Gladys Young (29 April 1887 – 18 August 1975)[1] was an English actress and prominent member of BBC Radio Drama Company.
[2] Peggy Chambers' 1954 book, Women And The World Today,[3] has a chapter on Gladys Young's life and achievements up to the 1950s.
Harold Terry and Lechmere Worrall's The Man Who Stayed at Home but, in 1916, left to marry Major Algernon Henry Pascoe West.
In July 1930, Gladys Young appeared, along with Earle Grey, in the first play on a television screen, Luigi Pirandello's The Man with the Flower in his Mouth,[7] directed by Lance Sieveking.
According to Val Gielgud,[8] The TV system employed was Baird's in his Long Acre studio.
[9] The BBC broadcast a tribute programme, Gladys Young - First Lady of the Air[10] in 1975, soon after her death.