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John Martin-Harvey
This is the story of an actor-manager. He was born in Wivenhoe and was apprenticed to his father's boat-building firm there, but decided to go into the theatre and after a fourteen-year training at the Lyceum, under Irving, founded his own company and scored a success with 'The Only Way', his own adaptation of Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'. The Martin-Harvey Company ran for forty years. It toured extensively, including eight trips to Canada and produced thirty-one full-length plays. Martin-Harvey was gifted with great energy and enthusiasm and was recognised as a great man in his time. These achievements are now remembered by only a few. This book is an attempt to remedy this. Appendices give complete lists of his plays, tours, and important dates in his life.
Martin Harvey : Some Pages of His Life
Martin Harvey, a polished, successful and distinguished actor manager, the head of a permanently established company of earnest players, a great figure in the gallery of stage heroes; a producer of fine plays, and the creator of beautiful theatrical effects. I hope to give in a form acceptable to admirers who exist by the thousands, throughout the English-speaking world, a series of pictures of Martin Harvey, the actor. If, lurking behind the mask of the actor, a man stands revealed by any efforts within these covers, I shall have no cause to regret that I adventured on a somewhat difficult undertaking.
A Bunch Of Sweet Peas
In 1911, in the Scottish Border village of Sprouston, the young parish minister wrote to the Daily Mail for entry forms for its sweet pea competition.The top prize was a staggering £1000 and organisers predicted that as many as 15,000 would enter. He could not foretell that the paper's estimate of the number of competitors would be more than doubled, or that a fortnight before the deadline a nation-wide drought would threaten the very existence of the sweet peas he was so painstakingly cultivating. This touching - and beautifully illustrated - tale is based on a true story.
