3-028-225 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Art, Music and the Drama, 1909. Opera singer John Forsell, actress Margaret Hughes and playwright Lady Randolph Churchill. 'The New Covent Garden Baritone: M. Forsell, Who Has Appeared Successfully As Don Giovanni. M. Forsell, who is a Swede, made his London début at Covent Garden last week, and is a welcome recruit to the operatic stage of this country. The photograph shows him as Jokanaan in Richard Strauss' "Salome".' Photo by Heckscher. Othello the Moor and Desdemona. 'The first professional actress in England named Margaret Hughes or Ann Marshall - appeared as Desdemona in Killegrew's company at the Old Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane about 1660'. 'A New Society Playwright: Mrs. George Cornwallis-West (Lady Randolph Churchill). Mrs. George Cornwallis-West's play (her first), "His Borrowed Plumes," was produced at the Hicks Theatre this week for a series of four matinees. In the cast were Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Mr. Dawson Milward, and Mr. Henry Ainley'. Jeanette Spencer-Churchill was the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill. Photo by Lafayette. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.