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Lion Feuchtwanger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958), a distinguished member of the post-World...Success, is one of the great novels of the 20th century. Lion Feuchtwanger was born on July 7, 1884, in Munich, Germany, the son of...
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Dukes, Ashley
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...number of foreign plays for the London stage, among them Neumann's Der Patriot as Such Men Are Dangerous (1928) and Feuchtwanger's Jew Süss (1929), both for Matheson Lang . His very free version of an episode from Fernando de Rojas's...
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Aylmer, Sir Felix Edward
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Misalliance and Dr Paramore in The Philanderer , adding Sir Colenso Ridgeon in The Doctor's Dilemma in 1926. Other roles were in Feuchtwanger's Jew Süss (1929), Sherriff's Badger's Green (1930), Galsworthy's Strife (1933), and Granville...
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Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...they know nothing." Shortly after the Eglinton sitting, Gladstone joined the Society for Psychical Research. Sources: Feuchtwanger, E. J. Gladstone. Blasingtoke, U.K.: Macmillan, 1989. Tweedale, Violet. Ghosts I Have Seen and Other Psychic...
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Margaret Maultasch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...great power and evil. Her portrait was Sir John Tenniel's model for the "duchess" in his illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Lion Feuchtwanger utilized her story in his novel The Ugly Duchess (tr. 1928).
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Ethiopian Civil War
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...later that year. bibliography Albright, David E. (1980). Communism in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Feuchtwanger, E. J., and Nailor, Peter. (1981). The Soviet Union and the Third World. New York: St. Martin's-Press. Human...
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St James Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...early productions were revivals of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer and Sardou's Diplomacy (both 1928), and Lion Feuchtwanger's Jew Süss (1930) dramatized by Ashley Dukes . The theatre then housed light opera and musical shows, returning...
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Welles, (George) Orson
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...made his first professional appearance at the Gate Theatre , Dublin, in 1931, playing the Duke of Württemberg in Feuchtwanger's Jew Süss , and in 1933–4 was with Katharine Cornell , playing Mercutio and later Tybalt in Romeo...
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Lang, (Alexander) Matheson
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Such Men Are Dangerous (1928), based on Neumann's Der Patriot , and Jew Süss (1929), based on a novel by Feuchtwanger. In his later years Lang appeared mainly on tour in his most successful parts, and in 1941 he moved to South Africa.
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Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Repertory Theatre , as Margaret in Barrie's Dear Brutus , and first attracted attention in London in 1929, playing Naemi in Feuchtwanger's Jew Süss with the simplicity and sense of poetic tragedy that made so many of her later performances remarkable...
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