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FOOTLIGHT NOTES
no. 485

updated
Saturday, 30 December 2006

Christmas and New Year Greetings
from Footlight Notes

Edna May (1878-1948), American musical comedy star,
as Julia Chaldicott in The Belle of Mayfair,
produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, 11 April 1906;
and Billie Burke. A Christmas Greetings postcard issued by Davidson Bros,
Real Photographic Series, No. 4098.

(photo of Miss May: Bassano, London, 1906)

Vesta Tilley in the title role of the pantomime,
Robinson Crusoe, Prince's Theatre, Manchester, early 1890s;
and Doris Stocker posing as Sleeping Beauty, circa 1909

(photos: Robinson & Sons, Dublin, early 1890s;
Bassano, London, circa 1909)

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