Jean Aylwin - Knowledge

314:, she had asked her husband to rent a flat for her opposite the theatre. When he went to visit her there, he encountered Mr Bath. On learning that his wife was too ill to come out, Rawlinson invited Bath out to lunch, who declined, claiming a prior engagement. Rawlinson returned to the flat later, where he again met Bath. When Bath went to ask Aylwin if she was well enough to receive her husband, Rawlinson heard her ask "Has he gone?" which aroused his suspicions about Bath's presence. Aylwin wrote to her husband afterwards, saying he was "quite wrong", and that Bath had been "a good friend". However, the housekeeper testified that Aylwin and Bath had often been alone together at the flat. The court found for Colonel Rawlinson and granted the divorce. 22: 177:. A reviewer commented: "Jean Aylwin, who was altogether charming as Gobette, had no difficulty in showing what an accomplished actress this most outrageous of flirts was. Her delicate art, indeed, all but transmuted base metal into pure gold." The show's success was later described by another critic as "in no small degree due to the brilliant acting of Miss Jean Aylwin". 207:

s review lamented that the show's own music hall format gave limited scope to 'clever players' from the 'legitimate' theatre, such as Aylwin. In 1914 she received press coverage for inspiring a style of dress "in crepe and lace". In 1915, she starred in a second Scottish-themed show,

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at the Chelsea Theatre, London. Her role as a Scottish maid was newly introduced for the Chelsea production and does not appear in the original. At the end of that year she announced her permanent retirement from the stage. She stated that she intended to travel to

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also appeared in the piece, and over the next four years, Aylwin would play in a series of successful musicals co-written by, and starring, Grossmith. Later the same year, she played Jennie, a maid in the original cast of the first of these,

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wrote that if she fulfilled her early promise, she "has a future before her as character actress that can best be described as a particularly bright one." In 1907, she took the role of Minna in the original run of the hit musical

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described the revue as "probably one of the best which has been to Manchester" and commended the wit and humour, observing that Aylwin "sings and dances charmingly". Later that year, she supported the comedian

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and other parts of the East, to work with the Wesleyan Missionary Society to improve conditions in leper settlements. She subsequently returned to England, and in 1926 was an early radio broadcaster on the

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early in the 20th century. She turned to roles in non-musical plays by World War I, continued to act into the 1920s and was later a radio broadcaster. Her divorce in 1924 from a colonel in the

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She began her professional stage career in 1904 with a touring company playing character roles in smaller towns in the British provinces in such

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In 1913–14, she appeared in Scotland and northern England as the title character in a show with a Scottish theme,

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In 1923 she returned to the stage in one of two competing London versions of

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as the Mother Superior. In the same year, she starred in a sketch called

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in the case. The court heard that while she had been appearing in

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Aylwin was best known for creating character roles in successful

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at the Stage Beauty website, accessed 13 December 2012

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praised the story of a girl from a rigidly righteous (

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