Dame Sybil Thorndike

Another of her plays of the thirties that she mentions is Mariners, based on the local clergyman of her childhood and the private tragedy of his wife. The couple were played by Lewis Casson

For the first volume, she chose A Bill of Divorcement, Till Time Shall End, Scandal at Coventry, Granite, and Wild Decembers. In the preface to this volume she states: For...

MK 's Treasure Hunt, a comic play co-written with John Perry , opened in London, starring Sybil Thorndike .

The Fawcett Library (now the Women's Library) in London houses the Suffrage archives, including many of EP 's papers. A sound recording about her, originally an Argo long-playing record, contains a reminiscence by Sybil Thorndike

Henry Bly was written for Martin Browne 's Mercury Theatre , but only got as far as a read-through by the Poets Theatre Guild before Browne's tenure of the theatre lapsed. Another of these plays,...

Sybil Thorndike played the role of Thomas Scott's daughter Annie. The play was published the same year by Sidgwick and Jackson .

Her chief reason for writing these letters, said VB , was the flow of correspondence coming to her from people asking how they could oppose the war, or making suggestions that women in particular should...

After the war, PB continued to be politically active, often writing letters to the editor of the Times on subjects like liberalism and human rights in South Africa. In the issue dated 14 December 1951...

EB 's play Call Me Jacky, starring Sybil Thorndike , opened at the OxfordPlayhouse ; the audience, composed mainly of undergraduates, booed and hissed during the performance.

Since it was directed by David O. Selznick , who had recently produced Gone with the Wind (1939), the play drew a number of Hollywood stars and writers on the first night. It was not...

One of CD 's last plays, Eighty in the Shade, written for Sybil Thorndike , opened at the Globe Theatre , London.

In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike . Playwright Clemence Dane gave a memorial speech...

Saint Joan, a history play by GBS responding to Joan 's recent canonization, had its London opening at the New Theatre , starring Sybil Thorndike . The role was crucial for Thorndike, who was...

Among CD 's many friends were Sybil Thorndike , Lewis Casson , Noël Coward , and Alfred Hitchcock . Coward valued her friendship and her perceptive criticism of his work very highly, and used her...

Her aunt Eliza Aria introduced the very young PF to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike and writers Michael Arlen and Osbert Sitwell . Later came John Van Druten