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Katherine Compton
Katherine Julia Mackenzie (10 November 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English actress, professionally known as Katherine Compton, or, more usually, Miss Compton. She was best known for her appearances in the comedies written by her husband R. C. Carton, between 1885 and 1922. Life and career Early years Compton was born on 10 November 1849 in London, the youngest of the seven children of the actor Henry Compton (actor), Henry Compton – whose real name was Charles Mackenzie – and his wife Emmeline Catherine, ''née'' Montague (1823–1911). ''The Times'' said of her theatrical family: Compton was originally destined for a musical career, but abandoned it and made her first appearance on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Bristol in October 1874 in Mary Frances Scott-Siddons, Mary Scott-Siddons's company, playing Maria in ''The School for Scandal''. ''The Bristol Times'' thought she played the part "very naturally". She remained with the Bristol and other provincial companies for th ...
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Katherine Compton Actress 1890s
Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning 'pure'. This influenced the name's English spelling, giving rise to variants ''Katharine'' and ''Catharine''. The spelling with a middle 'a' was more common in the past. ''Katherine'', with a middle 'e', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations Anglophone use In Britain and America, ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. Amongst the most common variants are ''Katherine'' and ''Kathryn''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French language, French. Less-common variants in E ...
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Gielgud Theatre
The Gielgud Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, at the corner of Rupert Street, in the City of Westminster, London. The house currently has 994 seats on three levels. The theatre was designed by W. G. R. Sprague and opened on 27 December 1906 as the Hicks Theatre, named after Seymour Hicks, for whom it was built. The first play at the theatre was a hit musical called '' The Beauty of Bath'' co-written by Hicks. Another big success was '' A Waltz Dream'' in 1908. In 1909, the American impresario Charles Frohman became manager of the theatre and renamed the house the Globe Theatre, a name that it retained for 85 years. '' Call It a Day'' opened in 1935 and ran for 509 performances, a long run for the slow inter-war years. '' There's a Girl in My Soup'', opening in 1966, ran for almost three years, a record for the theatre that was not surpassed until '' Daisy Pulls It Off'' opened in April 1983 to run for 1,180 performances. Refurbished in 1987, ...
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Eric Lewis (actor)
Frederic Lewis Tuffley (23 October 1855 – 1 April 1935), better known by his stage name, Eric Lewis, was an English comedian, actor and singer. In a career spanning five decades, he starred in numerous comedies and in a few Edwardian musical comedy, musical comedy hits, but he is probably best remembered today as the understudy to George Grossmith in the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas of the 1880s who left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company just in time to give Henry Lytton his big break. Lewis began performing in comic musical sketches in Brighton in the 1870s. He made his London performing debut in 1880 and joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1882, where he understudied Grossmith until 1887. Lewis then performed in a number of very successful Edwardian musical comedy, musical comedies and other comedies for the next decade but devoted himself to the non-musical comedy stage, performing mostly in contemporary comedies by Arthur Wing Pinero, George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barri ...
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