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Olga Isabella Nethersole, CBE, RRC (18 January 1867〔Year of birth approximated as 1867 based on death registry at Findmypast.co.uk Name: NETHERSOLE, Olga I. Registration District: Poole County: Dorset Year of Registration: 1951 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar Age at death: 84 Volume No: 6A/Page No:752〕 – 9 January 1951) was an English actress, theatre producer, and wartime nurse/health educator. ==Biography== She was born in London, of Spanish descent on her mother's side, and made her stage début at Theatre Royal, Brighton in 1887. From 1888 she played important parts in London, at first under Rutland Barrington and John Hare at the Garrick Theatre. She toured Australia and America, playing leading parts in modern plays, notably Clyde Fitch's ''Sapho'', where she and her male costar Hamilton Revelle were arrested for "violating public decency" and later found innocent at trial.〔 Her powerful emotional acting, however, made a great effect in some other plays, such as ''Carmen'', in which she again appeared in America in 1906.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olga Nethersole )〕 She played "La seconde madame Tanqueray" at the Odeon theatre of Paris in 1904.〔Le Ménestrel Review 1904〕 Then she was at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre for Magda, Sapho, Adrienne Lecouvreur, adaptation of a French play by Scrive et Légouvé, Camille, adaptation of a French playe la Dame aux Camélias,〔Annales du théatre et de la musique de 1907 (p. 274)〕 and The Spanish Gipsy, adaptation of a French play Carmen de Mérimée in 1907.〔L'Aurore du 12 of june 1907〕 Every summer she spends a week at the house of Edmond Rostand in Cambo les Bains. And in 1907, she's there to get from Edmond Rostand's play" La Samaritaine" an English version of it to play it in London.〔Newpaper l'Aurore 12 of june 1907〕 In a conference at the Athenee theatre in Paris on november 17th 1908, Robert Eude says that Olga Nethersole invented the Soulkiss (a specially long kiss, of which actress Miss Maud Adams was the recordwoman 〔Newspaper Comoedia 18 of november 1908 p. 2〕 At that time she inspired the character of "Miss Nethersoll", an American dancer, in the French novel La Danseuse nue et la Dame a la licorne by Rachel Gaston-Charles (1908).〔Review Le Mercure de France September 16th 1908 p. 306〕 She served as a nurse in London throughout World War I and later established the People's League of Health, for which she received the Royal Red Cross (RRC) in 1920.〔 She combined her theatre work with health work for the rest of her life. She was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1936. She died on 9 January 1951 in Bournemouth, England. Her brother, Louis F. Nethersole, was a theatrical manager, producer and press agent and one-time husband of the American actress and singer, Sadie Martinot.〔Sadie Martinot Dies Insane at 61. ''The New York Times'', 8 May 1923, p. 7.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olga Nethersole」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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