Sydney Box

Standard Name: Box, Sydney

Used Form: Evelyn August

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Textual Production	Muriel Box	MB 's script for The Happy Family was directed by herself for her husband 's new company, London Independent Producers ; it had already opened in the USA as Mr Lord Says No! Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 214 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box
Textual Production	Muriel Box	MB 's motive was unabashed feminism. Unable to chain myself to the railings, I could at least rattle the film chains! Nonetheless, the script was by both her and her husband , adapted from a...
Textual Production	Muriel Box	Rattle of a Simple Man was the last film scripted by MB and made by a Sydney Box company. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box
Material Conditions of Writing	Muriel Box	Ironically, MB was directing a frothy comedy about adultery, Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 243 written by herself and Sydney and called Stranger in my Bed, at the time that her marriage to him was breaking up. The play...
Textual Production	Muriel Box	Muriel and Sydney Box , calling themselves Evelyn August, issued a ragbag volume of stories, jokes, and pictures, The Black-out Book, being one-hundred-and-one black-out nights' entertainment. The government enforcement of the blackout of...
Publishing	Muriel Box	During the Second World War, with Sydney Box working for the Christian Herald, MB sometimes helped him to fill his pages by contributing occasional verses of an uplifting tendency. These verses were printed like...
Textual Production	Muriel Box	MB and Sydney Box published what Muriel later listed as her first novel, Forbidden Cargo: The Story of the Film. Date from Bodleian Library acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald. prelims
Textual Production	Muriel Box	She had in fact written it herself but based it on a script by her husband Sydney . The publisher wanted it to bear both their names since they thought boy readers would be put...
Author summary	Muriel Box	MB , who collaborated with her first husband, Sydney , in the mid twentieth century on numerous plays (the more than fifty which preceded the Second World War included two volumes of one-acters with all-female...
Dedications	Muriel Box	She dedicated it To Sydney with love. Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald. prelims He had helped her with revisions at a time when, after several drafts, she had lost confidence in her work after having got nowhere with a play...
Family and Intimate relationships	Muriel Box	When Muriel Baker first read Sydney Box 's award-winning Murder Trial she wrote: A gem of a one-act play! She thought him likely to produce good work for films, and on this basis exchanged letters...
Occupation	Muriel Box	As well as writing for film and returning to continuity work, MB embarked during the Second World War on a career as a director, working at first for Verity Films . This had been founded...
Family and Intimate relationships	Muriel Box	Sydney Box suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in late 1959. (His wife had been worrying for some time that he was killing himself.) This resulted in some holiday time, but soon he was as busy as...
Textual Production	Muriel Box	MB later wrote of her collaboration with Sydney that he was an incurable optimist and she an incurable pessimist, so that together they made a nice balance. She also said he was good at taking...
Family and Intimate relationships	Muriel Box	Muriel Baker and the journalist and writer Sydney Box , who were living together, got married at Holborn chiefly because their lawyer told them this would improve their chances in a libel suit. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box

Timeline

By 28 November 1934

The young Flora Robson , in A Letter to a Young Actress, contributed as a preface to Ladies Only by Muriel and Sydney Box , provided a fascinating account of women's part in amateur...

Late 1940

During heavy bombing of London by Hitler 's airforce, film-maker Sydney Box reported anti-semitism in the British Air Ministry , who wanted someone to make a propaganda film but won't do business with Jews.

Texts

Robson, Flora et al. “A Letter to a Young Actress”. Ladies Only, George G. Harrap, 1934, pp. 7-10.

Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. Forbidden Cargo. William Heinemann, 1957.

Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. Ladies Only. George G. Harrap, 1934.

Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. The Black-out Book. G. H. Harrap, 1939.

Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. The Truth About Women. Frederick Muller, 1939.