“Review of Dodie Smith’ <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Dear Octopus</span>”;. Theatre World.
(October 1938)
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Dodie Smith | Theatre World found this immeasurably Dodie Smith's best play, expressing admiration for her vivid sense of character and situation. “Review of Dodie Smith’ <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Dear Octopus</span>”;. Theatre World. (October 1938) |
Occupation | Hélène Barcynska | As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB
founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players
, because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they... |
Occupation | Clemence Dane | The posters, she later wrote, made her nice pocket-money. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph. 108 |
Occupation | Viola Tree | VT
continued to act throughout the twenties and thirties. On a tour of the USA in 1930-1 she played Lady Joan in Ivor Novello
's The Truth Game at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
in New... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | After she finished this adaptation, G. B. Stern
introduced her to Max Beerbohm. At this meeting the idea of casting Ivor Novello
in The Happy Hypocrite first came up, suggested by Beerbohm's niece Viola Tree |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway
, in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II
in... |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | Autumn Crocus launched what theatre critic Ernest Short
called [a] Dodie Smith boom; in only six years, DS
had collected earnings of £60,000 from her plays. Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 202 |
Travel | Maria Grey | Both MG
and Emily Shirreff addressed the decline in their health by means of frequent travel. Between 1874 and 1888, they stayed in Italy nearly every winter (where they became friends with the Novello
family)... |
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