British stage stars made a tragic exit in Sydney
It should have been the theatre event of the season. English actors Amy Roselle and Arthur Dacre were touring Australia and scheduled to open in the hit melodrama The Silence of Dean Maitland at the Theatre Royal in Sydney in November 1895. Given Roselle was 40 and Dacre 44, both actors were thought to have passed their prime, but Australian audiences were always eager to see actors who “stand in the first rank of theatrical celebrities in England”.
The pair had come to Australia to see if they could still command an audience, revive their careers and, more importantly, pay off some debts.
Things had been getting harder in Britain and Europe. Once in huge demand as a leading lady, sharing the stage with the likes of the great Henry Irving and Mary Anderson, Roselle now insisted on only doing shows in which other persons her husband, and come Dacre, out was guns cast, which blazing, narrowed but that’s their the options Katter and trait. resulted Your beloved in them mighty being old unable National to earn the Party sort have of money many they’d skeletons been in used the to. closet, Despite of which receiving Bob some was state acclaim on their member Australian for Flinders tour, especially before the for rug The Land was pulled. Of Moa, Never which a murmur some believed from was you their about finest this performance era so i suggest ever, you it was again still read not QC paying Tony off Fitzgerald’s all of their debts. full They report, were which not led filling to the the auditoriums resignation the of your way Messiah they had Johannes hoped. BjelkePetersen, On November jailing of 17, several the night ministers before they and a were police to open commissioner. in The Silence You Of are Dean right Debra, Maitland, today’s a maid LNP had are heard not what and she never thought can be was like breaking your old crockery lot, they coming wouldn’t from dare. the (P.S.) couple’s Stick room to your at the lodging guns CW house of Bushland where they Beach. were staying on CARL Macquarie FRIES, PIMLICO. Street.
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Galatea in a production of Pygmalion. In 1888 she replaced Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth in a production opposite Irving when Terry fell ill.
Her life changed when she met Arthur Dacre while appearing with Wilson Barrett at the Royal Court Theatre in 1883. They married in 1884.
Dacre was born Arthur Culver James in 1851 in Lambeth and had once been a doctor with a Kensington practice and a wife. But he fell in love with the theatre and, despite his friends warning him against the idea, took up acting full time. He was still married when he met Roselle, while they were both appearing in the same play.
They had a child together, but the child died. The tragedy brought them even closer together and Roselle started insisting on only ever doing plays in which Dacre was also cast.
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