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... one year. He played Ebag in The Great Adven ture at the Kingsway in 1913, running for nearly two years, and then went to America, opening at the Playhouse, New York, in 1915 as Stephen Undershaft in Major Barbara. He played many parts on Broad way, ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 868 | Page: 21 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: BORIS LAVRENEV

... play written 31 years ago. He had devoted much time to working for pcacc since the war, and his last play. The Voice of America, written in 1949. was on this theme. ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 90 | Page: 13 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: CECILIA WILLMAN

... Cross, in which she sang the hymn most movingly on many occasions. With Ambrose Manning she toured Australia, Canada and America, and earlier in her career she wf* a successful fairy queen in pantomime. Since her husband's death in 1941. she has lived ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 84 | Page: 21 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: Gertrud Bodenwieser

... at the Vienna State Academy of Music and Drama. She formed the famous Bodenweiser Group, touring Europe, Japan and South America During the war she opened her school at Sydney, which formed the head quarters of her Australian com pany, touring Australia ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 122 | Page: 21 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: ROSALIND IVAN

... rftle was as Nan in The Cominned al foot of next column Tragedy of Nan at the Royalty in 1908. The following year she went to America to play Queen Margaret opposite John Barrymore in Richard III After a long career on the American stage she became a drama ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 118 | Page: 19 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: EDIE MACKLIN

... Lyndon), aged 93. She made her first appear ance at the age of five at the Princess. Glasgow, as one of the Babes. She toured America. Russia and Holland with her partner, as Sennit and Macklin. and later was for many years in Mrs. F. G. Kim- berley's plays ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 220 | Page: 19 | Tags: notices 

Obituary: OLGA KNIPPER-CHEKHOVA

... revealed in Chekhov's letters to her, which were published in Constance Gar- nett's translation in 1926. Olga Knippcr acted in America and in 1911 played Gertrude in Gordon Craig's production of Hamlet in Moscow. The visit of the Moscow Art company to this ...

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

OBITUARY

... Garden and the Metropolitan Opera, New York has died m Miami, aged 66. He was with the Diaghilev ballet in Russia, and went to America in 1928, forming the Ballet Moderne. Major H. Waymouth Prance, husband of Aithna Gover, died on June 24 at his home in Car- ...

Published: Thursday 09 July 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 230 | Page: 10 | Tags: notices 

obituary: LYDIA KYASHT

... In 1912 she joined Diaghile*. dancing the Firebird in L'Oiseau 5 de Feu and Colombine in Carnaval. After a season in America she returned to this country in 1914, appearing in a season of her own at the Coliseum. r With the close of the 1914-18 war ...

Published: Thursday 22 January 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 299 | Page: 10 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARY

... also appeared as guest-artist with the Dundee Reper- lorv Company, the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal, Windsor, played in America and Scandinavia, and made nptable appearances on television. SAX ROHMER SAX ROHMER, who died on June 2, aged about 70. was ...

Published: Thursday 11 June 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 477 | Page: 13 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARY

... touring a.s Annette in The Bells. She played Euphrcsine in Laurence Irving's Peter the Great' in 1898. and then re turned to America, where she be came a star under Charles Froh- man's management in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. Fifty years During ...

Published: Thursday 25 June 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 548 | Page: 10 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries

... Pike joined the Four Swifts, then a straight Indian club juggling act, in 1920, at Finsbury Park Empire. On their return to America the Srwifts cut their act down to a trio and successfully introduced comedy into the turn with Billy as the volunteer learner ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 562 | Page: 4 | Tags: notices