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Description: | These albums are Barry Jones' personal record of his career on stage and screen and include photographs, some press cuttings, letters, a film script. Barry Jones, actor and manager, began his career with Frank Benson. In 1923 he went to America where he remained until 1931. He entered into partnership with Maurice Colbourne in 1928 and toured America and Canada with a repertory mainly made up of plays by George Bernard Shaw. The association with Shaw's plays was to last throughout his career.
On his return to London he managed the Ambassadors' Theatre. His subsequent career was split between London and America.
Archive reference number: THM/156. (18 volumes) | Format: | Correspondence Press cuttings Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Photographs (production) Scrapbooks Photographs (portrait) | Subjects: | 1894-1965 Maurice Dale Actors - Great Britain; Theatrical managers Colbourne | Temporal: | 20th century 1921-1964 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Jones, Barry, 1893-1981 | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Correspondence Press cuttings Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Photographs (production) Scrapbooks Photographs (portrait) | Go to resource |
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