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Description: | Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings and photographs about actress Sybil Thorndike; her actor and producer husband Sir Lewis Casson and their daughters, Mary and Ann Casson who both acted from childhood. The majority are reviews of plays, including G.B. Shaw's St Joan and Major Barbara, but there are also articles by and about the Cassons. Heavily annotated Rehearsal scripts pasted into scrapbooks for two productions of Macbeth, and G.B. Shaw's St Joan; copies of other plays and a book draft of Theatre Testament by Kay Poulton, for which Lewis Casson was writing the forward. Various honours including honorary degrees and a medal from the 'Quinzaine Anglo-Americaine', in 1945. Items range in date from 1916-1947, though most are from between 1924 and 1930.
Archive reference number: THM/33. (10 boxes) | Format: | Playscripts Vinyl records Books Photographs Illustrations Scrapbooks | Subjects: | Shaw Bernard Theatre 1856-1950 | Temporal: | 20th century | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976 | Identifier: | THM-33 | Format: | Playscripts Vinyl records Books Photographs Illustrations Scrapbooks |
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