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(Elsie) Evelyn Laye

by Dudley Glanfield
toned bromide print, early 1930s
6 in. x 4 5/8 in. (152 mm x 116 mm)
Purchased, 1994
Photographs Collection
NPG x45491

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  • Dudley Glanfield (1904-1992), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 205 portraits, Sitter in 23 portraits.

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In 1926, with her career in full flight, Evelyn Laye married another musical star, Sonnie Hale , a short-lived union that foundered over Sonnie's affair with Jessie Matthews. Piqued by their liason, begun as co-starts in a Noël Coward revue, Evelyn Laye at first turned down Coward's offer to star as Sari in Bitter Sweet, a role she subsequently played triumphantly on Broadway.

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Current affairs

Amy Johnson is the first woman to fly solo to Australia. She flew the 11,000 miles from Croydon to Darwin in a De Havilland Gipsy Moth named Jason and won the Harmon Trophy as well as a CBE for her achievement. She went on to break a number of other flying records, and died while serving in the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941.

Art and science

Noel Coward's play, Private Lives is first performed. The original run starred Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier as well as Coward himself. Private Lives became Coward's most enduringly successful play.

International

Gandhi leads the Salt March. The march to the coast was a direct protest against the British monopoly on the sale of salt and inspired hordes of Indians to follow him and adopt his methods of Satyagraha (non-violent resistance to the British rule of India).
Stalin orders the 'liquidation of the kulaks (wealthy farmers) as a class' in a violent attempt to centralise control of agriculture and collectivise farming.

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