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Lilian Baylis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lilian Mary Baylis CH (9 May 1874–25 November 1937) was a British theatrical producer and manager and the founder of a ballet company. One of her finest achievements at the Old Vic was to produce a full cycle of Shakespeare's plays, starting with The Taming of the Shrew in 1914 to Troilus and Cressida in 1923. Baylis was awarded an honorary Master’s degree from Oxford University in 1924, only the second such honour to be given to a woman by the university. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lilian_Baylis   (306 words)

Sadler's Wells Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia But still the overall trend was down until Lilian Baylis, who ran the Old Vic Theatre Company, agreed to help set up a charitable foundation to buy the run-down Sadler’s Wells, which after a succession of managements in the 1900s, had became increasingly run-down and had been closed in 1915. Baylis’ influence over Sadler’s Wells, it was intended that the two theatres should each offer alternating programs of drama and opera. The Baylis Theatre opened in October 1988 and it appeared that a permanent theatre company might emerge, but this was limited by funding difficulties. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sadler%27s_Wells   (1344 words)

Lilian Baylis, Theatre Collection, University of Bristol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) Lilian Baylis was lessee and manager of London Old Vic from 1912 until her death in November 1937. Lilian Baylis joined her aunt, Emma Cons, in 1897, to assist with the running of the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall which had been established to provide educational and moral entertainment for working class people. After the death of her aunt, Lilian Baylis established a Shakespeare Company and successfully created an environment which allowed great artists to flourish, despite constant financial limitations, no formal artistic training, and within a male-orientated society. www.bris.ac.uk /theatrecollection/baylis.html   (185 words)

Lilian Baylis Lilian Baylis' first experience of management was in South Africa, where her parents, both musicians, had emigrated in 1890. Baylis had enabled the creation at Sadler's Wells of what became three of the top performing companies in the land: The Royal Ballet, English National Opera and Birmingham Royal Ballet, as well as the renowned Royal Ballet School. Charged with her beliefs and her sheer determination, the Lilian Baylis legacy is enormous, both through what she herself achieved and thus through what she enabled others to achieve. www.sadlers-wells.com /home/lilian.asp   (401 words)

Risky Buildings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) Lilian Baylis School, originally known as the Beaufoy, is a comprehensive school built to replace four older secondary schools in the area, among them, the former Beaufoy School founded by Henry Hanbury Beaufoy in 1851 and rebuilt in 1909 as an early Junior Technical School. Lilian Baylis (1874-1937) was the Manager of the Old Vic and Co and founder of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company. Lilian Baylis School will soon be moving to new premises and the fate of the present set of buildings is unknown. www.riskybuildings.org.uk /docs/06baylis   (504 words)

Education | School Letwin 'would rather beg' to avoid gets glowing report Ofsted refused to comment on the contents of its report on Lilian Baylis except to confirm that it was due to be published in January. Ofsted's report will say that "Lilian Baylis provides a good quality of education," where both the teaching and leadership by the headteacher and his senior staff is also good. Lilian Baylis School has recently undertaken a number of partnerships with local businesses, one of the reasons for the drastic improvement at the school, according to Mr Phillips. education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4807972-106687,00.html   (662 words)

News articles for Baylis, Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) A Baylis couple are facing charges of "gift or delivery of alcohol to a minor" after a party at their home on the night of Nov.... Francoise Baylis of Dalhousie University led the study, which was published on Friday in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. Lilian Baylis, the inner city comprehensive shunned by a senior Tory, has been praised as "a good school" by Ofsted. www.linkmorgue.org /united_states/full/Illinois/Baylis.html   (1030 words)

News - Lilian Baylis Technology School in Lambeth Opens its Doors An elaborate extravaganza was held at the end of the Christmas term to say a final goodbye to the old school building with magicians, jugglers, fire-eaters and trick cyclists mingling with the students, ending with a spectacular fireworks display. The school is named after the theatrical personality, Lilian Baylis, who managed London’s Old Vic from 1912 to her death in 1937, and in 1927 rebuilt the derelict Sadler’s Wells Theatre, making it a centre of opera and ballet. The London Borough of Lambeth awarded the Lilian Baylis PFI project to FocusEducation (Lambeth) Ltd in March 2003. www.bovislendlease.com /llweb/bll/main.nsf/all/news_20050131   (592 words)

NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Ninette de Valois In 1928 however she was engaged by Lilian Baylis to be director of her Sadler's Wells Ballet. Lilian Baylis (May 9, 1874 - November 25, 1937) was a British theatrical producer and manager and the founder of a ballet company. De Valois accepted her terms and never wavered in her gratitude for the faith Baylis had in her and for the support she gave. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ninette-de-Valois   (717 words)

PeoplePlay UK - Lilian Baylis Lilian Baylis was one of the greatest pioneers in the history of the British Theatre. While Baylis was also committed to staging affordable theatre, she saw no reason why the inhabitants of Waterloo shouldn’t enjoy Shakespeare, opera and ballet. In 1924 Lilian Baylis was awarded an honorary Master’s degree from Oxford University (only the second woman to receive one); and in 1929, she became a Companion of Honour, an honour awarded for service to the nation. www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=1795   (187 words)

PeoplePlay UK - Sadler’s Wells Opera Baylis brought opera to a new audience who came to hear the operas rather than to be seen. Baylis had first managed the Old Vic theatre for her aunt, Emma Cons who was a social reformer and had opened the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall as a temperance theatre where she presented lectures and music concerts. In 1912 Baylis applied for a full theatrical licence so that people could see what she considered to be the best entertainment – Shakespeare and opera. www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/opera_tour/england/sadlers.php   (382 words)

PeoplePlay UK - The Old Vic Lilian Baylis’s Old Vic provided the starting point for the formation of Britain’s national ballet, opera and theatre companies and for the careers of stars such as, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Peggy Ashcroft and Flora Robson. Baylis took over management of the Old Vic in 1912 from her aunt, Emma Cons who believed in the power of theatre and entertainment to enrich the lives of the poor. At first she ran the hall according to her aunt’s ideas: Thursday was music night with ballad concerts, opera tableaux, and oratorio; Saturday was variety; Tuesday lectures; Friday temperance lectures and on Monday and Wednesday the theatre was let to other societies. www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/drama_tour/1900_1945/old_vic.php   (883 words)

Baylis Lilian Mary - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) Baylis Lilian Mary - Search Results - MSN Encarta Baylis, Lilian Mary (1874-1937), British theatre manager, born in London, and recognized for her outstanding contribution to 20th-century British... Baylis, Lilian (quotations): Acting and Actors: O God, send me some… uk.encarta.msn.com /Baylis_Lilian_Mary.html   (100 words)

Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa A pioneering figure of the English stage, Lilian Baylis was already well known for bringing excellence in the performing arts to the widest possible public at the Old Vic Theatre on the south bank of the river Thames, taking the position after the death of her aunt, Emma Cons. When the new Sadler’s Wells theatre was designed, Lilian Baylis made sure that the size of the stage was exactly to the dimensions of her first child, the Old Vic. The management of this theatre, as well as the Lilian Baylis Theatre and the Peacock Theatre in the Aldwych, is under the direction of Chief Executive, Jean-Luc Choplin. www.teatrwielki.pl /readme.php?book=wydarzenia&book_id=634&book_name=sadlers_wells&nlang=en   (1003 words)

The Latest News from Lilian Baylis Technology School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) Lilian Baylis Cineclub film told the story of a young African girl sent to school in London and her experience when she first arrived. It was a moving story told simply but clearly, it caught the imagination of the audience that consisted of other Cineclub students from south London who voted the film their choice to represent the cohort in next competition in July. On Thursday 23rd June at 6.30pm in the ballroom at the Royal Festival hall was the place to be as 20 students from LBTS put on the greatest gig of the night in front of the general public. www.southwark.tv /LBTS/LBTSNews.asp   (750 words)

Old Vic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) With Emma Cons's death in 1912 the theatre passed to her niece Lilian Baylis, who emphasised the Shakespeare an repertoire. In 1931, Lilian Baylis re-opened the derelict Sadler's Wells Theatre and established a ballet company; for a few years the drama and ballet companies rotated between the two theatres, with the ballet becoming permanently based at Sadler's Wells in 1935. The Old Vic was damaged badly during the Blitz, and the war-depleted company spent all its time touring, based in Liverpool. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Old_Vic.html   (463 words)

Lambeth Teacher with Lambeth NUT Indeed, we have an obligation to stress that Lilian Baylis School is the only Secondary school in Lambeth that genuinely could claim to re-integrate students permanently excluded elsewhere. In the 1990's, when opting out in Lambeth, Lilian Baylis was one of the few secondary schools who remained loyal to the LEA and deserve all the support they can get. It is recognised, not least by Ofsted, that Lilian Baylis's intake includes many disadvantaged children and low attainers at the point of entry, but those same children have made tremendous strides. www.lta.demon.co.uk /lilian_baylis_2004.htm   (942 words)

The Observer | Focus | Why middle-class parents should go for the local comp This was most starkly illustrated on the day I visited both Westminster public school and Lilian Baylis, the mixed comprehensive that Oliver Letwin, the Shadow Chancellor, said he would rather beg in the gutter than send his children to. At Lilian Baylis, a concrete jungle in a deprived part of Lambeth, the head, Gary Phillips, is determined to overcome past problems and give his pupils the opportunities they deserve. Even so, Lilian Baylis has now been praised by inspectors, and in the value-added league tables it is in the top five per cent. observer.guardian.co.uk /focus/story/0,6903,1158727,00.html   (1629 words)

UK baylis Websites Baylis distribution transport and haulage for the food grocery and beverage trade - Baylis Distribution are transport hauliers for the food, beveragewarehouses at key locations throughout the UK. Baylis Distribution are transport hauliers for the food, beveragewarehouses at key locations throughout the UK. Slough Borough Council: Baylis & Stoke - Representatives › Your Councillors › Baylis & Stoke The councillors representing this ward arewho represent the ward. www.splut.co.uk /sub/b/baylis.html   (839 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) Fears have been raised that the constant use of street slang, based on the Creole spoken in the West Indies, and the rejection of traditional English speech patterns and vocabulary is contributing to the educational failure of fl pupils, particularly boys from Afro-Caribbean backgrounds. As part of a government pilot programme, students at Lilian Baylis School, in south London, are being taught that patois is only appropriate in certain circumstances and that they must master standard English. Thirty schools, including Lilian Baylis, are working with consultants from the Department for Education and Skills on measures to improve achievement by ethnic minority pupils. www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art4329a.txt   (785 words)

Politics | The real class issue So intrinsically unlikely is the idea of the young Letwins attending Lilian Baylis, that their Dad has - apparently - never set foot in the place. While he is mulling all this over we should return to Lilian Baylis, the collateral casualty of Oliver's assault. The oldest is currently at a school full of lovely girls and excellent teachers, surrounded by beautiful grounds and cocooned from the world of Lilian Baylis (though, to her great credit, the head is now working part-time with a school in Hackney). politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4772596-107865,00.html   (1407 words)

About Us - Sadler's Wells The Lilian Baylis Theatre has been fully refurbished with the latest sound and light equipment. The studios can also be used as breakout meeting areas or reception areas for conferences being held in the Lilian Baylis; ideal for organisers wishing to capture the backstage atmosphere. Consultation at every stage of the design project (from the selection of the auditorium seats to the cutlery) with a committee of people with physical, sensory and cognitive disabilities has ensured that the needs of all our visitors have been considered. www.sadlerswells.org /home/corporate_hire.asp   (722 words)

Anecdote - Lilian Baylis - Gossip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) The famed theater manager Lilian Baylis vehemently discouraged romances between performers in her companies. When a young actor and actress visited her office hand in hand one day, Baylis ignored them for some time before looking up from her desk. Baylis, Lilian (1874-1937) English theater manager, founder of the first Old Vic Company in London (1922) and (with Ninette de Valois) of the Sadler's Wells Company for ballet and opera (1933) www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=616   (202 words)

BBC - Radio4 Womanshour -Lillian Baylis Lilian took over the running of the Old Vic on the death of her aunt Emma Cons, the theatre's founder. The Old Vic, which didn't serve alcohol, was pioneering in bringing opera and Shakespeare to the working classes. Lilian extended this, adding ballet and classical theatre to the repertoire. www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/timeline/lilian_baylis.shtml   (87 words)

Lambeth Teacher with Lambeth NUT Lilian Baylis's rebuild is the first project approved by Lambeth under the governments PFI scheme that even the Tories was a daft way to finance public expenditure. Yet they would wish to reduce the Lilian Baylis provision by three forms of entry, rather than spend money in improving and re-developing as necessary the existing Lollard Street site. And just to add to their woes, English Heritage have realised the outstanding architectural features of the main buildings and the historical uniqueness of Lilian Baylis school and are campaigning against demolition. www.lta.demon.co.uk /lilian_baylis2.htm   (962 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) Lilian Baylis School was inspected under Section 9 of the Education (Schools) Act 1992 by a Registered Inspector and a team of inspectors at the end of January and the beginning of February 1994. There are induction and reintegration programmes for pupils who have earlier been asked to leave other schools or who are at risk of exclusion from Lilian Baylis. During the three months previous to this visit, there were three permanent exclusions and 22 of between one and five days. www.ofsted.gov.uk /reports/100/100625.htm   (5311 words)

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