Dutch postcard. Photogravure-Serie No. 895. J.W. Jansen's Uitg. Mij., Utrecht. Photo J. Merkelbach, Amsterdam. This card and bio is in honour of our friend Egbert Barten whose Geoffrey Donaldson Institute will open today, 29th November, 2013.
Wilhelmina Harmance Martine (Mien) Duymaer van Twist (1891 - 1967) was a Dutch stage and screen actress. The card must be from the late 1910s or early 1920s.
Mien Duymaer van Twist was born in Gainsfield, USA (according to www.theaterencyclopedie.nl) , on 26 February 1891. NB no American city Gainsfield exists; instead various cities are called Gainesville. At a young age she moved to the Netherlands. She first acted on stage with Van Eijsden in 1907, then moved to Eduard Verkade in 1914, to Herman Heijermans in 1917, Het Nederlandsch Tooneel in 1918, Hofstad Tooneel in 1919, and afterwards with Louis de Vries, and then Cor Ruys. At the age of 27 Van Twist debuted in Dutch silent cinema in the film De kroon der schande (The Coronet of Shame, Maurits Binger 1918), starring Annie Bos and Adelqui Migliar. Mien played a Duchess. In 1920 she got the lead in the film Helleveeg (Vixen, Theo Frenkel, 1920), acting the part of Jane, a part tailor-made for her as her character also comes from the States. Critics were raving about her performance. In the same year she acted in Berlin in the German film Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland (Joe May 1920), with Mia May in the title role and Albert Steinrück as her jealous husband. Van Twist only had a supporting part, though, and didn’t pursue a career in the Berlin film industry. Instead, in 1923, she went to the Dutch East Indies. In 1925 Duymaer van Twist married in Batavia a well-known press magnate there, Dominique Berretty. They had a son and a daughter, but they separated already in 1928. The son, Dominique jr., was shortly married to the Dutch well-known actress Yoka Berretty.
Returned to the Netherlands, Duymaer van Twist performed with Oost Nederlands Tooneel and then again at the Hofstad Tooneel in The Hague. When Dutch sound cinema rose in the mid-1930s, Van Twist performed in several films: she was the director of a boarding house for girls in Suikerfreule (Haro van Peski, 1935) and also acted in Van Peski’s Het leven is niet zo kwaad (1935), she was Mrs. Stoops in the critical colonial drama Rubber (Johan de Meester& Gerard Rutten, 1936), based on the novel and play by Madelon H. Székely-Lulofs. And she acted in the Dutch versions of the Franco-Dutch multi-version films Klokslag twaalf (1936) and De man zonder hart (1937), both by Léo Joannon. Towards the outbreak of the Second World War she played Aunt Paula in Morgen gaat 't beter (Frederic Zelnik, 1939) with Lily Bouwmeester, and Floddermadam in Boefje (Douglas Sirk, 1939).
Between 1940 and 1960 Van Twist mainly concentrated on her stage career. During the war years she acted with the Noordhollandsch Tooneel. As of 1952 she acted with the Nederlandsche Comedie. From the late 1950s on, she also appeared on television, first as the piano teacher Mrs. Liedeke Haafkens in Pension Hommeles (Erik de Vries, 1959), written by Annie M.G. Schmidt. She then acted on television as Aunt Milicent in Rozengeur en maneschijn (Fred Benavente, Paul Cammermans, 1961), Mrs. Pendleton in Vadertje Langbeen (Daddy Longlegs, Willy van Hemert 1964), the wet nurse in Romeo & Julia (Romeo and Juliet, Jack Dixon 1964), and Mrs. Despieds in De man, de vrouw en de moord (Walter van der Kamp/ Fons Rademakers, 1966), starring Mary Dresselhuys and Ko van Dijk and previously staged as a theatre play by Fons Rademakers. In 1966 Van Twist ended her film career playing the mother of Edouard (Jean Desailly) in the Dutch feature film De Dans van de Reiger/The Dance of the Heron by Fons Rademakers, starring Gunnel Lindblom.
Mien Duymaer van Twist died on 14 May 1967 in Amsterdam at the age of 76 and was buried at the Amsterdam cemetery Zorgvlied.
Sources: Geoffrey Donaldson, Of Joy and Sorrow; wiki.theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Mien_Duymaer_van_Twist; Dutch Wikipedia.
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Dutch postcard. Photogravure, No. 903. Photo by Henri Berssenbrugge, The Hague. This sepia card is part of a large series of 1920s Dutch stage players and directors, photographed by Berssenbrugge and other acclaimed Dutch photographers such as J. Merkelbach. The series was called Photogravure and edited by J.W. Jansen's publishing company in Utrecht.
Mathilda Gerardina Barbiers, better known as Tilly Lus (Zaandam, 28 June 1888 - The Hague, 25 July 1971) was a Dutch theatre actress. She also played a handful of parts in Dutch silent cinema.
Lus was a member of the Barbiers family and a daughter of Johanna Catharina Peternella Barbiers (1848-1927), widow of Wilhelmus Hermanus Lus (1834-1882), who both acted. Lus had already appeared on stage as a child, playing the leading part in Uitkomst in 1907, a play that was raved about by the audience, and with Die Haghespelers in Theater Heerengracht, directed by Eduard Verkade. She remained active in the theatre until the 1940s. In the 1930s, she worked for the theatre company Centraal Tooneel and in this period regularly acted with Mary Dresselhuys in plays, and in 1933 was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Lus also had a career in silent film. Between 1911 and 1915, she appeared in various films. She debuted as supporting actress in the film De Bannelingen (The Exiles, Leon Boedels, Caroline van Dommelen), produced by Film-Fabriek F.A. Nöggerath. For the same company she again had a supporting part in Don Juan (Leon Boedels, 1913). In both films Caroline van Dommelen had the lead. In 1912 Lus started to act also at the new film company Hollandia, first as the lead, as an equestrienne, in De paardrijdster (Maurits Binger, 1912). In 1914 she played again at Hollandia in het geheim van het Slot Arco (The Secret of the Castle Arco, dir. Louis van Dommelen), in which she is a neglected wife who starts an affair with a painter, leading to horrific consequences. In 1922 Lus played in 't Speldenraapstertje (The Little Needle Picker, dir. Willens Mullens) a woman in love with a doctor (Cor Ruys), who alas is married. Yet, the doctor finds out by use of a private detective that his wife (Minny ten Hove) cheats on him with another man (Jan C. de Vos), so then the road is free for a new marriage. The film was based on a play by Sacha Guitry, Une petite main qui se place (1922), co-produced by Cor Ruys, Lus' husband, and Willy Mullens, and was shown as the epilogue of a stage play by the The Hague based stage company Princesse-Tooneel.
In 1915 Lus married Cor Ruys, actor and theatre manager, with whom she had six children, including actress Louise Ruys. Eduard Verkade said that after motherhood "the melody in her gained considerable depth." Lus died at the age of 83.
(Sources: Dutch Wikipedia, Theaterencyclopedie, Geoffrey Donaldson, Of Joy and Sorrow. A Filmography of Dutch Silent Cinema.)
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Vintage Dutch postcard. Photogravure, 904, Jansen, NRM. Photo by J. de Rijk, Rotterdam.
Alwine Julie Else Mauhs (Mülheim an der Ruhr, 25 January 1885 - Amsterdam, 22 January 1959) was a Dutch stage actress.
Mauhs was a daughter of the sculptor Heinrich Mauhs, who died young. Born in Germany, she came to Amsterdam with her mother and Dutch stepfather in 1899. There, at the School for Vocal and Dramatic Art, she first took singing lessons with Cateau Esser but eventually chose drama with Hermann Schwab. Mauhs was also adept at drama in French and German in which she took her final exams.
In 1903, she made her debut with the Rotterdamsch Tooneel where she played leading roles in French and German comedies. In 1917, she transferred to the Hofstad Tooneel in The Hague (from 1920 Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel) where she played leading roles in Dutch productions. After this, she played with the Koninklijke Vereeniging Het Nederlandsch Tooneel and various other companies. From the 1930s, she became known with French and Italian productions. Mauhs, who had been obsessed with her weight throughout her career, had poor health and quit in 1940. She did not join the Nederlandsche Kultuurkamer. When she heard that her Jewish husband, from whom she lived separately, had been deported to the Westerbork transit camp, she herself went to the Sicherheitsdienst to get him released. With her acting talent and flawless German, she succeeded. Mauhs had limited activity after World War II. She was also a teacher at the Amsterdam School of Drama.
In 1934, Theo Mann-Bouwmeester gave her the Theo Mann-Bouwmeester Ring, named after her, for her achievements for the Dutch theatre. She was supposed to pass it on to what she considered a worthy colleague, but died in 1959 without having designated a successor. A committee appointed in her will gave the ring to Caro van Eyck in 1960. Mauhs had a daughter, Inga, and was married to businessman Max Poons in 1915. Their relationship lasted until 1925. She died shortly before her 74th birthday at the Prinsengracht Hospital in Amsterdam, where she had been admitted two weeks earlier. Mauhs was laid to rest at the Stadsschouwburg and buried at Zorgvlied.
Sources: Dutch Wikipedia, resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Mauhs
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Vintage Dutch postcard. Photogravure, 894. Jansen. Photo by Henri Berssenbrugge.
Augusta Veronica (Vera) Bondam (The Hague, October 13, 1895 - Amsterdam, July 1, 1982) was a Dutch actress and radio play actress. From the early 1910s through the early 1970s she played roles in various plays, radio plays and TV series.
Bondam debuted on stage with the company of Louis de Vries during their performances in the Dutch East Indies around 1914, After the dissolution of this company, she continued to work with some colleagues in India, but in 1916 she returned to the Netherlands and was engaged by Van Eysden at Het Rotterdamsch Tooneel. From 1018 to 1923 she acted at the Hofstadtoneel company in The Hague. In the mid-1920s, she decided to study German, as the stage no longer gave her satisfaction. She passed her degree, but eventually rejoined the Vereenigd Tooneel of Eduard Verkade and Dirk Verbeek, where she performed many major roles, often directed by female director Bets Ranucci-Beckman, occasionally by Eduard Verkade. From 1930 she acted at the Koninklijke Vereeniging Het Nederlandsch Tooneel, where Ranucci-Beckman remained her main director. In February 1930 she celebrated her 12-1/2-year anniversary in “Durand jeweller” at the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. In 1936 she left for the Dutch East Indies with Tooneelgezelschap de Schakel for the second time to play for a season. Yet, between 1933 until the company's ending in 1938 she kept acting at the Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel, which was officially a joint venture by a Rotterdam and a The Hague based company. Yet, it mainly acted at The Hague, as the City of Rotterdam gave much less subvention that The Hague. Still, the constant interference of the City of The Hague with the choice of plays caused director Cor van der Lugt Melsert to end the company in 1938. While in 1938-39, Bondam acted at Dirk Verbeek's company Het Residentie Tooneel, based at The Hague, during the war years Bondam acted with the Amsterdam based company of Cor van der Lugt Melsert. In the early 1950s she acted with Cor Hermus' company Comedia and ATG (Amsterdams Toneelgezelschap ), the main company performing at the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg. From the later 1950s, Bondam played less and was connected with some plays by Stichting Toneelgroep Studio, later also De Nederlandse Comedie.
Vera Bondam married inr 1924 in Amsterdam to Philippe la Chapelle, with whom she often played together before and during their marriage, as well as after their divorce in 1931. After this she married Dr. A.A. Gubatta, a Viennese surgeon, for whom she often traveled to Vienna for several months, even in the middle of the season. She continued to perform regularly in the Netherlands and was later also attached to the Amsterdam Drama School as a drama teacher, and after World War II at the Dutch Radio Union, as a teacher of pronunciation of the German language.
As a radio play actress, Vera Bondam was involved in many hundreds of radio plays such as Trilby (1949, after Du Maurier) and Zijn held (1951, based on the 1948 British play The Paragon by Pertwee & Pertwee), she participated in the theater nights of the AVRO and in the fifties she belonged to the television drama group, which existed for three seasons. She continued working as an actress until the late 1960s and was almost eighty when she played her last television role. Beginning in the 1950s, she also made a name for herself as a recitalist. She recited her repertoire of theater monologues and other texts in theaters, at schools and at corporate meetings (such as KLM). She also recited a text on Queen Juliana's 50th birthday, in 1959. After studying with Anton Sistermans and Louis van Tulder, Vera Bondam made her debut as a singer in 1948. This included a program in which she performed songs based on texts by Shakespeare. She was also a director for amateur theater societies for many years.
Source: theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Vera_Bondam, Dutch Wikipedia.
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Vintage Dutch postcard. Photogravure, 900, Jansen, NRM. Photo by Henri Berssenbrugge.
Christina Geertruida 'Stine' van der Gaag (The Hague, 10 November 1887 - October 1929) was a Dutch stage actress. After she married actor Sam den Hartogh in 1909, she was named Stine den Hartogh. They divorced in 1919.
Van der Gaag was member of the stage company Het Schouwtooneel. In particular during the 1920s, she acted in various plays such as Als de jonge wijn bloeit (1923), Om de Kroon (1926), Peer Gynt (1927) and De Geveltoerist (1927). She died in 1929 after a long suffering, drawing much attention from the media.
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