Alice Grein
Alice Augusta Grein, nee Graveen was an English actress, playwright, translator and theatrical producer, who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Orme and as Alix Graveen.
Life
Alix Augusta Greveen was born in Camberwell in 1874, the daughter of German-born parents Maria and Ernst Graveen, a silk merchant. She became an actress with J. T. Grein's' Independent Theatre Society, and in 1904 married Grein.As well as writing and producing plays, she continued to act. In 1913 she played Mother Wolff in a production of Gerhart Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz at the Queen's Theatre. In 1917 she appeared in the London Repertory's performance of Elizabeth Baker's play Partnership.
She died in Kensington, England in 1944.
Works
Plays
- A Happy Nook, 1901. Translated from a German play Das Glück im Winkel by Hermann Sudermann.
- Those Who Sit in Judgement, 1904.
- Renaissance, 1905. Translated from a German play Renaissance by Franz von Schönthan and Franz Koppel-Ellfeld.
- La Pompadour, 1911.
- Wedding Bells, 1911.
- The Widow and the Waiter, 1915.
- The Hotel de Waterloo, 1916.
- The Woman at the Windowsill, 1917.
- Cavalleria Rusticana, 1919. From an Italian play Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga.
- Great Aunt Elizabeth, 1919. Originally titled Crinolines and Khaki.
- The Doctor of Dreams, 1921. From a Dutch play Femina by F. J. Soesman and Cornelis Petrus van Rossem.
- Life's A Game, 1922.
- The Greatest Invention of All, 1922.
Biography
- J. T. Grein: the story of a pioneer, 1862-1935. 1936.