Appeal on behalf of the Professional Classes' Aid Council by Dame MADGE KENDAL , D.B.E.
THE Professional Classes' Aid Council was started as the ' Professional Classes' War
Relief Council,' in October, 1914, and did good work during the war. In 1920, when it became apparent that post-war conditions. would entail much hardship and suffering, it was made into a permanent organization to help the ' New Poor.' Its work includes the education of children, training of adults, maintenance in time of illness or in other exceptional circumstances, and the provision of clothes.
Dame Madge Kendal , who makes the appeal, is better known as Mrs. Kendal, the famous actress. Coming of a theatrical family, she first acted at the old Marylebone Theatre, and later made her debut in the West End by playing Ophelia at the Haymarket in 1865. Between that time and her retirement from the stage in 1908 she acted in many notable plays and with many celebrated actors, including E. A. Sothern and Beerbohm Tree.
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