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Biography of David Webster (opera manager) (excerpt)
Sir David Lumsden Webster KCVO FRCM (3 July 1903 – 9 May 1971) was the chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1945 to 1970. He played a key part in the establishment of the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera companies.
Biography of Margo Scharten-Antink (excerpt)
Margo Sybranda Everdina Scharten-Antink (September 7, 1868 – November 27, 1957) was a Dutch poet. She was born in Zutphen and died in Florence, Italy. In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "De nar uit Maremmen" ("The Fool in Maremma").
Biography of André Heuzé (excerpt)
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright. Selected filmography Actor 1923 : La Rue du pavé d'amour by André Hugon 1928 : Little Devil May Care as André Bucaille
Biography of James Pryde (excerpt)
James Ferrier Pryde (1866–1941) was a British artist. A number of his paintings are in public collections, but there have been few exhibitions of his work. He is principally remembered as one of the Beggarstaffs, his artistic partnership with William Nicholson, and for the poster designs and other graphic work they made between 1893 and 1899, which influenced graphic design for many years.
Biography of Lou Bandy (excerpt)
Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (April 19, 1890 – June 24, 1959), known as Lou Bandy, was a popular Dutch singer and conferencier between the world wars. Raised in The Hague, he worked various jobs before starting his entertainment career in 1915. Initially performing with his brother as The Bandy Brothers, he later pursued a solo career.
Biography of Jeanne Provost (excerpt)
Jeanne Provost (28 November 1887 – 24 November 1980) was a French stage and film actress. She was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1907 to 1912. In 1928 she appeared in the original cast of Marcel Pagnol's play Topaze. Selected filmography
Biography of Lao She (excerpt)
Shu Qingchun (3 February 1899 – 24 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Manchu novelist and dramatist. He was a writer of 20th-century Chinese literature, known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶馆). He was of Manchu ethnicity, and his works are known for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect.
Biography of A.-M. Julien (excerpt)
A.-M.Julien, real name Aman-Julien Maistre, (24 July 1903 – 15 January 2001) was a French actor, singer and theatre manager. He was François Maistre's father. Life Born in Toulon (Var), Julien joined the troupe of the Copiaus founded by Jacques Copeau in the 1920s and which became the Compagnie des Quinze (1930-1932) in 1929 when it was installed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris.
Biography of Giovanni Gronchi (excerpt)
Giovanni Gronchi, OMCA (10 September 1887 – 17 October 1978) was an Italian politician from Christian Democracy who served as the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to bring about an "opening to the left" in Italian politics.
Biography of Alice Duer Miller (excerpt)
Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion.Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
Biography of Anna Hofman-Uddgren (excerpt)
Anna Maria Viktoria Hofman-Uddgren (23 February 1868 – 1 June 1947) née Hammarström; also known as Hoffman and Hofmann, was a Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist, theatre director, and film director. Until 2016, she was referred to as the first woman to become a film director in Sweden.
Biography of John Russell (Australian painter) (excerpt)
John Peter Russell (16 June 1858 – 30 April 1930) was an Australian impressionist painter. Born and raised in Sydney, Russell moved to Europe in his late teenage years to attend art school.There, he befriended fellow pupil Vincent van Gogh and, in 1886, painted the first oil portrait of the artist, now held at the Van Gogh Museum.
Biography of Alice Voinescu (excerpt)
Alice Voinescu (10 February 1885 – 4 June 1961) was a Romanian writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic, and translator. She was the first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy, which she did at the Sorbonne in 1913 in Paris.
Biography of Antonio Susillo (excerpt)
Antonio Susillo Fernández, born April 16, 1855 in Seville, was a renowned Spanish sculptor of the late 19th century. Educated at the Fine Arts School in Paris and in Rome, he won numerous awards, including medals at the Paris Universal Expositions.
Biography of Émile Aubrun (excerpt)
Émile Eugène Aubrun, born August 25, 1881 in Brunoy and died November 14, 1967 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, was a French aviation pioneer, who particularly distinguished himself during the 1910 season.
Biography of Rodolfo Graziani (excerpt)
Rodolfo Graziani (11 August 1882 – 11 January 1955) was a notable Italian military officer and a committed fascist. He was influential in Italy's colonial campaigns in Libya and Ethiopia, where he gained notoriety for using brutal repressive measures including concentration camps and mass executions.
Biography of Noël Delberghe (excerpt)
Noël Delberghe, born December 25, 1897, in Tourcoing and died September 17, 1965, in Paris, was a French water polo player. Noël Delberghe was a member of the Enfants de Neptune of Tourcoing. He won the Olympic gold medal in water polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and earned a silver medal at the 1927 European Championships in Bologna.
Biography of Paul Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television.He frequently portrayed cynical and sinister characters throughout his career. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Stewart helped Welles get his first job in radio and was associate producer of the celebrated radio program "The War of the Worlds", in which he also performed.
Biography of Margaret Deland (excerpt)
Margaret Deland (born Margaretta Wade Campbell; February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She generally is considered part of the literary realism movement. Critical response
Biography of Juvencio Valle (excerpt)
Juvencio Valle, also known by the pseudonym Gilberto Concha Riffo (November 6, 1900 – February 12, 1999), was a noted Chilean poet. He is a recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, a National Prize awarded to poets of high reputation.
Biography of Óscar Esplá (excerpt)
Óscar Esplá y Triay (August 5, 1886 – January 6, 1976) was a renowned Spanish composer.The Conservatorio Superior de Música in Alicante is named in his honor, and since 1955, the city of Alicante has awarded the Óscar Esplá international prize for composition.
Biography of Émile Guépratte (excerpt)
Paul Émile Aimable Guépratte, born on August 30, 1856, in Granville and died on November 21, 1939, in Brest, was a French vice-admiral. Grandson of Rear Admiral Jéhenne and mathematician Charles Guépratte, he had a distinguished career in the French Navy. He participated in the Tunisian campaign and held several commands, including the destroyer 23 and the armored cruiser Edgar Quinet.
Biography of Carlos Torre Repetto (excerpt)
Carlos Torre Repetto (November 23, 1904 or 1905 – March 19, 1978, in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) was a great Mexican chess grandmaster. Chess Career Torre won the Louisiana Championship in New Orleans in 1923. He finished first in Detroit in 1924, ahead of Samuel Factor, Hahlbohm, Norman Whitaker, Samuel Reshevsky, and others, and also in Rochester the same year.
Biography of Alexandra Tolstaya (excerpt)
Countess Alexandra (Sasha) Lvovna Tolstaya (18 June 1884 (30 June, Gregorian calendar) – 26 September 1979) was the youngest daughter and secretary of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. He time of birth comes from her autobiography "My Life" by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (University of Ottawa Press, 2011).
Biography of Andrei Platonov (excerpt)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August (O.S.16 August) 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, engineer, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism.
Biography of Raoul Breton (excerpt)
Raoul Breton, born on August 26, 1896, in Vierzon and died at sea on April 23, 1959, was a French music publisher. Initially a dancer, he ventured into music publishing in 1933, discovering talents like Damia, Mireille, and Jean Nohain. His pivotal encounter with Charles Trenet propelled Trenet to international fame.
Biography of Richard Gaines (excerpt)
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor.He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962. Early years Gaines was born in Indian Territory and grew up in Texas, learning "to handle the ax, the plough, and the lariat".
Biography of Léon Bourjade (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Léon Bourjade (Montauban, May 25, 1889 – Papua New Guinea, October 22, 1924) was a French aviation ace and missionary. Tributes A few years after his death, the famous aviator Jean Mermoz, during one of his crossings of the South Atlantic by plane, had a serious oil leak which assured him of perdition at sea; although an atheist, he addressed a “prayer” to his pilot colleague Léon Bourjade and landed in extremis on a beach in Senegal, the propeller “flagged”.
Biography of Delphin (French actor) (excerpt)
Delphin Sirvaux, better known as Delphin, was a French dwarf actor born on October 12, 1882, in Les Fessey (Haute-Saône) and died by suicide on May 6, 1938, in Paris. Encouraged by Auguste Lamboley, another dwarf from the region, he moved to Paris and gained recognition at the 1900 Exposition and in Montmartre cabarets.
Biography of Karlis Skalbe (excerpt)
Kārlis Skalbe (November 7 (O.S. October 26) 1879 — 1945 April 14) was a Latvian writer, poet, and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults. He has been called the 'King of Fairytales', and his words, Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (For Fatherland and Freedom), are inscribed on the Monument of Freedom in Riga.
Biography of Dolores Costello (excerpt)
Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American actress best known for her work in silent films. Nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen" by her first husband, John Barrymore, she was the mother of John Drew Barrymore and grandmother of Drew Barrymore.
Biography of Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (excerpt)
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (22 October 1859 – 23 November 1949) was a member of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry. He married Infanta María de la Paz of Spain and was also made an Infante of Spain.
Biography of Pol Neveux (excerpt)
Pol Neveux, born on August 25, 1865, in Reims (Marne), and died on March 26, 1939, in Garches (then in Seine-et-Oise, now in Hauts-de-Seine), was a French writer and librarian. He served as the Inspector General of the Libraries of France and was a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Biography of Hugh Ramsay (excerpt)
Hugh Ramsay (25 May 1877 – 5 March 1906) was an Australian artist. Early life and education Miss Nellie Patterson (1903), daughter of Ambrose Patterson, niece of Nellie Melba Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 May 1877, the son of John Ramsay.
Biography of Mary Nolan (excerpt)
Mary Nolan (born Mariam Imogene Robertson; December 18, 1902 – October 31, 1948) was an American stage and film actress, singer and dancer.She began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in the 1920s performing under the stage name Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson.
Biography of Jacques Vaché (excerpt)
Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, an artist and author. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said: "En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
Biography of Marcel Rouff (excerpt)
Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Geneva – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a prolific novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer.With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises (Gastronomic France: Guide to the culinary marvels and the good inns of France).
Biography of Marie Reynoard (excerpt)
Marie Reynoard, born in Bastia (Haute-Corse) on October 28, 1897, and died in Ravensbrück (Germany) on January 30, 1945, was a heroine of the Grenoble Resistance during the Second World War. Biography A brilliant student, she joined the prestigious École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Sèvres); in 1921, she taught in Cahors and then in Marseilles, before being appointed in 1936 to the Lycée Stendhal in Grenoble.
Biography of Gustav Waldau (excerpt)
Gustav Waldau (27 February 1871 – 25 May 1958) was a German actor.He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1955. Life and Work Born Gustav Freiherr von Rummel joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps at age 14.He was promoted to officer in the Infantry-Leib-Regiment.
Biography of Louella Parsons (excerpt)
Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter.At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. She was the first writer of a dedicated column on motion pictures in the United States, writing one in 1914 for the Chicago Record-Herald.
Biography of Jaime Sabartes (excerpt)
Jaume Sabartés i Gual (Catalan: Jaume Sabartés i Gual, Spanish: Jaime Sabartés y Gual, born in Barcelona, 10 June 1881 - died in Paris, 12 February 1968), was a Catalan Spanish artist, poet and writer.He was a close friend of Pablo Picasso and later became his secretary/administrator.
Biography of Christian Kittilsen (excerpt)
Christian Kittilsen (born 1907 in Oslo, died 1977 in Austbygde i Tinn) was a Norwegian cartoonist, draftsman, painter and illustrator. Kittilsen studied medicine from 1926 to 1931, but interrupted his studies and chose art instead.He completed a short painting course with Carl von Hanno, but was otherwise self-taught.
Biography of Germaine Rouer (excerpt)
Germaine Joséphine Rouer, born on November 2, 1897, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, where she also passed away on December 26, 1994, in the 4th arrondissement, was a French actress and an honorary member of the Comédie-Française. From her first marriage on December 11, 1926, to the director Pierre Marodon, she had a daughter, Thérèse, who would become an actress known as Thérèse Marney.
Biography of Roger Mompezat (excerpt)
Roger Georges Mompezat was born in Bordeaux on April 3, 1899 and died on March 21, 1958 in Toulouse. With Henri Sevenet, member of S.O.E (F), he founded the Corps franc de la Montagne Noire. From the start of the war, he took an active part in the Resistance and was a member of several resistance networks.
Biography of Fred M. Wilcox (excerpt)
Fred McLeod Wilcox (December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964) was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years and is best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956). These films were entered in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry in 1993 and 2013 respectively.
Biography of Gertrud Luckner (excerpt)
Gertrud Luckner (born Jane Hartmann; 26 September 1900 – 31 August 1995) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families.
Biography of Hussain Ahmed Madani (excerpt)
Hussain Ahmad Madani (6 October 1879 – 5 December 1957) was an Indian Islamic scholar, serving as the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was among the first recipients of the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1954. His time of birth comes from his autobiography A Biography and Memoirs of Shaykh Husain Ahmad Madani by Shaykh Husain Ahmad Madani (Turath Publishing, 1 March 2023).
Biography of Gerrit Rietveld (excerpt)
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.Born in Utrecht, he apprenticed with his joiner father and worked as a draughtsman. In 1917, he opened his furniture workshop and joined the De Stijl movement, creating iconic designs like the Red and Blue Chair.
Biography of Jakob van Hoddis (excerpt)
Jakob van Hoddis, born Hans Davidsohn, was a German expressionist poet, born on May 16, 1887, in Berlin, and perished in 1942 at Sobibor.A friend of Georg Heym, he was a forerunner of Dadaism.As a poet, Jew, and mentally ill person, he became a symbolic victim of the Nazis' extermination policy.
Biography of Lotte Reiniger (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the first feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935). |
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