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Katherine Cornell
Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York. Dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott, Cornell was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award, for ''Romeo and Juliet'' in 1935. Cornell is noted for her major Broadway roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic. The couple formed C. & M.C. Productions, Inc., a company that gave them complete artistic freedom in choosing and producing plays. Their production company gave first or prominent Broadway roles to some of the more notable actors of the 20th century, including many British Shakespearean actors. Cornell is regarded as one of the great actresses of the American theatre. Her most famous role was that of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 1931 Broadway production of ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemence Dane
Clemence Dane CBE is the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton (21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965), an English novelist and playwright. Life and career After completing her education, Dane went to Switzerland to work as a French tutor, but returned home after a year. She studied art in London and Germany. After the First World War, she taught at a girls' school and began writing. She took the pseudonym "Clemence Dane" from the church, St Clement Danes on the Strand, London. Her first novel, '' Regiment of Women,'' written in 1914, was a study of life in a girls' school. Michael Cox and Jack Adrian, ''The Oxford Book of Historical Stories''. Oxford;Oxford University Press, 1994. (p.436). In 1919 she wrote ''Legend'', the story of a group of acquaintances who debate the meaning of a dead friend's life and work. Dane's 1921 play, '' A Bill of Divorcement'', tells the story of a daughter who cares for her deranged father and faces the fact that his mental illness may be hereditary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
