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Alderson Burrell Horne

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The Directory of Directors for ...: A List of the Directors of the Joint Stock Companies of the United Kingdom and the Companies with which They are Concerned, with Such Other Particulars as are Considered to be of Use and
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Horne was married a second time, to Gillian Scaife, who survived him. She had children Christopher Scaife and Susan Scaife, mother of Sally Flemington.
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Beginning an involvement with theatre, initially as a backer, Horne ultimately became an actor-manager. He supported
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The Westminster Theatre was bought from Horne in 1946 by the Westminster Memorial Trust, who ran it on behalf of
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from 1931 to 1947, Horne took leading roles in productions there, under the stage name
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The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
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and continued to 1911, when it became a cinema. Again, in 1911, he supported
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as resident director. That year, the company had a run of three weeks for
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Only by Failure: The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2011).
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Horne in 1925 took over management of the Festival Theatre of the
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He was the son of Edgar Horne (1820–1905), and younger brother of
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Sidnell, Michael J. "Group Theatre of London (act. 1932–1939)".
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Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City
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in its October 1935 production by the Group Theatre.
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Index

William Edgar Horne
Westminster School
Pembroke College, Oxford
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Balcombe
Reginald Blomfield

Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Scala Theatre
F. T. Verity
John Eugene Vedrenne
Dennis Eadie
Royalty Theatre
curtain raiser
A. A. Milne
World War I
Lena Ashwell
YMCA
Nigel Playfair
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
Arnold Bennett
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club
Tyrone Guthrie
James Bernard Fagan
Oxford Playhouse
Ibsen
Somerset Maugham
Roland Pertwee
Westminster Theatre
Robert Eddison

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