Bibliograph

The lion and the thespian, the true story of Prime Minister JG Strydom's marriage to the actress Marda Vanne, David Bloomberg

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The lion and the thespian, the true story of Prime Minister JG Strydom's marriage to the actress Marda Vanne, David Bloomberg

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lion and the thespian

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

David Bloomberg

Sub title

the true story of Prime Minister JG Strydom's marriage to the actress Marda Vanne

Summary

Margaretha van Hulsteyn (also known as Scrappy) is the daughter of respected South African attorney Sir Willem van Hulsteyn, and an aspiring actress. While studying in London after the Great War, Scrappy changes her name to Marda Vanne and enters into a relationship with one of the foremost actresses of her day, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. However, on a visit to her parents in the Union of South Africa, Marda meets Hans Strydom, an attorney and uncompromising radical politician with the soubriquet 'The Lion of the North'. Their meeting changes the course of her life, at least temporarily... Strydom went on to become a principal progenitor of the harshest discriminatory legislation, Apartheid, which endured for decades until his nephew, President FW de Klerk, in a volte-face, dismantled the laws of Apartheid

Target audience

adult

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Lion & the thespian

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