Gladys Calthrop

Her parents sent her to a finishing school in Paris, and she returned married to Army captain Everard E. Calthrop, from Norfolk.

[4] As she later recalled: "It was the first play I had ever designed so I was terribly excited, though there was nowhere to paint the sets except outside the theatre in Hampstead High Street, and the costumes all had to be made in a kind of basement there.

Her designs for Broadway included The Cradle Song (1927), This Year of Grace (1928), Bitter Sweet (1929), Autumn Crocus (1932), Private Lives (1931), Design for Living (1933), Conversation Piece (1934), Point Valaine (1935), Tonight at 8.30 (1936), Excursion (1937), Dear Octopus (1939) and Set to Music (1939).

[3] Calthrop's papers, including her letters, are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.

[11] The National Portrait Gallery in London holds 16 photographs of Calthrop in its collections,[12] and the University of Bristol Theatre Collection holds a portrait of her by Clemence Dane[13] and a bust by Fiore de Henriquez.