Artware Fineart has dated this 1920s Female Portrait Drawing to the 1920s.
Portrait of the Hon Pamela Boscawen, Stage name "Pamela Carme" 1902-1953
Signed/Inscribed:
"Leo Klin 1925"
pencil and pastel
12 x 16in. (31 x 41in.)
She retired from acting to be her husband's business partner. Henry Sherek was also a theatre manager. She was an actress, known for The Girl Was Young (1937), Holiday Lovers (1932) and Almost a Honeymoon (1930). She died in 1953 in London. (January 21, 1925 - March 1925) She acted in Ladislao Vajda's play, "Grounds for Divorce," at the St. James's Theatre in London, England with Madge Titheradge, Owen Nares, Jane Wood, Lawrence Grossmith, Lawrence Hanray, Alice O'Day, Dino Galvani, and Violet Graham in the cast. Sister of Evelyn Boscawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth; Hon. Vere Douglas Boscawen; Hon. George Edward Boscawen and Hon. Mildmay Thomas Boscawen .
Jules Henry Sherek (1900-1967) was a British theatrical manager, known for producing the plays of T. S. Eliot.Sherek was born on 23 April 1900, at 2 Guilford Street, London, to Bernard a merchant (and later an international theatrical agent), and Margarette (née Jacoby).He was educated at the Waren Gymnasium in Germany, where he became fluent in German, and at a school in Switzerland, where he learned to speak French. He was severely wounded while in the Near East during World War I, having lied about his age in order to enlist while only 15.Following the war, and after a period in the United States working for David Belasco and at a theatrical agency, he took over his father's agency.In 1937, he married the actress Pamela Carme (real name Kathleen Pamela Mary Corona Boscawen; 1902–1995), who was the daughter of the Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth. During World War II, he again served in the British army, becoming a major before being invalided out in 1944.He produced the T.S. Elliot plays The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman.All were directed by E. Martin Browne.He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 15 June 1959.Examples of his correspondence with Sir Cecil Beaton are included in the latter's papers, in the library of St John's College, Cambridge.
After spending his retirement in Geneva, he died in Venice on 23 September 1967.
Artware Fineart has dated this 1920s Female Portrait Drawing to the 1920s.
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Leo Klin, 1887-1967 Portrait of the Hon Pamela Boscawen, Stage Name "Pamela Carme" 1902-1953
