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Julian Wylie
Julian Wylie (1 August 1878 – 6 December 1934), originally Julian Ulrich Samuelson Metzenberg, was a British theatrical agent and producer. He began as an accountant and took an interest in entertainment through his brothers, Lauri Wylie and G. B. Samuelson. About 1910, he became the business manager and agent of David Devant, an illusionist, then took on other clients, and formed a partnership with James W. Tate. By the end of his life he was known as the 'King of Pantomime'. Early life and background Born in Southport, Lancashire, Wylie was the son of Henschel and Bertha Samuelson, tobacconists originally from Prussia. Although Wylie's parents used the name Samuelson, between 1876 and 1889 the births of their five children were registered under the name Metzenberg, with Samuelson as a middle name. In fact, the name of Samuelson was a patronymic drawn from Henschel's father, Samuel Metzenberg, of Lissa in the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen. Henschel, born in 1829, left home in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauri Wylie
Lauri Wylie (25 May 1880 – 28 June 1951), originally Maurice Laurence Samuelson Metzenberg, was a British actor and author. He is primarily remembered as the author of the play "Dinner for One", the 1963 screen adaptation of which went on to become the most frequently repeated television programme ever, according to the ''Guinness Book of Records'', due in large part to its place as a New Year's viewing tradition in Germany and other places. Early life Born in Southport, Lancashire, Wylie was the son of Henschel and Bertha Samuelson, tobacconists originally from Prussia. By 1891, his mother was widowed and was carrying on the business. He began life as Morris Laurence Samuelson, recorded as ''Maurice Laurence Samuelson Metzenberg''. Wylie's older brother, Julian Wylie (or Samuelson), was a well-known producer in London, and Lauri Wylie's agent for plays produced as early as 1915. Lauri Wylie is also the brother of early film pioneer G.B. Samuelson and uncle of former British Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Theatre - London
A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome which housed the Imperial residences. Most European languages have a version of the term (''palais'', ''palazzo'', ''palacio'', etc.), and many use it for a wider range of buildings than English. In many parts of Europe, the equivalent term is also applied to large private houses in cities, especially of the aristocracy; often the term for a large country house is different. Many historic palaces are now put to other uses such as parliaments, museums, hotels, or office buildings. The word is also sometimes used to describe a lavishly ornate building used for public entertainment or exhibitions such as a movie palace. A palace is distinguished from a castle while the latter clearly is fortified or has the style of a fortification, wherea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Errol
Bert Errol (born Isaac Whitehouse; 11 August 1883 – 28 November 1949) was a British singer and female impersonator, who was a popular entertainer in both Britain and the United States. Life and career Born in Birmingham, he had a voice ranging from tenor to falsetto. From the age of 18, "Bert Errol", ''Wellcome Library'' Retrieved 5 March 2021 he worked in s and concert parties, and in the all-male Harry Reynolds' Minstrels, before making his first London appearance in 1908, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul England (actor)
Paul England (17 June 1892 died 21st November 1968 in Newton St Cyres Devon was an English actor, singer, author. Served in Royal Horse Artillery in First World War. In Second World War worked for British Government on Lend Lease programme and was awarded a United States Congressional medal . Born at Streatham in 1893, England was educated at Whitgift School. Beyond his career as an actor and broadcaster, he was also a singer and writer. As a singer, he appeared in musicals in London's West End and on Broadway. England's first film was ''Just a Girl'' (1916), in the silent era, in which he played a miner who gets the girl, opposite Daisy Burrell. He later appeared in ''Knee Deep in Daisies'' (1926) and in the era of talking films had roles in ''Charlie Chan in London'' (1934), '' Disputed Passage'' (1939), ''The Invisible Man Returns'' (1940) '' The Earl of Chicago'' (1940), and ''The Trial of Madame X'' (1948), the last of which he also wrote and directed. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isobel Elsom
Isobel Elsom (born Isabelle Reed; 16 March 1893 – 12 January 1981) was an English film, theatre, and television actress. She was often cast as aristocrats or upper-class women. Early years Born in Chesterton, Cambridge, Chesterton, Cambridge, Elsom attended Howard College, Bedford, England. Career She debuted on stage in London as a member of the chorus of ''The Quaker Girl'' (1911). Gilbert Miller promoted her to stardom in ''The Outsider''. Over the course of three decades, she appeared in 17 Broadway productions, beginning with ''The Ghost Train'' (1926). Her best-known stage role was the wealthy murder victim in ''Ladies in Retirement'' (1939), a role she repeated in the 1941 film version. Her other theatre credits included ''The Innocents (play), The Innocents'' and ''Romeo and Juliet''. Elsom made her first screen appearance during the silent film era (she frequently co-starred with Owen Nares) and appeared in nearly 100 films throughout her career. Elsom appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Duprez
Fred Duprez (September 6, 1884 – October 27, 1938) was an American actor, comedian and singer who performed in vaudeville, phonograph record and film. He made phonograph recordings in the US and the UK in the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s. Most of the films he appeared in were British. He was also a writer, and wrote the popular stage farce ''My Wife's Family (play), My Wife's Family'', filmed three times in Britain, firstly in The Wife's Family, 1931; once in Sweden in 1932; and once in Finland, in Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee, 1933. Fred Duprez was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died from a heart attack on board a ship en route to England. He was the father of the actress, June Duprez. Partial filmography * ''Heads We Go'' (1933) - George Anderson * ''Meet My Sister'' (1933) - Hiram Sowerby * ''My Old Duchess'' (1934) - Jesse Martin * ''Without You (film), Without You'' (1934) - Baron Gustav von Steinmeyer * ''Love, Life and Laughter (1934 film), Love, Life and Laughter'' (1934) - Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Dare
Phyllis is a feminine given name which may refer to: People * Phyllis Bartholomew (1914–2002), English long jumper * Phyllis Drummond Bethune (née Sharpe, 1899–1982), New Zealand artist * Phyllis Calvert (1915–2002), British actress * Phyllis M. Christian (born 1956), Ghanaian lawyer and consultant * Phyllis Coates (born 1927), American actress * Phyllis Diller (1917–2012), American actress/comedian * Phyllis Dillon (1944–2004), Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer * Phyllis Eisenstein (1946–2020), American writer * Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), Canadian writer * Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), American jazz singer * Phylis Lee Isley, birth name of Jennifer Jones (1919–2009), American film actress * P. D. James (1920–2014), English crime fiction writer * Phyllis Logan (born 1956), Scottish actress * Phyllis Newman (1933–2019), American actress * Phyllis Pearsall (1906–1996), British creator of the ''A to Z'' map of London * Phyllis Quek (born 1973), Malaysian- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Cooper
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1934, where she starred in many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s she starred steadily in productions both in London's West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles. She received three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, for performances in '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943), ''My Fair Lady'' (1964) and, most famously, ''Now, Voyager'' (1942). Throughout the 1950s and 60s she worked both on stage and on screen, continuing to star on stage until h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Burrell
Daisy Burrell (born Daisy Isobel Eaglesfield Ratton; 16 June 1892 – 10 June 1982) was a British stage actress and Edwardian musical comedy performer who also appeared as a leading lady in silent films and in pantomime. In 1951 she appeared in '' The Golden Year'', the first musical comedy produced for television. Background Daisy Ratton was born in Wandsworth in 1892, although according to ''Who Was Who in the Theatre 1912–1976'' she was born in Singapore in 1893.''Who Was Who in the Theatre, 1912–1976'vol. 1, p. 339/ref> She had a complicated family history, marred by early deaths. Her grandfather, Charles George Ratton, was a stockbroker from an Anglo-Portuguese Roman Catholic family. In 1867 he married Isabella Iphigenia de Pavia, and they lived at Stoke Newington, but he died in 1873, aged 35, leaving a young son and daughter. His widow, Daisy's grandmother, married Hassan Farreed the next year and died in 1890, aged 42. In 1891, Daisy's father, Charles Morris Rat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bairnsfather
Captain Charles Bruce Bairnsfather (9 July 188729 September 1959) was a prominent British humour, humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill (comics), Old Bill. Bill and his pals Bert and Alf featured in Bairnsfather's weekly "Fragments from France" cartoons published weekly in ''The Bystander'' magazine during the First World War. Early life Bairnsfather was born at Murree, British India (now Pakistan) to Major Thomas Henry Bairnsfather (1859–1944), of the Indian Staff Corps, and (Amelia) Jane Eliza, daughter of Edward Every-Clayton and granddaughter of Henry Every, 9th Every baronets, Baronet. His parents were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of Edward Every, 8th Baronet. He spent his early life in India, but was brought to England in 1895 to be educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, then at Stratford-upon-Avon. Initially intending a military career, he failed entrance exams to Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Sandhurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Theatre, London
The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London. Its red-brick facade dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus behind a small plaza near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road. The Palace Theatre seats 1,400. Richard D'Oyly Carte, producer of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, commissioned the theatre in the late 1880s. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and intended to be a home of English grand opera. The theatre opened as the Royal English Opera House in January 1891 with a lavish production of Arthur Sullivan's opera ''Ivanhoe''. Although this ran for 160 performances, followed briefly by André Messager's ''La Basoche'', Carte had no other works ready to fill the theatre. He leased it to Sarah Bernhardt for a season and sold the opera house within a year at a loss. It was then converted into a grand music hall and renamed the Palace Theatre of Varieties, managed successfully first by Sir Augustus Harris and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre, the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not have an overarching storyline. Rather, a general theme serves as the motto for a loosely-related series of acts that alternate between solo performances and dance ensembles. Owing to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt even less restricted by middle-class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
