Dame Sybil Thorndike

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...

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

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...