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    Lena Margaret Ashwell, Lady Simson OBE (née Pocock; 28 September 1872 – 13 March 1957) was a British actress and theatre manager and producer, known as...
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    novel of the same name. It played in London and New York in 1906 with Lena Ashwell in the lead role. It tells of a South African farmer's wife trapped in...
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  • singer-songwriter Lena Ashwell (1872–1957), British actress Lena Asplund (born 1956), Swedish politician Lena Baker (1900–1945), American convicted of murder Lena Bergman...
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  • Australia Gilbert Ashwell (1916–2014) Lena Ashwell (1872–1957) Richard Ashwell (died 1392) Thomas Ashwell (1470s–16th-century) Arthur Rawson Ashwell (1824–1879)...
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  • at London's Haymarket Theatre, starring Cyril Maude as Mr. White and Lena Ashwell as Mrs. White. A 1907 British stage adaptation by Louis N. Parker starred...
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    Repertory Company. When Lena Ashwell Players Ltd was formed in 1923, Hamilton was one of the directors. The other three were Lena Ashwell, Esme Church and Marion...
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    Robertson's David Garrick. A number of successes followed, including Lena Ashwell playing the lead role in Mrs Dane's Defence in 1900, upon which Wyndham...
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    he married (in a register office) the divorced actress and socialite Lena Ashwell. They were introduced by her cousin, Sir Alfred Downing. The union was...
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    extra) in productions in London starring Lewis Waller, Sir Herbert Tree, Lena Ashwell and others. During 1909, she toured as Rose in Lady Frederick with Mabel...
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  • the first season (1895) of the Henry Wood Proms in London. His friend Lena Ashwell was often the performer. In popular music, especially country music,...
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    he sang in concert tours for British soldiers in France organized by Lena Ashwell. But it was as a singer of English art-song, and the friend of many leading...
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  • school's dramatic activities. His interest in dramatics led him to join the Lena Ashwell Players as stage manager, touring the country with the company. Much...
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  • Bayswater in April 1924, as Lawyer Hawkins in The Devil's Disciple with the Lena Ashwell Players, with whom he remained until 1926. After shorter spells with...
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    Poems of John Masefield (1923) Poems (1925) Sonnets of Good Cheer to The Lena Ashwell Players (1926) Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse (1928) South...
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    Ship of Wellesley Nautical School. The actress and theatrical manager Lena Ashwell was born aboard her in 1872. On 10 August 1887, she was run into by the...
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    produced in 1906 at the Savoy Theatre, London starring Lena Ashwell, and a little later with Miss Ashwell in the same role in New York City. In 1921 Paramount...
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    Coliseum on 19 June 1916 as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell, at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in the...
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  • the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and RADA, at the invitation of Lena Ashwell, she joined a concert party entertaining troops in France and, at the...
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  • "Lena Ashley Players Magazine". Ashwell formed the Lena Ashwell Players Ltd in April 1923. The directors were Ashwell, Fawcett, Esme Church and Cicely...
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    who touched the visitor were Miss Lena Ashwell and Miss Wynn Mathison, both described as first-rate. Miss Ashwell and Mr. Charles Warner made the success...
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    to positive reviews in London on May 2, 1905, at the New Theatre with Lena Ashwell in the title role. The production by Charles Frohman's company resulted...
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    service in France, he was replaced by the actress Lena Ashwell. Elgar was soon shown the script by Ashwell and had successful meetings with her and with Blackwood...
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  • Wigmore Hall on 25 October 1917 conducted by Henry Wood, where his friend Lena Ashwell, a long-time musical partner from the academy and the Kingsway Theatre...
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    Wall – merchant and coffee planter Wesley S. B. Woolhouse – actuary Lena Ashwell – actress and theatre manager (born in the town, but raised in Canada)...
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    another hit, Tails Up, at the same theatre. Playfair married the actress Lena Ashwell OBE in 1896; he began divorce proceedings in 1903 following her adultery...
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    Majesty's Theatre in London in 1901. His affair in 1903 with British actress Lena Ashwell led to her divorce from her husband, Arthur Playfair. Robert Taber died...
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    medical pioneer and surgeon (N) Neil Arnott FRS (1788–1874), physician Lena Ashwell, Lady Simson (1869–1957), English actress Prof William Edmondstoune Aytoun...
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    Campbell, Lily Brayton, Evelyn Millard, Lillie Langtry, Clara Butt, Lena Ashwell and Lilian Braithwaite. In the same year, she played the title role opposite...
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    mezzo-soprano, 81 March 8 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer, 70 March 13 – Lena Ashwell, British Forces entertainer, 84 March 24 – Carson Robison, American country...
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  • actress David Ashton David Scott 1941– Scottish actor and writer Lena Ashwell Lena Pocock 1872–1957 English actress K. Asif Asif Karim 1922–1971 Indian...
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