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    Joseph William Comyns Carr (1 March 1849 – 12 December 1916), often referred to as J. Comyns Carr, was an English drama and art critic, gallery director...
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    London Review of Books 39:13 (29 June 2017). Comyns Carr, Mrs. J. (Alice Comyns Carr). Mrs. J. Comyns Carr's 'Reminiscences' . London: Hutchinson, 1926...
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  • Barbara Irene Veronica Comyns Carr (born Barbara Irene Veronica Bayley; 27 December 1907 – 14 July 1992), known as Barbara Comyns, was an English writer...
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    Farm: A Pastoral Drama". When J. Comyns Carr suggested something similar, Hardy gave him his version, which he said Carr "modified… in places, to suit...
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    Margaret at the Lyceum Theatre, London. In 1908, Stephen Phillips and J. Comyns Carr freely adapted the first part of Faust for a production at Her Majesty's...
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    Strettell Comyns Carr (19 September 1882 – 20 April 1965) was a British Liberal politician and lawyer. Comyns Carr was the son of J. Comyns Carr, a dramatist...
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    played by Ellen Terry in the 1895 West End production King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan. Guinevere is a central character...
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    by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife Blanche. Its first directors were J. Comyns Carr and Charles Hallé. The gallery proved crucial to the Aesthetic Movement...
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    The Quest of Merlin: A Prelude by Richard Hovey (1891) King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with music by Arthur Sullivan (1895) The Birth of Galahad by Richard...
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    Bruce Castle School, Tottenham, where he was a friend of J. Comyns Carr and Frederick Selous. Carr later wrote of Terriss's school days that "if he gained...
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    a "romantic musical drama", The Beauty Stone, written jointly with J. Comyns Carr to music by Arthur Sullivan; it closed in July 1898 after only 50 performances...
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  • politician Alice Comyns Carr (1850–1927), British costume designer Alister Carr (born 1973), Australian rules footballer Allan Carr (1937–1999), American...
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    Philip H. Harper (Bill Sikes) 1934, BBC Regional Programme, adapted by J. Comyns Carr, with Desmond Tester (Oliver Twist), Harcourt Williams (Fagin), Frederick...
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    neuve. Written with J. Comyns Carr; music by Arthur Sullivan. Wordless play with music by Frederic Cowen. Dawick, pp. 6–12 Wearing, J. P. (2004) "Pinero...
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    Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson (1893), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan (1895), Imogen in Cymbeline (1896)...
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    London to Alfred Gardiner Hastings and Kate Comyns Carr, a pre-Raphaelite painter and the sister of J. Comyns Carr. Having been born on Saint Patrick's Day...
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  • Representatives Joe "Fingers" Carr, stage name used by piano player Lou Busch J. Comyns Carr (1849–1916), English drama and art critic J. L. Carr (1912–1994), English...
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    in Forgiveness by J. Comyns Carr (1901), the title role in Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward (1902), Susan Throssell in Quality Street by J. M. Barrie (1902)...
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    Henry VIII (1892), Becket by Alfred Tennyson (1893), King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan (1895), Cymbeline (1896)...
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    period, he also designed the stage set for the play King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr that premiered in London in January 1895. The 1880s brought the deaths...
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    Pinero and J. Comyns Carr, was based on mediaeval morality plays. The collaboration did not go well: Sullivan wrote that Pinero and Comyns Carr were "gifted...
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    farces described by Mander and Mitchenson as "now-forgotten". In 1893 J. Comyns Carr took over the management of the theatre. He remained in charge for three...
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  • Ellen Terry and Alice Comyns-Carr". Victoria and Albert Museum website. Comyns Carr, Mrs. J. (Alice Comyns Carr). Mrs. J. Comyns Carr's 'Reminiscences' ....
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    composed by Arthur Sullivan to a libretto by Arthur Wing Pinero and J. Comyns Carr. The medieval Faustian story concerns an ugly, crippled girl, who dreams...
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    guests" on Saturdays, along with Henry Irving, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, J. Comyns Carr, Edward Dicey, Carlo Pellegrini, Frederic Clay and Oscar Wilde. Ralph...
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    and the maker: Ellen Terry and Alice Comyns-Carr, Victoria & Albert Museum; attributed to Mrs. J. Comyns Carr's 'Reminiscences'. London: Hutchinson, 1926...
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  • repeatedly bankrupt, necessitating his wife, Kate Comyns Carr (who was a painter and the sister of J. Comyns Carr) to take their two sons to continental Europe...
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    The contemporary press referred to these works as "Savoy Operas", and S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald regarded Workman's pieces as the last Savoy Operas. Fitz-Gerald...
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    sets and costumes for the Lyceum Theatre production of King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, who was Burne-Jones's patron and the director of the New Gallery as...
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    productions included Zorah by Edwin Arden and a version of Oliver Twist by J. Comyns Carr. Another hit London musical, King of Cadonia, with music by Sidney Jones...
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