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Dulcie
Dulcie is a feminine given name which may refer to: People * Dulcie Cooper (1903–1981), Australian actress * Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor * Dulcie Foo Fat (born 1946), British-born Canadian landscape painter * Dulcie Gray (1915–2011), British actress * Dulcie Hartwell (1915–2012), South Africa trade union leader * Dulcie Holland (1913–2000), Australian composer and music educator * Dulcie Howes (1908–1993), South African ballet dancer * Dulcie Markham (1914–1976), Australian prostitute and associate of gangland figures * Dulcie Ethel Adunola Oguntoye (1923–2018), English-born Nigerian jurist who was the country's second female judge * Dulcie Mary Pillers (1891–1961), English medical illustrator * Dulcie September (1935–1988), South African anti-apartheid political activist who was assassinated * Dulcie Wood, former South Africa and Southern Transvaal Test cricketer Fictional characters * the title character of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie September
Dulcie Evonne September (20 August 1935 – 29 March 1988) was a South African anti-apartheid political activist. Born in Athlone, Western Cape, South Africa, she was assassinated in Paris, France. Early life The second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September, September grew up in Gleemore, a suburb of Cape Town, where she developed her interest in political activism. She began her primary schooling at Klipfontein Methodist Mission, and later attended Athlone High School. In 1954, she enrolled at the Wesley Training School in Salt River to pursue a career in teaching, and completed her Teacher's Diploma in 1955. She began her teaching career, first at City Mission School in Maitland, then at Bridgetown East Primary School in Athlone in 1956, and in 1957 became a member of the newly established Cape Peninsula Students' Union (CPSU), affiliate of the Unity Movement of South Africa, which aimed at overcoming racial divisions and forging solidarity among students of differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie Gray
Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Denison, (''née'' Bailey; 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011), known professionally as Dulcie Gray, was a British actress, mystery writer and lepidopterist. While at drama school in the late 1930s she met a fellow student, Michael Denison. They married in 1939 and were together for 59 years before his death in 1998. The couple's professional careers were intertwined; in their early years they appeared in several films together and throughout their careers they frequently acted on stage together. Although she was well known for her starring roles in films of the late 1940s and early 1950s, most of Gray's career was in the theatre. Her range was extensive, and she appeared in Shakespeare, farce, thrillers, classics by Sheridan, Wilde, Chekhov, Shaw and Coward, absurdist drama, and numerous new plays. In the 1980s she became well known to British television viewers when she starred in a long-running soap opera, ''Howards' Way''. Alongside h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie's Adventure
''Dulcie's Adventure'' is a 1916 American silent drama film, directed by James Kirkwood, and starring Mary Miles Minter and Bessie Banks. The script for the film was adapted by William Pigott from a novel written by R. Strauss. The film is notable for being the first time that Allan Forrest appeared as Minter's leading man; the two would make a further 19 features together, ending with The Heart Specialist (1922 film). As with many of Minter's features, it is believed to be a lost film. Plot As detailed in film magazines, Dulcie (Minter) is an orphaned girl who lives on an estate in the South with her two spinster aunts. Being from an aristocratic background, the aunts try to forbid Dulcie from playing with the poorer neighbourhood children, but Dulcie forms a particular friendship with Harry the grocer's son (Forrest), who gifts her a pet squirrel. When Aunt Emmie dies, Aunt Netta decides that Dulcie must be married to a rich man if they are to avoid financial ruin, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie Holland
Dulcie Sybil Holland AM (5 January 1913 – 21 May 2000) was an Australian composer and music educator. Best known for her contributions to music education through her involvement with the Australian Music Examinations Board, Holland has in recent decades gained greater recognition as a composer. She is now regarded by some critics as one of the more significant Australian composers of her generation. Education Holland was born in Sydney in 1913. She began taking piano lessons at the age of six, and attended Shirley School for Girls, known for its academic excellence. In 1929 she entered the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (now the Sydney Conservatorium) to continue her studies. At the Conservatorium she studied piano with Grace Middenway and Frank Hutchens, cello with Gladstone Bell, and composition with Roy Agnew and Alfred Hill, eventually completing both the Diploma course (DSCM) and the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (LRSM) in 1933. In 1936, Holla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie Markham
Dulcie May Markham (27 February 1914 – 20 April 1976) was a prominent Sydney prostitute and associate of gangland figures in Sydney during the 1930s, 1940's and 1950s, when she was closely involved with the razor gang milieu of that era of organised crime within that city. During her criminal career, she had amassed 100 convictions in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia for prostitution, vagrancy, consorting, assaulting police and the public, keeping a brothel, drunkenness, and drunk driving, and was sent to prison on numerous occasions. Markham was known in the media as ''The Angel of Death'', ''The Black Widow'', ''Pretty Dulcie'', ''Australia's most beautiful bad woman'', ''Bad Luck Doll'', and ''The One-Way Ticket''. Markham had been described variously as 'beautiful platinum blonde', 'innocent face and baby-blue eyes', and 'ravishing figure', and 'tall, curvaceous, slim-ankled, creamy complexioned... glamor girl of the demi-monde, attractive even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie Deamer
Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer (13 December 1890 – 16 August 1972) was a New Zealand-born Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor. She was a founder and committee member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers. Life Deamer was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, daughter of George Edwin Deamer, a physician from Lincolnshire, and his New Zealand-born wife, Mable Reader. She was taught at home by her mother, who had been a governess. She married Albert Goldie, a theatrical agent, in Perth, Australia, on 27 August 1908. She bore six children, but separated from Goldie in 1922.''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', ed. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 274. Career In the 1920–30s Dulcie Deamer was a poet, playwright and author in Sydney, where she was Australia's first female boxing reporter. Deamer was known as the "Queen of Bohemia" due to her involvement with Norman Lindsay's literary and artistic ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie Mary Pillers
Dulcie Mary Pillers (17 August 18912 December 1961) was an English medical illustrator and a founding member of the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain (MAA). The daughter of a Bristol solicitor, she completed her art training at Kensington Government School of Art, Berkeley Square, Clifton, Bristol, graduating in September 1911 with an Art Class Teachers' Certificate. At the end of World War I, she was a medical illustrator to Ernest William HeyGroves, a wellknown orthopaedic surgeon, at Beaufort War Hospital, a military orthopaedic centre in Stapleton, Bristol. After the armistice, she completed numerous pen and watercolour illustrations of operations at the Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Bath, and Southmead Hospital, Westbury-on-Trym. She also produced illustrations for papers written by medical colleagues at Bristol General Hospital. In the 1920s, she was a member of the Bristol Venture Club, one of the first women's classification clubs. She was also a go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulcie Foo Fat
Dulcie Foo Fat (born 1946) is a British-born Canadian landscape painter, based in Calgary, Alberta. Foo Fat is known for her large Representation (arts), representational paintings made from her photographs of the microscopic landscape of the forest floor, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, or of the bottoms of tidal pools, that reconcile abstract expressionism and magic realism. They suggest, without stating it, the fragility of the environment. Life Born Dulcie Dixon in London, England, Foo Fat earned a teaching certificate and bachelor's degree from University of Reading in 1969. She met and married France Foo Fat in London, and the couple immigrated to Canada in 1970. Four years later, Foo Fat earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Calgary. Her husband France died in 2018. The couple had four daughters. Career Foo Fat has earned recognition for her Photorealism, photorealistic paintings. She is primarily known for her close-up paintings of landscapes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
