Postcard for David Belasco's theatrical performance of A Good Little Devil (1913) at the Republic Theatre in New York. On stage photographs by White Studio. "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."
Postcard for David Belasco's theatrical performance of A Good Little Devil (1913) at the Republic Theatre in New York. On stage photographs by White Studio. "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." The victorian figures flanking the photo are illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Pictured are Lillian Gish, Wilda Bennett, Claire Burke, Mary Pickford, Peggie Wallace, Georgia Fursman and Edna Griffin.
Postcard for David Belasco's theatrical performance of A Good Little Devil (1913) at the Republic Theatre in New York. On stage photographs by White Studio. "Charles, poor little devil, who is starved and beaten by his wicked old aunt. is visited at night by his friends, the fairies -- Queen Mab, together with Viviane. Morganie, Titania, Dewbright and little Thought-from-After. --One of the most beautiful episodes in David Belasco's remarkable fairy play for children and grown-us, the greatest of popular hits at his Republic Theatre, New York."
Postcard for David Belasco's theatrical performance of A Good Little Devil (1913) at the Republic Theatre in New York. "Ernest Truex who plays the boy, Charles MacLance, in David Belasco's remarkable produciton of the Rostand fairy play for grown-ups, 'A Good Little Devil.' --Charles Darnton in the N. Y. Evening World declares it 'the greatest of all fairy plays.'"
I assume these postcards were issued by the Republic Theatre, as evidenced by the theatre being explicitly noted on one of the designs, however I have seen at least one case where they were given away at the performance at a different theatre in a different city -- perhaps simply overstock left to dispense elsewhere.




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