£120.00
Date 10/02/1896
London Royal Adelphi Theatre – One Of The Best – 1896
An original theatre programme for One Of The Best at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, London, dated 10 February 1896.
This military melodrama was a typical Adelphi spectacle of the era, headed by the matinee idol William Terris, with Kate Kearney, Vane Weatherhouse, Edith Ostlere, Charles Fulton and Julian Cross in the cast.
The Adelphi was the home of rousing Victorian melodrama and Terris was its biggest draw, so this is a fine example of old theatre programmes from one of the Strand’s most famous houses.
| Production | One Of The Best |
|---|---|
| Venue | Royal Adelphi Theatre – London |
| Cast | William Terris – Kate Kearney, Vane Weatherhouse – Edith Ostlere, Charles Fulton – Julian Cross |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr
Did you know?
- William Terriss was the Adelphi’s great melodrama hero of the 1880s and 1890s, nicknamed ‘Breezy Bill’.
- In December 1897 he was fatally stabbed at the Adelphi’s stage door in Maiden Lane by a disturbed actor, Richard Archer Prince.
- A ghost said to be Terriss is one of the most famous legends of London theatreland, reported both at the Adelphi and at Covent Garden tube station.
SKU: T00825
