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Contributor	Miss D Mainwaring
Other Names	Docy Mainwaring; Mrs H N Douglas
Gender	Female
Nationality	Ireland
Functions	Actor
Notes	Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12419, 5 February 1906, Page 8: (From a series 'Players and Singers of the Seventies' by G.R.H.) Still cohtinuing my recollections of the principal members of the stock company supporting Mr Hoskins. Miss Docy Mainwaring (Mrs H. N. Douglas) was another clever member of the company, and she excelled in low comedy parts. One of the characters of which she was exceedingly proud was that of Biddy Madigan the principal keener in The Shaughran.' In the scene of the wake, where Conn is laid out in state, and the women assemble to 'keen,'' or in English cry, over the corpse, Miss Mainwaring led the dismal chorus and, being Irish herself, did her work with such zest and zeal that Mr Wheatleigh, the American actor who was acknowledged as the finest Conn of his time, presented her at the end of the season with a gold locket, bearing the inscription, ''From Conn to the Champion Keener.' She was especially good in Irish parta of the low- comedy type.
Events	Date Function Contributor Organisation
	The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872
	Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872
	H N Douglas - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872 Flora Anstead - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 C M Berkeley - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 L Booth - Actor London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872 Dion Boucicault - Playwright London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872 Carrie Dacre - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 Kate Douglas - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 J D Foley - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 Frank Harcourt - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 Jessie Howarde - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 W J Montgomery - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 John Musgrave - Actor London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872 Jennie Nye - Actor London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872 R B Russell - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 George Robert Sims - Playwright The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 Taylor - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 R A Vernon - Actor The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886 Marian Willis - Actor London Assurance, Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 18 November 1872
	Leitch-MacMahon Dramatic Company The Lights o' London, Tour, , New Zealand, 1886
Data Set	Theatre Aotearoa
Contributor Identifier	595306

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