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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
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
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