Edwin Arden Edwin Arden Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (February 4, 1864 – October 2, 1918) was an American actor, theatre manager, and playwright. Arden was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mary Berkley Hunter and Arden Richard Smith.. After a common-school education he travelled west and worked in a number of different jobs, including as a mine-helper, cowboy, railroad brakeman, clerk, reporter, and theatre manager. In 1882, he made his debut as an actor with Thomas Keene's Shakespeare company. The next year, in 1883, he married Agnes Ann Eagleson Keene. Their only child, daughter Mildred Arden, also became an actor. Around this
Mary Pownall Mary Pownall Mary Pownall (1862-1937) was a British sculptor. She was active from 1890 until 1937. She is particularly associated with Watford. Pownall was born in Leigh in Lancashire in 1862. In the 1890s she was living in Birkenhead. She studied in Frankfurt in 1896 and in Paris from 1897 to 1898 where she tutored by Auguste Rodin. She then studied in Rome from 1898 to 1901. In Rome she lived at 53b Via Margutta. In 1902 she married Alfred Bromet, a barrister, but she continued to use her maiden name for her work. From 1903 to 1931 they lived