Lena Margaret Ashwell, Lady SimsonOBE (néePocock; 28 September 1872 – 13 March 1957) was a British actress and theatre manager and producer, known as the first to organise large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I. After the war she created the Lena Ashwell Players.
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 LenaAshwell in the lead role. It tells of a South African farmer's wife trapped in...
he married (in a register office) the divorced actress and socialite LenaAshwell. They were introduced by her cousin, Sir Alfred Downing. The union was...
Repertory Company. When LenaAshwell Players Ltd was formed in 1923, Hamilton was one of the directors. The other three were LenaAshwell, Esme Church and Marion...
Wigmore Hall on 25 October 1917 conducted by Henry Wood, where his friend LenaAshwell, a long-time musical partner from the academy and the Kingsway Theatre...
extra) in productions in London starring Lewis Waller, Sir Herbert Tree, LenaAshwell and others. During 1909, she toured as Rose in Lady Frederick with Mabel...
he sang in concert tours for British soldiers in France organized by LenaAshwell. But it was as a singer of English art-song, and the friend of many leading...
the first season (1895) of the Henry Wood Proms in London. His friend LenaAshwell was often the performer. In popular music, especially country music,...
school's dramatic activities. His interest in dramatics led him to join the LenaAshwell Players as stage manager, touring the country with the company. Much...
Poems of John Masefield (1923) Poems (1925) Sonnets of Good Cheer to The LenaAshwell Players (1926) Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse (1928) South...
who touched the visitor were Miss LenaAshwell and Miss Wynn Mathison, both described as first-rate. Miss Ashwell and Mr. Charles Warner made the success...
Coliseum on 19 June 1916 as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with LenaAshwell, at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in the...
Wall – merchant and coffee planter Wesley S. B. Woolhouse – actuary LenaAshwell – actress and theatre manager (born in the town, but raised in Canada)...
to positive reviews in London on May 2, 1905, at the New Theatre with LenaAshwell in the title role. The production by Charles Frohman's company resulted...
"Lena Ashley Players Magazine". Ashwell formed the LenaAshwell Players Ltd in April 1923. The directors were Ashwell, Fawcett, Esme Church and Cicely...
service in France, he was replaced by the actress LenaAshwell. Elgar was soon shown the script by Ashwell and had successful meetings with her and with Blackwood...
produced in 1906 at the Savoy Theatre, London starring LenaAshwell, and a little later with Miss Ashwell in the same role in New York City. In 1921 Paramount...
another hit, Tails Up, at the same theatre. Playfair married the actress LenaAshwell OBE in 1896; he began divorce proceedings in 1903 following her adultery...
Campbell, Lily Brayton, Evelyn Millard, Lillie Langtry, Clara Butt, LenaAshwell and Lilian Braithwaite. In the same year, she played the title role opposite...
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and RADA, at the invitation of LenaAshwell, she joined a concert party entertaining troops in France and, at the...
entertainer, 69 21 January – Harry Gordon, entertainer, 63 13 March – LenaAshwell, entertainer, 84 12 May – Marie Rappold, operatic soprano, 83 1 August...
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