Alice Grein
Alice Augusta Grein, nee Graveen (1874-1944) was an English actress, playwright, translator and theatrical producer, who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Orme and as Alix Graveen.[1][2]
Life[edit]
Alix Augusta Greveen was born in Camberwell in 1874, the daughter of German-born parents Maria and Ernst Graveen, a silk merchant. She became an actress with J. T. Grein's' Independent Theatre Society, and in 1904 married Grein.[1]
As well as writing and producing plays, she continued to act. In 1913 she played Mother Wolff in a production of Gerhart Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz at the Queen's Theatre.[3] In 1917 she appeared in the London Repertory's performance of Elizabeth Baker's play Partnership.[4]
She died in Kensington in 1944.[1]
Works[edit]
Plays[edit]
- (as A. Greveen, with J. T. Grein) A Happy Nook, 1901. Translated from a German play Das Glück im Winkel (1896) by Hermann Sudermann.
- (as Michael Orme) Those Who Sit in Judgement, 1904.
- (as Miss Alix Greveen) Renaissance, 1905. Translated from a German play Renaissance (1897) by Franz von Schönthan and Franz Koppel-Ellfeld.
- (as Michael Orme) La Pompadour, 1911.
- (as Michael Orme) Wedding Bells, 1911.
- (as Michael Orme) The Widow and the Waiter, 1915.
- (as M. Orme) The Eternal Snows, 1916)
- (as Mrs Grein) The Hotel de Waterloo, 1916.
- (as Michael Orme) The Woman at the Windowsill, 1917.
- (as Michael Orme) Cavalleria Rusticana, 1919. From an Italian play Cavalleria Rusticana (1884) by Giovanni Verga.
- (as Michael Orme) Great Aunt Elizabeth, 1919. Originally titled Crinolines and Khaki.
- (as Michael Orme) The Doctor of Dreams, 1921. From a Dutch play Femina (1919) by F. J. Soesman and Cornelis Petrus van Rossem.
- (as Michael Orme) Life's A Game, 1922.
- (as Michael Orme) The Greatest Invention of All, 1922.
Biography[edit]
- J. T. Grein: the story of a pioneer, 1862-1935. 1936.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Alice Grein". Great War Theatre.
- ^ Nicoll, Allardyce (1973). English Drama, 1900-1930: The Beginnings of the Modern Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 688. ISBN 978-0-521-12947-3.
- ^ ""Der Biberpelz" at the Queen's Theatre". The Times. 10 February 1913.
- ^ "Miss Baker's new play". The Times. 6 March 1917. p. 9.