The Duchess Theatre began a distinguished career as a home for both drama and comedy when it opened with the war play "Tunnel Trench" in 1929. Prominent productions have included the 1936 London debut of T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" and Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" in 1942.
Architect: Ewen Barr, opened 1929. One of the smallest proscenium arch theatres in the West End.
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Duchess Theatre
Duchess Theatre The Duchess Theatre began a distinguished career as a home f...
A theatre with this name has been in the locality since 1765. The present site opened on 14th July 1834 to a design by Samuel Beazley. In 1904 the facade and portico were retained but the main buil...
Founded as the Sans Parail by John Scott, and his daughter Jane, who was an early playwright-actor-manager. 1819 it re-opened as the Adelphi Theatre, named for the Adelphi development opposite. 1...
Music-hall singer. Born Ernest Augustine Elen at 103 Pulford Street, Pimlico. He started performing in public houses in 1891, singing songs about working-class life. Moving on to the stage, he beca...
Novelist, playwright and essayist. Wrote "When we are married" and "An Inspector Calls".
From British History Online: "James Mountague (c1776–1853) was the younger son of William Mountague (d.1791), and, like his father, worked in the office of George Dance, the Surveyor to the City of...
Conservative politician. Longest serving Leader of the Greater London Council, 1967 - 73. In 1981 became Baron Plummer of St Marylebone.
John Corbin was born on 25 May 1811 in Ringwood, Hampshire, the son of William Corbin (1781-1854) and Mary Corbin née Bentley (1783-1853). He was baptised on 23 June 1811 in Ringwood. From 1835 to ...
Born Moscow into an ancient aristocratic Russian family and highly educated but his sympathies were with the peasants who had looked after him as a child. His revolutionary activities brought exile...
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