Alice Grein Explained

Alice Augusta Grein, nee Graveen (1874-1944) was an English actress, playwright, translator and theatrical producer, who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Orme and as Alix Graveen.^{[1] [2]}

Life

Alix Augusta Greveen was born in Camberwell in 1874, the daughter of German-born parents Maria and Ernst Graveen, a silk merchant. She became an actress with J. T. Grein's' Independent Theatre Society, and in 1904 married Grein.^[1]

As well as writing and producing plays, she continued to act. In 1913 she played Mother Wolff in a production of Gerhart Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz at the Queen's Theatre.^[3] In 1917 she appeared in the London Repertory's performance of Elizabeth Baker's play Partnership.^[4]

She died in Kensington in 1944.^[1]

Works

Plays

• (as A. Greveen, with J. T. Grein) A Happy Nook, 1901. Translated from a German play Das Glück im Winkel (1896) by Hermann Sudermann.
• (as Michael Orme) Those Who Sit in Judgement, 1904.
• (as Miss Alix Greveen) Renaissance, 1905. Translated from a German play Renaissance (1897) by Franz von Schönthan and Franz Koppel-Ellfeld.
• (as Michael Orme) La Pompadour, 1911.
• (as Michael Orme) Wedding Bells, 1911.
• (as Michael Orme) The Widow and the Waiter, 1915.
• (as M. Orme) The Eternal Snows, 1916)
• (as Mrs Grein) The Hotel de Waterloo, 1916.
• (as Michael Orme) The Woman at the Windowsill, 1917.
• (as Michael Orme) Cavalleria Rusticana, 1919. From an Italian play Cavalleria Rusticana (1884) by Giovanni Verga.
• (as Michael Orme) Great Aunt Elizabeth, 1919. Originally titled Crinolines and Khaki.
• (as Michael Orme) The Doctor of Dreams, 1921. From a Dutch play Femina (1919) by F. J. Soesman and Cornelis Petrus van Rossem.
• (as Michael Orme) Life's A Game, 1922.
• (as Michael Orme) The Greatest Invention of All, 1922.

Biography

• J. T. Grein: the story of a pioneer, 1862-1935. 1936.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alice Grein . Great War Theatre .
2. Book: Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930: The Beginnings of the Modern Period. Cambridge University Press. 1973. 978-0-521-12947-3. Cambridge. 688. en.
3. News: "Der Biberpelz" at the Queen's Theatre . The Times . 10 February 1913 .
4. News: Miss Baker's new play . The Times . 6 March 1917 . 9.