A. E. Housman
(1859–1936)British poet and classical scholar.The eldest son of a Worcestershire solicitor, Housman was educated at Bromsgrove School. Despite the death of their mother (1870), the family was in ...
Broadhurst Theatre
(New York).Named after playwright George H. Broadhurst, this wide playhouse with plenty of unobstructed views was designed by Herbert J. Krapp with 1,155 seats and the capability of being ...
Edmund Dulac
(b Toulouse, 22 Oct. 1882; d London, 25 May 1953).French-born illustrator, designer, painter, and sculptor who settled in England in 1905 and became a British citizen in 1912. Dulac is best known as ...
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
Laurence Housman, 1900, John Murray.This bestseller was at first published anonymously. ‘It need hardly be said,’ begins the preface to the first edition, ‘that the woman by whom these ...
Ernest Milton
(1890–1974),American-born actor who spent most of his life in England. He made his first appearance in the USA in 1912, and was first seen in London in Montague Glass ...
Gordon Craig
(1872–1966),English scene designer and theorist. The son of Ellen Terry and E. W. Godwin, he was for a time an actor. In 1903 he prepared some interesting sets for ...
Helen Hayes
(1900–93)American actress, sometimes called ‘the First Lady of the American Theatre’. Discovered at the age of 5 among a Washington, DC, stock company, Hayes performed in numerous Broadway plays ...
Helen Hayes Theatre
(New York).The famous actress has had her name attached to two Broadway theatres, which seems only right for one of the American theatre's most beloved stars. The first was ...
Little Theatre
London, in John Adam Street, Adelphi. This small theatre, which held about 300, opened in 1910 with Laurence Housman's adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, under the management of Gertrude ...
Lyric Theatre
New York, on West 42nd Street. This opened in 1903 with Old Heidelberg, starring Richard Mansfield, who for some years returned regularly with his company, the theatre being used also ...
Norman Marshall
(b. Rawalpindi, India, 16 Nov. 1901; d. London, 7 Nov. 1980)Director and manager. In 1926 Marshall joined the Cambridge Festival Theatre, eventually becoming resident director, taking over for a ...
Vedrenne–Barker seasons
The joint management of the Royal Court Theatre in London by John Eugene Vedrenne (1867–1930) as business manager and Harley Granville Barker as director was a gradual extension of the ...
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874–1965)British novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was made a CH in 1954.Maugham was born in Paris, where his father was legal adviser to the British embassy, and he spent his ...
Winthrop Ames
(1871–1937),American director, who used the money inherited from his father, a railroad capitalist, to back non-commercial ventures in the theatre. He built three playhouses in New York: the New ...
World's Classics
A series of affordable reprints of standard works of classic English literature and foreign literature in translation, launched in 1901 in small hardback format by Grant Richards (1872–1948); its ...
