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Muriel Martin-Harvey
Margaret Muriel de Melfort Martin-Harvey (4 October 1891 – 15 December 1988) was an English stage actress. Martin-Harvey was born in London to actors, London-born Angelita Helena Margarita (née de Silva) and Essex-born Sir John Martin-Harvey. She made her debut in 1921 in ''The Bear Leadera'', and later toured the United States and Australia. She also played the leading role in two silent films. Her brother was the actor Michael Martin-Harvey. Martin-Harvey married three times. She first married Ronald Squire in August 1924; they divorced the same year. On 15 July 1926, she married actor Garry Marsh, an actor 11 years her junior. She later married Anthony Huntly-Gordon, who was the company and stage manager to the Agatha Christie thriller ''The Mousetrap ''The Mousetrap'' is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The play opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Martin-Harvey 1913c
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The Hard Way (1916 Film)
''The Hard Way'' is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Walter West and starring Muriel Martin-Harvey, Joseph Tozer and Thomas H. MacDonald. It was the first film to be shot at Broadwest's newly acquired Walthamstow studios. Its plot concerns an English artist's wife who commits bigamy in Paris. Plot summary Cast * Muriel MartinasHarvey as Lilah Chertsey * Joseph Tozer Joseph Rose Tozer (1881 in Birmingham, Warwickshire – 1955) was a UK, British actor. Musical theatre *''Houp La!'' (1916) Partial filmography * ''The Brass Bottle (1914 film), The Brass Bottle'' (1914) * ''A Park Lane Scandal'' (1915) * ' ... as Noel Creighton * Thomas H. MacDonald as Arnold Graves * Lily Saxby as Clarice Creighton * George Bellamy as Lepine * Owen Francis as Martin Graves References External links * 1916 films 1916 crime films British crime films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Walter West British silent feature films British black-and- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People Of Chilean Descent
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Actresses From London
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Deaths
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States (National Science Foundation Network) and Europe (Nordunet) as well as the first Internet-based chat protocol, Internet Relay Chat. The concept of the World Wide Web was first discussed at CERN in 1988. The Soviet Union began its major deconstructing towards a mixed economy at the beginning of 1988 and began its Dissolution of the Soviet Union, gradual dissolution. The Iron Curtain began to disintegrate in 1988 as People's Republic of Hungary, Hungary began allowing freer travel to the Western world. The first extrasolar planet, Gamma Cephei Ab (confirmed in 2003), was detected this year and the World Health Organization began its mission to Eradication of polio, eradicate polio. Global warming also began to emerge as a more significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 Births
Events January * January 1 ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Lakotas breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 7 ** General Miles' forces surround the Lakota in the Pine Ridge Reservation. ** The Inter-American Monetary Commission meets in Washington DC. * January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off. * January 10 – in France, the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne. The French government promptly takes loan. * Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Answer (film)
''The Answer'' is a 1916 British silent drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ... directed by Walter West and starring Muriel Martin-Harvey, George Foley and Dora Barton. It was based on a novel by Newman Flower. Cast * Muriel Martin-Harvey - The Lonely Woman * George Foley - Justin Siddeley * Dora Barton - The Lost Magdalene * George Bellamy - The Clerk * Joseph Tozer * Gregory Scott * Arthur M. Cullin References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''The History of British Film, Volume III: 1914-1918''. Routledge, 1997. External links * 1916 films 1916 drama films Silent British drama films Films directed by Walter West Films based on British novels British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1910s English-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nell De Silva
Angelita Helena Margarita, Lady Martin-Harvey ( Ferro; 28 August 1865/1867 – 29 March 1949) was an English actress, known by such stage names as Miss N. de Silva or Nell de Silva. Although her parents, Don Ramon de Silva Ferro, a Chilean consul, and his wife, Caroline Milliken, had married in England in 1883, she was born, most likely in Chile, sometime during the 1860s. She was reluctant to reveal her true age. At her marriage at the beginning of 1889 to actor John Martin-Harvey, she claimed to be 21. She become a leading lady of her husband's theater troupe. They met at a performance of Goethe's Faust at Cambridge. Thomas Power O'Connor (1901) ''In the days of my youth''. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited. The couple had two children: Muriel and Michael, both actors, like their parents. During World War I, she and her husband toured the UK, giving military recruitment lectures and raising money for the Red Cross and other charities, most notably the Nation's Fund for Nur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Theatre (London)
The Ambassadors Theatre (known as the New Ambassadors Theatre from 1999 to 2007) is a West End theatre located on West Street, London, West Street, next to St Martin's Theatre and opposite The Ivy (United Kingdom), The Ivy, in the City of Westminster. Opened in 1913, it is one of the smallest of West End theatres, seating just over four hundred people. Building Previous applications to build a new theatre on the site of the Ambassadors had been rejected due to the narrowness of the surrounding streets. In 1912 architect W G R Sprague was granted permission for his "comparatively small theatre" (506 seated, 40 standing) on the condition that the adjacent Tower Court was widened to twenty feet. The theatre was designed by Sprague with a Classical style exterior and Louis XVI style interiors, and built by Kingerlee and Sons of Oxford; its intended height had to be lowered due to a neighbouring building's "right to light, ancient lights," resulting in the stalls being situated below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mousetrap
''The Mousetrap'' is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The play opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. It then re-opened on 17 May 2021. The longest-running West End show, it also has by far the longest run of any play in the world, reaching its 30,000th performance on 19 March 2025. Attendees at St Martin's Theatre often get their photo taken beside the wooden counter (showing a count of the number of performances) in the theatre foyer. As of 2022 the play had been seen by 10 million people in London. A whodunit, the play has a twist ending which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre. There are eight members of the cast, and by 2012 more than 400 actors had played the roles. Richard Attenborough was the original Detective Sergeant Trotter, and his wife, Sheila Sim, the first Mollie Ralston – o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
