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LESTER MATTHEWS
26, Redhill Drive, Edgware T: Collindale 6427
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phol : Wardour, London
Lester Matthews realized his early boyhood ambition when, in 1916, he iiiade his first appearance on the stage. Since then he has played a great variety of parts in a large number of plays of all types, a complete list of which would fill far niore than the available space. Düring a two year's engagenient with the Nottingham Repertory Company he appeared with considerable success in nearly one hundred stage productions. Some of the well known niusical and "straight" plays in which he played prominent parts include '"The Maid of the Mountains", "Aren't We All"', "Happy Families", ''Appearances", '"The Blue Mazurka", "Lady Mary", "The Sport of Kings", "The Unfair Sex", "Paddy the Next Best Thing", etc., all of which had phenomenally long runs. Lester Matthews has scored many notable triumphs at most of the principial London theatres as well as in the English provinces, and in the United States, and has been no less successful on the screen.
Has played leading parts in a number of talking film productions, including "The Lame Duck", "Creeping Shadows", "The Man at Six", "Carmen", "The Old Man", "New Year's Eve", "The ^ ycombe Mystery". Lester Matthews is one of the best known stage and screen actors in England to-day and has an important personal following among theatre and cinema goers.
Lester Matthews sah seine frühesten Knabenträume verwirklicht, als er im Jahre 1916 zum erstenmal auf der Bühne stand. Seit dieser Zeit hat er eine Unzahl von Rollen in den verschiedensten Stücken gespielt, deren Aufzählung weit mehr als den verfügbaren Raum erfordern würde. Allein während eines zweijährigen Kontraktes mit der Nottingham Reperton* Company trat er in nahezu hundert verschiedenen Stücken auf. Wir nennen hier nur „The Maid of the Mountains", „Aren't We All". „Happy Families", „Appearances", „The Blue Mazurka", „Ladv Marv", ..The Sport of Kings", „The Unfair Sex", „Paddy the Next Best Thing", Stücke, von denen sich die meisten außerordentlich lange auf dem Spielplan hielten. Lester Matthews hat fast an allen bedeutenden Bühnen Londons, der englischen Provinz und der \ ereinigten Staaten außerordentliche Triumphe gefeiert.
Auf der Leinwand hatte der Künstler ebenfalls große Erfolge und hat bereits in einer ganzen Reihe von Tonfilmen tragende Rollen übernommen, u. a. in .,The Lame Duck". ,.Creeping Shadows", „The Man at Six", „Carmen", „The Old Man", „New \ear's Eve" und „The Wycombe Mystery". Lester Matthews ist einer der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Bühnen und Filmdarsteller des heutigen England und hat eine große Gemeinde von begeisterten Anhängern unter den Theater und Kinobesuchern.
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