453: : accessed 23 Jan 2020) General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003 Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall. Name: Winthrop Ames Registration Year: 1911 Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep Registration district: Strand Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District Inferred County: London Volume: 1b Page: 1320 Records on Page: Name Winthrop Ames Lucy Fuller
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289:: "It is generally agreed that in this entertainment he has done the best job of any producer attempting one of the famous series in our time. The only anxiety now is that he may be distracted before he has revived everyone of the operas in an equally felicitous vein. ... The show is now accepted as incomparably the finest musical preparation of its type in town, and probably in the world.
609: : 16 March 2018), Winthrop Ames, 1923; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #281803, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, Roll 2248, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
602: : 16 March 2018), Winthrop Ames, 1917; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #78036, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, Roll 443, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
595: : 16 March 2018), Winthrop Ames, 1915; citing Passport Application, Massachusetts, United States, source certificate #13063, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 280, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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at 240 West 44th Street with the express idea of putting on experimental dramas and to give an opportunity to new playwrights. This theatre had 300 seats and was, at the time, the smallest legitimate theatre in New York. One of the plays he presented in
October of the first year of operation was
588: : 16 March 2018), Winthrop Ames, 1903; citing Passport Application, Massachusetts, United States, source certificate #69698, Passport Applications, 1795-1905., Roll 620, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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Boston, Massachusetts. Name: Winthrop Ames, Death Date: 1937, Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts, US, Volume Number: 23, Page Number: 420, Index Volume Number: 94, Reference Number: F63.M363 v.94
85:. He worked in the publishing business before turning to a career in the theatre. In 1911, Ames married Lucy (Fuller) Cabot in London, and the couple had two daughters named Catherine and Joan.
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401: : 11 March 2018), Infant Ames, 25 Nov 1870, Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #94, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,428,073.
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