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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evensong (Gaumont-British). Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols and a play by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela...
Evensong (by Beverley Nichols & Edward Knoblock; Arch Selwyn & Sir Barry Jackson, producers). Glib, ultra-British young Beverley Nichols used to be employed on the personal staff of Dame Nellie Melba. He cashed in on this experience when he wrote Evensong, a novel about a declining diva's race against time. Dramatized and produced in London, the story had a remunerative run. Produced for the first time on a U. S. stage, Evensong again sets one to wondering if the English often go to the theatre just to get out of the rain...