Search Results: Stage & Screen from Sophie Dupre

the comedy actor, manager and dramatist, asking him "to excuse the theatrical medium of my address but... I cannot forbear writing to you. I hear you play 'One Touch of Nature' on Saturday and I have just a desire that you do it with your own exquisite skill... and another reason for writing to you... I am in a desperately unhappy frame of mind and were you here I should rush up to you only for a kind pressure of the hand now your Scarbro trip prevents that - Do you intend making a longer stay than your previous resolve - I shall wander up to your Castle here and... be reminded you have exchanged your 'Constance' alias Henrietta Simms", 4 sides 8vo., T[heatre] R[oyal] H[aymarket], 'Rehearsal Time Friday' no date, c.

broadcasters Edith Day, (1896-1971, American actress and singer), Dale Smith, Dudley Rolph, George Baker, (b. 1885, music director), Stanford Robinson, (1904-1984, chief conductor, was at the BBC 1924-1966), Olive Groves (d. 1974), and Anona Winn, (1907-1994), 1 side large 8vo., no date, c.

signed by producer John Watt, (1901-1960), with an AMQ by him 'The Stage Revolves', signed also by Harry S. Pepper, (1891-1970), with an AMQ by him 'Let Life Love and laughter go by', and by his wife Doris Arnold, (1904-1969), attractive red B.B.C. compliments slip 'With Mr Watt's Compliments', 1 side large 8vo., no date, c. 'It is said that there are only six jokes in the world, and I assure you that we can only broadcast three of them' (John Watt as Head of Variety, 1939).

(near Hawkhurst, Kent), including signed postcard photos of Arthur Askey, Bobby Howes, Jack Hulbert & Cicely Courtneidge, Richard Hearne and Pat Underwood, signatures of the staff and pupils arranged by houses, of actors such as Leslie Henson, pleasant drawings by her friends of horses and other animals and scenes from Winnie-the Pooh, and contributions in verse, green leatherette, 5½" x 7½", no place, 1941 -

consisting of 16 long chatty autograph letters from various places, not all are dated, the tone is very friendly and almost intimate "I was so sorry that the evening whey you came round there were so many people in my room... did I dream it or did you say you had been in Russia and if so I wonder whether you've been to the Moscow Art Theatre. I've just had a fascinating book on the Russian theatre movement given me which is absolutely thrilling in its vitality... at present I am playing the unhappy Queen of Scots in Drinkwater's Mary Stuart - a great change...", 3 sides 4to., Birmingham Rep, 20th May, in another she says she feels guilty that she hasn't "written before - was it really in August that your long letter came... I did mean... to tell you about Methuselah but as you can guess I have been fearfully busy... I too did not want to be a 'burdensome obligation'! However as I enjoy getting a letter from you I shall assume from now on that you will only… Read More

thanking him "for your kind thought at Christmas time. The ever welcome home-made jam looked delightful in its 'bon-bon' wrapping and reminded... of happier times. I did appreciate your gesture. Do hope you have a most peaceful and pleasant holiday, and may 1980 hold many good things in store...", 2 sides headed card, no place, 20th December

showing him head and shoulders, 4½" x 2", no place, attached to covering letter,

showing him head and shoulders in his bowler hat, next to signed photo, showing him head and shoulders wearing a dear stalker, 3½" x 2½", no place, no date

while filming "Mind my bike",

saying that "Mr Paxton tells me you are in town again and need I say how much i should like to see you? Please tell me where I may come... I have matinee's every Wednesday and Saturday but would keep any other afternoon free. I am sorry to hear poor Sarah is ill. I know how very invaluable she is to you. With all my love and trusting to meet you before long...", 4 sides 8vo., 173 Finborough Road, Earls Court, no date She came from a family of actors and had a long career in the United Kingdom and the United States with much Broadway work with occasional parts in films. Her parents and many siblings were actors. One of her brothers was Huntley Wright.

rather hysterically asking for forgiveness presumably for having mistaken an appointment "I thought it was Tuesday. So ! So ! So ; I do not know what to say to you to be forgiven. You have to comfort me because I have a real sorrow. Master, master, when do you want me. Tell me a very very kind word...", 2 sides 8vo., on monogrammed mourning paper, no place, no date, circa In 1882, in Paris, Bernhardt met a Greek diplomat, Aristide Damala (known in France by his stage name Jacques Damala), (1855-1889) who was 11 years her junior, and notorious for his romantic affairs. She fell in love with him, and insisted that her tour be modified to include a stop in St. Petersburg. Bernhardt invited Damala to give up his diplomatic post to become an actor in her company, as well as her lover, and before long, they decided to marry. Without noticeable talent. Damala began taking large quantities of morphine, and following Bernhardt's great success in Fedora, Damala took every opportunity to… Read More

thanking him for his letter, but, "Celebrity auction requests come at about the rate of twenty five a week, so i'm afraid that all i can send is photographes. So Sorry", 8vo., ICM Oxford House, 76 Oxford street, 11th October

residing in or near London and entitled to vote at the Stafford Election. Gentlemen, A Report was most insidiously and falsely circulated at Stafford that my son did not mean to propose himself to succeed me as the Representative of your ancient Borough, which I have had the honor to represent for twenty six years and that I wish'd to support a gentlemen of the name of Mansel Philllip. in consequence of this fraud I understand that a great advantage has been taken... I assure you that my son is in Stafford, and canvassing against Mr Mansel Phillip with whom we have no connexion...", 1 side 4to., no place, no date but Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to… Read More

sending his autograph "with the best of wishes from", on his compliments slip, 8" x 3½", no place, no date

(1860-1930, Actor, son of the Revd. E. Paxton Hood, 1830-1908), saying he is "not sure whether I answered your kind letter wishing me success etc. If I did not, then allow me now... to do so, & wishing you every success", 1 side 8vo., The Old House, Canonbury Place, N., 24th September no year, circa remains of laying down by blank edge of 4th side Paxton was with the Compton Comedy Company, 1885-1892, and played Spettigue in Charley's Aunt 1026 times, 1894-1897. He was resident manager at Southampton, 1903-1906, where he also enjoyed the yachting.

saying that " the Jones... in the Elder Miss Blossom are so extremely simple that your spending any of your valuable time in describing them would annoy you. There are no sketches of him - as I dress the plays myself - allowing my ideas of character & place - to be my guide...", 3 sides 8vo., 12 Portland Place headed paper, 9th September no year but circa The Elder Miss Blossom was a play by Ernest Hendrie and Metcalfe Wood produced from 1897 to 1904 by William Hunter Kendal and his wife Madge.

thanking her for her "kind letter & congratulations - I am indeed much stronger than a man", 1 side 8vo., Lyceum Theatre, 27th September She became successful after starring in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, in 1893, at St. James's Theatre where she also appeared in 1894 in The Masqueraders. As Kate Cloud in John-a-Dreams, produced by Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket in 1894, she had another success, and again as Agnes in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith at the Garrick (1895). Among her other performances were those in Fédora (1895), Little Eyolf (1896), and her notable performances with Forbes-Robertson at the Lyceum in London's West End in the rôles of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Lady Macbeth (1895–98) in Macbeth. Once established as a major star, Campbell assisted in the early careers of some noted actors, such as Gerald Du Maurier and George Arliss.

on an Air Letter form, saying that she hasn't "written to say how touched & pleased I was by that lovely first night cable. I loved getting it... It was a wonderful 8 weeks. Smashing notices, audience's warmth & kindness. Now for some TV and then home in the New Year. I don't quite know when. It's been a lovely experience & has made me understand & love America far more. I used to be faintly resentful in some ways even though I am ½v½. But there is such a sense of loving kindness & real neighbourliness & love here that I'm won over. We only see the tough materialistic touristy side - that exists too,, so does Smash Broadway, cigars, guns & toughness. But these are surface stuff like Edgware Road. The core is good...", 1 side folio, with autograph address on the verso, Lamelton Hotel, West 55 St, New York City, postmarked 3rd December Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (1954) was her first more or less solo West End… Read More

(Leo, d.1924, well-known musical society host, friend of Elgar) saying that she "would be delighted to come to you the following Sunday but it would be impossible to come on the 5th as that is the day we leave Liverpool to return to town & by the next Sunday we would have got into some shape with the play & would have heaps to discuss. I am so excited about it & I do hope your lovers of the beautiful will be pleased... we have done a wonderful week in Edinburgh & there have been so good about my Lady Macbeth...", 3 sides 8vo., The Plough & Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston, 15th July She became successful after starring in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, in 1893, at St. James's Theatre where she also appeared in 1894 in The Masqueraders. As Kate Cloud in John-a-Dreams, produced by Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket in 1894, she had another success, and again as Agnes in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith at the Garrick (1895). Among her other performances… Read More

(1854-1943, Irish Feminist Writer) asking "When may we meet? I had hoped for that pleasure on Monday night. I have but just found Heavenly Twins - & must thank you for all your sweet wishes which I return will all my heart. I shall keep your enclosure till I see you & if you are still determined on your gracious act of beneficience we will decide on the best way of carrying it out...", 2 sides 8vo., 17 Stratton Street, 30th April Sarah Grand was born Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke. Clarke renamed herself Sarah Grand in 1893 with the publication by Heinemann of her novel The Heavenly Twins. This feminine pen name represented the archetype of the "New Woman" developed by her and her female colleagues. Grand established the phrase "New Woman" in a debate with Ouida in 1894.