DAME EDITH EVANS, D.B.E
... By Alan Melville IT takes three-and-a-half columns of Who 's Who in the Theatre to list the leading parts played by Dame Edith Evans since her first appearance on the stage at the King's Hall, Covent Garden, in 1912. (Even that was a leading part: Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, for the old Elizabethan Stage Society.) She has been a star and a great international figure in the theatre ...