OBITUARY.
ACTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT. By Tfllesrriph— Press • i " --—-^h' London, June 19. Mr. Brandon Thomas, tho actor and plpywright, is dead.
Mr. Brandon Thomas was best known through his comedy, "Charley's Autit," which netted a fortune for him and for tho first producer of the play, W. G. Penley, who died about two years ago. Ho wrote many other plays, more or less successful, but non© that caught on as well as that still popular comedy. Mr. Thomas was born in 1856, and was trained as a civil engineer. Ho had a stronger taste for acting, however, and niado his first appearance on the stage in 1879, when ho played tho part of Sandy Pibroch in "Tho Queen's Shilling," produced by Sir John Hare, and bccame a papular comedian from the beginning. Almost all his parts were in comedy, and lie figured in most of the big comedy successes produced ifl London, In addition to "Charley's Aunt" ,his plays included "Comrades," "Tlio Colour-Sergeant," "The Lodgers," "A Highland Legacy," "The Gold Craze," "The Lancashire Sailor," "Marriage," "The Swordsman's Daughter," "Curzon Street," "Women are So Serious," "Pourchette and Co., and "A Judge's Memory." ____
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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191OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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