Curtain Up (79 page)

Melman, Billie,
Women and the Popular Imagination in the 1920s: Flappers and Nymphs
(Macmillan, 1988)

Morgan, Kenneth O,
Britain Since 1945: the People's Peace
(Oxford University Press, 1990/2001)

Pugh, Martin,
We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
(Bodley Head, 2008)

Sandbrook, Dominic,
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
(Little, Brown, 2005)

Steadman, Raymond William,
The Serials: Suspense and Drama by Installment
(University of Oklahoma Press, US, 1971)

Weigall, Arthur,
The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharoah of Egypt
(Thornton Butterworth 1910/revised edition 1922)

Other publications of interest

Allen, M.D., ‘Barbara Toy',
Dictionary of Literary Biography
, Vol 204:
British Travel Writers 1940–1997
(Gale, USA, 1999)

Cameron, Rebecca S., ‘Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Women's Drama before 1945' (
Modern Drama
, vol. 44, no. 4, 2001)

Chambers, Diane M, ‘Triangular Desire and the Sororal Bond: The “Deceased Wife's Sister Bill”' (
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
, vol. 29, no. 1, 1996)

Conference of Women Theatre Directors and Administrators
, The Status of Women in British Theatre 1982–1983
(Survey, 1983)

Curran, John, ‘Black Coffee: A Mystery within a Mystery' (
Crime and Detective Stories
, no. 67, 2014)

Dalby, Richard, ‘Spotlight on Agatha Christie', (
Book and Magazine Collector
, no. 174, 1998)

Earl, John, ‘
How West End Theatreland Happened'
(
The Matcham Journal
, edition 1, 2014)

Harmston, Joe (Artistic Director of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company), Programme notes for the ACTC's productions of
The Hollow
(2006),
The Unexpected Guest
(2007),
And Then There Were None
(2008/2015),
Spider's Web
(2009),
Witness for the Prosecution
(2010),
Verdict
(2011),
Murder on The Nile
(2012),
Go Back For Murder
(2013),
Black Coffee
(2014) (John Good)

Heinrich, Anselm, ‘Theatre in Britain During the Second World War' (
New Theatre Quarterly
, vol. 26, no. 1, 2010)

Seal, Lizzie, ‘
Public Reactions to the Case of Mary Wilson, The Last Woman to be Sentenced to Death in England and Wales'
(papers from the
British Criminology Conference
, vol 8, 2008)

Torremans, Professor Paul and Castrillon, Professor Carmen Otero Garcia, ‘Reversionary Copyright: a Ghost of the Past or a Current Trap to Assignments of Copyright?' (
Intellectual Property Quarterly
, no. 2, 2012)

Wandor, Michelene, ‘The Impact of Feminism on the Theatre',
The Feminist Review
, no.18, 1984

Websites

Doollee database of modern plays in English (doollee.com)

The Internet Broadway database (ibdb.com)

The Internet Movie database (imdb.com)

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (oxforddnb.com)

The Theatres Trust (theatrestrust.org.uk)

Archives visited by the author

In the UK:

The Christie Archive Trust (including correspondence between Agatha Christie, Max Mallowan and Rosalind Hicks; Agatha Christie's notebooks, unpublished work and draft scripts; typescripts of the plays of Agatha Christie and M.F. Watts)

The Peter Saunders business papers (including correspondence with Agatha Christie); extensive private collection

The Hughes Massie/Agatha Christie archive, Exeter University (including correspondence between Edmund Cork, Harold Ober and Agatha Christie) and the Hughes Massie licensing records (card index) held at Agatha Christie Ltd

The Lord Chamberlain's Plays collection and the Lord Chamberlain's Plays Correspondence files; British Library

The H.M. Tennent Theatrical Companies Bill correspondence, the Embassy Theatre archive and the Mousetrap prompt copy, programme and press archive; Theatre and Performance Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum

The People's Entertainment Society archive; National Co-operative Archive, Manchester

The Basil Dean archive (including correspondence with Agatha Christie); John Rylands Library, University of Manchester

Hubert Gregg's papers (including director's notes and correspondence with Agatha Christie); small private collection

Various records of the Embassy Theatre; Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

In the USA:

The Shubert Archive, New York

The Gilbert Miller Collection: Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

The Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The Theatre Collection, Museum of the City of New York

Other archives contributing material

Companies House archive

Martha's Vineyard Gazette
archive, USA

Bertie Meyer's Agatha Christie contracts (small private collection)

University of Bristol Theatre Collection

Scottish Theatre Archive; Glasgow University Special Collections

Theatre Royal, Bath archive

Digital archives

The BBC archive (bbc.co.uk/archive)

The
Guardian
and
Observer
archive (Cambridge University Library ejournals)

The Hansard archive (hansard-archive.parliament.uk)

The
London Gazette
archive (thegazette.co.uk)

The
New York Times
archive (Cambridge University Library ejournals)

The Stage
archive (archive.thestage.co.uk)

The Times
archive (Cambridge University Library ejournals)

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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

Cochran, 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