“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Literary responses | Iris Tree | 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 |
Textual Production | Iris Tree | 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... |
Occupation | Viola Tree | 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. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (16 November 1938): 9 Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson. 131 |
Occupation | Viola Tree | 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
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (16 November 1938): 9 Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson. 131 |
Occupation | Viola Tree | |
Birth | Viola Tree | 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... |
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... |
Residence | Viola Tree | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Viola Tree | 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... |
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