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DAME EDITH EVANS (1888-1976) Actress 109 EBURY STREET, LONDON SW1 “... actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.” (Edith Evans) Once cruelly described by Dorothy Parker as looking like “something that would eat its young”, Edith Evans had the last laugh by leaving to the world the inability to watch The Importance of Being Earnest without hearing her voice – no matter who is playing Lady Bracknell. A mass aural hallucination occurs that would make a revivalist preacher eat their bibles and start listening to Black Sabbath albums backwards with jealousy. Perhaps they too should try using the words of a flamboyant Irish homosexual. But sadly they won’t.