Theodore Herman van Beek - Revision history

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 Van Beek was born in South Africa, probably in the late 1880s, and early on began writing poetry, the earliest known published (by himself?) in a volume entitled Poems and a Drama (1907). (Copies are held by various libraries, including NALN.
-According to the article ''The War Office Regrets'' (posted on the blogspot ''Behind Their Lines. Poetry of the Great War'' on Friday, July 31, 2020), he emigrated to Scotland in 1908 to attend the University of Edinburgh. He married Katherine Fairbairn, a young woman from Edinburgh, and by the time war was declared in 1914, the couple had three young sons. Enlisting in the British army, van Beek served first with the Artists Rifles and later with the Royal Field Artillery.
+According to the article ''The War Office Regrets'' (posted on the blogspot ''Behind Their Lines. Poetry of the Great War'' on Friday, July 31, 2020), "he emigrated to Scotland in 1908 to attend the University of Edinburgh. He married Katherine Fairbairn, a young woman from Edinburgh, and by the time war was declared in 1914, the couple had three young sons." Enlisting in the British army, van Beek served first with the Artists Rifles and later with the Royal Field Artillery.
-Although van Beek survived the war, his marriage did not. Before the war ended, his wife emigrated to Canada with their two surviving sons. After the war, Van Beek married Isabella Hamilton Kyle in 1920 and began a new family, but suffered bankruptcy in the 1920s.
+Van Beek survived the war, but his wife left himn to emigrate to Canada. He subsequently married Isabella Hamilton Kyle in 1920 and began a new family.
-He adopted the pseudonym [[Martin Mayne]] and turned his talents to song writing, composing the lyrics to the Bennie Goodman tune "I Sent You a Kiss in the Night" as well as "I Remember the Cornfields", recorded by both Evelyn Knight and Anne Shelton.
+Having suffered bankruptcy in the 1920s, he adopted the pseudonym [[Martin Mayne]] to become a songwriter, ''inter alia'' composing the lyrics to the Bennie Goodman tune "I Sent You a Kiss in the Night" and for "I Remember the Cornfields".
 Van Beek died in 1958.
-Throughout his life, van Beek continued to write poetry, and in 1986, more of the poems were collected by his son and published in the small volume called ''The Day of Love'' (Rock Press, 1986).
+Throughout his life, van Beek continued to write poetry, and in 1986, more of the poems were collected by his son Theo and published in the small volume called ''The Day of Love'' (Rock Press, 1986).
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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	Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''		Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''

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-[[Theodore Herman van Beek]] (18??-1958) was a poet, lyricist   and playwright.
+[[Theodore Herman van Beek]] (1889?-1958) was a poet, lyricist   and playwright.
 Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''
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-Van Beek was born in South Africa, and early on began writing poetry, the earliest known published (by himself?) in a volume entitled Poems and a Drama (1907). (Copies are held by various libraries, including NALN.
+Van Beek was born in South Africa, probably in the late 1880s, and early on began writing poetry, the earliest known published (by himself?) in a volume entitled Poems and a Drama (1907). (Copies are held by various libraries, including NALN.
 According to the article ''The War Office Regrets'' (posted on the blogspot ''Behind Their Lines. Poetry of the Great War'' on Friday, July 31, 2020), he emigrated to Scotland in 1908 to attend the University of Edinburgh. He married Katherine Fairbairn, a young woman from Edinburgh, and by the time war was declared in 1914, the couple had three young sons. Enlisting in the British army, van Beek served first with the Artists Rifles and later with the Royal Field Artillery.

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	Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''		Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''

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 Van Beek died in 1958.
-Throughout his life, van Beek continued to write poetry, and in 1986, more of the poems were collected by his son and published in the small volume called ''The Day of Love''.
+Throughout his life, van Beek continued to write poetry, and in 1986, more of the poems were collected by his son and published in the small volume called ''The Day of Love'' (Rock Press, 1986).
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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	[[Sydney Paul Gosher\|Gosher, Sydney Paul]]. 1988. ''A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-act Play Written in English''. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Pretoria: [[University of South Africa]].		[[Sydney Paul Gosher\|Gosher, Sydney Paul]]. 1988. ''A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-act Play Written in English''. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Pretoria: [[University of South Africa]].
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		+	"Martyn Mayne" in the Catalogue of the National Library of Australia[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Mayne%2C%20Martyn%22&iknowwhatimean=1]

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''
-He used the pseudonym  [[Martin Mayne]] at one time.
+He used the pseudonym  '''[[Martin Mayne]]''' at one time.
 == Biography ==

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	Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''		Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''', '''[[ Theodore Hermann van Beek]]''', or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''
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		+	He used the pseudonym [[Martin Mayne]] at one time.

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-[[Theodore Herman van Beek]] (18*-19*) was a poet and playwright.
+[[Theodore Herman van Beek]] (1898 - 1958) was a poet, lyricist   and playwright.
 Also found as '''[[T.H. van Beek]]''' or '''[[Theo van Beek]]'''
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 ''The War Office Regrets'' (posted on the blogspot ''Behind Their Lines. Poetry of the Great War'' on Friday, July 31, 2020)[https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/07/]
 https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Poems_and_a_Drama.html?id=HlQ2AQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y