LIVES – BEATRIX LINDSAY THOMSON
Researched and written by Christopher J. Hogger.
Beatrix Thomson was another great stage actor associated with Effingham. After training at RADA in her early twenties, she went on to perform in a huge range of plays in Britain, as well as some in Broadway. Besides acting she was interested also in theatre management and play-writing. Another strand in her life was as an aviator – she was proud of being Britain’s first actress to become a qualified pilot. During the Second World War she toured the Far East with ENSA to entertain the troops, but paid a personal price for this by contracting a debilitating illness that interrrupted her career for several years.
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The striking embedded Getty image of her on the right was taken on November 21st 1932 when she was described as “shortly to appear in the play ‘Magnolia Street“, but that play was delayed and not staged until early 1934. The Getty image below shows her name liberally displayed at the Vaudeville Theatre in September 1934 during the run of “The Night Hawk”.
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