Records of Scottish National Players, theatre company, Glasgow, Scotland 1899 -1983

Scottish National Theatre Society Ltd 1928-1939

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Scottish National Players (theatre company: 1921-1950: Glasgow, Scotland)

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Also known as the Scottish National Theatre Venture, the Scottish National Players was founded in 1921 . It grew out of the St Andrew Society (Glasgow), Scotland, which had a Scottish Arts Committee with a plays sub-committee. Proposals had been put to the Society in 1913 to found a school of national drama but floundered because of the First World War. After the War in 1920 the St Andrew Society revived the project and a Scottish National Players' Committee of the Council of the So...

Bain Robert b 1865

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Scottish National Players

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Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948

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Gordon Bottomley was an English author, known primarily for his verse plays. Born in Yorkshire, he took a job as a bank clerk, but had to give it up due to a tubercular condition, which contributed to his comparatively quiet life. He was an accomplished poet, and devoted himself to reviving the art of verse drama, writing some thirty plays, almost all of them in verse. He remains a gifted and visionary Georgian author. Bottomley married painter Emily Burton, and their home, The Sheiling, was a p...

Scottish National Theatre Society 1921-1928

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St Andrew Society (Glasgow)

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