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| | Arts Unlimited | Arts news | Mary Hayley Bell |
 | | After the writer and actor Mary Hayley Bell, who has died aged 94, was hit over the head by an attacker on her way to a friend's dinner party, she collapsed on the door-step and had to be carried unconscious into the house. |
 | | Bell's third play, Angel, was performed at the Strand in 1947, but then there was a pause - and a dozen unperformed plays - until The Uninvited Guest (1953), a strange piece of work which dealt with a disturbed figure, played by Mills in a red wig, who returns to the scene of his childhood. |
 | | Fashionable or not, Bell enjoyed the love of relatives and friends as she battled on with an intelligent, if not overwhelming, talent, writing and sometimes performing on luxury liners to audiences more in tune with her than those in contemporary theatre. |
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