Phyllis Neilson-Terry; Madge Kendal; Dame Gladys Cooper

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Phyllis Neilson-Terry; Madge Kendal; Dame Gladys Cooper

by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 17 December 1913
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NPG x1141

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The Suffragette, Emily Davison dies after stepping out in front of the King's horse as a protest at the Epsom Derby. In the same year the Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act allowing them to release and re-arrest Suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison. Davison, herself, had been on hunger strike and was force-fed while detained at Holloway Prison.

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Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring comes to London following its premier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Audiences were shocked by Stravinsky's rhythmic and dissonant musical score and by the violent jerky dancing of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which were intended to represent pagan ritual.

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Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company, rapidly increasing the rate at which the famous Model T could be manufactured, leading to massive growth in the motorcar industry and demonstrating to other industries the efficiency of mass production.

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John Culme

13 June 2020, 17:49

This photograph was taken on Wednesday, 17 December 1913 at the 'Christmas in Fairyland' fête at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, London in aid of the scholarship fund of the Imperial Service College at Windsor.

'''CHRISTMAS IN FAIRYLAND.''
'QUEEN AMELIE OPENS A FETE AT WESTMINSTER.
'Queen Amélie yesterday afternoon opened the ''Christmas in Fairyland'' fête which has been organised at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, in aid of the scholarship fund of the Imperial Service College at Windsor. Her Majesty was received with a royal salute by a Guard of Honour formed of boys of the Officers' Training Corps of the College.
'The interior of the hall was a beautiful scene calculated to strike the imagination of all. There were many gaily decorated and illuminated Christmas trees and a number of booths, each of which wad dedicated to a fairy tale. . . .
'Round the Cinderella tree were the Hon. Mrs. John Ward, Lady Arthur, Mrs. Kendal, Miss Gladys Cooper, and Miss Phyllis Terry [sic] . . . '
(The Manchester Courier, Manchester, Thursday, 18 December 1913, p. 6d)

'A Fairyland Bazaar.
'Fairyland reigns supreme in the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, where a bazaar was opened yesterday afternoon by Queen Amelia of Portugal, on behalf of the Scholarship Fun of the Imperial Service College, Windsor. . . .
'''The Snow Queen Tree,'' presided over by Princess Alexander of Teck, stands in the centre of the hall. . . . Facing it stand the ''Cinderella'' tree and booth, which, filled with all kinds of pretty fancy goods, is being faithfully attended to by Lady Arthur, the Hon. Mrs. John Ward, Mrs. Kendal, Miss Gladys Cooper, and Miss Phyllis Neilson Terry.'
(The Globe, London, Thursday, 18 December 1913, p. 9e)

Three photographs taken on this occasion were published in The Tatler, (London, Wednesday, 31 December 1913, p. 417, photographer uncredited), one of which shows, left to right, (Mrs. Kendal), (an unidentified lady), the Hon. Mrs. John Ward, Mr. Eig Chai Guan, Phyllis Neilson-Terry and her mother, Julia Neilson/Mrs. Fred Terry.