Notable among the platoon of British subjects whom King George's annual New Year's Honors last week upped in the world was Actress Olga Nethersole, now 65, who was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
To U. S. theatre-goers, if not to Britons, Olga Nethersole is famed as a pre-War figure of Wickedness-on-the-Stage for her work in Sapho, a play she picked in 1900 because she thought it was romantic and beautiful for a love-sick bumpkin to carry a lush, mournful harlot upstairs to bed (see cut). The U. S. Press,...
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