Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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...

The reviewer for the Times announced, If anyone were able to revive the forgotten art of melodrama it would surely be the daughter of Sir Herbert Tree . The review continued by stating that IT

IT began a novel in the 1950s, but she abandoned it after writing 230 pages. In the early 1960s she worked on an autobiography, but this too she left unfinished, partly because she had lost...

VT made her theatrical debut at not yet twenty, performing the namesake role of Viola in her father 's production of Twelfth Night at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh.

VT performed in London for the first time, playing the part of Ariel in her father 's production of The Tempest at His Majesty's Theatre .

VT sang the role of another Eurydice in her father 's production of Offenbach 's Orpheus in the Underworld.

Her father, the famous actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , named her after the Viola of Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night (though he almost named her Rosalind, for As You Like It). At her birth...

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...

From the panelled slum where she and Alan Parsons began married life in Great Queen Street, they moved at the insistence of Herbert Beerbohm Tree to live in beautiful and happy chaos in Welbeck...

VT 's autobiography incorporates diary entries, letters written and received while she studied singing in Milan, and personal memories. I print these letters now, she wrote, partly for my own edification, and partly, I...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...