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            St Guiles Theatrical Artes building, the “new wing”

The St. Guiles Theatrical Artes Division had its roots in the old Chatwick Estate’s Stone Chapel, dedicated to St. Guiles (supposedly a distant relative of the estates founders)

The Pelagia players were founded here and started to perform on the old (At the time desacralized)  alter, with the pews used as seating.  Making use of the chapel basement as a costume and changing area.  

When a local Bishop raised some issues as to the chapel being used for such a non-sacrilegious means, funds started being raised to add a new wing to the chapel.  

When this still did not meet the Bishops blessing, a stand alone building was planned near bye.

Ground was broke for this building( still called the new wing) in late fall 1917, and finally ( as the rest of the funds were raised) completed two years later in 1919.

This Art Deco style Building was fashioned ( and has been maintained) in the spirit of London’s Guilded Age.

The first student production in the “new wing” by the Universities “Pelagia Players” was Shaw’s Pygmalion, the latest a rather stunning performance of Christies Mouse trap.

Laura Bayley once held a series of lectures in Hynde hall on the second floor. Her lecture notes are in a glass case in Hynde Hall

Fay Compton, one evening in the 1930’s, by invitation, helped give acting advice for the student version of the play Mary Rose. There is a signed theatre poster from graciously donated by her hanging in the Lobby.

There is a hand written card from Rex Harrison on display in the theatre lobby praising the St Guiles theater directors and their student actors and actresses on their 1964 version of My Faire Lady… Underneath a signed poster of the play.

Also, amongst other theatre memoribliae in the glass cases that line the west side of the lobby, one will observe:

A) Slightly singed Pages from an olde registery from a long gone boarding house ( destroyed during the blitz) near the London Coliseum.  Several of the decipherable names signed in the registery are:
William S, Gilbert
Nancy McIntosh
Charlie Chaplin
Genevieve Ward
Marie Doro

B) A witches costume from a 1930’s production of Macbeth

C)  A pair of man’s white spats, gloves, cane, and bowler from the play “Gildersleeves”

D) The false teeth used in famous theatre productions of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Young Frankenstein, and Rigoletto…

E) An original typewritten copy of the play version of “Echo of Diana” with handwritten notes believed to have been penned by Vincent Ball

F) a Signed copy of an olde flyer for ‘Cinder Ellen up too Late’  signed by Lottie Collins, Fred Hobson Leslie and another rather scrawled autograph that may been mad by Sylvia Grey

G) A circa 1880’s Catholic Nun’s Habit worn by Marie Katherine Stewart in  “Lilies of the Field”.

G) An old yellowed, much stained, copy of “I'll Say She Is” with a signature believed to be Harpo Marx. Unknown how it came to be in the Theatre’s collection.   There is also an old oak croquet mallet that is next to the letter, but it’s meaning and acquirement has also been lost.

Taken on: August 8, 2017

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