British Guild Players

Vancouver’s leading professional theatre company pre-WWII was the British Guild Players. Their productions were all performed at the Empress Theatre, which stood at the corner of Hastings and Gore Streets, and was the largest stage west of Chicago at the time. The leaders of the company were the husband and wife team of David Clyde and Dorothy Hammerton, who became better known as Fay Holden. They owned our house from April 11, 1930 to March 28, 1938