User:Pdebee/My sandbox4

The purpose of this page is for my use as a personal sandbox, to collect results form information that might be useful as article content. At the moment, I am using it to build a list of newspaper articles available at the BNA about Felice Lascelles' daughter, actress Susan Neil.

• Attended Broombank School, Selsey, and passed exams in July 1946?{{sfn|Chichester Observer; 17 Aug 1946}}
• Played the role of "Pheasant" in Whiteoaks, by Mazo De La Roche, presented by the Playhouse Repertory Company at the Playhouse Theatre, Buxton, on Monday 13 – Saturday 18 June 1949.{{sfn|Buxton Herald; 16 Jun 1949}}
• Played the role of the "American girl" in Fit for Heroes, by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman, at the Embassy Theatre, London, on Thursday 28 July 1949.{{sfn|The Stage; 4 Aug 1949}}{{sfn|Hampstead News; 4 Aug 1949}}.

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• {{cite news

|title= Selsey Topics

|date= 17 August 1946

|newspaper= Chichester Observer

|department=

|location= Chichester

|issue= 3,768

|page= 5; col.3

|quote= Scholars' Success. Broombank School finished its summer term on July 31, and is to be congratulated on the fine record attained for examinations. Eight pupils entered for the College of Preceptors senior and junior examinations and the following seven girls passed, three with distinction:— Judy Hane, Susan Neil, Susan Goldsworthy, Sara Leaning, Elizabeth Haines, B. Melhuish, and Wendy Jones. Seven entered for the elocution examination of the LA.M.D.A. (grades 1 and 3), all of whom passed, four with distinction, viz., Susan Neil, Judith Leaning, Patrician Bowden, Nina Lamport. The three remaining passes were Shirley Bowden, Angela Essex and Liana Lamport. The elocution mistress was Miss Sheila Dayman, gold and silver medallist L.A.M.

|url= https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001919/19460817/057/0005

|url-access= subscription

|access-date= 22 June 2025

|via= British Newspaper Archive

|ref= {{sfnref|Chichester Observer; 17 Aug 1946}}

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• {{cite news

|title= 'Whiteoaks' - Playhouse Theatre, Buxton

|date= 16 June 1949

|newspaper= Buxton Herald

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|location= Buxton

|volume= 107

|issue= 5,584

|page= 2; col.2

|quote= See it and enjoy it. The play, Whiteoaks, by Mazo De La Roche, presented at the Playhouse this week [Monday 13 – Saturday 18 June 1949], is extremely well acted by a talented company and is a joy to listen to. Briefly the plot centres round Adeline Whiteoak, centenarian head of the Whiteoak family, played by Joan Sanderson. The supporting characters are her children—Aunt Augusta (Barbara Leslie), Uncle Nicholas (Nigel Arkwright), and Uncle Ernest (Myles Rudge); all three being expectant beneficiaries of the old lady's wealth on her demise. Renny and Meg, the children of the old lady's dead son Philip by his first wife, are played by Shaun Sutton and Cora Bennett, while Piers, Finch, and Wakefield, children of Philip by his second wife, are played by Brian Whittle, Richard Bebb and Terry Miller respectively. The remainder of the cast are Pheasant, wife of Piers (played by Susan Neil), and Mr. Patton, a solicitor, played by Gregory Scott. The centenarian's pet parrot, a non-too-talkative bird, completes the ingredients for the scenes from family life which follow. The action takes place in the house of the Whiteoaks in Ontario, Canada.

|url= https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001676/19490616/022/0002

|url-access= subscription

|access-date= 22 June 2025

|via= British Newspaper Archive

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• {{cite news

|title= 'Fit for Heroes' - Embassy Theatre, London

|date= 4 August 1949

|newspaper= The Stage

|department= London Theatres.

|location= London

|issue= 3,564

|page= 7; col.4

|quote= The Embassy — Fit for Heroes. On Thursday of last week [28 July 1949] Envoy Productions, Ltd., by arrangement with Anthony Hawtrey and in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, presented the comedy by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman. Fit for Heroes, originally produced at this theatre on September 15, 1945, and subsequently transferred to the Whitehall in December of that year, introduces us to the peerage at home in a prefab. The domestic harmony of Lord and Lady Wimpole is further jeopardised by a violently progressive young politician, at whom the Honourable Elizabeth has set her cap. The exaggerated burlesque of the young politician keeps the play outside the subtler realms of satire, and often there is only hearty horseplay to bolster up the main situation. Although Fit for Heroes falls rather short of its own possibilities, the Embassy company and the producer, Wyndham Goldie, do everything they can to disguise the fact. Raymond Lovell, appearing in his original part of Lord Wimpole, delightfully adopts the air of a naughty schoolboy, continually fearing the worst, but hoping for the best. Phyllis Neilson-Terry makes a gracious Lady Wimpole, whose tact and charm provide the necessary reins to her husband's intractability. Humphrey Morton, as the Hon. George Wimpole, is a typical chip of the old block, with a penchant for practical joking. Sheila Burrell, as the Hon. Elizabeth Wimpole, and Laurence Payne, as the political tyro, both do well. The cast is completed by Susan Neil and Denis Banyard.

|url= https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001179/19490804/030/0007

|url-access= subscription

|access-date= 22 June 2025

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|ref= {{sfnref|The Stage; 4 Aug 1949}}

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• {{cite news

|title= 'Fit for Heroes' - Embassy Theatre, London

|date= 4 August 1949

|newspaper= Hampstead News

|department= Views and News

|location= London

|issue= 3,575

|page= 6; col.5

|quote= Sweet seventeen. Six months repertory expertise and a good part in the Embassy's Fit for Heroes is an excellent start for any young actress. And this sophisticated young miss, in the photograph, is just 17 years old. Attractive Susan Neil, of Grove End Gardens, St. John's Wood, made up her mind to go on the stage when she was at school in Switzerland. The reason isn't far to seek. Her mother was the star of Sunny, Kid Boots and those other gay musical comedies of Jack Buchanan and Leslie Henson. Under the stage name of Felice Lascelles, she graduated from the chorus right to the top. What does mother think of it all? "I was surprised when she wrote from Switzerland and told me she was going to be a dramatic actress. She is an excellent writer and I thought journalism might be her career, but I knew I couldn't change her mind even if I wanted to", she told me. Then smilingly added "She's good, you know". I heartily endorse that. As the young American girl in the prefab in Fit For Heroes, she is very good. And only 17. Well, well!

|url= https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0004649/19490804/190/0006

|url-access= subscription

|access-date= 22 June 2025

|via= British Newspaper Archive

|ref= {{sfnref|Hampstead News; 4 Aug 1949}}

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