Marguerite I. Murray

(also called Maxie Murray?*) (1899-1983) Lecturer and director. She was a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. ** Directed Hantie kom Huistoe (P.W.S. Schumann) at the Oranjeklub on 2 December 1933, with Anna Pohl, Gideon Roos, Herman Steytler and others. Founding member of the Kaapstadse Afrikaanse Toneelvereniging in 1934. ** Wrote and directed Die Bron (1935), and directed Sacha Guitry’s Huis te Koop, Maurice Maeterlinck’s Die Indringer and Hermann Südermann’s Fritsie (for UCT branch of Afrikaanse Nasionale Studentebond, 1935), Gebroke Drade (J.R.L. van Bruggen, for K.A.T. 1936), *.* In 1937 she became a specialist member of the Toneelburo of the F.A.K. *,

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