Английская Википедия:Ernita Lascelles

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Ernita Lascelles Ranson (May 1, 1890 – June 23, 1972) was an English actress, novelist, and playwright.

Early life and education

Lascelles was born to English parents in Chile. She studied acting with Richard Boleslavski in 1923.[1]

Career

Lascelles was a stage actress in New York City and London. Her stage credits included roles in Much Ado About Nothing (1904), Doctor Faustus (1904), The Comedy of Errors (1904), Love and a Half-Pence (1906),[2] When Knights Were Bold (1907),[3] Lady Windemere's Fan (1911),[4] The Miniature (1911),[4] The Double Game (1912),[4] A Gauntlet (1913),[5] The Son and Heir (1913)[6] Disraeli (1914),[7][8] The Philanderer (1914),[9] Plaster Saints (1914),[10] When the Young Vine Blooms (1915), Gamblers All (1917),[11] The Tragedy of Nan (1919),[12] Polly with a Past (1919),[13]The Madras House (1921), From Morn til Midnight (1922), Back to Methuselah (1922),[14] The Dice of the Gods (1923), The Living Mask (1924),[15] The Mongrel (1924),[16] Adam Solitaire (1925), Fanny's First Play (1932),[17] One Wife or Another (1933),[18] The Silver Box (1935),[19] and Murder with Pen and Ink (1935).[20] She later starred in a 1944 production of Medea at Columbia University, but a reviewer found her performance "appalling, though admirably consistent in its misreading".[21]

Her first novel, The Sacrificial Goat (1923),[22] was set in the London theatre world, with a working actress as the main character, and another character based on George Bernard Shaw.[23][24] Plays by Lascelles included a farce, Listen to Me (1926),[25] The Bride Confesses (1932),[17][26] Oh Youth! (1934)[27] and historical plays Fire (1942), about Thomas Cranmer,[28] and Lucretia (1927), about Lucrezia Borgia.[29]

In 1953, Lascelles was on the staff of a girls' camp in Vermont.[30]

Personal life

Lascelles married fellow English actor Herbert Walter Ranson in 1908. They had daughters Joan and Naomi.[31] Her husband died in 1970,[32] and Lascelles died in 1972, aged 82, in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

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