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Very good copy of this splendid Edwardian book of theatre portraitsWith all 48 tipped-in colour-printed photographs of stars of the Belle Epoque
All the portraits very dramatically manipulated with colour in an almost Klimt-like style, several beauties depicted like Russian Ikons
The stars include French global star Sarah Bernhardt in Izeyl, American beauty Miss Maud Jeffries and English actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm in Herod: A Tragedy, Charles Hawtrey in A Message from Mars, American actor William Hooker Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, Coquelin Aine as Napoleon Bonaparte and Mme. Jane Hading as Josephine in Plus Que Reine, comedian Huntley Wright as Li in the Chinese musical comedy San Toy, or the Emperor's Own, American society beauty turned stage actress Mrs Brown Potter, and many other opera singers, dramatic actors, comedians, music hall and vaudeville performers of the era. Many would go on to have long careers on stage and even in motion pictures in the next decades.
The original photographs by… Read More