Virginia Fox Brooks (January 29, 1893 â€" 1971), also known as
Virginia Fox-Brooks Vernon or Virginia Vernon, was an American
actress, playwright, translator, and journalist. With her husband,
Frank Vernon, she translated dramatic works into English. During World
War II, she worked with the Entertainment National Service Association
(ENSA) to produce shows for the troops.Virginia Fox Brooks was born
January 29, 1893, the daughter of Joseph Brooks, a theatre manager.
(Some sources give her birthdate as 1894 or 1899.) Her parents were
from Tennessee and Virginia. She studied music in France with Jacques
Isnardon at the Paris Conservatory, and toured in Europe with singer
Yvette Guilbert as a young woman. "If I ever do anything really fine,"
Brooks said of Guilbert in 1919, "I feel that I shall owe it to her,
to the privilege of daily association with so marvelous an artist, to
all that I have learned through my intimate friendship with her."Fox
Brooks sang at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She appeared on Broadway
in The Adventures of Lady Ursula (1915), Trilby (1915), Ghosts (1915),
The Great Lover (1915â€"1916), Getting Married (1916-1917), Sinbad
(1918â€"1919), and The Passing Show of 1918. She also appeared in the
London productions of The Great Lover (1920â€"1921), and The Love
Match (1922).With her husband, Frank Vernon, she co-wrote the English
versions of French and Russian plays, including Simon Gantillon's Maya
(1928), René Berton's After Death (1928), Vladimir Kirshon's Red Rust
(1930), Alfred Savoir's Little Catherine (1931), The Poet's Secret
(1933), Henry Bordeaux's Shattered (1935), Quet's (1935), and Sacha
Guitry's Villa for Sale (1963). She also adapted Journey's End into
French with Lucien Besnard (1930), Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina
(1937) into French with André Maurois, and translated Noel Coward's
Private Lives into French in 1933, and she went on to translate other
works by Coward, including Blithe Spirit.
Virginia Fox-Brooks Vernon or Virginia Vernon, was an American
actress, playwright, translator, and journalist. With her husband,
Frank Vernon, she translated dramatic works into English. During World
War II, she worked with the Entertainment National Service Association
(ENSA) to produce shows for the troops.Virginia Fox Brooks was born
January 29, 1893, the daughter of Joseph Brooks, a theatre manager.
(Some sources give her birthdate as 1894 or 1899.) Her parents were
from Tennessee and Virginia. She studied music in France with Jacques
Isnardon at the Paris Conservatory, and toured in Europe with singer
Yvette Guilbert as a young woman. "If I ever do anything really fine,"
Brooks said of Guilbert in 1919, "I feel that I shall owe it to her,
to the privilege of daily association with so marvelous an artist, to
all that I have learned through my intimate friendship with her."Fox
Brooks sang at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She appeared on Broadway
in The Adventures of Lady Ursula (1915), Trilby (1915), Ghosts (1915),
The Great Lover (1915â€"1916), Getting Married (1916-1917), Sinbad
(1918â€"1919), and The Passing Show of 1918. She also appeared in the
London productions of The Great Lover (1920â€"1921), and The Love
Match (1922).With her husband, Frank Vernon, she co-wrote the English
versions of French and Russian plays, including Simon Gantillon's Maya
(1928), René Berton's After Death (1928), Vladimir Kirshon's Red Rust
(1930), Alfred Savoir's Little Catherine (1931), The Poet's Secret
(1933), Henry Bordeaux's Shattered (1935), Quet's (1935), and Sacha
Guitry's Villa for Sale (1963). She also adapted Journey's End into
French with Lucien Besnard (1930), Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina
(1937) into French with André Maurois, and translated Noel Coward's
Private Lives into French in 1933, and she went on to translate other
works by Coward, including Blithe Spirit.
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