, early 1919

Regine Flory (1894-1926), French actress and singer,
as she appeared for the duet 'Some Sort of Somebody' (with Nelson Keys) in the revue,
Vanity Fair, Palace Theatre, London, 16 November 1916.

(photo: unknown, London, 1916)

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