Records, 1940-1946.

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Records, 1940-1946.

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Charter and bylaws, minutes, journals and ledgers, children's travel arrangements, working files, and preliminary and general correspondence of the British Actors Orphanage Fund. Correspondents include Noel Coward, Dame May Whitty, Boris Karloff, Maurice Evans, Cole Porter, Peggy Wood, Margaret Webster, and the Fund's attorney Lloyd V. Almirall.

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Porter, Cole, 1891-1964

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Cole Porter was born in Peru, Indiana on June 9, 1891. As a boy he took lessons in piano and violin, and began writing songs while in prep school. He attended Yale College (Class of 1913), where he composed fight songs that are still used today. After graduating, he went on to Harvard Law School, but he had little interest in law and soon began studying music instead. Porter would later complete his musical education at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Porter's first Broadway show, See America F...

Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972

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Margaret Webster was born in New York City, the daughter of two famous actors, Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty. She was their second child, her older brother died in infancy. Her birth was announced on stage at the theatre her father was performing in during a Shakespeare play. The family travelled extensively during her formative years as her parents moved between the USA and UK with various touring theatre companies. At 13 she became a boarder at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, an independent ...

British Actors Orphanage Fund.

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The British Actors Orphanage Fund was incorporated in Los Angeles, Calif. in 1940 to promote and effect the transfer of orphaned children of deceased British actors and actresses from their homes in Great Britain to America. From the description of Records, 1940-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507913 ...

Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978

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American actress and singer. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1956 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868285 ...

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973

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English composer, writer, actor, and producer. From the description of Signature on his visiting card, dated : [n.p., n.d.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899310 Badger's Green opened Jun. 12, 1930. From the description of Letter [1930] Jun. 20 [London] to Maurice Browne [London] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365183 English actor and author. From the description of The Birth of Hope : autograph manuscript signed ...

Almirall, Lloyd V.

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Evans, Maurice, 1901-1989

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British actor. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1935-1965]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155508027 Maurice Evans, a Shakespearean actor and producer with a prominent Broadway career, was born in Dorchester, England on June 3, 1901. After making his American debut opposite Katharine Cornell in ROMEO AND JULIET (1935), he went on to found his own repertory company, which primarily distinguished itself in the 1940's and 1950's for its Shakespeare ...

Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969

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Whitty, May, Dame, 1865-1948

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