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Lillah McCarthy; Harley Granville-Barker

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Lillah McCarthy; Harley Granville-Barker

by Frances Benjamin Johnston
glossy silver print mounted on card, 1915
4 1/2 in. x 6 1/4 in. (114 mm x 158 mm)
Purchased, 2004
Photographs Collection
NPG x126439

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  • Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946), Actor, producer, dramatist and critic. Sitter in 31 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
  • Lillah McCarthy (1875-1960), Actress. Sitter in 51 portraits.

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In January 1915 McCarthy and Granville-Barker travelled to America where they first appeared in Androcles and The Lion at Wallack's Theatre, New York. McCarthy returned to London, whilst Barker remained in 1916 taking his company on a tour of the Universities. Whilst in America Granville-Barker met and fell in love with Helen Huntingdon, a poet and novelist and the wife of one of his American backers.

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Current affairs

The Times Newspaper reports that Britain's Army is suffering from a lack of Ammunition Shells, pointing the finger of blame at the Liberal government. The Shell Scandal forced Asquith to form a new coalition government, bringing Conservatives into the cabinet and demonstrating the need to gear the whole country's economy towards the war effort.

Art and science

As the threat from aerial attack increased, the decision was made to protect the national art collections by storing them in basements or in locations outside London. On 15th October the National Portrait Gallery under the directorship of Sir Charles John Holmes closed its doors to the public and removed paintings from the walls.

International

Stalemate ensues on the Western Front and trench warfare begins as both sides take up defensive positions. While offensive strategies become futile, serious loss of life occurs with the first deployment of tanks and the use of poison gas.
Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity, a model of gravitation and cosmology.

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