"An interesting scene from David Belasco’s great production of the Rostand fairy play at the Republic Theatre, New York, with Ernest Truex, Mary Pickford and Henry Stanford. Arthur Hill impersonates Rab, the dog."
"Juliet sits by the wishing-well in her wonderful garden and makes her wish: 'I want to be Charle's wife.' The fairies hear it and smile their approval." --From David Belasco's fairy play triumph at the Republic Theatre, New York."
Postcards for David Belasco's theatrical performance of A Good Little Devil (1913) at the Republic Theatre in New York. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Ernest Truex, et al. can be seen on stage in photographs by White Studio. The victorian figures flanking the photo on one of the postcards are illustrations by Kate Greenaway. I would assume there are other designs out there, of which I've seen at least one depicting a photograph of “Rosemond Gerard (Madame Edmond Rostand) and her son, Maurice Rostand, authors of ‘A Good Little Devil.’” I don't have all too much information about these postcards. While I would have assumed they were issued by the Republic Theatre, I have seen a case where they were given away at the performance at a different theatre in a different city -- meaning perhaps they were generically made by Belasco for the production (or there were simply a bunch left just to dispense elsewhere.)
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