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    Neely Dickson (May 19, 1877 – January 25, 1946) was an American theater impresario, drama teacher, and founder of the Hollywood Community Theater (1917–1922)...
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    signing with Goldwyn. The founder of the Hollywood Community Theater, Neely Dickson, disputed the gas station story, saying it was invented by Goldwyn publicists...
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    Katharine "Kitty" Dukakis (née Dickson; born December 26, 1936) is an American author. She is married to former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis...
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    having signed with a false identification. She studied acting with Neely Dickson at the Hollywood Community Theater. She had contracts with RKO and Paramount...
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  • Fiona Castle (redirect from Fiona Dickson)
    Joan Fiona Castle OBE (née Dickson; born 1940) is a British retired dancer and was wife of TV entertainer Roy Castle. They were married from 1963 until...
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    campus theater company and also studied with Neely Dickson at the Hollywood Community Theater. Recalled Dickson, "I couldn’t help remembering the first time...
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    Chaplin sent her to local acting teacher Neely Dickson at the Hollywood Community Theater to, in Dickson's words, "give her a polish." It marked a turning...
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    Lieutenant Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson (4 February 1881 – 14 June 1959) was a British colonial administrator in the Middle East from the 1920s...
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    1910 and 1912. The son of Rear Admiral John Bourmaster Dickson and Sarah Matilda Dickson (née Poynder), he was born on the Isle of Wight and educated...
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    Joan Alice Katherine Grigg, Baroness Altrincham (née Dickson-Poynder; 11 September 1897 – 1987) was a British organiser of maternity and nursing services...
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