julia neilson (23 Ergebnisse)

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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine antique copy of a photographic portrait, printed by a lithographic progress in Circa 1890. From an original photograph by W & D Downey. Mounted and ready to frame. A splended opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. After a brilliant career at the Royal Academy of Music , she made her debut at the Lyceum in 1888; her greatest success was as Rosalind in the record-breaking run of 'As You Like It'.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original illustration from The Tatler. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this distinguished personage. The portrait depicts the two of them sitting talking. It is entitled 'Old and Valued Friends - whose large and faithful following will welcome this page".

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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine antique copy of a photographic portrait, printed by a lithographic progress in Circa 1890. From an original photograph by W & D Downey. Mounted and ready to frame. A splended opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. After a brilliant career at the Royal Academy of Music , she made her debut at the Lyceum in 1888; her greatest success was as Rosalind in the record-breaking run of 'As You Like It'.

Photopostkarte. Zustand: Gut. Photopostkarte schwarzweiss bildseitig von Julia Neilson signiert, umseitig adressiert und frankiert und mit mehrzeiliger eigenhändiger Mitteilung "Autograph signed with pleasure, will you in return send me a trifle towards some charity Thanking you in anticipation. [Adresse]", gestempelt in Oroydon 1905 /// Julia Emilie Neilson (12 June 1868 - 27 May 1957) was an English actress best known for her numerous performances as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, for her roles in many tragedies and historical romances, and for her portrayal of Rosalind in a long-running production of As You Like It. After establishing her reputation in a series of plays by W. S. Gilbert in 1888, Neilson joined the company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree, where she remained for five years, meeting her future husband, Fred Terry (brother to actresses Kate, Ellen, Marion and Florence Terry and great uncle of John Gielgud). With Terry, she played in London and on tour for nearly three decades. She was the mother of the actress Phyllis Neilson-Terry and actor Dennis Neilson-Terry. Neilson was born in London, the only child of Alexander Ritchie Neilson, a jeweller, and his wife, Emilie Davis, a member of a family of five Jewish sisters, many of whose offspring became actresses. Neilson's parents divorced shortly after her birth, and her father soon died, leaving her mother to struggle to support her child. Her mother much later married a solicitor, William Morris, the widower of the actress Florence Terry, elder sister of the actor Fred Terry, who had, by that time, married Neilson. Neilson was an indifferent student. At the age of twelve, she was sent to a boarding school in Wiesbaden, Germany, where she learned to speak French and German and began to study music, discovering that she excelled at this. She returned to England to enter the Royal Academy of Music in 1884, at the age of fifteen, to study piano. She soon discovered that she had a talent as a singer, winning the Llewellyn Thomas Gold Medal (1885), the Westmoreland Scholarship (1886) and the Sainton Dolby Prize (1886). While at the Academy, in 1887, she sang at the St James's Hall and also played roles in amateur theatre. Early stage career The Era Almanack, 1894 Neilson met the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, who cast her in her first professional stage appearance in March 1888. She played Cynisca in a charity matinée of his play, Pygmalion and Galatea, at the Lyceum Theatre, and later that year, in the same play, she was the lead character, Galatea, in a similar matinée at the Savoy Theatre. Gilbert suggested that the statuesque young woman concentrate her career on acting rather than singing, and he coached her on acting. Her next role was Lady Hilda in a revival of Gilbert's Broken Hearts. Gilbert wrote the lyrics to a short song for her to sing during Act I, and she proposed that a fellow student of hers at the Royal Academy, Edward German, should set it to music. She then played Selene in a revival of Gilbert's The Wicked World. In November 1888, she created the role of Ruth Redmayne in Rutland Barrington's production of Gilbert's Brantinghame Hall. These roles led to an invitation for Neilson to join Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company, in which she toured in Captain Swift, The Red Lamp and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She remained with Tree's company for five years at the Haymarket Theatre as a tragedienne, beginning with the role of Julie de Noirville in A Man's Shadow, which opened in September 1889. In 1891, Neilson married another actor in the company, Fred Terry, the brother of Gilbert's former protégée, Marion Terry (and the actresses Kate, Ellen and Florence Terry). Neilson and her husband appeared together in Sydney Grundy's translation of the French play A Village Priest and numerous other productions together with Tree's company, including Beau Austin, Hamlet, Peril and Gilbert's Comedy and Tragedy (1890). She also played Drusilla Ives in The Dancing Girl (1891) by Henry Arthur Jones, and Terry and Neilson's daughter Phyllis was born in 1892. Neilson was soon back on stage as Lady Isobel in Jones's The Tempter (1893),[2] and created the role of Hester Worsley in Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893). A review of Neilson's performance in the play Ballad Monger in 1890 declared: Postcard photo, 1890s Miss Neilson's really wonderful singing took the curtain up on the very keynote of the beautiful and pathetic play. And to her singing no higher tribute can be paid. One of these days, we do not doubt, it will be possible to write in the same strain about her acting. In that there is splendid promise. And the promise will come the more near to performance when she is a trifle less conscious of her remarkable physical beauty, and of the fact that she has been to some extent rushed into her present position.[3] In June 1894, Neilson and Terry appeared together in Shall We Forgive Her? by Frank Harvey at the Adelphi Theatre, with Neilson as Grace. The next year, she played Lady Chiltern in Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband at the Haymarket under the management of Lewis Waller. She gave birth to her second child, Dennis, in October 1895. Two months later, the family travelled to America to perform with John Hare's company. There they played together in New York in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Arthur Wing Pinero, with Neilson as Agnes. In 1896, they returned to England where, at the St James's Theatre, Neilson played Princess Flavia in The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, remaining at that theatre for two years. There she played Rosalind in the extremely successful run of As You Like It (in which role she toured North America in 1895 and 1910). She played the title role in Pinero's The Princess and the Butterfly in 1897.[4] Her husband appeared with her in The Tree of Knowledge and other plays from October 1897 until the summer of 1898; her roles included Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Next, they appeared in The Gipsy Earl. Again with Tree's comp.

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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Photographer Barraud, London (illustrator). A fine antique copy of a photographic portrait, printed by a lithographic progress,from the theatre magazine. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a fascinating theatrical portrait.

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Vintage archive monochrome photograph with the artist in theatrical costume. 5½" x 3½" [140 mm x 90 mm] portrait. SIGNED by the artist in blue fountain pen. In Very Good condition with 20 mm closed tear to left side. Member of the P.B.F.A. PHOTOGRAPHS.

See her entry and that of Macqueen-Pope in the Oxford DNB. The two items are in fair condition, on aged and lightly-worn paper. Both with the valediction and signature in a large flowing hand, and the second letter also with an autograph postscript. Both are 1p, 4to, and folded three times. ONE (7 July 1952): Addressed to 'Popie my dear' and with autograph valediction 'Yours always / Julia'. She has 'not been too well for over a year', and the previous year her 'stupid heart did foolish things', and she was 'ordered to bed for six weeks or more'. She is still 'not allowed to do too much'. She concludes: 'I suppose it is something to have lived to eighty-four, and it is not so easy to throw off things as when one was young. Still, I have had a very good innings, haven't I, and should be contented. I am.' TWO (19 June 1953): Addressed to 'Dear thoughtful Popie', with autograph valediction 'My love / Julia', with autograph postscript 'Everything seems "touched" in this letter!!!' (As the following indicates she uses the word 'touched' twice.) She was 'very touched by your very sweet and I must say flattering telegram to old Julia'. He was 'a dear to take the trouble to remember the eightyfive-year-old girl and she is always touched by the charming little compliments you pay her'. She hopes they will 'meet again soon at a little luncheon', and will arrange that later on.

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2 pages, 4to To Lady Russell, fulsomely apologising for not keeping an arrangement with her.

1 page, 4to To ("Little") Miss Wilkie, thanking her for her letter saying that she enjoyed a play.

Album page. 22.5 x 18, sl. mottled, and Neilson's contribution sl. faded. Neilson writes in an expansive handwriting, "And I am Nell - Nell of Old Drury | Julia Neilson". Elen Terry writes below, "And I am Nell! Nell of the old Lyceum! - and sister-in-law of Julia Neilson - the good & beautiful. | Ellen Terry [underlined] = Southport = 19-April - 1904 =". Note: Neilson starred in 'Sweet Nell of Old Drury' by Paul Kester but I have yet to find out which "Nell" Ellen Terry played unless, as seems likely, she's making a play on her own name. SEE IMAGE.

See her entry and that of her husband Fred Terry (1863-1933), brother of Dame Ellen Terry, and of the recipient of these letters W. J. Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), the foremost British theatre historian of the twentieth century, in the Oxford DNB. The seven items (Neilson's five letters and carbon copies of two typed letters to her from Macqueen-Pope) are in good condition, lightly aged and creased. The first letter is signed 'Julia Neilson-Terry' and the other four 'Julia'. The first is addressed to 'Mr Macqueen Pope' and the others to 'Popie'. ONE: ALS, 1 March 1949. 3pp, landscape 12mo. On grey paper with thin mourning border. She invites him as her guest to 'a dinner given by the Saturday Club: Dame Lilian Barker J.P. etc our President is in the Chair & its usually an interesting evening'. She gives details of time and dress and names the speakers as Miss Sybil Campbell and Dr Halliday Sutherland. She realizes it is 'a long way off', but hopes to 'be lucky to have you with us', as well as Irene Vanburgh. TWO: TLS, 19 June 1949. 1p, 8vo. She thanks him for flowers and a 'sweet message', and was sorry he could not be present at the 'cheery tea' (in celebration of her eightieth birthday?): 'Of course I didn't mind you telling the Press. It was darling of you to think that I should have it, but I must confess that I was a little awed and surprised when they arrived in the garden and started to take interviews and photographs. Oh, my dear, you naughty dear! Still, a lovely dear to have thought of this old lady.' THREE: TLS, 20 June 1950. 1p, 8vo. She thanks him again for a 'lovely message' on her birthday. 'I had a happy day, but I now arrange that there shall be no more birthdays after this last!' Florid signature, in red ink, '& thank you! | Julia'. FOUR: TLS, 26 June 1951. 1p, 8vo. Expressing pleasure at receiving his latest book. 'I think you are the most amazing man to have to probe into the past and find the wonderful and complete history of the profession. | I love this last one of yours, and I love the message with it and am very proud to possess this copy. | Thank you, my dear, many many times for remembering Julia.' FIVE: TLS, 28 June 1955. 1p, 8vo. Begins: 'Popie, my Dear, | Thank you both a thousand times for your sweet thoughts of me on the 12th. Your love and affection always touches me very deeply, my dear friend.' There is gradual improvement after her 'recent illness', 'But as they so rightly tell me - eighty-seven is not twenty-seven! I find I tire very easily.' She is impressed that Sylvia Grey has got through her operation 'with flying colours at 90! What a woman! | I expect you're working as hard as ever, and that there's another book on the way? What a fiend for work you are!' SIX and SEVEN: Unsigned carbon copies of letters by Macqueen-Pope to her. SIX: 3 March 1949 (1p, 4to), in reply to Item One. It is 'terrible', but he must decline, as he has 'a broadcast booked for that date [.] It is for Overseas, but it is an hour's shot with bands, choirs and all sorts of things - part of a series'. SEVEN: 5 June 1951. 1p, 4to. He sends 'two nice gangway seats for the Palace on Saturday', and has been 'writing some nice things about you in my book about Ivor [Novello]'.