Press Clippings for the week ending
Saturday, 12 July 2003

A random selection of cuttings
from newspapers and magazines

Rena Goldie, the victim of a police blunder, London, 1907

Rena Goldie, who appeared in London in small parts
under Seymour Hicks's management in the musical plays,
My Darling (Hicks, 2 March 1907), The Gay Gordons (Aldwych, 11 September 1907),
and The Dashing Little Duke (Hicks, 17 February 1909).

(photo: unknown, probably London, 1907)

VICTIM OF A POLICE BLUNDER: THE FLAT CHARGES THAT FAILED. Miss Catherine Goldie, the young actress who was accused of conducting her flat in Langham Street in an improper manner, but left the Court without a stain on her character. 'As we have already noted, the police failed utterly to substantiate their charge against Miss Goldie, known professionally as Rena Goldie, and a member of The Gay Gordons company. The young actress was able to prove, indeed, that at the time the police imagined her to be in her flat she was on the stage at the Aldwych. To an interviewer, she stated that she was in bed when the police came to arrest her, and that one of the officers insisted on remaining in her room while she dressed. Similar charges brought against two other ladies at the same time also failed.' (The Sketch, London, Wednesday, 25 September 1907, p.331)

Rena Goldie (second from left) with members of the chorus including
Doris Stocker (second from right), and Ellaline Terriss (foreground)
in The Dashing Little Duke, Hicks Theatre, London, 17 February 1909.

(photo: Foulsham & Banfield, London, 1909)

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