Peter Noble Collection 1943-1951

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912

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Strindberg was a Swedish dramatist and novelist. From the description of Lycko Pers resa, ca. 1882. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612373374 Swedish dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dornach, to a French literary colleague, 1894 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872330 August Strindberg, playwright. Richard Greenberg, adapter. From the description of The dance of death: typescript, 200...

Koper, Tadaeus

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Redgrave, Michael

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Michael Redgrave was born on 20 March 1908, the child of actors Margaret (Daisy) Scudamore and Roy Redgrave. He studied at Cambridge University before becoming a teacher of modern languages at Cranleigh School, Surrey, where he spent much of his time directing and acting in amateur dramatic productions. His professional acting career began at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1934, where he met and married actress Rachel Kempson. They had three children, Vanessa, Corin, and Lynn, who later...

Kent, Jean, 1921-2013

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Novello, Ivor

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Epithet: alias David Ivor Davies, composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x00003a ...

Gray, Sally

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Claes, Johnnie

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Portman, Eric

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Epithet: actor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000165 ...

Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990

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Noble, Peter

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Born in 1917 in Clerkenwell, Peter Noble grew up at the Farningham Home for Boys after the death of his father during WWI. As a young man he joined the Unity Theatre Company, and his first theatrical roles were in Babes in the Wood and Waiting for Lefty . On the outbreak of WW2, Noble volunteered as a stretcher bearer, but was invalided out and returned to the stage appearing in Lady Julie . A number of minor film roles followed, including Escape Dangerous, where he met the actress ...

Huth, Harold, 1892-1967

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Parry, Harry

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Harry Parry (1912-1956), jazz musician and bandleader, was born and educated at Bangor in north Wales. Between 1926 and 1934 he was employed as an instrument maker at the physics and chemistry departments of the University College of North Wales. A gifted musician, whose professional career began in Llandudno and later moved to the London club scene, he was an exponent of pure jazz and could play a variety of instruments. In 1941 he became leader of the Radio Rhythm Sextet and producer of the BB...

Agate, James

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Epithet: drama critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000356 ...

Laing, David

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David Laing (1793-1878), antiquary, was born in Edinburgh on 20 April 1793, son of William Laing, an Edinburgh bookseller. He attended Canongate Grammar School and Edinburgh University, before becoming a partner in his father's business in 1821. He was secretary of the Bannatyne Club, 1823-1861, and was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1826. He was made librarian of the Signet Library in 1837. Laing edited old Scottish ballads, metrical romances and many antiquarian wo...