biography
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Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm
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| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1917)
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| biography:
| Actor-manager, born in London, UK, the half-brother of Max Beerbohm. After a commercial education in Germany, he became an actor, took over the Haymarket Theatre (1887), and built His Majesty's Theatre (1897), where he rivalled Irving's productions at the Lyceum. He founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904, and scored a great success with the first production of Shaw's Pygmalion in 1914. |
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