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Dudley Digges
(1879–1947),Irish-American actor, trained for the stage by Frank J. Fay, who appeared in some early plays by Yeats, being particularly good as the Wise Man in The Hour-Glass (1903). ...
Ethel Griffes
[neé(1878–1975), character actress.A durable player on the British and American stage for over sixty years, the small, angular Griffes was ideal in matronly roles. She was born in ...
George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950)Irish playwright, critic, and propagandist. He accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925), but declined all other public honours.Shaw's parents were an ill-assorted impoverished Dublin ...
Gertrude Lawrence
1898–1952)British actress, best known for her performances in Noël Coward's plays.Gertrude Lawrence was born in London into a theatrical family: her mother was a small-part actress and her Danish ...
Henry Sweet
(1845–1912)A great phonetician and, after A. J. Ellis (1814–90) one of the founders of that study in England, educated at Heidelberg University and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was ...
Lynn Fontanne
(1887–1983), actress.One of the great ladies of the American stage, the willowy, dark‐haired, sharp‐eyed actress with the throaty contralto voice and regal bearing was born in England, where she ...
Mrs Patrick Campbell
1865–1940)British actress.Beatrice Tanner was born in London, daughter of John Tanner and his Italian wife. In 1894 she eloped with Patrick Campbell, who died fighting in the Boer War in 1900 (their ...
Philip Merivale
(1886–1946), actor.The lanky, suave, slightly haughty leading man was born in India and spent several seasons acting in London before he came to America in 1914 with Mrs. Patrick ...
Pygmalion (1914) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
This modern retelling of the Pygmalion‐Galatea legend was first seen in America in 1914, with Shaw's original Eliza
Pygmalion Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
a play by Bernard Shaw, performed in 1913 in Vienna, published and performed in London in 1916. This amusing piece, which was eventually to achieve popular renown as the musical ...
Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
(1914), a play by George Bernard Shaw, it presents a comic version of the classical myth of
Raymond Massey
(b. Toronto, 30 Aug. 1896; d. Los Angeles, 29 July 1983)Actor and director who moved confidently from leading roles to character parts in a range of work from the ...
Richard S. Aldrich
(1902–86), producer.Born in Boston, he served as president of the Harvard Dramatic Club and shortly after graduation founded an early summer stock group, the Jitney Players. In 1926 he ...
Six Degrees of Separation
A: John Guare Pf: 1990, New York Pb: 1990 G: Drama in 1 act S: East Side, New York, c.1990 C: 14m, 4fJohn Flanders (‘Flan’) Kittredge (44), an attractive New York art dealer, and his wife Louisa ...
