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On Saturday, March 25, 2017, the Guild played a small role in a Washington National Cathedral memorial service for E. R. Braithwaite, the author who gave us To Sir, With Love, a 1959 literary best-seller that became a celebrated 1967 film with Poitier in the role that Mr. Braithwaite's autobiographical novel had made famous. Mr. Braithwaite died at the age of 104 on December 12, 2016, and Guild president John Andrews was one of the three speakers who eulogized him in the Cathedral's lovely Bethlehem Chapel. The service concluded with an organ rendering of Lulu's musical tribute to "Sir," a recording that had been popular music's number-one single a half-century earlier... On Tuesday, April 20, we focused on playwright DAVID HARE. Having taken part in our 1999 Gielgud Award presentation to Dame Judi Dench at the Barrymore Theatre in New York, Sir David himself received our 2017 Gielgud trophy at London's venerable Guildhall... To encourage supporters to help sustain the work of a..

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