Curtain Up

by Julius Green

  Theatre Royal, Bath archive

  Digital archives

  The BBC archive (bbc.co.uk/archive)

  The Guardian and Observer archive (Cambridge University Library ejournals)

  The Hansard archive (hansard-archive.parliament.uk)

  The London Gazette archive (thegazette.co.uk)

  The New York Times archive (Cambridge University Library ejournals)

  The Stage archive (archive.thestage.co.uk)

  The Times archive (Cambridge University Library ejournals)

  Index

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  AC indicates Agatha Christie.

  Abney Hall 53–4, 490

  Actors’ Equity (US) 223

  Actors Studio 383

  Adam, Ronald 100, 101

  Adelphi Theatre, London 177, 232, 459

  Agatha Christie (ed. Bloom, Harold) 13

  Agatha Christie, First Lady of Crime (ed. H.R.F. Keating) 13, 458, 553

  Agatha Christie Ltd 535, 536

  Agatha Christie Theatre Company 553

  Agatha Christie Theatre Festival 553

  Aked, Muriel 122

  Albanesi, Meggie 56, 57, 84, 119

  Aldwych Theatre, London 166, 279, 287, 524, 551

  Alfred Ashley and Son 82, 92

  Ambassadors Theatre, London 197, 215, 230, 232, 287–90, 294, 311, 319, 320, 325, 329, 367, 393, 419, 422, 423, 457, 460, 498, 551

  And Then There Were None (film) 390

  Anderson, James Grant 541, 542, 544, 550

  Anderson, John 105, 185

  Anti-Defamation League (US) 386

  Apollo Theatre, London 172, 177, 215, 232, 233

  Arena Stage, Washington DC 394–5

  Arnold, Tom 177, 213, 278–9

  Arts Council of Great Britain 13, 150, 178, 255, 256, 269, 270, 272, 278, 285, 292, 441

  Arts Theatre, London 108

  Ashcroft, Peggy 350, 440, 532

  Asherson, Renée 278, 474, 475

  Ashfield, Torquay 35, 47, 70, 88, 95

  Ashton, Winifred see Dane, Clemence

  Associated Theatre Properties Ltd 212, 213, 253

  Astor, Nancy 208, 470

  Astor, Viscount 208

  Attenborough, Richard 311–12, 314–15, 316, 317, 319, 320–1, 322, 323, 324, 329–30, 332, 341, 345, 365, 383–4, 393, 403, 406, 514

  Attlee, Clement 170, 226

  Aurora Productions 373

  Auw, Ivan von 209, 219

  Aylmer, Felix 359, 361, 405–6, 413

  Baghdad, Iraq 81, 110, 246, 273, 276, 277, 336, 347–8, 352, 355, 362, 501, 503

  Bagnold, Enid 5, 14, 192, 440, 444–5, 456; Lottie Dundas 163, 169, 177, 178, 242, 440; The Chalk Garden 440

  Baker, George 424, 426, 427

  Banbury, Frith 349, 400–1

  Bannister, Trevor 440

  Banyai, George 378, 384, 389, 391

  Barnes, Alfred John 170, 172

  Barnes, Howard 187

  Barrie, J. M. 504

  Barrymore, Diana 223, 236

  Barrymore, John 236, 434

  Bath Chronicle 438–9

  Baxter, Beryl 282, 287, 288, 289

  Baylis, Lilian 138

  BBC 2, 22, 108, 109, 111, 122, 242, 265, 304, 332, 372, 381, 406, 525, 530, 562, 564

  Beaumont, Hugh ‘Binkie’ 3, 119, 120, 166, 178, 254, 256–8, 269, 270–1, 290, 313, 398–9, 400, 401, 444–5, 489, 554

  Becker, Bruce 481, 482

  Beckett, Samuel 442, 504; Waiting for Godot 441

  Beckhard, Arthur J. 223

  Bennett, Arnold 40, 47, 143

  Bennett, Vivienne 230

  Benny, Jack 393, 481

  Bentley, E.C. 88

  Berkeley, Anthony 88

  Berman, L.E. 83, 127, 172

  Best, Edna 118–19, 121, 125

  Beveridge Report 198

  Billington, Michael 556–7

  Bird, Elizabeth 412–13

  Birmingham Post 458–9, 461

  Birmingham Repertory Theatre 40, 149, 405, 474

  Black Coffee (film) 99, 105

  Black, Kitty: Upper Circle 256

  Blackman, Honor 514

  Bland, Joyce 86, 89, 93, 96–7, 98, 167

  Bland, Sydney W. 86

  Blue Beard of Unhappiness, The (play) 37, 39

  Blyton, Enid 535; Noddy in Toyland 414–16

  Bodley Head, The 47, 54, 70, 143

  Bondy, Louis 448–9

  Booth Theatre, New York 105, 106

  Boston Herald 296–7

  Boston Post 297

  Boulting, John 311–12, 314–15, 316

  Boulting, Roy 311–12

  Bourne, Austra 172

  Bouwerie Lane Theatre, New York 481

  Boxer, John 86, 96–7, 98

  Boyd, Margot 492, 494, 514

  Boyer, Charles 456

  Boyle, Katie 554

  Bray, Howard 187

  Bristol Hippodrome 467, 475–6

  Britannia of Billingsgate (Slade/Stokes) 97–8, 99, 101

  British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958 (ed. Griffiths/Jones) 15, 454–5, 456

  British Empire Exhibition (1924–5) 47–8

  British Library 19–20, 61

  British School of Archaeology, Baghdad 273, 336, 490

  British Telecom 556

  Broadhurst Theatre, New York 186, 191, 195

  Broadway Theatre, Nyack, New York 48

  Broadway, New York 1, 23–4, 27, 104–7, 108, 118, 119, 122–5, 154, 155, 182–93, 195, 198, 201, 208–9, 219, 220, 223–4, 227, 228, 229, 232, 233–7, 246, 247, 292–301, 313, 322, 329, 337, 368–71, 377–91, 392, 393, 394, 395–6, 412, 414, 423, 424, 456–7, 463, 480–3, 503, 526, 528, 554 see also under individual play and theatre name

  Broke, Lord Willoughby de 55, 94

  Brook, Clive 359, 361

  Brook, Peter 457

  Brown, Ivor 93, 100, 121–2, 166, 168, 169, 170, 175, 178, 214, 231, 246, 280, 320–1, 411, 442

  Brunskill, Jack 363

  Bute, Lionel 73, 74, 75, 78

  Butterworth, Thornton 137, 138

  Cade, Jared: Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days 71, 448

  Cadell, Jean 362

  Cambridge Arts Theatre 273, 274, 564

  Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, The (ed. Aston/Reinelt) 14

  Cambridge Magazine 143

  Cambridge Theatre, London 120–1, 177, 179

  Carroll, Sydney W. 85, 86, 87

  Carter, Howard 136

  Casalis, Jeanne de 272–3, 274, 275, 276, 280, 281, 282, 285–7, 288, 289

  Casson, Lewis 49, 397, 502; Crime 502–3

  Cauldfield, Richard 429, 440

  Chapman, James 506–7

  Chapman, John: Dry Rot 340, 406; Move Over Mrs Markham 533–4

  Charles, Moie 162, 163, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 248, 259, 313, 552

  Chekhov, Anton 262, 368, 370, 382, 383

  Cherrell, Gwen 424

  Cheyney, Peter: Dangerous Curves 420; The Urgent Hangman 419, 420

  Chodorov, Edward 298

  Christie, Archie (AC’s first husband) 7, 47–8, 58, 64, 69–71, 81, 112, 136–7, 233, 396, 448, 449, 490, 502, 534

  Christie Archive Trust 18–19, 43, 112, 126, 127, 158, 221, 225, 306, 335, 336, 407, 430, 453, 468, 505, 538

  Christie, Dorothy and Campbell (Archie Christie’s brother) Carrington VC 233, 360, 376; Grand National Night 233; His Excellency 279, 457; Someone at the Door 233; The Touch of Fear 233

  Churchill, Winston 152, 226, 400

  Clare, Mary 213, 214–15

  Clark, Ernest 282, 287, 380, 528

  Clark, Frank 225

  Clarke-Smith, Douglas A. 93, 108–9, 367, 382, 383

  Clift, E.P. 55, 84, 214, 216, 217, 218, 278

  Co-operative Labour Party 170

  Co-operative Society 172–4

  Coch
ran, C.B. 36–7, 55, 130, 159, 160, 161, 192–3, 503, 504, 546

  Cochran, Evelyn 36

  Cohen, Irving 388

  Collier, Shirley 223

  Collier’s Weekly 484

  Collins 70, 81, 125, 157, 405, 435, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567

  Collins, Wilkie 62

  Comedy Theatre, London 242, 278, 476, 513

  commedia dell’arte 38, 73

  Compton, Fay 434, 435

  Conan Doyle, Arthur 62, 257, 268

  Conference of Women Theatre Directors and Administrators 15

  Connaught Theatre, Worthing 163

  Conservative Party 59, 207, 400, 443

  Cooney, Ray 533, 552

  Cork, Edmund 291, 378, 405, 484, 498; A Daughter’s a Daughter and 145, 146, 148, 240, 428, 434; AC’s finances and 534, 535, 536, 527; AC’s publishing contracts and 81; After Dinner and 74; Alibi and 83, 230; Appointment with Death 210, 211–12, 213, 217, 218; archives 21–3, 27; begins to represent AC 21–3; Chimneys and 302, 303; correspondence, nature of 21–2, 23, 26; death 554; entertainment tax, on 444; Fiddlers Five and 541, 544, 545, 547, 548; Go Back for Murder and 490; Hicks and 267; Hidden Horizon and 228–9, 234; The Hollow and 265, 273–4, 276–7, 278, 293, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, 377, 388; Miss Perry and 532, 533, 551; The Mousetrap and 310–11, 315, 329, 347, 393–4; Murder at the Vicarage and 240, 241–2, 246; Murder on the Nile and 238; Ober and 480–1; Olding and 481; Peril at End House and 149–50; Rule of Three and 507, 509, 512, 513, 524, 525; Spider’s Web and 412; succeeds Massie 39; Ten Little Niggers and 157, 158–9, 160, 161, 163–4, 165, 166, 182, 188, 192, 196, 198, 517, 518; The Secret of Chimneys and 70; Towards Zero and 219, 416, 417–18, 421–3, 425; The Unexpected Guest and 468; Verdict and 446, 452; Wasp’s Nest and 110–11; Witness for the Prosecution and 377, 378, 379, 381–2, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 396, 421, 437

  Copyrights Trust 535–6

  Cornell, Katherine 237

  Cosmopolitan 304

  Cotes, Peter 16, 17, 312–14, 316, 317, 318–19, 321, 322, 323, 330–3, 338, 382, 383–4, 400–1, 421–2

  Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) 150, 168, 171, 178, 254, 269

  Counsell, John 371

  Courier 462–3

  Courtneidge, Cicely 273, 278, 402, 412, 551

  Courville, Albert de 181–2, 183–4, 185, 187–9, 219, 220, 225–6, 234, 235, 293

  Coward, Noël 6, 37, 49, 52, 118–19, 153, 442, 503, 535, 549; Blithe Spirit 6, 56, 215, 232, 325; Present Laughter 6; Private Lives 52, 215, 232, 401; Quadrille 320; Relative Values 287; The Better Half 49; This Year of Grace 503–4; Tonight at 8.30 53, 147, 153, 503; the Vortex 83

  Crawford, Anne 412–13

  Crime and Detective Stories 82

  Criterion Theatre, London 279, 287, 518

  Croft, Freeman Wills 88

  Curran, John 17, 82, 410; Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks 17–18; Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making 17–18

  Curtain Up magazine 54

  Curtis Brown, Spencer 247

  Daily Express 157, 335, 367, 520

  Daily Herald 122, 479

  Daily Mail 76, 108, 122, 145, 231, 367–8, 466, 477, 479, 494, 520, 562

  Daily Mirror 367, 464

  Daily News, New York 122–3, 388

  Daily Sketch 321, 479

  Daily Telegraph 85, 122, 151, 232, 266, 337, 366–7, 441, 460, 477, 479, 523, 554

  Dane, Clemence 5, 14, 80–1, 146, 148, 192, 247, 440, 456, 558; A Bill of Divorcement 55–7, 69, 153, 237, 488; Enter Sir John 88

  Daniely, Lisa 495, 496–7

  Darbon, Leslie 555

  Darwin, Charles 43–4

  Davis, Allan 548–9

  Davison, Emily 46

  Day, Frances 243

  de Leon, Herbert 402, 403, 405, 412, 413, 414, 464, 495

  Dean, Basil 22, 53, 54–6, 57, 58, 75, 81, 83, 84–5, 105, 112, 119, 145–8, 150, 154, 178, 183, 240, 241, 247, 285, 292, 377, 430, 434, 440, 482

  Dearsley, A.P.: Fly Away Peter 257, 423

  Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act (1907) 67–8

  Delaney, Shelagh: A Taste of Honey 455–6, 558

  Delderfield, R. F.: Worm’s Eye View 242, 279

  Derwent, Clarence 223–4, 236, 317, 343

  Derwent, Elfrida 223

  Detection Club 22, 35, 88

  Detective Fiction Weekly 126

  Deval, Jacques 107

  Dexter, Aubrey 346, 348

  Dickens, Charles 22, 287, 308, 326

  Dietrich, Marlene 392

  Dodd, Mead & Co. 81, 185, 187, 304, 386, 405, 484, 562, 564, 565

  Donat, Robert 86, 98, 214, 359, 361, 474

  Doonan, Patric 393

  Dorothy Allen agency 153

  Douglas-Home, William 290; The Manor at Northstead 340, 388–9, 406, 483

  Douglas, Colin 287, 289

  Douglas, Wallace 16, 109, 338, 340–1, 342, 349, 382, 406–7, 412, 414, 494, 519

  Dramatists Guild of America 150, 184, 234, 293, 295, 379, 391

  du Maurier, Daphne 178, 271, 440; Rebecca 223, 236; September Tide 255

  du Maurier, Gerald 75–6, 77, 80, 108, 167, 283, 378, 419

  Duchess Theatre, London 120, 162, 215, 290, 320, 406, 467, 475, 476, 477, 483–4, 491, 492, 493, 494, 497, 498, 499, 513, 514, 517, 525, 551

  Duff, Charles: The Lost Summer – The Heyday of the West End Theatre 400–1

  Duke of York’s Theatre, London 99, 290, 491, 499, 517, 525, 555

  Dundee Evening Telegraph 205–6

  Dundee Repertory Theatre 199, 203, 204–6, 216, 217, 230, 563

  Edgar Allen Poe Award, Mystery Writers Guild of America 390

  Edinburgh Festival 478

  Edinburgh, Duke of 371, 411, 412

  Edwardes, Olga 152

  Egan, Beresford 462–3

  Egypt 36, 43, 47, 134–6, 137–41, 143, 144, 145, 156, 194, 199, 201, 205, 206, 231, 240, 451

  Eleven Twenty Three Ltd 149, 150, 198, 228, 234

  Eliot, T.S.: Murder at the Cathedral 153

  Elizabeth II see Queen Elizabeth II

  Elliot, Rand 223

  Ellis, Ruth 489

  Elyot, Kevin 555

  Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London 85–9, 91–3, 95–6, 97–102, 127, 151, 167, 191, 205, 216, 302, 344, 383, 414, 509, 562

  Empire Theatre, Edinburgh 365

  Englind, Arvid 191

  English Stage Company 308–9, 441

  Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) 11, 148, 162, 171, 178, 191

  Entertainment Tax 254–8, 272, 289, 401, 442–5, 460

  Equity (UK) 189, 190, 223, 253, 317, 343, 406

  Erlanger Theatre, Philadelphia 122

  Ervine, Saint John 78

  Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York 122

  Evans, Edith 256, 287, 423

  Evening News 64, 280, 479

  Evening Standard 280, 427, 527

  Exton, Clive 555

  Farebrother, Violet 475

  Farndale Pictures Ltd (later Farndale Ltd) 163, 166, 169, 170, 171, 174, 177, 181, 184, 195, 206, 242, 243, 244, 278, 440

  Federation of Theatre Unions 253

  Feldstein, Robert 395

  Fernald, John 316–17, 331, 332

  Festival of Britain (1951) 269, 286

  Fichandler, Zelda 394

  Field, Anthony 269–70

  Fielding, Harold 498

  Film Rights (agency) 341, 342

  Financial Times 524, 525

  Firbank, Ann 493, 494

  First World War (1914-18) 7, 23, 47, 54, 56, 93, 112, 129, 144, 149, 335, 420, 422

  Fishbach, John Paul 95

  Fisher, Charlotte 69–70, 71

  Flamm, Donald 385–6

  Flanagan, Bud 232, 265

  Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary 41

  Fleming, Ian 151

  Fontaine, Joan 481–3

  Fortune Theatre, London 93, 277, 278, 279, 281, 285, 286–7, 302, 311, 418, 552

  Foster, Dianne 282
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  Franken, Rose 178

  Fulton Theatre, New York 122, 124

  Furse, Judith 412

  Furse, Roger 305

  Gale, Maggie B.: West End Women 14, 15

  Gardner, Judith 71

  Gardner, Lyn 441

  Garrick Club, London 303

  Garrick Theatre, London 75, 314, 320, 420

  Gaylen, Danae 151, 156, 197, 205, 231

  Genn, Leo 337, 338, 345, 346, 349, 350

  Geoffrey Hastings Ltd see Hastings, Geoffrey

  George VI, King 287, 288

  Gibson, Chloe 437

  Gielgud Theatre, London 256, 556

  Gielgud, John 119, 136, 137, 154, 177, 255, 256, 287–8, 368, 397, 434, 476, 532

  Gilbert and Sullivan 35; Iolanthe 68; The Yeoman of the Guard 35–6

  Gill, Gillian: Agatha Christie: The Woman and her Mysteries 13

  Glanville, Stephen 136, 137, 156, 174–5, 176, 194, 204, 206, 274, 451

  Glasgow, Mary 269

  Glass, Eric 332

  Globe Theatre, London 169, 177, 215, 256, 459–60

  Golders Green Hippodrome, London 412

  Gough, Reginald and Esther 305

  Grand Guignol 9, 48–50, 53, 73, 75, 76, 109, 112, 124, 502–3, 504, 505, 521, 526

  Grand Magazine 111

  Grand Theatre, Swansea 78

  Grant, John 548

  Grantham, A.E.: The Wisdom of Akhnaton 143–4

  Gray, Dulcie 555

  Green, Frank 157, 186

  Greenfield, George 414–16

  Greenway, Devon 18, 26, 154, 156, 226, 291, 325, 334, 534, 539, 540

  Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York 396

  Gregg, Hubert 26, 313, 340, 341, 349, 375, 382, 383, 406, 407, 442 466, 474, 490, 539–40, 541, 548; on AC’s legacy 553; Agatha Christie and All That Mousetrap 17, 24–5, 265–6; Go Back for Murder and 24–5, 490, 494, 495, 496, 497; The Hollow and 265–6, 267, 268, 274, 275, 280, 282–5, 286, 287, 380, 383; The Mousetrap and 313–16, 318, 319, 322–3, 325, 333, 420; Rule of Three and 506, 507, 512, 514–17, 518, 520, 523, 526; The Unexpected Guest and 467, 468, 469, 472–3, 474, 475–6, 477

  Greneker, Claude 235

  Grimston, Dorothy 75

  ‘the Group’ (theatre owning cartel) 120, 178, 213, 253, 254, 268, 272, 278, 290, 319, 330, 364, 410, 423, 459

  Group Theatre, New York 382–3, 459

  Guardian (Manchester Guardian until 1959) 441, 492, 495, 518–19, 521, 556–7

  Gullan, Campbell 120

  Gurney, Claude 217, 230

  Guthrie, Tyrone 257

  Guyler, Deryck 328

  Gyseghem, André van 86, 92–3, 100, 101, 197, 205, 292, 382–3, 414, 415

  H.M. Tennent Ltd 120, 122, 137, 153, 166, 169, 170, 177, 178, 218, 232–3, 253, 254–8, 271, 272, 278, 287, 290, 292, 313, 320, 397–8, 399–400, 410, 440, 442–3, 459–60, 476, 554–5 see also Tennent, Henry Moncrieff ‘Harry’; Tennent Plays Ltd and Tennent Productions Ltd