“Miss May Edginton”. Times, 20 June 1957, p. 16.
Sir Gerald Herbert Edward Busson Du Maurier
Standard Name: Du Maurier, Sir Gerald Herbert Edward Busson
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch
(who was later the fiancé of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
's father, Gerald du Maurier
, was an actor who became a successful actor-manager. The du Mauriers had an unspoken arrangement in their marriage: though Gerald was completely devoted to Muriel and the family... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Friends, Associates | Viola Tree | By mid-1917, VT
had met the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier
, who became an important figure in her life, especially after the blow of her father's death in July that year. Once she had to... |
Performance of text | May Edginton | The cast included Sir Gerald Du Maurier
, Dame Lilian Braithwaite
, Gilbert Hare
, Nina Boucicault
, and Franklin Dyall
. The production ran for 227 performances. |
Performance of text | Julia Constance Fletcher | JCF's (George Fleming's) second London play, The Canary, opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre
with Mrs Patrick Campbell
as female lead playing opposite Gerald Du Maurier
. Cornwallis-West, Beatrice Stella. My Life and Some Letters. The Ryerson Press, 1922. 146 McVea, Deborah, and Jeremy Treglown. “The Times Literary Supplement and its Contributors”. TLS Centenary Archive. |
Performance of text | Viola Tree | The Dancers, a play written collaboratively by VT
(as Hubert Parsons) and actor-manager Gerald du Maurier
, opened at Wyndham's Theatre
, starring Tallulah Bankhead
in her London debut. Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen, 1974. 80 |
Author summary | Viola Tree | Best known for her acting career, which began in the early years of the twentieth century and ended in the thirties, VT
was also an opera singer and a theatre manager. She published an autobiography... |
Textual Features | Julia Constance Fletcher | This is pure fun, heralded by the note below the cast-list: The Scene to take place wherever one pleases, provided the Costumes are pretty enough. There is only one female character: Sylvette, whom the cast-list... |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
published the biography of her father
, Gerald: A Portrait. Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 114 |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
followed her life of her father
with a family biography, The du Mauriers. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne, 1987. 150 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1828 (13 February 1937): 107 |
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Texts
Tree, Viola, and Sir Gerald Herbert Edward Busson Du Maurier. The Dancers. Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.