The Grand Finale in 'The Orchid' at the Gaiety Theatre
16 of 90 portraits of Gertie Millar
The Grand Finale in 'The Orchid' at the Gaiety Theatre
by Frederic G. Hodsoll
gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print, 1903
8 1/2 in. x 10 3/8 in. (215 mm x 265 mm)
Purchased, 1983
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax29624
Sittersback to top
- Minnie Baker (active 1903), Actress. Sitter associated with 3 portraits. Identify
- Doris Beresford (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Phyllis Blair (Mrs J.E. Vedrenne) (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Blanche Carlow (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Florence Dudley (active 1903-died 1912), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Connie Ediss (Ada Harriet Coates) (1871-1934), Actress. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Harry Grattan (1867?-1951), Actor. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- George Grossmith Jr (1874-1935), Actor, manager and playwright. Sitter associated with 22 portraits. Identify
- Daisy Holly (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Hilda Jacobsen (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Kitty Mason (born 1882), Dancer and actress; wife of W.E. Aspinall. Sitter in 20 portraits. Identify
- Gertie Millar (Gertrude Ward, (née Millar, later Monckton), Countess of Dudley) (1879-1952), Actress. Sitter in 90 portraits. Identify
- Robert Nainby (1869-1948), Actor and comedian. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Ethel Oliver (active circa 1903-1933), Actress. Sitter in 11 portraits. Identify
- Edmund Payne (1865-1914), Actor. Sitter in 7 portraits. Identify
- Gabrielle Ray (Gabrielle Elizabeth Clifford Cook) (1883-1973), Actress and dancer. Sitter in 204 portraits. Identify
- Madge Rossmore (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Ethel Sydney (Ethel Beatrice Hall (née Lloyd, later Gaskell)) (1874-active 1924), Actress; daughter of Malcolm Lloyd; former wife of Sydney Hall, Samuel Oliver and John Upton Gaskell; later wife of Alastair Matheson. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
- Florence Warde (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Lydia West (active 1903), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Fred Wright Jr (1871-1928), Actor. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Gaiety Theatre, Strand, London)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1903back to top
Current affairs
Emmeline Pankhurst forms the militant organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, campaigning for greater rights for women and to secure them the vote. Its members were known as 'suffragettes', and adopted the slogan of 'Deeds, not words'.Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary to campaign for tariff reform and an end to free trade, a key economic issue which splits the Conservative party.
Art and science
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors. Autobiographical in tone, it movingly and humorously traces the conversion of the American Lewis Lambert Strether, sent to Paris to find his widowed fiancee Mrs Newsome's wayward son Chad, to European culture.Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the leading Scottish arts and crafts designer and architect, designs the Willow tea rooms in Glasgow for his patron, Miss Catherine Cranston.
International
The Bolsheviks (meaning 'the majority'), a faction of the exiled Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, are formed after splitting from the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in London.After gaining independence following the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence at Guantánamo Bay.
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Virginia Dodier
08 August 2018, 17:33
Published (uncredited) in The Tatler, 11 Nov 1903, p. 229.