19 Facts About James Agate

James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars.

James Agate published three novels, translated a play briefly staged in London, and regularly published collections of theatre essays and reviews.

James Agate's father had a keen interest in music and theatre and connections with them.

James Agate's mother, educated in Paris and Heidelberg, was an accomplished pianist.

James Agate volunteered in May 1915 at the age of thirty-seven for the Army Service Corps, and was posted to France.

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James Agate had an arrangement to supply a series of open letters about his wartime experiences to Allan Monkhouse at The Manchester Guardian.

Captain James Agate's name was engraved on the Chapel-en-le-Frith War Memorial in Derbyshire.

James Agate was native to the theatre, he understood acting, he had in his blood both the French.

James Agate was a cricket and boxing enthusiast, the owner of Hackney show horses, and an avid golfer.

Alistair Cooke was another admirer of James Agate, and devoted one of his "Letters from America" to the "Supreme Diarist.

James Agate had a series of secretaries, of whom Alan Dent, known as Jock, served for 14 years and became the most prominent.

James Agate had recurring themes around Malibran, Sarah Bernhardt, Rejane, Rachel, the Dreyfus Affair, Shakespeare, and Dickens.

James Agate's style is "vigorous and outspoken, and always entertaining, in spite of his refusal to admit greatness in any actor later than Irving.

James Agate sought to position himself in that tradition, and his criticism consequently is verbose and self-indulgent but hugely entertaining and revealing.

The Times reviewer commented, "Mr James Agate is suspected of having been too faithful to a too earnest German original.

James Agate wrote a biography of the French actress Rachel, which the novelist Arnold Bennett called "excited and exciting" and of its subject "beyond question the best life in English".

James Agate's health declined during the Second World War and he began to suffer from heart trouble.

James Agate died suddenly at his home in Holborn, London, at the age of 69, shortly after completing his ninth Ego volume.

James Agate wrote volumes of The Contemporary Theatre published by Chapman and Hall, covering 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1944 and 1945.