Alexander Woollcott
(1887–1943)American drama critic, among the best-known cultural personalities during the 1920s in New York. In his drama criticism from 1914 to 1928 (for the Times, the Herald, the Sun ...
Catherine Lacey
(b. London, 6 May 1904; d. London, 23 Sept. 1979)Actress who toured with Mrs Patrick Campbell in Bayard Veiller's The Thirteenth Chair (1925). She took both classic and modern ...
Elisabeth Bergner
(1900–86), actress.The famed Viennese‐born leading lady came to America as a refugee and first appeared as the unwed mother Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never (1935). After some years ...
Florence Farr
(1860–1917)English actress, gifted but untrained, associated with experimental ventures (1890–1912). Shaw encouraged her to play Rebecca in Ibsen's Rosmersholm (1891) and offered her Arms and the Man ...
G. B. Stern
(1890–1973) British novelistTents of Israel [US: The Matriarch] (1924) FictionA Deputy Was King (1926) FictionPetruchia [US: Modesta] (1929) FictionShining and Free (1935) FictionThe Young Matriarch ...
Garrick Theatre
London.1 In Leman Street, Whitechapel. This theatre, which took its name from its proximity to the old Goodman's Fields Theatre where Garrick made his début, opened in 1831. Burnt ...
George Alexander
(b. Reading, 19 June 1858; d. Chorley Wood, Herts, 16 March 1918)Actor and manager. Having acted with Irving at the Lyceum, he became manager of the Royal Avenue and ...
George Arliss
(1868–1946),English actor, now chiefly remembered for his films, who also had a successful career on the stage in London and New York. He made his first appearance in 1886 ...
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 ...
George C. Tyler
(1867–1946), producer.One of the American theatre's busiest showmen, he was born near Chillicothe, Ohio, and had served as a reporter and editor for several Ohio newspapers before becoming the ...
Gerald du Maurier
(1873–1934)English actor-manager. The son of George du Maurier (the author of Trilby and an artist), Gerald was better educated than most performers of his generation and became the quintessential ...
Gilbert Murray
(1866–1957),a brilliant Greek scholar; born in Sydney, Australia, he was Regius professor of Greek at Oxford 1908–36. His claim to brilliance lay in his ability to make the ancient world sensitively ...
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
[né(1853–1917), actor and manager.The esteemed English thespian made several American visits, the first in 1895 and the last in 1916. However, he never won the admiration accorded him ...
Hermann Sudermann
(1857–1928),German novelist and dramatist, whose first play, Die Ehre (Honour), was produced with great success in 1889. He became the main exponent of the new theatre of realism in ...
Isadora Duncan
(1878–1927)US dancer whose controversial interpretative dancing was extremely influential in the development of modern ballet although her flamboyant lifestyle and ardent feminism made her widely ...
James Bernard Fagan
(b. Graigneaverne, Queen's County, Ireland, 10 May 1873; d. Los Angeles, 17 Feb. 1933)Actor, director and playwright. He was a member of Benson's and Tree's companies as a young ...
Janet Achurch
(1864–1916),English actress, who made her first appearance at the Olympic in 1883. She was one of the first actresses in England to appear in Ibsen, being seen as Nora ...
John Martin-Harvey
(b. Wyvenhoe, Essex, 22 June 1863; d. Surrey, 14 May 1944)Actor–manager, the last great one patterned on Henry Irving. His modern repertoire (Maeterlinck) and bold experiments (Reinhardt's Oedipus, ...
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
(b. London, 16 Jan. 1853; d. St Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, 6 Nov. 1937)Actor–manager. Forbes-Robertson first made a name for himself in Gilbert's Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (1876). His fine ...
Katharine Cornell
(b. Berlin, 16 Feb. 1893; d. Vineyard Haven, Mass., 12 June 1974)Actress and producer. Of an unconventional beauty with a rich, vibrant voice, Cornell toured extensively and created an ...
