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The Combined Maze
''The Combined Maze'' is a 1927 British play by Frank Vosper It is based on the 1913 novel of the same title by May Sinclair. It ran for 40 performances at the Royalty Theatre in London's West End between 30 May and 2 July 1927. The cast included Edward Chapman, Gordon Harker, Richard Bird, Anthony Ireland, Clare Greet Clare Greet (14 June 1871 – 14 February 1939) was an English stage and film actress. She began on stage in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Company. She appeared in 26 films between 1921 and 1939, including seven films directed by (and one ... and Jean Forbes-Robertson.Wearing p.518 References Bibliography * Wearing, J.P. ''The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 1927 plays West End plays Plays by Frank Vosper {{1920s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Vosper
Frank Permain Vosper (15 December 1899, in London – 6 March 1937) was an English actor who appeared in both stage and film roles and a dramatist, playwright and screenwriter. Stage Vosper made his stage debut in 1919 and was best known for playing urbane villains. His extensive stage experience included appearing in his own play '' Love from a Stranger'' (1936), adapted from the short story " Philomel Cottage" by Agatha Christie. His screenplays included co-writing the comedy ''No Funny Business'' with ''Victor Hanbury'' (1933). He also co-wrote the adaptation of G.B. Stern's novel ''Debonair'' with the novelist which opened at the Lyric 23 April 1930. He also wrote ''People Like Us'', based on the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters. Banned by the Lord Chamberlain after a performance at the Strand Theatre featuring Atholl Fleming, it remained unperformed until 1948, when it premiered at Wyndham's Theatre in London, with Miles Malleson, George Rose, Robert Fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royalty Theatre
The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho. Established by the actress Frances Maria Kelly in 1840, it opened as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed to the public in 1938.Royalty Theatre at the Arthur Lloyd site accessed 23 March 2007 The architect was . The theatre's opening was ill-fated, and it was little used for a decade. It changed its name twice and was used by an opera company, amateur drama companies and for French pieces. In 1861, it was renamed the New Royalty Theatre, and the next year it was leased by Mrs Charles Selby, who enlarged it from 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Sinclair
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event. Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term 'stream of consciousness' in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence ''Pilgrimage'' (1915–1967), in ''The Egoist'', April 1918. Early life Sinclair was born in Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Her mother, Amelia Sinclair, was strict and religious; her father, William Sinclair, was a Liverpool shipowner, who went bankrupt, became an alcoholic, and died when Sinclair was still a child. The family moved to Ilford on the edge of London. After one year of education at Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.Christopher Innes, "West End" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1195, Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London. Famous screen actors, British and international alike, frequently appear on the London stage. There are a total of 39 theatres in the West End, with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened in May 1663, the oldest theatre in London. The Savoy Theatre – built as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan – was entirely lit by electricity in 1881. Opening in October 2022, @sohoplace is the first new West End theatre in 50 years. The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Chapman (actor)
Edward Chapman (13 October 1901 – 9 August 1977) was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. William Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s. Life and career Chapman was born in Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, and was the uncle of actor/screenwriter John Chapman and actor Paul Chapman. On leaving school he became a bank clerk, but later began his stage career with the Ben Greet Players in June 1924 at the Nottingham Repertory Theatre, playing Gecko in George du Maurier's ''Trilby''. He made his first London stage appearance at the Court Theatre in August 1925 playing the Rev Septimus Tudor in ''The Farmer's Wife''. Among dozens of stage roles that followed, he played Bonaparte to Margaret Rawlings's Josephine in ''Napoleon'' at the Embassy Theatre in September 1934. In 1928 he attracted the attention of Alfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Harker
William Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English stage and film actor. Harker was one of the sons of Sarah Elizabeth Harker, née Hall, (1856–1927), and Joseph Harker (1855–1927), a much admired set painter for the theatre for whom the ''Dracula'' character Jonathan Harker was named. Harker had a long career on the stage, from 1902 to the 1950s. In addition, he appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and in several scenes in ''Elstree Calling'' (1930), a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock. He was known for his performance as Inspector Hornleigh in a trilogy of films produced between 1938 and 1940, as well in ''Saloon Bar'' (1940), based on a stage play he had starred in and another one of his stage successes The Poltergeist made into the film ''Things Happen at Night'' (1947), a poltergeist comedy he co-starred in with Alfred Drayton and Robertson Hare. His last major screen role was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bird (actor)
Richard Bird (4 April 1895 – December 1979) was an English actor and film director, director of stage and screen. Born George, Bird took the stage name Richard Bird after being nicknamed "Dickie" by his theatre colleagues. After working in a newspaper office for a year he made his stage debut as a member of the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1917. He went on to appear on both the London, (vide (Latin) 'The French Mistress') and American stage, making his film debut in some silent shorts during 1919. He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, playing the lead roles in quota quickies ''The Warren Case'' and ''What Happened Then?'' (both 1934). His film roles of the 1930s tended towards melodrama, such as the jealous Ernest in Maurice Elvey's ''The Water Gipsies (film), The Water Gipsies'' (1932), and the murderous Eric opposite Matheson Lang in ''The Great Defender'' (1934). Middle-age made his characters more affable and his later films showcase his ability at light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Ireland (actor)
Anthony Ireland (4 February 1902 - 4 December 1957) was a British actor. He was born in Peru to British parents but by 1904 his family lived in Chile, where his brother Noel was born. In 1910 they moved to England and in the 1911 census they were shown as living in Bedford. Noel became an RAF pilot and was killed in a crash in 1931. Ireland made his stage debut in 1925, and appeared in the original London production of Patrick Hamilton's ''Rope'', in 1929. He was active in both British and U.S. theatre, and in various films and TV shows over the years. Selected filmography * ''Big Business'' (1930) * '' Spanish Eyes'' (1930) * '' The Water Gipsies'' (1932) * '' Called Back'' (1933) * '' Three Maxims'' (1936) * ''Jump for Glory'' (1937) * '' Twin Faces'' (1937) * '' Sweet Devil'' (1937) * ''Just like a Woman'' (1939) * '' Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard'' (1940) * '' The Prime Minister'' (1941) * ''The Gambler and the Lady'' (1952) * '' Spaceways'' (1953) * '' Night of the Silvery Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Greet
Clare Greet (14 June 1871 – 14 February 1939) was an English stage and film actress. She began on stage in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Company. She appeared in 26 films between 1921 and 1939, including seven films directed by (and one produced by) Alfred Hitchcock. She was born in Leicestershire and died in London. Partial filmography * ''The Rotters'' (1921) as Mrs. Clugson * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) as Martha * ''Three Live Ghosts'' (1922) as Mrs. Gubbins * '' Number 13'' (1922) as Mrs. Peabody * ''The Farmer from Texas'' (1925) as Frau Appelboom * '' The Ring'' (1927) as Fortune Teller (uncredited) * ''The Rising Generation'' (1928) as Cook * '' The Manxman'' (1929) as Mrs. Cregeen * ''Murder!'' (1930) as Member of the Jury * '' Third Time Lucky'' (1931) as Mrs. Scratton * ''Alibi'' (1931) * ''Many Waters'' (1931) as Registry Office Cleaner (uncredited) * ''Lord Babs'' (1932) as Mrs. Parker * ''The Sign of Four'' (1932) as Mrs. Hudson (uncredited) * ''White F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Forbes-Robertson
Jean Forbes-Robertson (16 March 1905 – 24 December 1962) was an English actress. A versatile Shakespearean actress, she was often cast in boys' roles because of her slim build, playing Jim Hawkins in a stage version of ''Treasure Island'', Puck in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and, most famously, the title role in ''Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan''. After beginning her career in 1921 on tour in South Africa and Australasia with her mother's theatre company, she made her London debut in 1925, gaining wide notice by 1927. She played mostly in Shakespeare works and other classic plays, and was often employed by the actor-director Robert Atkins (actor), Robert Atkins. Her father was the actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson, her mother the actress Gertrude Elliot, her aunt the actress Maxine Elliott, and her daughter is the actress Joanna Van Gyseghem. Early years and ''Peter Pan'' Forbes-Robertson was born in London, the second daughter of the actors Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Gertrude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Plays
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