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James Bridie. James Bridie (3 January 1888 in Glasgow – 29 January 1951 in Edinburgh) was the pseudonym of a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor. He took his pen-name from his paternal grandfather's first name and his grandmother's maiden name.
James Bridie (born Jan. 3, 1888, Glasgow, Scot.—died Jan. 29, 1951, Edinburgh) was a Scottish playwright whose popular, witty comedies were significant to the revival of the Scottish drama during the 1930s.
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James Bridie (1888–1951) was a Scottish playwright who wrote comedies, biblical dramas, medical plays, and experimental works. He also founded the first College of Drama in Scotland and helped establish the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre.
Jun 21, 2021 · So began The Herald’s review of the latest James Bridie play on February 10, 1950. He was the Glasgow-born playwright whose witty comedies helped revive Scottish theatre in the 1930s – but if he had stuck to his original choice of career, we might never have heard of him.
James Bridie was the non de plume of Dr. Henry Osbourne Mavor. Bridie assumed this pen name as he did not want his theatrical work to affect his position as a practicing doctor. Previously he had used the pen name of Mary Henderson, but adopted the name James Bridie in the late 1920s.
James Bridie, pseudonym of Osborne Henry Mavor (1888-1951), was one of the leading British playwrights of his generation, the founder of the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, in 1943, and the first chairman of the Scottish Committee of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts established in 1942, (subsequently the Scottish Committee of ...
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This critical analysis of twelve of the plays of James Bridie (1885-1951) illustrates that throughout Bridie's work there exists a philosophical continuity...
