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DEATH OF MISS KATE SEYMOURTHE. WELL-KNOWN GAIETY FAVOURITE’S CAREER.Miss Katie Seymour, the well-known Gaiety favourite for eleven years, and wife of Mr. Harry Athol, the music-hall artist, died at her house at Brixton yesterday of a renal affection.Poor Katie Seymour has not outlived for long the old Gaiety, where she danced herself lightly into the hearts of all its habituds, came they to the stalls or gallery. She was in Africa when the last performance took place on the stage where she had been one of the highest personalities, but lio Gaiety piece produced since she went there from the^ Opera Comique with “Joan of Arc, is ever mentioned without some happy reference to Katie Seymour.. She succeeded Kate Vaughan as the representative .dancer in comic opera, and she held her place there until she elected to resign it in 1901. The music-halls—the scenes of her first efforts when a mere child— attracted her: so, to6, did-America. They offered more scope,-she thought, than'the Gaiety could, and much against the wishes and advice of Mr. George Edwardes, she left that-theatre.- It is said that she half regretted her resolve. Certain it was that she and her old comrades of the Gaiety bade each other a sincere if sad good-bye, and then she sailed to America, where she appeared for some months in ** The Casino Girl. Returning to London, she went to the Alhambra, and other halls; then came the African tour, the voyage home on which she fell ill, and the unexpected death yesterday.It might almost be said with truth that Katie Seymour never learned dancing, for it came naturally to her, and she went on the stage when a mere child. Both her parents were in the profession, and in 1876 she made her fitst appearance, in pantomime at the Adelphi—exactly seven years after she was born at Nottingham.- She never looked more than a child at any time, so light and- dainty and fragile did she ever continue to remain.' She was a great favourite at the halls in her song and dance turns, or. with the Horne Brothers in their boxing sketch, before the West End managers, attracted by her dancing, made her a dancing star -of comic opera, •Now poor Katie Seymour has gone, and the light .feet that last tripped across the Gaiety stage in “A Messenger Boy’ will never dance again but in the memory of her old -friends on the stage and her countless admirers throughout England.
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London Daily Mail
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Sep 08, 1903
Page 3
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