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Roma Guillon Le Thière
Roma Guillon Le Thière (c. 1837–1903) was an Italian actress whose career was on the London stage. She appeared in the original productions of ''Diplomacy (play), Diplomacy'' and of Oscar Wilde's play ''A Woman of No Importance''. Life Le Thière's London debut was in 1865 at the Royalty Theatre, New Royalty Theatre, as Emilia (Othello), Emilia in Shakespeare's ''Othello''. During the following years she appeared in ''Hunted Down'' at St James's Theatre; ''Life for Life'' by John Westland Marston at the Lyceum Theatre, London, Lyceum Theatre; revivals of T. W. Robertson's plays ''Ours'' and ''Caste (play), Caste'' at the Prince of Wales's Theatre; and ''Rob Roy'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Drury Lane Theatre, as Helen Macgregor."Le Thiere, Roma Guillon". Charles E Pascoe, editor. ''The Dramatic List: a record of the performances of living actors and actresses of the British stage''. 1880. In January 1878 she created the part of the Marquise de Rio Zares in ''Diplomacy (pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplomacy (play)
''Diplomacy'' is an 1878 English play which is a translation and adaptation by B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott of the 1877 French play ''Dora'' by Victorien Sardou.(1 December 1878)"French Authors and English Adapters" ''The Theatre'', pp. 329-332 It saw frequent revivals and was a popular play for over fifty years.Ayres, Brenda, edNew Women Fiction, 1881-1899 p. 300 n.27 History Sardou's original play debuted in Paris in January 1877, and was a success, making it ripe for "adaptation" into English. B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott had previously adapted the Sardou play ''Nos Intimes'' for the Squire Bancroft, Bancrofts, under the name ''Peril'' to great success, and thus they were engaged to adapt ''Dora'' as well (with contributions by the Bancrofts) for use at the Scala Theatre, Princes of Wales Theatre.(January 1907)Stage History of Famous Plays ''The Theatre'', pp. 19–20 ''Diplomacy'' was described by the English theatrical paper ''The Era (newspaper), The Era'' as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madge Kendal
Dame Madge Kendal (born Margaret Shafto Robertson; 15 March 1848 – 14 September 1935) was an English actress of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian era, Edwardian eras, best known for her roles in Shakespeare and English comedies. Together with her husband, William Hunter Kendal, W. H. Kendal (''né'' William Hunter Grimston), she became an important theatre manager. Madge Kendal came from a theatrical family. She was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire, where her father ran a chain of theatres. She began to act as a small child and made her London debut at the age of four. As a teenager she appeared with Ellen Terry, Ellen and Kate Terry in Bath, Somerset, Bath, and played William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Ophelia and Desdemona in the West End theatre, West End. Under the management of John Baldwin Buckstone, J. B. Buckstone, she joined the company of the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1869, when she was 21. While in the company she met and married the actor W. H. Kendal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 10 – The Aceh Sultanate was fully annexed by the Dutch forces, deposing the last sultan, marking the end of the Aceh War that have lasted for almost 30 years. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901). February * February 13 – Venezuelan crisis: After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in 1902 ends. * February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". March * March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens. * March 3 – The British Admiralty announces plans to build the Rosyth Dockyard as a naval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830s Births
Year 183 ( CLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Victorinus (or, less frequently, year 936 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 183 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Births * January 26 – Lady Zhen, wife of the Cao Wei state Emperor Cao Pi (d. 221) * Hu Zong, Chinese general, official and poet of the Eastern Wu state (d. 242) * Liu Zan Liu Zan (183–255), courtesy name Zhengming, was a military general of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He previously served under the warlord Sun Quan (later the founding emperor of Wu) in the late Eastern Han ... (Zhengming), Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 255) * Lu Xun, Chinese general and politician of the Eastern Wu state (d. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and Actor-manager, theatre manager. Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End theatre, West End, winning praise for adventurous programming and lavish productions, and starring in many of its productions. In 1899, he helped fund the rebuilding, and became manager, of Her Majesty's Theatre, His Majesty's Theatre. Again, he promoted a mix of Shakespeare and classic plays with new works and adaptations of popular novels, giving them spectacular productions in this large house, and often playing leading roles. His wife, actress Helen Maud Holt, often played opposite him and assisted him with management of the theatres. Although Tree was regarded as a versatile and skilled actor, particularly in character roles, by his later years his technique was seen as mannered and old-fashioned. He founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 and was Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Charles Merivale
Herman Charles Merivale MA (27 January 1839 – 17 August 1906) was an English dramatist and poet, son of Herman Merivale. He also used the punning pseudonym Felix Dale. Life Herman Charles Merivale was born in London on 27 January 1839, the only son of Herman Merivale (1806–1874), a barrister and civil servant who was permanent under-secretary of the India Office, and his wife, Caroline Penelope Robinson (d. 1881), daughter of the Revd William Villiers Robinson.Lee, Elizabeth, revised by William Baker"Merivale, Herman Charles (1839–1906)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004, accessed 19 August 2021 Merivale was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, where Algernon Charles Swinburne and Charles Bowen were his contemporaries. He graduated BA in 1861. At his father's home he met many distinguished men, including Lord Robert Cecil (afterwards Prime Minister Lord Salisbury), who became a lifelong friend. His friends in literary and dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Grundy
Sydney Grundy (23 March 1848 – 4 July 1914) was an English dramatist. Most of his works were adaptations of European plays, and many became successful enough to tour throughout the English-speaking world. He is, however, perhaps best remembered today as the librettist of several comic operas, notably ''Haddon Hall (opera), Haddon Hall''. Life and career Grundy was born in Manchester, England, the son of Alderman Charles Sydney Grundy. He was educated at Victoria University of Manchester, Owens College, Manchester, and studied law at the Middle Temple. He was called to the bar in 1869 and practised law until 1876. Early career His early one-act farce, ''A Little Change'', was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1872 by Madge Kendal, the Kendals. This was followed by ''All at Sea'' in 1873, also starring the Kendals. In 1876, Grundy published ''The Days of His Vanity''. He wrote ''Mammon'' for W. H. Vernon at the Royal Strand Theatre, Strand Theatre in 1877 and ''After Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Williams Buchanan
Robert Williams Buchanan (18 August 1841 – 10 June 1901) was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Early life and education He was the son of Robert Buchanan (1813–1866), Owenite lecturer and journalist, and was born at Caverswall, Staffordshire, England. Buchanan senior, a native of Ayr, Scotland, lived for some years in Manchester, then moved to Glasgow, where Buchanan junior was educated, at the high school and the university, one of his fellow-students being the poet David Gray. His essay on Gray, originally published in the ''Cornhill Magazine'', tells the story of their close friendship, and of their journey to London in 1860 in search of fame. His friend, Scottish-American poet James Mackintosh Kennedy, wrote in ''Scottish and American Poems'': "Robert Buchanan, the well-known British poet and most genial and variously gifted man, visited America in 1884-85." He wrote two poems about Buchanan: "Lament" on his departure, and "Robert Buchanan" upon his deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End theatre, West End's Lyceum Theatre, London, Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society. Life and career Irving was born to a working-class family in Keinton Mandeville in the county of Somerset. W.H. Davies, the poet, was a cousin. Irving spent his childhood living with his aunt, Mrs Penberthy, at Halsetown in Cornwall. He competed in a recitation contest at a local Methodist chapel where he was beaten by William Curnow, later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Stephens (actress)
Jane Tryphoena Stephens (1812? – 15 January 1896) was a British actress who became famous as she became older. Life Her first surname is unknown as she sometimes appeared as "Miss Stephens". She had a husband called Joseph Stephens who was a solicitor's clerk. Before she took to the stage in 1840 she ran a tobacconists. She took a variety of roles but it was not until 1854 that she found her niche. She took on "grandmotherly" type roles in a number of productions and was affectionately known as "Granny" Stephens. She finished her career on 9 July 1889 with a benefit programme at the Shaftesbury Theatre. The committee responsible for promoting the show included R D'Oyly Carte, George Edwardes and C H Hawtrey. Stephens died in Clapham Common in 1896 of bronchitis. She was cremated on 20 January and her ashes were buried in the Actors' Acre in Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Sedgwick
Amy Sedgwick or Sarah Gardiner (27 October 1835 – 7 November 1897) was a British actress. Life Sedgwick's name at birth was Sarah Gardiner. She was born in Bristol on 27 October 1835.Joseph Knight, ‘Sedgwick, Amy (1835–1897)’, rev. J. Gilliland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200accessed 13 May 2015/ref> Her early appearances were in Bristol and the provinces before she was booked for three years in Manchester. On 5 October 1857 she took the part of Pauline in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's ''Lady of Lyons'' at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Sedgwick's further roles at the Haymarket included Constance in ''The Love Chase'' by Sheridan Knowles, Hester Grazebrook in ''The Unequal Match'' by Tom Taylor, Beatrice in Shakespeare's ''Much Ado About Nothing'', Julia in ''The Hunchback (play), The Hunchback'', Lady Teazle in ''The School for Scandal'', and Juliana in ''The Honeymoon''. At the Olympic Theatre, beginning in 1861, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
