Autograph Album of Agnes Rothsay, daughter of Frank Rothsay, Actor-Manager of the Borough Theatre, Stratford, containing signatures, messages and drawings mostly by individuals connected to the stage, many in the company of 'The Prince of Pilser.

Author: 
Frank Rothsay, Actor-Manager of the Borough Theatre, Stratford, and his daughter Agnes Rothsay
Publication details: 
Compiled while the Rothsays lived in West Ham, between 1906 and 1909.
£300.00
SKU: 12221

Landscape 8vo album with 82pp. on 73 leaves of different coloured paper in original cloth. Aged and loose, in worn binding. The autographs are mainly theatrical, and although lacking any first-rate actors, provide a tantalising glimpse into a lost world. Laid down are signed postcards from.Stella Gastelle, Ethel Ward and Ben Albert ('To Miss Rothsay | Best Wishes from her Dad's Pal Ben'). Other contributors include: Kitty Albert ('Gibson Girl'), May Robbins, Fred McNaughton, Kennedy Allen, Georgie de Lara, Maud Trenton ('Dandini'), Violet Varcoe, Muriel Vox, the four members of the Heidelberg Quartet (Charles Naylor, P. J. Bannon, Vernon Victor and Marcus De Bourton), George Dance, Beatrice Eddwards, Willie Duncan, Bernard Russell, George Ferguson (with illustration of man with trumpet), Frank H. Crimp, Peggie Crimp, Will. R. Percival,  Mollie Wynne, Florence Beech, Cissie Locke, Ethel Clifford, Edith Clifford, Edith Dottridge, Albert Vernon, W. E. Richardson, Ashley Page, J. Weldon Atherstone, Mabel Lowe, W. Pelham Norman of Queen's College Cambridge, Connie Leon, Peggy Franklin