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APPENDIX I PARTS PLAYED BY EVA MOORE

1887

“Varney” Proposals

“Spirit of Home” (Dot) The Cricket on the Hearth

1888

“Alice” A Red Rag

“Alice Marshall” The Butler

“Dora” The Don

—— The Spittalfields Weaver

—— Toole in the Pig Skin

—— Ici on Parle Française

—— Birthplace of Podgers

—— Artful Cards

—— Paul Pry

1889

“Kitty” A Broken Sixpence

“Felicia Umfraville” The Middleman

“Alice Jolliffe” The Home Feud

“Nancy” The Middleman

“Diana” Pedigree

1890

“Countess of Drumdurris” The Cabinet Minister

1891

“Gwendoline Fanlight” Culprits

“Mrs. Richard Webb” The Late Lamented

“Nita” The Mountebanks

1892

“Matilde” A Scrap of Paper

“Violet Melrose” Our Boys

2421893

“Miss Violet” A Pantomime Rehearsal

“Amanda P. Warren” Allendale

“Mrs. Delafield” Man and Woman

“Lettice” Time will Tell

“Winifred Chester” The Younger Son

“Pepita” Little Christopher Columbus

1894

“Nellie Dudley” The Gay Widow

“Lead” The Shop Girl

*†“Fairy Buttonshaw” Bogey

1895

“Angela Brightwell” The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown

“Nelly Jedbury” Jedbury, Jun.

“Dora” The Wanderer from Venus

1896

“Molly Dyson” Major Raymond

*†“Margaret” In and Out of a Punt

†“Miss Savile” A Blind Marriage

“Madam de Cocheforet” Under the Red Robe

1897

“Mistress Golding” The Alchemist

“Elladeen Dunrayne” An Irish Gentleman

*††“Maysie” One Summer’s Day

1898

“April” The Sea Flower

“Angela Goodwin” Tommy Dodd

†“Gabrielle de Chalius” The Three Musketeers

2431899

“Sybil Crake” The Dancing Girl

“Ellice Ford” Carnac Sahib

“Lucie Manette” The Only Way

“Christina” Ibb and Christina

“Louise” Marsac of Gascony

1901

“Kate Duewent” A Fools’ Paradise

*“Mabel Vaughan” The Wilderness

—— The Importance of Being Earnest

1902

“Lady Hetty Wrey” Pilkerton’s Peerage

*“Lady Ernstone” My Lady Virtue

1903

“Kathie” Old Heidelberg

*“Miss Wilhelmina Marr” Billy’s Little Love Affair

“Lady Henrietta Addison” The Duke of Killiecrankie

1904

“Lady Mary Carlyle” Monsieur Beaucaire

1905

†“Klara Volkhardt” Lights Out

1906

“Judy” Punch

“Miss Blarney” Josephine

1907

“Muriel Glayde” John Glayde’s Honour

“Sweet Kitty Bellaires” Sweet Kitty Bellaires

1908

“Mrs. Crowley” The Explorer

“Dorothy Gore” The Marriages of Mayfair

“Mrs. Errol” (Dearest) Little Lord Fauntleroy

“Lady Joan Meredith” The House of Bondage

2441909

“Kathie” (revival) Old Heidelberg

“Hon. Mrs. Bayle” The Best People

“Hon. Mrs. Rivers” The House Opposite

1910

“Gay Birch” Company for George

1911

“Christine” A Woman’s Wit

1912

“Kate Bellingham” Looking for Trouble

*†“Eliza” Eliza Comes to Stay

*†“Betty” The Dangerous Age

1913

*†“Eliza” Eliza Comes to Stay

*†“Betty” The Dangerous Age

1914

*†“Eliza” Eliza Comes to Stay

*†“Betty” The Dangerous Age

1915

*†“Phyllis” When We Were Twenty-One

1918

“Mrs. Culver” The Title

“Mrs. Etheridge” Cæsar’s Wife

1920

“Mumsie” Mumsie

1921

“Lady Marlow” A Matter of Fact

*†“Edie La Bas” The Law Divine

1922

“Miss Van Gorder” The Bat

1923

“Mary Westlake” Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

All those marked * were plays written by my husband.

All those marked † we played together.

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APPENDIX II SOME PARTS PLAYED BY H. V. ESMOND

“Lord John” The Scorpion

“Harold Lee” Rachel

—— Frou Frou

“Gibson” Ticket of Leave

“Horace Holmcroft” New Magdalen

“Eglantine Roseleaf” Turn Him Out

“Feversham” Take Back the Heart

“Theodore Lamb” Glimpse of Paradise

“Capt. Damerel” The Lord Harry

“Jack” Ruth’s Romance

“The Marquis de Presles” The Two Orphans

“Megor” Nana

“George Talboys” Lady Audrey’s Secret

“Philip” Eve’s Temptation

“Bill Sykes” Oliver Twist

“Uriah Heep” Little Emily

“Ishmael, the Wolf” Flower of the Forest

“Tulkinghorn” Poor Joe

“Charles Torrens” Serious Family

“Mr. Lynx” Happy Pair

“Mr. Debbles” Good for Nothing

“Rafael de Mayal” The Marquesa

“Capt. Kirby” Dick Venables

“Fillipo” Fennel

“Paddington Grun” If I Had a Thousand a Year

“Harold Wingard” Daughters

“Fred Fanshaw” Weak Woman

“Harry Stanley” Paul Pry

246“John” In Chancery

*“Pierre” Rest

“Frank Bilton” Churchwarden

“Weston Carr” Flight

“Plantagent Watts” Great Unpaid

“Phil Summers” Dregs

“Eric” Too Happy by Half

“Reggie” The Rise of Dick Halward

* †“Hugh” In and Out of a Punt

“Dolly” A Blind Marriage

“Le Barrier” The Storm

“Cayley Drummle” The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

“Touchstone” As You Like It

“Major-General Sir R. Chichele” The Princess and the Butterfly

“Verges” Much Ado About Nothing

“Capt. Theobald Kerger” The Conquerors

“Vivian Seauvefere” The Ambassador

“Fritz von Tarbenhelm” Rupert of Hentzau

“D’Artagnan” The Three Musketeers

“Major Blencoe” The Tree of Knowledge

—— The Debt of Honour

“Charles II.” His Majesty’s Servant

“Mercutio” Romeo and Juliet

“Augustus III.” Hawthorne, U.S.A.

“Corporal Helbig” Lights Out

“Louis IV.” Bond of Ninon

“Widgery Blake” Palace of Puck

“Mr. Whitly” The Education of Elizabeth

“Sir Benjamin Backbite” The School for Scandal

“Little Billee” Trilby

“Viscount Bolingbroke” Mr. Jarvis

*“Philip Kean” Grierson’s Way

“Sir Francis Leverson” East Lynne

“Alfred Meynard” The Corsican Brothers

“Chaucer” Vice Versa

247“Robert de Belfort” The Grip of Iron

“Adrian Fiore” The Panel Picture

“Capt. Julian Chandler” The Middleman

“Algernon Grey” Sweet Nancy

“Graham Maxwell” The Pharisee

“Edward Pendlecoop” Culprits

“Lord Leadenhall” The Rocket

“Howard Bombas” The Times

“Cis Farrington” The Magistrate

“Eddie Remon” The Masqueraders

“George Round” Guy Domville

“Willie Hasselwood” The Triumph of the Philistines

[1]“Uncle Archie Buttonshaw” Bogey

“Earl of Addisworth” Pilkerton’s Peerage

“Cyril Ryves” Chance, The Idol

“Hon. Sandy Verrall” Eliza Comes to Stay

“Jack Le Bas” The Law Divine

“Adam Haggarth” In Days of Old

—— Barton Mystery

“Sir Egbert Ingelfield” The Dangerous Age

“Jacob Ussher” Birds of a Feather

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APPENDIX III PLAYS WRITTEN BY H. V. ESMOND

*When We Were Twenty-One

*Under the Greenwood Tree

*Billy’s Little Love Affair

*One Summer’s Day

*Grierson’s Way

*My Lady Virtue

*The Divided Way

*The Wilderness

*Bogey

*The Sentimentalist

*Eliza Comes to Stay

*The Dangerous Age

*The O’Grindles

*A Kiss or Two

Clorinda’s Career

*My Lady’s Lord

*A Young Man’s Fancy

The Tug of War

*The Forelock of Time

*Love and the Man

*The Law Divine

*Birds of a Feather

*Leoni

*Cupboard Love

SHORT PLAYS

*In and Out of a Punt

*Her Vote

*Rest

A Woman in Chains

*Island of Dreams

Those marked * have been produced either in England or America.

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