Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/A/A1/121/1
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/A/A1/121/1
Title
Autograph letter signed to Beaton, from Moscow
Date(s)
- 17 Mar. 1931 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
6p paper
Context area
Name of creator
(d 1962)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Thanks Beaton for the photographs. They are buried in snow and cannot believe the sun exists. Hopes to go to Budapest and then to England in May for two months. Lady Abdy is here. She is a 'fascinating person' and hopes to act in some films here. Discusses a production of "Romeo and Juliet" that she saw at the Revolutionary theatre. It was comical. Romeo went to the Capulet ball dressed 'very realistically' as a brown bear. So the 'lovely' first meeting of the lovers was 'apparantly between a giggling little school girl and a brown bear'. Discusses the acrobatic abilities of the actors in another play. Thinks they will be there for the theatre festival. Would be glad if Beaton came to stay with them for it.