Phyllis Bedells

Phyllis Bedells (9 August 1893 – 2 May 1985) was an English ballerina and dance teacher. Quotes There was a wonderful cast for 'Alice'. Stanley Brett, Seymour Hicks's brother, played the Mad Hatter; Tom Graves, brother of George Graves (actor) George Graves, played the Mock Turtle and Tweedledum; Will Bishop, himself, was the First Lobster and the Golliwog; and Alice_(Alice%27s Adventures in Wonderland) Alice was played by the beautiful Marie Studholme. The rest of the cast were: J. C Buckstone as the Gryphon (Alice%27s Adventures in Wonderland) Gryphon and Tweedledee; Florrie Arnold as the March Hare; Rita Leggerio as the White Rabbit; Harry Ulph as the Caterpillar (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Caterpillar and the Red King (Through the Looking Glass) Red King; Alice Barth as the Duchess and the Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass) Red Queen; Euphan Maclaren as the Cook; Marjorie West as the Cheshire Cat; Ivy Sawyer as the Dormouse; Margaret Fraser as the Second Lobster; Alice Dubarri as the First Fairy and the Rose; Julian Cross as the King of Hearts and the The Walrus and the Carpenter Walrus; Florence Lloyd as the Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Queen of Hearts and the White Queen (Through the Looking Glass) White Queen; Harold Borrett as the Knave of Hearts ((Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland) Knave of Hearts and the White King (Through the Looking Glass) White King. Henry Herschel Hay Cameron H. H. Cameron took the parts of the Executioner, the The Walrus and the Carpenter Carpenter, and Humpty Dumpty; Carmen Sylva, the Lily; Dorrit MacLaxen, the Red Knight; Leslie Bilbe, the Lion; John Hobbs, the Unicorn; Tom Jones, the Leg of Mutton; Ethel Evans, the Plum Pudding.In Act I, I emerged from a large oyster shell, dressed as a little sailor boy, and danced a hornpipe. This seemed to me slightly incongruous, as I was supposed to be the First Oyster; but nobody minded. My Dancing Days 1954 London Phoenix House https://archive.org/details/mydancingdays006128mbp/page/n21/mode/2up 16 Quotes about Phyllis Bedells The matinee witnessed the close of an era—an era which saw the birth and childhood of an English ballet. That era is past: English ballet has now reached the period of adolescence and a bright future stretches before it. How precarious its very existence was in the early days, and what a wonderful tonic the precept and example of Phyllis Bedells proved only the more elderly of us can know. Phillip J. S. Richardson, The Sitter Out The Dancing Times 510 338–339 December 1935, as quoted by Beth Genné in Openly English: Phyllis Bedells and the birth of British ballet Dance Chronicle 18 3 1995 437-451 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01472529508569217 10.1080/01472529508569217 External links Portraits of Phyllis Bedells, from 1916 to 1919, in the National Portrait Gallery. Category:1893 births Category:1985 deaths Category:Dancers from England Category:People from Bristol Category:Women from England