1. Pauline Chase added the names "Ellen" and "Matthew" to hers when she was baptised in the Church of England in 1906, from her godparents, the actress Ellen Terry and author James Matthew Barrie.
17 Facts About Pauline Chase
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Pauline Chase is known for her extended run in the title role of British productions of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
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Pauline Chase was known as the Pocket Venus of New York.
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Pauline Chase was born Pauline Bliss in Washington, DC, on May 20,1885, the daughter of Dr Ellis Bliss.
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Pauline Chase was schooled at the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in New York.
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Pauline Chase played one of the Lost Boys in the debut of Peter Pan in London in 1904.
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Pauline Chase first came to the attention of Charles Frohman when he opened his production of the musical play "The Girl from Up There", starring Edna May, at the Herald Square theatre in January 1901.
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Pauline Chase was still only fifteen years of age when she made that first crossing of the Atlantic to appear on the London stage.
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Pauline Chase returned to London with Frohman in 1903 to appear in "The School Girls" at the Prince of Wales theatre and would remain in England for the next few years appearing in numerous productions and building upon her acting reputation.
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Pauline Chase played the part each Christmas at the Duke of York's theatre for the next eight years, over 1,400 performances.
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Pauline Chase loved the town so much that she had her mother's body exhumed from her grave in Washington and reburied in Holy Trinity Church, Marlow.
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Pauline Chase had become a social beauty with many famous and influential friends and admirers, and together with Charles Frohman she mixed in the highest circles and led an extravagant lifestyle.
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Pauline Chase was reputed to have once sailed from England to New York to attend a 24-hour charity event and then immediately caught the next available ship back.
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Pauline Chase retired from the stage after the Christmas run of Peter Pan ended in 1913 to marry banker Captain Alexander Victor Drummond.
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Pauline Chase came out of retirement in 1916 for her only screen appearance in The Real Thing at Last, a satirical film scripted by Barrie and shown at a benefit for the YMCA, attended by members of the British royal family.
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Pauline Chase was said to have had an affair with explorer Robert Falcon Scott before he was married.
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Pauline Chase died in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, in 1962.