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    John Stange(r) Heiss Oscar Asche (24 January 1871 – 23 March 1936), better known as Oscar Asche, was an Australian actor, director, and writer, best known...
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    playwright Oscar Asche (1871–1936), Australian actor, director, and writer Oscar Aubuchon (1917–1970), Canadian ice hockey player Prince Oscar Bernadotte...
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    Chu Chin Chow is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, based (with minor embellishments) on the...
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    for several generations of young performers, including Henry Ainley, Oscar Asche, Lilian Braithwaite, Isadora Duncan, Nigel Playfair, Nancy Price,Harcourt...
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    II. She joined the F. R. Benson company, and in June 1898 she married Oscar Asche, a fellow company member. Her sister Agnes Brayton (1878–1957) was another...
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  • Asche (born 1990), American baseball player Jochen Asche (20th century), East German luger Oscar Asche (1871–1936), Australian actor, director and writer...
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    in St John's Wood, where his friends Oscar and Lily Asche were close neighbours. In autumn of 1919, he and Asche combined to write the stage show Eastward...
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  • Anna May Wong. It was an adaptation of the hit musical Chu Chin Chow by Oscar Asche and Frederick Norton. It was shot at the Islington Studios of Gainsborough...
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    production opened in 1895 in London and ran for 21 performances. In 1905 Oscar Asche staged a production at the Adelphi Theatre in London with himself as...
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    etc". La Médecine internationale (in French). Singleton, Brian (2004). Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy. Greenwood. p. 75. ISBN 9780275979294...
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    1916, one performance at the Cort Theatre, 15 March 1918 Chu Chin Chow Oscar Asche Abu Hasan American premiere at the Manhattan Opera House, 22 October...
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    of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Adelphi Theatre (1905) opposite Oscar Asche as Bottom . Barton was also School for Scandal and The Rivals, and also...
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    Angelo and Maud Hoffman as Isabella, and the same text was used when Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton staged it at the Adelphi Theatre in the following month...
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  • led to introductions to other stage actors including Brayton's husband Oscar Asche, Henry Irving, Herbert Beerbohm Tree and George Alexander. The first...
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  • produced by Oscar Asche at the Garrick Theatre, London, on 19 April 1911. Knoblock wrote the play for Asche, with the understanding that Asche could revise...
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  • Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study. Singleton, Brian (2004). Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy. Praeger. pp. 64–65. ISBN 0275979296...
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    Cochran as Fred Mary Glynne as Belle Garry Marsh as Belle's husband Oscar Asche as Spirit of Christmas Present Marie Ney as Spirit of Christmas Past...
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    Terry, Madge Kendal, Winifred Emery, Julia Neilson, Violet Vanbrugh, Oscar Asche, Arthur Bourchier, and Lewis Waller. Tree often starred in the theatre's...
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    version of the story. Richard L'Estrange in The Right to Be Happy (1916) Oscar Asche in Scrooge (1935) Lionel Braham in A Christmas Carol (1938) Francis de...
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  • and "T. Ashman" – the latter used by among others Oscar Asche when doubling roles, although in Asche's case, according to Wareing, the false name "never...
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  • musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, written, produced, directed and starring Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, premières at His Majesty's Theatre in...
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  • Orestean Trilogy (1904), Rudolf Besier's The Virgin Goddess (1906), Oscar Asche and Edward Knoblock's Kismet (1911), Josephine Preston Peabody's The...
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    Frank Benson and his company, which included Lilian Braithwaite and Oscar Asche, played a Shakespeare season in 1901. In 1902, Lewis Waller presented...
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  • Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor (b. 1865) March 23 – Oscar Asche, Australian actor (b. 1871) March 28 – Sir Archibald Garrod, English...
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    London, she appeared in The Darling of the Gods and the production by Oscar Asche of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1906 she appeared as a Kaffir slave...
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  • more than 1,000 performances) Chu Chin Chow, 1916, m Frederic Norton, b Oscar Asche (2,238 in London) (longest-running musical in history from 1916 until...
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    Oscar Asche in Chu Chin Chow; its record-breaking run of 2,235 performances began at the theatre in 1916...
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  • (born 1946, US, ch) Sholem Asch (1880–1957, Poland/England, f/d/nf) Oscar Asche (1871–1936, Australia, d) Birgit Aschmann (born 1967, Germany, nf) Abdoulaye...
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    Constance Benson, Leslie Faber, Harcourt Williams, Charles Doran and Oscar Asche. In 1902 Alexander saw Ainley in Benson's production of The Merchant...
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  • London stage with the Companies of F. R. Benson and Otho Stuart and Oscar Asche; born in Sydney in 1879 Claudia Black Actress and voice actress Known...
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