Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

HB 's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry , and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton , who offered to pay her...

EHD 's eldest brother, William Jerrold Dixon , was a barrister and the secretary of a Royal Commission established to investigate the sanitary conditions of Dublin; he died in that city on 20 October...

Most of the poems, except the first and last, draw the portrait of an individual cat, often humanised yet still feline, many of them ingeniously adapted to some specialised way of life. Gus the theatre...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

At the Bourne End house, KPF and her sister spent idyllic youthful days, canoeing, punting, and bicycling. The Plat also provided KPF with access to an aristocratic network, as many upper-class families attended the...

EG appeared on stage in a tableau vivant, one of a series designed by a socialite named Lady Arthur Paget (Minnie) and directed by Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre .

Its membership included a number of prominent members of society and theatre people, among them Ellen Terry , Lena Ashwell , and Beerbohm Tree . Princess Marie Louise served as president.

Ella Williams (later JR ) entered Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 's School (later renamed the Academy of Dramatic Art ) in London to study acting.

ER 's first few years in London brought her into contact with several important literary and theatre figures, including Henry James , Oscar Wilde , actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and actress Ellen Terry ...

Both Sides of the Curtain covers ER 's relations with the theatre knights Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Sir Henry Irving . According to Woolf (who found it a fascinating book, despite its portraits of...

GBS 's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre , Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree 's Henry Higgins.

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

CS began early to see herself as a professional. She placed her first full-page illustration in the Pall Mall Magazine at the age of sixteen, and was so delighted at its acceptance that she took...

IT 's father was actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , who had given up a job in the family corn-merchant business to pursue acting. After his father told him, An actor can be tolerated only...

Iris had accompanied her parents to the USA, where her father was producing and acting in films and touring with various theatre groups. After Solano interviewed Herbert Beerbohm Tree, he introduced her to his daughter...