His Majesty's Servants.
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Gilb.t Whitehead & C.o L.td, New Eltham S.E. Supplement To "The World," December 21ST, 1909. Chromolithograph, sheet 365 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"). Vertical fold as issued. Tears repaired by being laid on archival paper. A lightly caricatured group portrait of actors. They are from left to right: Miss Gertie Millar (Our Miss Gibbs) [Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (née Millar (1879 -1952)], Miss Irene Vanbrugh (The Thief) [Dame Irene Boucicault DBE (née Barnes .1872 -1949)], Mr. Edmund Payne (Our Miss Gibbs) [Edmund James "Teddy" Payne (1863 -1914)], Mr. George Alexander (The Thief) [George Alexander Gibb Samson (1858 -1918)], Mr. H.B. Irving (The Lyons Mail) [Harry Brodribb Irving (1870 -1919)], Miss Violet Vanbrugh (The Women in the Case) [Violet Augusta Mary Barnes (1867 -1942)], Mr. George Grossmith, Junr. (Our Miss Gibbs.) [(1874 -1935)], Mr. Lewis Waller (Sir Walter Raleigh) [William Waller Lewis (1860 -1915)], Sir Herbert Tree (Trilby) [Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 -1917)], Mr. Arthur Bourchier (Making a Gentleman) [(1863 -1927)] and Mr. Weedon Grosmith (Mr. Preedy and the Countess) [Walter Weedon Grossmith (1854 -1919)].
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