Its membership included a number of prominent members of society and theatre people, among them Ellen Terry
, Lena Ashwell
, and Beerbohm Tree
. Princess Marie Louise
served as president.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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Occupation
Constance Smedley
CS
began early to see herself as a professional. She placed her first full-page illustration in the Pall Mall Magazine at the age of sixteen, and was so delighted at its acceptance that she took...
Performance of text
George Bernard Shaw
GBS
's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre
, Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree
's Henry Higgins.
This...
Residence
Viola Tree
From the panelled slum where she and Alan Parsons began married life in Great Queen Street, they moved at the insistence of Herbert Beerbohm Tree
to live in beautiful and happy chaos in Welbeck...
Textual Features
T. S. Eliot
Most of the poems, except the first and last, draw the portrait of an individual cat, often humanised yet still feline, many of them ingeniously adapted to some specialised way of life. Gus the theatre...
Textual Production
Iris Tree
Iris had accompanied her parents to the USA, where her father
was producing and acting in films and touring with various theatre groups. After Solano interviewed Herbert Beerbohm Tree, he introduced her to his daughter...
Textual Production
Iris Tree
IT
began a novel in the 1950s, but she abandoned it after writing 230 pages. In the early 1960s she worked on an autobiography, but this too she left unfinished, partly because she had lost...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Robins
Both Sides of the Curtain covers ER
's relations with the theatre knights Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
and Sir Henry Irving
. According to Woolf (who found it a fascinating book, despite its portraits of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Viola Tree
VT
's autobiography incorporates diary entries, letters written and received while she studied singing in Milan, and personal memories. I print these letters now, she wrote, partly for my own edification, and partly, I...