Zena Gallery

Zena Dare working at the front during WW1

Mrs Maurice Brett, formerly the theatre and music hall star, Zena Dare pictured waiting on soldiers in a cellar at the front while she was working in France during the First World War. She married the Hon. Maurice Brett, second son of Viscount Esher in 1911. Zena Dare (1887-1975) the English actress was born Florence Hariette Zena Dones. Together with her sister, Phyllis, she was one of the great popular stage actresses of the early 20th century. She retired from the stage on her marriage. Date: 1915

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Ma Rushworth yields to progress. After 45 years - refuses to retire

"Ma" Rushworth yields to progress. After 45 years - refuses to retire.
After 45 years in business as a newsagent almost under the shadow the Covent Garden Opera House, 73-year-old Mrs Rushworth - "Ma" to every porter in Covent Garden market - is leaving her little shop in Endell Street, off Long Acre. A large part of the street is being torn down to make way for a new building. Mrs Rushworth has spent all her life at the shop and has served such famous people as Caruso, Tettrazini, Zena Dare, and Sir Henry Coward. Even now Mrs Rushworth refuses to leave the trade, and has opened two newsagents shops lower down Endell Street.
Photo shows: Mrs Rushworth at the door of her shop in Endell Street.
12 June 1938

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Performance of The Gay Gordons, c1907

Performance of The Gay Gordons, c1907. Misss Fairbrother as Charlotte Siddons, AW Baskcome as Edmund Siddons, Fred Emney as Nervy Nat, Zena Dare as Victoria Siddons and Ellaline Terriss as Peggy Quainton. The Gay Gordons was one of a series of musicals written by Seymour Hicks and produced by Charles Frohman in the 1900s. It was first performed in 1907

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