You Never Can Tell / by George Bernard Shaw ; directed by Dora Mavor Moore, 1948 - production photos. 1948.

Royal Ontario Museum Theatre.

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Josephine Barrington Collection.

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Melody Fair was a musical series that ran for several summers between c.1951-56. The first location was a tent at the Dufferin Race Track on the west side of Dufferin just below Bloor Street, now a shopping mall. Another location, perhaps the second, was the Mutual Street Arena, just off Jarvis Street, home of roller skating. The final location was a tent on the Dixie Plaza. There was a different show each week after it had run for a week in Buffalo. The tent featured theatre in the round, with ...

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

New Play Society

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The New Play Society was founded by Dora Mavor Moore in Toronto in 1946. The company's first season was staged at the Royal Ontario Museum and included Synge's Playboy of the Western World, Strindberg's The Father, Maugham's The Circle and O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness. By the 1949-50 season, however, five of the company's nine productions were Canadian. In 1956, the company extended to include a school. But by 1960, the company was relying on virtually one production to assure its survival: Spring T...

Moore, Dora Mavor, 1888-1979

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Dora Mavor Moore was a Canadian actress, drama teacher and director. Known as the grande dame of Canadian theatre, she almost solely created Canada's professional theatrical scene. While she is perhaps best remembered for her work with the New Play Society, she had founded the NPS in 1946 when she was already close to 60 years old and after a distinguished career as an actress and director. She died in 1979. From the description of Dora Mavor Moore Papers [manuscript]. 1888-1979. (Un...