"Mirabel and Arthur Topham lived in Paddock Lodge on the Aintree racecourse site. Ronald Topham was not suited to business life but Mirabel demonstrated business expertise and a real interest in the race course. Topham's family had run the Aintree racecourse near Liverpool since the 1840s. She joined the board of Topham Ltd, the family firm that ran Aintree racecourse, becoming a director in 1935 and Chairman and Managing Director in 1938 until 1973. Mirabel Topham was a forceful personality in the male-dominated world of racing. During the Second World War, although the racecourse was used by the military, the"
"of ""An Inspector Calls"" at Theatr Clwyd which then transferred to London's Westminster Theatre. In 1989 she played Lucie Manette in an adaptation of ""A Tale of Two Cities"" for BBC Radio 4. Attenborough married Graham Sinclair in 1993 with whom she has two children. Charlotte Attenborough Charlotte Isabel Attenborough (born 29 June 1959) is a British stage, film and television actress known for ""Jane Eyre"" (1996) and ""Jeeves and Wooster"" (1991-93). Styled The Hon. Charlotte Attenborough socially, she is the daughter of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim. Born in London in 1959, the daughter of actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and"
"Charlotte Attenborough Charlotte Isabel Attenborough (born 29 June 1959) is a British stage, film and television actress known for ""Jane Eyre"" (1996) and ""Jeeves and Wooster"" (1991-93). Styled The Hon. Charlotte Attenborough socially, she is the daughter of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim. Born in London in 1959, the daughter of actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician Richard Attenborough and the film and theatre actress Sheila Sim, Charlotte Attenborough is the niece of television naturalist David Attenborough, John Attenborough and the late actor Gerald Sim and the sister of the director Michael Attenborough; her sister Jane and her 14 year-old niece"
"that his performance of Jack Point ""is another triumph. ... His Jack Point is a G. and S. portrait to be cherished."" In 1949, soon after Bridget D'Oyly Carte inherited the company, she appointed Eleanor Evans (known in the company as ""Snookie"") as Stage Director and Director of Productions to replace Anna Bethell (Mrs. Sydney Granville). The choice of the temperamental Snookie, a former chorister with the company and wife of the company's longtime principal bass Darrell Fancourt, was a highly unpopular one and contributed to a wave of defections from the company, including Green's departure in 1951. He wrote:"
"Ria Mooney Ria Mooney (1903 – 3 January 1973) was an Irish stage and screen actress, artistic director of the Abbey Theatre (1948-1963) and director of the Gaiety School of Acting. She was the first female producer at the Abbey Theatre. She was born in Rathmines, a suburb of Dublin. She started acting as a child, sang with the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society as a teenager, and studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She was invited to join the Abbey Theatre in 1924 and acted alongside some of the great names of the day, such as"
"A Gaiety Girl A Gaiety Girl is an English musical comedy in two acts by a team of musical comedy neophytes: Owen Hall (book, on an outline by James T. Tanner), Harry Greenbank (lyrics) and Sidney Jones (music). It opened at Prince of Wales Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes, on 14 October 1893 (later transferring to Daly's Theatre) and ran for 413 performances. The show starred C. Hayden Coffin, Louie Pounds, Decima Moore, Eric Lewis, W. Louis Bradfield, and later Rutland Barrington, Scott Russell, Huntley Wright, Marie Studholme and George Grossmith, Jr. Topsy Sinden and later Letty Lind"
"the television movie of ""The Tempest"" (1939), Dr. Hale in ""Shining Victory"" (1941), and a Foreign Office official in the thriller ""Above Suspicion"" (1943). Ainley married three times. He was divorced from his first two wives; his third wife Rowena Woolf died in 1968. He retired from film work following a disabling wound while he was serving in the army during World War II to return to the stage. He was briefly principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the early 1960s. Richard Ainley Richard Ainley (22 December 1910 – 18 May 1967) was a stage and film"
"now works in arts administration, and Octavia Walters, formerly an actress, now a sports injury masseur. Auriol Smith Auriol Smith is an English actress and theatre director. She was a founder member and associate director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. She co-founded the theatre in 1971 with her husband Sam Walters, who became the United Kingdom's longest-serving artistic director. Walters and Smith stepped down from their posts at the Orange Tree Theatre in June 2014. Whilst taking a degree in drama at Bristol University she became President of the Green Room Society at the newly founded university"
"and most received excellent reviews from the Dublin critics. In 1947 she helped with the setting up of the Radio Éireann Players. Ria Mooney Ria Mooney (1903 – 3 January 1973) was an Irish stage and screen actress, artistic director of the Abbey Theatre (1948-1963) and director of the Gaiety School of Acting. She was the first female producer at the Abbey Theatre. She was born in Rathmines, a suburb of Dublin. She started acting as a child, sang with the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society as a teenager, and studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She"
"The Gaiety Girl (film) The Gaiety Girl is a lost 1924 silent romantic film directed by King Baggot. William Tudor has a huge debt and is forced to give up his family castle. He sells it to war millionaire John Kershaw and goes to London to visit his granddaughter Irene. Meanwhile, Tudor's nephew and Irene's sweetheart Owen travels to South Africa to oversee his father's mines. Irene becomes a chorus girl at the Gaiety Theatre. Here, John's son Christopher Kershaw falls in love with her. She doesn't want to have anything to do with him, but becomes desperate after her"
"Theatre. Next, she created the ingénue role of Rose Brierly in ""A Gaiety Girl"" (1893–94), one of George Edwardes's hit musical comedies. In 1894, Edwardes sent Moore and the company to New York and then on tour in the U.S. While in Richmond, New York in February 1896, still touring in ""A Gaiety Girl"", Moore married a fellow cast member, Cecil Ainslie Walker-Leigh, an Anglo-Irish career officer in the British Army who served in the Boer War and World War I and retired with the rank of Colonel. The company was then sent to Australia, where she starred as Bessie"
"Gigolette Gigolette is a 1935 American romance film directed by Charles Lamont from a screenplay and story by Gordon Kahn. The film stars Adrienne Ames, Ralph Bellamy, Donald Cook, and Robert Armstrong. Kay Parrish is the daughter of a former millionaire who lost everything in the stock market crash in 1929. She works as a waitress in a small country diner, where she meets Terrence Gallagher and Chuck Ahearn. Gallagher runs a speakeasy in New York City, where Ahearn works as his bouncer. Gallagher gives Kay his card, and tells him to look him up, but she scoffs at the"
"the land could be sold for housing development. Over the next nine years this led to court cases, possible sales and repeated assertions that each Grand National would be 'the last at Aintree'. Although the covenant was upheld by the lower courts, an appeal to the House of Lords ruled in Topham Ltd's favour in 1966. Aintree was finally sold to the Walton Group owned by property developer William Davies in 1973. However, planning permission for new housing was never granted. The land remained a racecourse where the Grand National continues to be held. Mirabel Topham was a patron of"
"Tatum O'Neal Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won in 1974 at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in ""Paper Moon"" (1973) opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. She also starred in ""The Bad News Bears"" (1976), followed by ""Nickelodeon"" (1976), and ""Little Darlings"" (1980). O'Neal later appeared in guest roles in ""Sex and the City"", ""8 Simple Rules"" and """". From 2006 to 2007, she portrayed Blythe Hunter in the My Network TV drama series ""Wicked Wicked"
"proved especially unpopular and led to a wave of important defections from the company at the end of the Festival of Britain season in 1951, most importantly, Martyn Green. This was the 1949 hiring, as stage director, of Eleanor Evans, Mrs. Darrell Fancourt, known as ""Snookie"" in the company. Green wrote in 1952: ""I ... told Miss Carte that I thought she was making a great psychological error. During Anna Bethell's regime (Mrs. Sydney Granville), there had been growing signs of discontent and suggestions of favouritism... But to appoint not only a woman who had for fifteen years worked in"
"length audio recording of Molly Bloom's soliloquy from ""Ulysses"" by James Joyce, released on iTunes in June 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/theater/review-exploring-womens-lives-in-when-i-was-a-girl-i-used-to-scream-and-shout.html?_r=0 Aedin Moloney Aedin Moloney (born 5 July 1968) is an American and Irish TV, Theatre and Film actress and producer. She was born in Dublin, Ireland. She is the founder and producing artistic director of New York's Fallen Angel Theatre Company. After graduating from the Samuel Beckett Theatre Centre in Trinity College, Dublin, she made her professional debut as Molser in the Gaiety Theatre production of ""The Plough and the Stars"" by Sean O'Casey, directed by Joe Dowling and starring Donal"
"Charlotte Mitchell Charlotte Mitchell (born Edna Winifred Mitchell; 23 July 1926 – 2 May 2012) was an English actress and poet. In the 1950s she provided lyrics, sketches, and occasionally acted in revues on London's West End. She was especially successful in her ventures providing lyrics for Madeleine Dring in ""Airs on a Shoestring"" (1953), ""Pay the Piper"" (1954), and ""Fresh Airs"" (1956), all productions of Laurier Lister. She was once (allegedly) the girlfriend of Peter Sellers, and appeared in ""The Goon Show"" episodes ""Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest"" (1954) as Maid Marian and ""Tales of Montmartre"" (1956) as Seagoon's"
"not see eye-to-eye. An unexpected blow was the death of F. J. McCormick in 1947. Then on 17 July 1951, fire destroyed the Abbey Theatre. The company leased the old Queen's Theatre in September and continued in residence there until 1966. Mooney took the opportunity to employ younger actors, many of whom she knew from her time teaching at the Gaiety. Among them were Ronnie Masterson, Joan O'Hara, Ray McAnally, Philip O'Flynn, Angela Newman, Bill Foley and Doreen Madden. Between 1948 and 1963, seventy-five new plays were produced at the two Abbey locations; most of these were directed by Mooney,"
"Dorothy Bromiley Dorothy Bromiley (Dorothy Bromiley Phelan from 1966) (born 18 September 1930)<ref name='imdb.com/name/nm0111321/bio'> </ref> is a former British film, stage and television actress and authority on historic domestic needlework. Born in Manchester, Lancashire, the only child of Frank Bromiley and Ada Winifred (née Thornton). Bromiley played a role in a Hollywood film before returning to the UK where, in 1954, she started work as assistant stage manager at the Central Library Theatre, Manchester; followed by a West End stage role in ""The Wooden Dish"" directed by the exiled US film and theatre director Joseph Losey (who became Bromiley's husband"
"a 1943 film adaptation starring Lucille Ball, Allyson and Walker, and a 1954 television adaptation. A 1963 Off-Broadway revival at Stage 73 ran for 224 performances. It was directed and choreographed by Danny Daniels and featured newcomer Liza Minnelli, who won a Theatre World Award, and Christopher Walken. Veronica Lake was a replacement as Gale. A recording of this revival is available on CD. Before ""Best Foot Forward"", George Abbott had hired Hugh Martin to write musical arrangements for several shows, including Rodgers and Hart shows. By 1941, Larry Hart was suffering from alcoholism, and Richard Rodgers was having difficulty"
"Mirabel Topham Mirabel Topham (15 August 1891 – 28 May 1980) was Chairman and Managing Director of Topham Ltd for 36 years to 1973 and owner of Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, UK, where the Grand National horse steeplechase is held. She was one of the colourful and controversial personalities in UK racing during this time. Mirabel Dorothy Hillier was born in London on 14 August 1891 and spent her childhood at the Baron's Court Hotel in Fulham, London that was managed by her grandparents James and Rachel Hillier. Her parents Henry Hope and Nellie Hillier (née Buck) assisted, but by"
"Roberta Taylor Roberta Alexandra Mary Taylor (née Roberts; born 26 February 1948) is an English actress and author. She is best known for her roles of Irene Raymond in ""EastEnders"" (1997–2000), and Inspector Gina Gold in ""The Bill"" (2002–2008). Taylor worked in the theatre and appeared at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre from 1980 to 1992. During that period, she played La Duchesse de Guermantes in a stage adaptation of Marcel Proust's ""A la recherche du temps perdu"" (""Remembrance of Things Past"") entitled ""A Waste of Time"", in which Rupert Everett and Gary Oldman were also in the cast. She was"
"New England but the second season, after a gala opening night starring Mr. Keith and his wife in ""The Four-Poster"", did not meet with great success and in 1956 he sold the theatre to Mrs. Aya Sholley. Mrs. Sholley appointed Emily Perry Bishop as resident director and brought in a small resident stock company to present a diverse program of dramas and matinees for children. However, by 1959, falling attendance and increased expenses had taken their toll, and in 1960 and 1961, the theatre failed to open. In 1962, Deertrees Theatre once again took a premiere place on the Summer"
"Dorcas Walters, who was principal dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet and now works in arts administration, and Octavia Walters, formerly an actress, now a sports injury masseur. Sam Walters Sam Walters MBE (born 11 October 1939) is a British theatre director who retired in 2014 as Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. He has also directed in the West End and at Ipswich, Canterbury and Greenwich, as well as at LAMDA, RADA and Webber Douglas. After 42 years Walters, the United Kingdom's longest-serving artistic director, and his wife and associate director, Auriol Smith, stepped down from"
"Characters of Glee ""Glee"" is a musical comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox in the United States for six seasons from 2009 to 2015. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. The initial main cast encompassed club director and Spanish (later History) teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), Will's wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), and eight club members played by Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory"
"in what Shaw described as ""an uncelebrated plot in a Jewish cemetery in North London"". Eve Taylor Eve Taylor (born Evelyn Henshall, 28 February 1915 – 31 August 1983) was a British talent manager, notable as one of the early female music managers. She managed singers Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw and Val Doonican, and composer John Barry, among others, and in the 1960s was described in London as ""the Queen Bee of Show Business"". She was born in London in 1915. Her father, William Henshall, was a well-known show business impresario, and her mother, born Evelyn Taylor, was a music"
"to support young Australian performing artists in the UK. She is Vice President of The Theatrical Guild (previously The Theatrical Ladies Guild) having previously been Chairman and being involved in the charity for many years. Joanna McCallum Joanna McCallum (born 27 June 1950) is an English theatre, film and television actress. She is the daughter of English actress Googie Withers and Australian actor John McCallum. She has worked extensively in the theatre where her acting credits include playing Gertrude in ""Hamlet"" at the reconstructed Globe Theatre on London's South Bank. McCallum played writer Winifred Holtby in the last episode of"
"few silent films in the 1910s. She died at age 51. Blanche Massey Blanche Massey (c. 1878? – 1929) was a Gaiety Girl and actress best known for her stage appearances in London and the United States in the 1890s. Among her appearances in many productions with the George Edwardes company, especially in Edwardian musical comedies, she was perhaps most remembered for ""A Gaiety Girl"". Massey was the daughter of Rose Massey, a well-known actress in her time, who died of consumption in 1883. Massey appeared in plays, Victorian burlesques and Edwardian musical comedies as ""A Run of Luck"" (1888),"
"Sheila Sim Sheila Beryl Grant Attenborough, Lady Attenborough (née Sim; 5 June 1922 – 19 January 2016), known professionally by her maiden name Sheila Sim, was an English film and theatre actress. She was the wife of the actor, director and peer Lord Attenborough. Sheila Beryl Grant Sim was born in Liverpool, Lancashire. Sim was mainly active as an actress in the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in the Powell and Pressburger film, ""A Canterbury Tale"" (1944); she acted alongside her husband in the Boulting brothers' ""The Guinea Pig"" (1948); and starred opposite Anthony Steel in ""West of Zanzibar"" (1954)."
"ad"". Clive Rowe, as Enoch, was nominated for an Olivier Award. The production's limited run from December 1992 through March 1993 was a sellout. It re-opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London in September 1993, presented by Cameron Mackintosh, where it continued until May 1994. The Hytner production moved to New York's Vivian Beaumont Theater, where it opened on March 24, 1994, and ran for 322 performances. This won five Tony Awards, including best musical revival, as well as awards for Hytner, MacMillan, Crowley and Audra McDonald (as Carrie). The cast also included Sally Murphy as Julie, Shirley Verrett as"
"Auriol Smith Auriol Smith is an English actress and theatre director. She was a founder member and associate director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. She co-founded the theatre in 1971 with her husband Sam Walters, who became the United Kingdom's longest-serving artistic director. Walters and Smith stepped down from their posts at the Orange Tree Theatre in June 2014. Whilst taking a degree in drama at Bristol University she became President of the Green Room Society at the newly founded university Drama Department. This was followed by a year in America as a Fulbright Scholar, before making"
"Aedin Moloney Aedin Moloney (born 5 July 1968) is an American and Irish TV, Theatre and Film actress and producer. She was born in Dublin, Ireland. She is the founder and producing artistic director of New York's Fallen Angel Theatre Company. After graduating from the Samuel Beckett Theatre Centre in Trinity College, Dublin, she made her professional debut as Molser in the Gaiety Theatre production of ""The Plough and the Stars"" by Sean O'Casey, directed by Joe Dowling and starring Donal McCann. In 1997 she played Maggie in ITV's British television adaptation of Catherine Cookson's ""The Moth"", directed by Roy"
"chorus but on occasion she filled in as Psyche and as Gianetta in ""The Gondoliers"" during the next season. From 1927 to 1937, she sang only in the chorus. She left the company in July 1937, but returned from 1941 to 1945, again singing in the chorus. Soon after Bridget D'Oyly Carte inherited the company, in 1949, she appointed Evans as Stage Director and Director of Productions to replace Anna Bethell (Mrs. Sydney Granville). The choice of the temperamental Snookie, the wife of a leading principal with the company, was a highly unpopular one and contributed to a wave of"