Theatre and Cinema

Rotary Photo. 1903.

Original Mrs [Lily] Langtry postcard. Series No. 152A. Postally used with Ilfracombe postmark. No writing to reverse other than Miss C Crang, O. Linda, Local. Date and mini message to front. Slight foxing/brown spots to reverse.

Very Good condition

London. L. S. Co. Circa. 1903.

Original photograpic postcard of [Sir] Johnston Forbes Robertson. Size 3 1/2" x 5 1/4". Postally used. Sent to Ilfracombe. Message is written in pencil. Minor marks.

Very Good condition

Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson was a English actor who was considered by some as the finest Hamlet of his time.
He was educated at Charterhouse School, he studied art before turning to the theatre in 1874, when he first appeared on the London stage. He acted with the Bancrofts and played opposite Mary Anderson in England and the United States. His first outstanding success was in Sir Arthur Pinero's Profligate in 1889. In 1895 he took over the management of the Lyceum, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as leading lady, giving memorable performances in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth, and also producing Maurice Maeterlinck's Pell?as and M?lisande, in which his Romantic style of acting was highly successful.
In 1900 he married Gertrude Elliott, who became his leading lady, appearing with him in such plays as The Light That Failed, Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and, one of his biggest successes, Jerome K. Jerome's Passing of the Third Floor Back. Forbes-Robertson was knighted in 1913 and retired in 1915.

London. Rotary. 1903.

Original photographic postcard of Miss J. Neilson. Postally used.

Very Good + condition

Original photographic postcard 105A of Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth? Postally used, 1903. Slight foxing to reverse and some edge wear.

Good condition