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  Oscar Asche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche, better known as Oscar Asche (26 January 1871–23 March 1936), was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical Chu Chin Chow, both on stage and film, and for acting in, directing, or producing many Shakespeare plays and successful musicals.
Asche was educated at the Melbourne Grammar School which he left at the age of 16.
Asche was a good athlete and a fair cricketer and played for the M.C.C. against minor counties.
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 Chu Chin Chow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kismet’s success spurred Oscar Asche to produce, write and direct Chu Chin Chow, engaging Frederic Norton to write the music.
Asche also played the lead role of Abu Hasan, leader of the forty thieves (the "Chu Chin Chow" of the title is an alias of the robber chief).
Theatre journal The Era said that Norton's music had "a touch of the East but for the most part it was on a level with the tender melody of musical comedy" and "hardly inspired".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chu_Chin_Chow   (820 words)

  
 PeoplePlay UK - Oscar Asche in Chu Chin Chow
Oscar Asche based his musical Chu Chin Chow on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Asche’s deal with Henry Dana, manager of His Majesty’s Theatre, was that he would take a small percentage fee, which would go up if the show took £50,000 (nearly £1m today) in the first 20 weeks.
But Asche was an inveterate gambler and by 1926 he was bankrupt.
www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=1841   (206 words)

  
 Collectors Post - OSCAR ASCHE Biography
Oscar Asche (1871-1936) was born in Australia to a Norwegian father and an Australian mother.
Asche was keen to see something of the country because he had decided to stage an adaptation of Rider Haggard’s novel A Child of the Storm.
Asche then wrote the book and lyrics — allegedly in two weeks — for a new show with music by Fredric Norton.
www.collectorspost.com /Actors/oscar_asche.html   (534 words)

  
 Shakespeare and the Players | The Players | Oscar Asche
John Oscar Asche was born in Australia and first appeared on stage in 1893; his resonant voice and his dignified, formal bearing are often mentioned in the reviews of his performances.
Asche and Miss Brayton inscribed their names in the record book in 1916.
Oscar Asche wrote a play entitled Chu-Chin-Chow in which he played the lead, Abu Hasan.
shakespeare.emory.edu /actordisplay.cfm?actorid=4   (333 words)

  
 The Biography of Early Australia
His principal creditor was the Inland Revenue, though Asche stated that he had paid many thousands a year for years whenever a demand was made.
His interesting autobiography, Oscar Asche his Life, must be read with caution whenever figures are mentioned.
It would perhaps be going too far to call Asche a great actor, but it may at least be said that he was a thoroughly good actor who had his great moments.
www.bendigolive.com /australia/a/asche.htm   (1475 words)

  
 MyDad
My father, David Asche was born in 1931 in Hong Kong, where his father taught science and mathematics at a missionary school.
Known as Oscar, he became a famous actor-manager both in Australia and Europe, where one of his (self-written) productions: Chu Chin Chow had the distinction of holding the record in England of longest running show.
Many stories from this side of my family are known to me through Oscar's autobiography, but of my grandfather H.C.J. Asche (or Jack, as he was called) I know relatively little as he had died a couple of months before I was born.
www.parrotdogs.com /mydad.htm   (1573 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy: Books: Brian Singleton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This book tells the story of producer, actor, and author Oscar Asche, one of the most commercially successful actor/managers in the first half of the 20th century.
Though virtually written out of theatre history because of his triumph on the musical comedy stage, he is most frequently remembered today as having had a successful career as an actor and producer of Shakespeare.
Asche was an innovator in stage lighting and one of the first to use it as a language of the stage rather than as mere illumination.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0275979296   (281 words)

  
 Asche Family Crest
Asche is a name whose history on English soil dates back to the wave of migration that followed the Norman Conquest of England of 1066.
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Asche coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Oscar Niemeyer ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Oscar Bluemner, Color Study for the painting Moonlight on a Creek, circa 1928 - 1929
Oscar Asche.), Men of the Day No. 1307, from Vanity Fair Supplement, 1911
Oscar E. Berninghaus - Taos Indians on Mesa n.d.
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 Scrooge (1935) : DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oscar Asche is a rather Bulbous Spirit of Christmas Present and far different than the types we´ve seen in latter versions.
Still the dinginess and starkness of the sets and costuming kind of fits with this period of Dicken´s England so in some ways there is perhaps more authenticity to the film.
The other characters are secondary but all impeccable, including Donald Calthrop (familiar from his roles in several of Alfred Hitchcock´s British films), Maurice Evans, and rotund Oscar Asche as the unforgettably fruity Ghost of Christmas Present.
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 The Descendants of Conrad Asche
She was born August 05, 1855 in Germany, and died October 12, 1929 in Cincinnati, OH.
Germany the former Kingdom of Hannover, and died May 13, 1904 in Dixon's Mills Scioto County Ohio.
She was born November 11, 1852 in Germany, and died August 03, 1936 in Oakland, CA.
www.jasche.com /asche_des.html   (615 words)

  
 Chrissy Fletcher - Author, Historian and Researcher
Researching the naming of the town of Brayton opened up a whole new project for me which is my current work-in-progress.
During the course of this research I discovered Oscar Asche, Geelong-born but London-famous, husband of the beautiful Shakespearean actress Lily Brayton.
In 2004 I self-published a small biography of Oscar Asche: A Theatrical Life: The Many Faces of Oscar Asche 1871-1936.
www.chrissyfletcher.com   (518 words)

  
 Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy — www.greenwood.com
Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy — www.greenwood.com
Description: This book tells the story of producer, actor, and author Oscar Asche, one of the most commercially successful actor/managers in the first half of the 20th century.
Oscar Asche excelled in many theatre genres, including musical comedy, pantomime, music hall, melodrama, and Shakespeare.
www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C7929   (246 words)

  
 DVD Pacific
Sir Seymour Hicks is Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who lords over his poor employee Bob Cratchit and hates the joys that Christmas affords everyone but himself.
Scrooge returns home to be haunted by three spirits who attempt to motivate a change in the old man's demeanor lest he continue on his current path and face almost certain eternal damnation.
Featuring a bravura performance from Seymour Hicks, delightful special effects, a gobbling "Ghost of Christmas Present" (Oscar Asche), a shadowy "Ghost Of Christmas Yet to Come" (right out of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 spook classic Vampyr) and a ghoulish gaggle of corpse scavengers, Scrooge is "A Christmas Carol" like you've never experienced it before.
www.dvdpacific.com /item.asp?ID=618737   (151 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy: Livres en anglais: Brian Singleton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Producer, actor, and author, Oscar Asche was one of the most commercially successful of the actor/managers in the first half of the twentieth century.
Though virtually written out of theatre history because of his triumph on the popular stages of musical comedy, he is now remembered as having a successful career as an actor and producer of Shakespeare.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0275979296   (279 words)

  
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 Asche Coat of Arms
When did the Asche family first arrive in the United States?
The Asche family lived in close proximity to an ash tree.
As such, the name has local references to towns called Ash in Derbyshire, Surrey, Hampshire, and many other places.
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 Oscar Dominguez ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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Oscar Dominguez (1581 - 1641) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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 AustLit Agent
Asche, Thomas Stange (or Stanger) Heiss Oscar; Marenas, Vasco) (12 works by)
Born John Stange(r) Heiss Asche at Mack's Hotel, Geelong (Vic), Oscar Asche is described by Eric Irvin in the Dictionary of Australian Theatre 1788-1914 (q.v.) as a 'theatrical pioneer of no mean order...
Indeed, during his career he created several visual spectacles that were later taken up by stage and film producers such as Florenz Ziegfeld (staircase scenes) and Cecil B. de Mille....
www.austlit.edu.au /run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A)G7   (125 words)

  
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 Oscar Bluhm ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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