Thorndike, Sibyl — Als to Geoffrey Robinson

Melbourne, May 7, ca. 1950s. 3 pp. Dame Sybil Thorndike, actress, sitter of 26 portraits; for much of her career a leading light in Annie Horniman's pioneering repertory company at the Gaiety, Manchester; set up in management with her husband, Lewis Casson, at the New Theatre, but best remembered in the title role of St. Joan, written for her by Bernard Shaw in 1923. With tape residue along left front margin. From a collection of letters and papers amassed by illustrator and painter Geoffrey Robinson during his years as a publisher with Rockliff, John Baker, Maclaren, et al. .