Actresses' Franchise League

She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of...

EC became a member of the newly formed Actresses' Franchise League .

Woman's Theatre Week, organised by IB under the auspices of the Actresses' Franchise League , was launched at the Coronet Theatre in London.

The Actresses' Franchise League launched the Woman's Theatre War Relief Matinees , a series of benefit performances organised by IB , Janette Steer , and others to raise funds for a variety of wartime charities.

Inez Bensusan was an Australian-born actress who played a prominent role in the Actresses' Franchise League in London. Although she wrote only three one-act plays herself, as head of the AFL Play Department she...

Little information is available about IB 's early life in Australia, before she emigrated to England and became active in the women's suffrage movement and the Actresses' Franchise League . Her family was part...

This was her most challenging project as head of the Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League . She hoped a West End theatre would pick up the production, but none did.

This organisation, still closely associated with the Actresses' Franchise League , was responsible for staging at least 654 performances during the First World War. Musical and variety shows were the most popular events, but IB

After the war, the Actresses' Franchise League lost its momentum and many of its members turned their attention to the British Drama League and the founding of a National Theatre.

At the beginning of the Second World War, IB attempted to coordinate an operation similar to the one she organised with the Actresses' Franchise League during the First World War providing entertainment for soldiers, but...

It had another performance at the Laurels in Putney on 14 July 1911. The Actresses' Franchise League published the play in 1912. The Apple was the only one of IB 's plays to reach...

IB became manager of the Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League . In this position she mobilised writers to contribute plays to the suffrage cause.

The Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League , headed by IB , held its first series of performances at a Votes for Women Exhibition at the Prince's Skating Rink in Knightsbridge.

The Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League , directed by IB , helped to raise suffrage funds with matinees of short plays and sketches at the Kingsway , Royalty and Lyceum theatres in London.

The 1930 Players were a group organized by Inez Bensusan , an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League . Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript...