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Fay, Frank J.
Fay, Frank J. (1870–1931) and William George (1872–1947), Irish actors, who in 1892 formed the Ormonde Dramatic Society, playing in Dublin and the surrounding country in a repertory of sketches, short plays, and farces. Among their fellow actors were Dudley Digges and Sara Allgood, who were associated with them in 1898 in the Irish National Dramatic Society and in 1904 went with them to the Abbey Theatre. Frank, who was interested in verse-speaking, was responsible for the company's speech training, while W. G. acted as stage-manager. Both brothers appeared in most of the plays produced at the Abbey, W. G. playing Christy Mahon in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (1907) and Frank his rival Shawn Keogh. In 1908, after a disagreement with Yeats and Lady Gregory over artistic control, the Fays left the Abbey and went to America, where they directed a repertory of Irish plays for Charles Frohman, W. G. making his first appearance on Broadway in Yeats's The Pot of Broth. Moving to London in 1914, W. G. was seen in several new plays and was successively a director at the Nottingham and Birmingham Repertory theatres. Among his later parts were the Tramp in Synge's In the Shadow of the Glen (1928); Mr Cassidy in Bridie's Storm in a Teacup (1936), which he also directed; and the title-role in Paul Vincent Carroll's Father Malachy's Miracle (1945). Frank returned to Dublin in 1918 and became a teacher of elocution, going back briefly to the Abbey in 1925 to play in a revival of Yeats's The Hour-Glass.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Fay, Frank J." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Fay, Frank J." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-FayFrankJ.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Fay, Frank J." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-FayFrankJ.html |
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Fay, (Francis Anthony) Frank
Fay, [Francis Anthony] Frank (1897–1961), actor. The “handsome, saturnine and brilliantly redheaded” monologuist was born in San Francisco and made his stage debut as the child in Quo Vadis? (1901). His early career ran a theatrical gamut, from playing a teddy bear in the original Babes in Toyland (1903) to walking on as one of the crowd in Sir Henry Irving's The Merchant of Venice (1903). For a while he was part of the vaudeville team of Dyer and Fay, with Johnny Dyer, but by 1918 critics and playgoers were taking note of him as a lone storyteller. His soft‐spoken, daffy yarns told of such quirky people as the little boy who would not get off the wagon and the family who saved scraps of string. During this same period, from 1918 to 1933, he also appeared in a number of Broadway musicals, generally failures. Then his career languished for about a decade until he scored his most memorable success when he returned to Broadway to play Elwood P. Dowd, the boozer whose best friend is an invisible rabbit, in Harvey (1944). Autobiography: How to Be Poor, 1935.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Fay, (Francis Anthony) Frank." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Fay, (Francis Anthony) Frank." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-FayFrancisAnthonyFrank.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Fay, (Francis Anthony) Frank." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-FayFrancisAnthonyFrank.html |
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Frank Fay
Frank Fay 1870-1931, and W. G. Fay, 1872-1947, brothers, both Irish actors. The Fay brothers formed the Irish National Theatre, an amateur group founded on the conviction that only Irish actors could perform in Irish plays. Around the nucleus of this company Dublin's Abbey Theatre was formed in 1904 with W. G. Fay as its guiding force. The Fays emigrated to the United States in 1908, where they appeared in a repertory of Irish plays.
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"Frank Fay." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Frank Fay." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Fay-Fran.html "Frank Fay." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Fay-Fran.html |
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