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death | Christopher St John | Vita Sackville-West
—although St John's death brought her the horrifying discovery of the love-journal recording their relationship—wrote to The Times celebrating her as a roaringly rumbustious character in the grand tradition of English eccentrics. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 October 1960): 8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan, a history play by GBS
responding to Joan
's recent canonization, had its London opening at the New Theatre
, starring Sybil Thorndike
. The role was crucial for Thorndike, who was... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike
and Lewis Casson
, Ottoline Morrell
, T. S. Eliot
, W. B. Yeats
, G. B.
and Charlotte Shaw
, Desmond MacCarthy
... |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | Henry Bly was written for Martin Browne
's Mercury Theatre
, but only got as far as a read-through by the Poets Theatre Guild
before Browne's tenure of the theatre lapsed. Another of these plays,... |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pankhurst | The Fawcett Library
(now the Women's Library) in London houses the Suffrage archives, including many of EP
's papers. A sound recording about her, originally an Argo
long-playing record, contains a reminiscence by Sybil Thorndike |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | The friends of EN
's last years, both old and new, included Marshall Steele
, Edward Andrade
, actresses Athene Seyler
and Sybil Thorndike
, and writers Noël Coward
, G. B. Stern
, Lord Dunsany |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | MK
's Treasure Hunt, a comic play co-written with John Perry
, opened in London, starring Sybil Thorndike
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press. 131 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 114 |
Education | Irene Handl | IH
later said she went to hundreds of schools, all of them for about half an hour. I was rebellious. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (23 April 1973): 4 |
Friends, Associates | Pamela Frankau | Her aunt Eliza Aria
introduced the very young PF
to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike
and writers Michael Arlen
and Osbert Sitwell
. Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson. 133-4 |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Among CD
's many friends were Sybil Thorndike
, Lewis Casson
, Noël Coward
, and Alfred Hitchcock
. Coward valued her friendship and her perceptive criticism of his work very highly, and used her... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | Another of her plays of the thirties that she mentions is Mariners, based on the local clergyman of her childhood and the private tragedy of his wife. The couple were played by Lewis Casson |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | For the first volume, she chose A Bill of Divorcement, Till Time Shall End, Scandal at Coventry, Granite, and Wild Decembers. In the preface to this volume she states: For... |
Performance of text | Clemence Dane | One of CD
's last plays, Eighty in the Shade, written for Sybil Thorndike
, opened at the Globe Theatre
, London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133, 137 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare
performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud
and Sybil Thorndike
. Playwright Clemence Dane
gave a memorial speech... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Craig | Sybil Thorndike
presided over the dinner, and Queen Mary
sent her congratulations. EC
was presented with a cheque and a scroll signed by two hundred friends. Playwright Cicely Hamilton
was among the speakers who paid... |
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