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Distinguished Devon-born British actress, acclaimed for her commanding performances on the classical stage. Jefford did her initial training at the Hartly-Hodder School of Speech and Drama and graduated from RADA in 1949. Following her professional acting debut that same year, she spent a year on the repertory stage before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon where her roles included Calpurnia in "Julius Caesar", Desdemona in "Othello" (both opposite Anthony Quayle) and Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew" (opposite Keith Michell as Petruchio).
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My abiding memory of Barbara is her first film role (in 1967) as Molly in Joseph Strick’s controversial Ulysses, based on James Joyce’s novel. Oh, and in Stephen Frears’ Philomena with Judi Dench, her last film, in 2013. She dubbed voices on three James Bond films, From Russia With Love, Thunderball and The Spy Who Loved Me. What a career! www.filmreviewdaily.com/in-memoriam/barbara-jefford

Titania is a character in Midsummer Night's Dream.

From a performance or pageant at Overbrook School for the Blind--presumably Titania is one of the Overbrook students.

Here is another photo from the Midsummer Night's Dream production from The Commons, with "Titania" at center:

A June 6, 1914 magazine used the Bain photo with this caption:
A BLIND TITANIA QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES
A Midsummer Night's Dream was given this year in the dramatic work of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind at Overbrook. The institution's report holds that the drama not only makes the institution known but clears up the old impression that it is a "blind asylum", while in realiity it is "a boarding school for boys and girls who happen to be blind." Most important of all it gives self confidence to blind pupils, helps them to get around, and oflen completely transforms those who are slow to hear and to observe.
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Another 1914 account, with yet another photo:
books.google.com/books?id=FQUCAAAAYAAJ&dq=overbrook%2...

Thanks to all of you for this great research. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

Thanks for adding these lovely images to the Dancing Outside group

nla.gov.au/nla.obj-443859322/view?sectionId=nla.obj-47772... - - this pic appeared in Pix on 15th January, 1944...in a feature article on the State Library of NSW...