Play, based on Alexander Dumas' story La Dame aux Camellias.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Lyric Theatre
{Above a stylized picture of two performers:} Lyric Theatre Built by C.J. Phi...
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Leslie Howard
Actor and film director. Born Leslie Howard Steiner at 31 Westbourne Road, Forest Hill. He began his career as a stage actor in Britain and the USA. In films, he appeared in 'Berkeley Square', 'The...
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Collins Music Hall
As Sam Vagg (1827-65) he was a chimney sweep but as Sam Collins he was an "Irish" singer. In 1862 he took over the Lansdowne Arms, turned it into a music hall and renamed it after himself. Sam died...
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St Martin's Theatre
Designed by Sprague, this theatre is one of a pair (the other being the Ambassadors next door) commissioned by Richard Verney Lord Willoughby de Broke, an aristocrat and politician with an interest...
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Ann Oldfield
Actress. Possibly born in Pall Mall. Worked a lot for the Drury Lane company. Died at home in Grosvenor Street at 59 or 60, depending on source - perhaps the street has been renumbered.
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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St Mary Colechurch
EC2, Old Jewry, 36/37
We don't understand why the plaque presents the name as 'Cole Church' since everywhere else it's given as 'Colechurch'. St. Thomas Becke...
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Maria Anna of Spain
Infanta of Spain, daughter of King Phillip III. She was considered as a possible wife for Charles, Prince of Wales, (The future King Charles I) which became known as the 'Spanish Match'. In 1623 Ch...
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Cato Street Conspiracy
A plot to murder the Tory Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and the whole cabinet, as they had dinner at a house on Grosvenor Square. The dinner had been announced in a newspaper but this was probabl...
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Cholmondeley
Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu conceived the idea behind Operation Mincemeat and carried it out. He joined the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve (RAFVR) in 1939 and was commissioned as a pilot offi...
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