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Gate Theatre Studio
Gate Theatre Studio, often referred to as simply the Gate Theatre, is a former independent theatre on Villiers Street in London. History Founded in October 1925 by Peter Godfrey (director), Peter Godfrey and his wife Molly Veness, the theatre was originally on the top floor of a ramshackle warehouse at 38 Floral Street, Covent Garden and could hold an audience of 96. Then known as "the Gate Theatre Salon" (The Gate to Better Things), it opened that year on 30 October with Godfrey's production of Susan Glaspell's ''Berenice'', starring Veness as Margaret, 'the searcher for truth', and ran for a fortnight. With a series of challenging productions, including August Strindberg's ''The Dance of Death'', the Gate struggled to survive without attracting any particular attention. The history of the studio was typical of many small independent theatres of the period, until the Sunday Times critic James Agate, enthusiastically reviewed Georg Kaiser's ''From Morn to Midnight'' and urged re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villiers Street
Villiers Street is a street in London connecting Strand, London, the Strand with Thames Embankment, the Embankment. It is partly pedestrianised; traffic runs northbound only up to John Adam Street, where vehicles must turn right. It was built by Nicholas Barbon in the 1670s on the site of York House, Strand, York House, the property of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, whom the street commemorates. A Watergate (architecture), watergate in nearby Embankment Gardens is the only remnant of the mansion and shows the original position of the north bank of the River Thames. John Evelyn lived here in the 17th century and the Irish writer Richard Steele, who founded ''The Spectator'' and ''Tatler (1709), The Tatler'' magazines, lodged here from 1712. The Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, now a part of the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, was founded here in 1834. Prior to 1865, Villiers Street ran down the hill directly to a wharf by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Gatti
Carlo Gatti (1817–1878) was a Swiss-born British restaurateur in the Victorian era. He came to England in 1847, where he established restaurants and an ice importing business. He is credited with first making ice cream available to the general public and he then moved into the music hall business. He returned to Switzerland in 1871, leaving his businesses in the hands of members of his family and he died a millionaire. Gatti originated in Canton Ticino, the main Italian-speaking area of Switzerland. He was probably born in Marogno, a village within the comune of Dongio in the impoverished and sparsely populated Blenio District , where he also ended his days. He was the youngest of a family of six, and his parents were Stefano and Apollonia. Success in London Carlo had moved to London from Paris by 1847 at the latest, and initially lived in the Italian community in Clerkenwell. At first, he ran a stall selling waffles and chestnuts. In 1849, he began to run a café an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parnell (play)
Parnell or Parnells may refer to: People and fictional characters * Parnell (surname), a list of people * Parnell (given name), a list of people and a fictional character Places New Zealand *Parnell, New Zealand, a suburb of Aukland ** Parnell (New Zealand electorate) United States * Parnell, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Parnell, Iowa, a city * Parnell, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Parnell, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Parnell Township, Polk County, Minnesota * Parnell Township, Traverse County, Minnesota * Parnell, Missouri, a city * Parnell, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Parnell Knob, a mountain in Pennsylvania Sports clubs * Parnell Rugby League Football Club, based in Aukland, New Zealand * Cambridge Parnells GAA, a Gaelic football club in Cambridge, England * Parnells GAA, a former Gaelic football club based in Coolock, Dublin, Ireland * Stabannon Parnells GFC, a Gaelic football club based in Stabannon, County Louth, Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Schauffler
Elsie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Elsie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lily Elsie (1886–1952), English actress and singer born Elsie Hodder * Robert Elsie (1950–2017), Canadian expert in Albanian culture and affairs * Hahm Eun-jung (born 1988), South Korean singer and actress known professional as Elsie, a member of T-ara Places United States * Elsie, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Elsie, Michigan, a village * Elsie, Nebraska, village * Lake Elsie, in North Dakota Canada * Elsie Island, Nunavut * Elsie Lake, in British Columbia Music * ''Elsie'' (album), the 2011 début album by The Horrible Crowes * ''Elsie'' (musical) ** "Elsie", a song from ''Elsie'' (musical) Other uses * USS ''Elsie III'' (SP-708), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919, later USC&G ''Elsie III'', a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship from 1919 to 1944 * Elsie (robot), an autonomous robot built by Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Regina (play)
''Victoria Regina'' is a 1934 play by Laurence Housman about Queen Victoria, staged privately in London in 1935, produced on Broadway in 1935, and given its British public premiere in 1937. Plot Background There was a ban on personations of Victoria in public theatres in Britain, and the play was first given at the Gate Theatre, London in May 1935. The Gate, being a theatre club, was technically private and therefore exempt from the prohibition. In 1936 Edward VIII had the ban revoked, and public performances of the play were possible. The first was in 1937 at the Lyric Theatre, London, where Pamela Stanley repeated her performance in the title role seen at the Gate two years earlier. The play ran at the Lyric for 337 performances. 1937 cast * Lord Conyngham – Allan Aynesworth *Archbishop of Canterbury – Douglas Jefferies *Duchess of Kent – Irma Cioba * Victoria – Pamela Stanley *Prince Albert – Carl Esmond * Prince Ernest – Albert Lieven *Mr Anson – John Garsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman (; 18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister and fellow activist in the women's suffrage movement was writer/illustrator Clemence Housman. Early life Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire to Edward Housman, a solicitor and tax accountant, and Sarah Jane Housman (née Williams). He was one of seven children including an older brother and sister, the classical scholar and poet Alfred E. Housman and the writer and engraver Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried to a cousin, Lucy Housman. Under the influence of their eldest brother, Alfred, Housman and his siblings enjoyed many creative pastimes amongst themselves, including poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome (play)
''Salome'' (French: ''Salomé'', ) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893; an English translation was published a year later. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) by Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven veils; the execution of Jokanaan at Salome's instigation; and her death on Herod's orders. The first production was in Paris in 1896. Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until 1931. The play became popular in Germany, and Wilde's text was taken by the composer Richard Strauss as the basis of his 1905 opera ''Salome (opera), Salome'', the international success of which has overshadowed Wilde's original play. Film and other adaptations have been made of the play. Background and first production When Wilde began writing ''Salome'' in late 1891 he was known as an author and critic, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Regarded by most commentators as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era, Wilde is best known for his 1890 Gothic fiction, Gothic philosophical fiction ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', as well as his numerous epigrams and plays, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Literae Humaniores#Greats, Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Chamberlain
The Lord Chamberlain of the Household is the most senior officer of the Royal Households of the United Kingdom, Royal Household of the United Kingdom, supervising the departments which support and provide advice to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Sovereign of the United Kingdom while also acting as the main channel of communication between the Sovereign and the House of Lords. The office organises all ceremonial activity such as garden parties, state visits, royal weddings, and the State Opening of Parliament. They also oversee the Royal Mews and royal travel, as well as the ceremony around the awarding of honours. From 1737 to 1968, the Lord Chamberlain had the power to decide which Play (theatre), plays would be granted a licence for performance; this meant that he had the capacity to censor theatre at his pleasure. The Lord Chamberlain is always sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Privy Council, is usually a peerage, peer and before 1782 the post was of Cab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Marshall, Theatrical Director
Norman Marshall (16 November 1901 – 7 November 1980) was an English theatrical director, producer and manager who began his theatrical career while still an undergraduate student at Oxford. After leaving university he worked with various small touring companies and in 1926 he joined the Cambridge Festival Theatre, first as a press agent, then as a stage manager, and in 1932 he became their resident director. In 1934, he bought the lease on the small London club theatre, the Gate Theatre Studio, where in the next six years he produced popular intimate revues and many successful plays, some of which later transferred to the West-end stage. In his 1947 book ''The Other Theatre'' he documented the histories of a number of small, committed, independent theatre companies including his own, the Oxford Playhouse, the Arts Theatre Club and the Cambridge Festival Theatre. These theatres were able to avoid the Lord Chamberlain’s censorship by operating as theatre clubs, where members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Dame Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-Davies (25 January 1891 – 27 January 1992) was a British actress who worked mainly in theatre and television, as well as radio and film. She made her last acting appearance as a centenarian in 1991. Early life She was born in London of a Welsh family; the name "Ffrangcon" is said to originate from a valley in Snowdonia. Her parents were opera baritone David Ffrangcon-Davies (né David Thomas Davies) and Annie Francis Rayner. Career Ffrangcon-Davies made her stage debut in 1911, as a singer as well as an actress, and received encouragement in her career from Ellen Terry. In 1924, she played Juliet opposite John Gielgud as Romeo, and Gielgud was grateful to her for the rest of his life for the kindness she showed him, casting her as Queen Anne in '' Richard of Bordeaux'' in 1934. In 1925, Ffrangcon-Davies played Tess in a stage version of ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'', including a special presentation for its author, Thomas Hardy. In 1938, Ffrangc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Gantillon
Simon Gantillon (7 January 1887 in Lyon – 9 September 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a 20th-century French screenwriter and playwright. Filmography ; Screenwriter * 1932: '' Sergeant X'' by Vladimir Strizhevsky * 1938: ''Gibraltar'' by Fedor Ozep * 1939: '' Personal Column'' by Robert Siodmak * 1945: '' Mission spéciale'' by Maurice de Canonge * 1947: '' La Figure de proue'' by Christian Stengel * 1947: '' Rumours'' by Jacques Daroy * 1947: ''Love Around the House'' by Pierre de Hérain (dialoguist only) * 1947: ''Lured'' by Douglas Sirk * 1949: ''Maya Maya may refer to: Ethnic groups * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Mayan languages, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (East Africa), a p ...'' by Raymond BernardAdaptation of the Simon Gantillon's play created in 1924, mise en scène by Gaston Baty and performed more than one thousand times: "It is the biggest suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
