Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater

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Notes ELG Eva Le Gallienne LC Library of Congress MW Margaret Webster chapter 1 1. Margaret Webster, The Same Only Different: Five Generations of a Great Theatre Family (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969), 264. 2. MW, The Same Only Different, 209. 3. MW, The Same Only Different, 209. 4. MW, The Same Only Different, 228. 5. Helen Sheehy, Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), 32; also, New York Times, November 26, 1972. 6. May Whitty, letter to Ben Webster, April 13, 1908, LC. 7. MW, The Same Only Different, 240. 8. Katharine Cockin, Edith Craig (1869–1947): Dramatic Lives (London: Cassell, 1998), 124. 9. MW, The Same Only Different, 263. 10. MW, The Same Only Different, 263. 11. MW, The Same Only Different, 237. 12. MW, The Same Only Different, 269. 13. MW, letter to May Whitty, May 15, 1917, LC. 14. MW, letter to May Whitty, October 22, 1917, LC. 15. Roger Manvell, Ellen Terry (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968), 309. 16. Manvell, Ellen Terry, 309. 17. MW, The Same Only Different, 271. 18. MW, The Same Only Different, 273. 19. MW, letter to May Whitty, October 13, 1918, LC. 20. MW, letter to May Whitty, May 5, 1919, LC. 21. MW, The Same Only Different, 274. 22. MW, The Same Only Different, 275. 23. MW, The Same Only Different, 276. 24. MW, The Same Only Different, 276. 25. MW, The Same Only Different, 283. 26. MW, The Same Only Different, 283. 27. Jonathan Croall, Gielgud: A Theatrical Life (New York: Continuum International , 2001), 26. 313 28. MW, letter to May Whitty, May 20, 1923, LC. 29. MW, letter to May Whitty, June 7, 1923, LC. 30. MW, letter to May Whitty, May 20, 1923, LC. 31. MW, The Same Only Different, 285. 32. MW, The Same Only Different, 286–87 33. MW, The Same Only Different, 290–91. 34. MW, The Same Only Different, 292. 35. MW, The Same Only Different, 292. 36. Maurice Evans, All This . . . and Evans Too! (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987), 10. 37. MW, The Same Only Different, 293. 38. MW, The Same Only Different, 293. 39. MW, The Same Only Different, 294. 40. MW, The Same Only Different, 294–95. 41. MW, The Same Only Different, 297. 42. MW, The Same Only Different, 298. 43. MW, The Same Only Different, 299. 44. MW, The Same Only Different, 301. 45. MW, The Same Only Different, 302. 46. MW, The Same Only Different, 302–3. 47. MW, The Same Only Different, 303. chapter 2 1. MW, The Same Only Different, 307. 2. MW, The Same Only Different, 308. 3. MW, letter to May Whitty, November 25, 1925, LC. 4. MW, The Same Only Different, 309. 5. Quoted in MW, The Same Only Different, 310. 6. Quoted in Croall, Gielgud, 84. 7. MW, The Same Only Different, 311. 8. MW, The Same Only Different, 311. 9. MW, The Same Only Different, 312. 10. MW, The Same Only Different, 313. 11. MW, The Same Only Different, 314. 12. MW, The Same Only Different, 314. 13. MW, The Same Only Different, 314. 14. MW, The Same Only Different, 315. 15. St. John Ervine, letter to MW, January 21, 1927, LC. 16. Croall, Gielgud, 49. 17. MW, The Same Only Different, 316. 18. MW, The Same Only Different, 316. 19. MW, The Same Only Different, 317. 20. MW, The Same Only Different, 317–18. 21. MW, The Same Only Different, 318. 22. MW, The Same Only Different, 318–19. 23. MW, The Same Only Different, 326. 24. MW, The Same Only Different, 327. 314  Notes to Pages 20–38 25. MW, The Same Only Different, 327. 26. MW, The Same Only Different, 329–30. 27. MW, The Same Only Different, 330. 28. Quoted in Ronald Hayman, John Gielgud (New York: Random House, 1971), 48. 29. MW, The Same Only Different, 330. 30. MW, The Same Only Different, 332. 31. MW, The Same Only Different, 333. 32. MW, The Same Only Different, 334. chapter 3 1. Peter Roberts, The Old Vic Story (London: W. H. Allen, 1976), 57. 2. MW, The Same Only Different, 337. 3. MW, The Same Only Different, 337. 4. MW, The Same Only Different, 337. 5. MW, The Same Only Different, 339. 6. Croall, Gielgud, 109. 7. MW, The Same Only Different, 338. 8. MW, The Same Only Different, 338. 9. MW, The...