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LENA ASHWELL: Pionee

... LENA ASHWELL: Pioneer, Manager and Actress Lena Ashwell, the distinguished actress, who was at her height at the beginning of the century, died in London on March 13, aged 84. The daughter of a naval officer who became a clergyman, she spent her early ...

Published: Thursday 21 March 1957
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 859 | Page: 10 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: MARCELLE GENIAT

... MARCELLE GENIAT MARCELLE GENIAT, French actress and silent film star, died at the age of 80. on September 28. in Paris. She was born in St. Petersburg and made her stage dlbut there, as a child actress, in 1888. ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 39 | Page: 21 | Tags: notices 

Obitaury: PEGGY HOPKINS IOYCE

... PEGGY HOPKINS IOYCE Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the former actress and Ziegfeld lollies girl, died in New York recently. She was 63. A blonde of great glamour and vivacity, she was married six times. She joined the Ziegfeld Follies and encouraged by W. C. Fields ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1957
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 51 | Page: 13 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: BILLIE GATES

... musical comedy actress, died in Hollywood, on December 7. aged 55. She appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and in several editions of the Ziegfcld Follies. Her daughter. Barbara Perry, dancer and musical comedy actress. played seasons ...

Published: Friday 30 December 1955
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 64 | Page: 8 | Tags: notices 

HELENE REICHERS

... HELENE REICHERS HELFNE REICHF.RS, the oldest of leading German actresses, died on July 24. at the age of N8, in Berlin. She had been on the stage for 66 years and had been associated witn the Hebbcl and Schiller Theatres in Berlin. During recent years ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1957
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 55 | Page: 13 | Tags: notices 

KATE SAVILLE

... profession, the 4aughter of George Saville, she made her first appear ance when si* years of age in Macbeth. She was a slock actress of great experience, having played in her husband's repertory com panies for 40 years. She was in the original stock company ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1952
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 272 | Page: 15 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: GERTRUDE GILBERT

... GERTRUDE GILBERT pERTRUDE GILBERT. the sJ actress, died at Anerley on Octobcr 13, aged 84. In her day she was a notable leading Shakes pearean actress, beT Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth being memorable. She was on the stage from a child, oommg from a theatrical ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 96 | Page: 39 | Tags: notices 

ANNA NORRIE

... ANNA NORRIE Anna Norrie, the Swedish actress and singer, has died in Stockholm, aged 97. Born in Stockholm, she made her first appearance there in 1882. and was brilliantly successful from the outset. She became a noted interpreter of leading rdles in ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1957
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 133 | Page: 13 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: DRUSILLA WILLS

... DRUSILLA WILLS We regret to announce the death of the actress, Drusilla Wills, Sho was taken ill in a taxi last Friday evening and driven to the Homoeopathic Hospital, where she died. She was 66. Her first ap- p^rance was at the Lyric, Ham mersmith, in ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1951
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 144 | Page: 13 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: LADY BEERBOHM

... LADY BEERBOHM Lady Becrbohm. wife of Sir Max Beerbohm, formerly Florence Kahn. the American actress, died at Rapallo on January 13, at the age of 74. She was born at Memphis. Tennessee, and appeared in many parts as leading lady to Richard Mansfield. ...

Published: Thursday 18 January 1951
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 161 | Page: 11 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: OLGA KNIPPER-CHEKHOVA

... Russian actress and widow of the dramatist Anton Chekhov, died in Moscow on March 22, aged 90. Associated for 60 years with the Moscow Art Theatre, which was founded in 1898 by Stanislavsky and Nemiro- vitch-Danchenko. she was lead ing actress there, and ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 232 | Page: 16 | Tags: notices