"I want to spread a little sunshine."
Cartoon in Punch magazine 25 August 1920, showing Charles Hawtrey accompanying Joan Barry.
The pair were in a production of a play, "His Lady Friends", which included a repeated song chorus
I want to spread a little sunshine
I want to drive away the rain
described as "banal" by one contemporary critic Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey (September 21, 1858 – July 30, 1923) was a celebrated stage actor, comedian, director and producer/manager, knighted in 1922 by King George V. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 572 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (697 × 730 pixel, file size: 37 KB, MIME type: image/png) Caricatura que describe el ensayo de una canción. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 572 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (697 × 730 pixel, file size: 37 KB, MIME type: image/png) Caricatura que describe el ensayo de una canción. ...
Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ...
September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ...
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July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 154 days remaining. ...
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George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...
Born at Eton College, where his father was master of the lower school, he was educated there and at Rugby School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He managed London's Globe Theatre, the one demolished in 1902, during (1884–1887) and Royal Comedy Theatre (1887–1893, 1896–1898). He was noted for such works as The Private Secretary (his adaptation of a German farce, 1884). Sir Charles Hawtrey mentored Noel Coward. It has been said that Coward idolized Charles Hawtrey, and that it was from him that Coward learned both comic acting techniques and playwriting. A young Hermione Gingold understudied in some of Hawtrey's theatre productions. He was especially known for his expertise in playing light farce. Also associated with a number of famous anecdotes and with the naming of the Hanky-Panky cocktail. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by Henry VI. It is located in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor in England, situated north of Windsor Castle...
A view of Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in England and is one of the major co-educational boarding schools in the country. ...
College name Pembroke College Collegium Pembrochianum Named after The Earl of Pembroke Established 1624 Sister College Queens College Master Giles Henderson JCR President Dawn Rennie Undergraduates 408 MCR President Ross Nicolson Graduates 119 College Homepage Boat Club The lodge and the entrance to Pembroke College in Pembroke Square. ...
The Globe was a Victorian theatre built in 1868 and demolished in 1902. ...
The Royal Comedy Theatre, as it was then known, opened in Londons West End on October 15, 1881. ...
The Private Secretary was a a popular 1883 farcical comedy in three acts, by Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey. ...
Noel Coward Sir Noel Peirce Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ...
Hermione Gingold (December 9, 1897-May 24, 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove. ...
The Hanky-Panky cocktail was the brainchild of a Ada Coleman. ...
As a treat, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon celebrated her 14th birthday in a box at the Coliseum Theatre, London, watching a Charles Hawtrey show (on August 4, 1914). On the same day her future father-in-law, King George V, declared war on Germany. The Poet Laureate refers to this event in the poem celebrating her 100th birthday. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon later Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite; 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the Queen Consort of George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952. ...
The London Coliseum The Coliseum Theatre is one of Londons largest and best equipped theatres, opening in 1904. ...
August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...
Look up war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events. ...
He died on July 30, 1923 and is buried at Richmond, London. His biography The Truth at Last, was edited and finished by Somerset Maugham, and posthumously published in 1924. (The later actor named Charles Hawtrey was born George Hartree, and took the stage name of Sir Charles. Early in his career, he had claimed to be his son thinking it would lead to work.) July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 154 days remaining. ...
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Richmond is a suburb and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London, England. ...
W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ...
Charles Hawtrey appeared posthumously on the cover of the Smiths compilation The Very Best of The Smiths (2001). ...
Films
Towards the end of his career, he appeared in several silent films: this is an article about George Alexander the actor, for the 2000th US soldier killed in Iraq, see George Alexander (US Army soldier) Sir George Alexander (né George Samson) (June 18, 1858 - 1918) was a British actor and stage manager born in Reading, England. ...
George Bernard Shaw (born 26 July 1856, Dublin, Ireland died November 2, 1950, Hertfordshire, England) was an Irish writer. ...
You may be looking for James Barry, surgeon Sir James Mathew Barrie, Bt. ...
POP Culture He is mentioned in the song TWO OF US by THE BEATLES.
See also . ...
External links - Sir Charles Hawtrey.
- Family history
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