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Photographs: PH1389
Title
Johnston Forbes Robertson
Subject
Dimensions
height: 15.5cm
width: 10cm
width: 10cm
Inscription/signature
Printed on the front:
'MARK EMBURY/ MR. FORBES ROBERTSON'
Provenance
Donated to the Club in November 2022 by Mr Michael Gaunt
Other number
E0131
This photographic postcard depicts the actor manager Johnston Forbes Robertson as Mark Embury in the play 'Mice and Men'. He is depicted standing facing right, holding some books in his left hand. 'Mice and Men' was written by Madeleine Lucette Ryley, and is a romantic play about a bachelor who decides to conduct an experiment and find himself a perfect wife. He takes on a ward called Peggy, played by Gertrude Elliott, who eventually did become the wife of Forbes Robertson. The play opened at the Lyric Theatre in January 1902, and ran for 365 performances.
