Beryl Gordon

Beryl Gordon refers to two individuals:

• the actress Beryl Gordon (?-)
• the writer/editor Beryl Gordon, wife of writer Harry Bloom

Beryl Gordon (?-). Actress.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Performed in Sis at the Arena Theatre

She also starred in Jean Anouilh’s Antigone (the Arena Theatre Company, 1956), Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (Alexander Theatre, 1960), in A Winter Vacation (1970) and in Deathtrap as “Myra” for Pieter Toerien (1978).

Beryl Gordon (1921-2009). Writer.

Biography

She was married in 1940 to Harry Bloom and they had three children together.

Writing under the pseudonyms Walter and Beryl Storm (to avoid anti-Semitism), they worked as war correspondents during the Second World War, and covered the Nuremberg trials after the war. The couple moved to Czechoslovakia and together they wrote the book We meet the Czechoslovaks, an account of their early years in Czechoslovakia, also under the Storm pseudonyms. Beryl later played an active role in editing, advising and typing the manuscripts for his subsequent books.

They divorced in 1963 when he left South Africa for England.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She wrote the lyrics for the musical, Mr Paljas (1962).

Sources

SACD 1977/78; 1979/80.

Tucker, 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bloom

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