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The Shop Girl
''The Shop Girl'' was a musical comedy in two acts (described by the author as a musical farce) written by H. J. W. Dam, with Lyrics by Dam and Adrian Ross and music by Ivan Caryll, and additional numbers by Lionel Monckton and Ross. It premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in London in 1894 and ran for an extremely successful 546 performances. Its cast included Seymour Hicks, George Grossmith, Jr., Arthur Williams, Edmund Payne, and Ellaline Terriss. It soon played in New York and was successfully revived in London in 1920. Background The success of ''A Gaiety Girl'' in 1893 confirmed to Edwardes that the lighter "musical comedy" was the right path for musical theatre. ''The Shop Girl'' heralded a new era in musical comedy, and the critics were amazed that the author had provided such a coherent story, as there had been hardly any story at all in burlesque. Over a dozen copies followed at the Gaiety Theatre (including ''My Girl'', ''The Circus Girl'', and ''A Runaway Girl'') ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Cutler
Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ''ingénue'' in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She is possibly best known for walking out of the lead role in Noël Coward's ''The Vortex'' in 1924 shortly before opening night. Early years Cutler was born in Marylebone, London, daughter of Henry Cutler, a singer, and his wife Mary Ann, ''née'' Tims. Gänzl, Kurt"Cutler, Kate Ellen Louisa (1864–1955)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 29 May 2009 She trained at a conservatoire in Watford, north of London, where one of her tutors described her as "an ideal Cherubino" in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro''.''The Times'' obituary notice, 18 May 1955, p. 13 Her career, however, took her not into opera, but into operetta and then musical comedy. Musical stage In 1888, she appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grossmith Jr Shop Girl
Grossmith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George Grossmith (1847–1912), English comedian, writer, and musician *Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), English artist, writer, and actor; younger brother of George Grossmith, Sr. *George Grossmith, Jr. (1874–1935), British actor and producer; eldest son of George Grossmith *Lawrence Grossmith Lawrence Randall Grossmith (29 March 1877 – 21 February 1944) was an English actor, the son of the Gilbert and Sullivan performer George Grossmith and the brother of the actor-manager George Grossmith Jr. After establishing his career in Edw ... (1877–1944), English actor; younger brother of George Grossmith, Jr. {{surname, Grossmith Acting families Show business families of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Royston
Roy Royston MC (born Roy Charles Crowden, 5 April 1899 – 7 October 1976) was an English actor who appeared in a large number of films between 1912 and 1966, beginning as a child actor. Most of his films were silents made before the First World War, during the last year of which he served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and was awarded the Military Cross. He later developed a career in musical theatre, and his swan song was an appearance as an elderly clergyman in a Hammer Horror film of 1966. Life Born at Mill Hill, North London, Roy Charles Crowden took the stage name of "Roy Royston" while still a boy. He was educated at Lynton College and also privately and first appeared on the stage on 19 December 1910 in a revival of Maurice Maeterlinck's play '' The Blue Bird'' at the Haymarket Theatre.John Parker, 'Royston, Roy (Roy Crowden)' in ''Who's who in the Theatre'' vol. 13 (1961), p. 1003 Between 1912 and 1914 Royston was the child star of a large number of silent fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Laye
Evelyn Laye (née Elsie Evelyn Lay; 10 July 1900 – 17 February 1996) was an English actress who was active on the London light opera stage, and later in New York and Hollywood. Her first husband, actor Sonnie Hale, left her for Jessie Matthews, earning much public sympathy for Laye. Her second husband was actor Frank Lawton, with whom she often appeared in stage productions. Early years Laye was born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, and known informally as Boo. Her parents were both actors and her father a theatre manager. Career Lay made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in ''Mr. Wu'', and her first London appearance at the East Ham Palace on 24 April 1916, aged 15, in the revue ''Honi Soit'', in which she subsequently toured. For the first few years of her career she mainly played in musical comedy and operetta, including ''The Beauty Spot'' in 1917 and '' Going Up'' in 1918. Among her successes dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Butt
Sir Alfred Butt, 1st Baronet (20 March 1878 – 8 December 1962) was a British theatre impresario, Conservative politician and racehorse owner and breeder. During a fourteen-year tenure as manager of London's Palace Theatre, beginning in 1904, Butt built a theatre empire, expanding firstly with the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow in 1910, followed by the London Victoria Palace a year later, to rival that of Edward Moss and others. He became managing director of several London West End theatres beginning in 1914, including the Adelphi Theatre, the Empire Theatre, the Gaiety Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as well as theatres outside London. He continued as a theatre impresario until 1931. During the First World War, also, Butt became Director of Food Rationing at the Ministry of Food. He was knighted for his services to the ministry, and for his work for war charities, in 1918. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Balham and Tooting in 1922. In 1929, he was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Marshman Palmer
Albert Marshman Palmer (July 27, 1838–March 7, 1905) was an American theatrical manager. He was universally known in the theatrical world by his initials A. M. Palmer. Biography Albert Marshman Palmer was born in North Stonington, Connecticut on July 27, 1838. He graduated from the law school of the University of New York in 1860, served as librarian at the Mercantile Library, New York, in 1869–72, and then for ten years managed the Union Square Theatre. After traveling in Europe he returned to New York in 1884 and then took charge of the Madison Square Theatre and later also of Palmer's Theatre at Broadway and Thirtieth Street. Richard Mansfield for a time appeared under his management, as well as Clara Morris, Evelyn Campbell, and many other notable stage people who played in his famous stock companies. His traveling companies made the plays ''Jim the Penman'', '' Saints and Sinners'', ''A Pair of Spectacles'', and '' Elaine'' known throughout the country. Among th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertie Wright
Albert James Matthew Wright (6 February 1871 – 7 March 1960), known as Bertie Wright, was a British actor of the silent era. Wright was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and died on 7 March 1960, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Partial filmography * '' A Little Bit of Fluff'' (1919) * '' General John Regan'' (1921) * '' The Wheels of Chance'' (1922) * '' A Sailor Tramp'' (1922) * '' Little Brother of God'' (1922) * '' Young Lochinvar'' (1923) * ''The Royal Oak'' (1923) * '' The Rest Cure'' (1923) References External links * Partial filmographyat the British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ... 1871 births 1960 deaths English male film actors English male silent film actors Male actors from Lancashire 20th-century English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Ediss
Connie Ediss (born Ada Harriet Whitley; 11 August 1870 – 18 April 1934) Gänzl, Kurt"The real Connie Ediss, or 'She was a Milliner's Daughter'" Kurt of Gerolstein, 6 November 2020 was an English actress and singer best known as a buxom, good-humoured comedian in many of the popular Edwardian musical comedies around the turn of the 20th century. After beginning her career in provincial theatres in Britain in music hall and pantomime in the 1880s, Ediss was engaged to play in a series of extraordinarily successful musical comedies at the Gaiety Theatre, London, beginning in 1896, and also played in several musicals on Broadway. During World War I, she began a long tour in Australia, returning to London in 1919 to play in farces and comedies. She made a few films in the 1930s. Early life and career Born in Brighton in 1870 as Ada Harriet Whitley, Ediss was the youngest of four daughters of milliner Jane Whitley ''née'' McClean (born 1844) and John Whitley (1837–1909), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Frohman
Charles Frohman (July 15, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American theater manager and producer, who discovered and promoted many stars of the American stage. Notably, he produced ''Peter Pan'', both in London and the US, the latter production starring Maude Adams who would be strongly identified with the part. In 1896, Frohman co-founded the Theatrical Syndicate, a nationwide chain of theaters that dominated the American touring company business, until the Shubert brothers grew strong enough to end its virtual monopoly. He partnered with English producers, including Seymour Hicks, with whom he produced a string of London hits prior to 1910, such as '' Quality Street'', ''The Admirable Crichton'', ''The Catch of the Season'', ''The Beauty of Bath'', and ''A Waltz Dream''. Frohman produced over 700 shows. At the height of his fame, Frohman died in the 1915 sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania''. Life and career Charles Frohman was born to a Jewish family in Sandusky, Ohio, the youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theater
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the List of Broadway theaters, 144 extant and extinct Broadway venues use (used) the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names (12 others used neither), with many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also using the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, are the Theatre, theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional Theater (structure), theatres, each with 500 or more seats, located in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and the Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the thoroughfare is eponymous wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaiety Girls
Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes. The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautiful dancing corps of "Gaiety Girls" appearing onstage in bathing attire and in the latest fashions. The 1890s Gaiety Girls were respectable, elegant young ladies, unlike the actresses from London's earlier musical burlesques. Later, even the stars of these musical comedies were referred to as Gaiety Girls. Description Fashion icons An American newspaper reviewing ''A Gaiety Girl'' in 1894 explained the importance of the Gaiety Girls: "The piece is a mixture of pretty girls, English humor, singing, dancing and bathing machines and dresses of the English fashion. The dancing is a special feature of the performance, English burlesques giving much more attention to that feature of their attractiveness than the American entertainments of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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