RARE \"Gipsy Love\" Gertie Millar Twice Signed Picture Postcard For Sale

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RARE \"Gipsy Love\" Gertie Millar Twice Signed Picture Postcard:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Gipsy Love" Gertie Millar Twice Signed Picture Postcard Dated 1904. 

25 April 1952) was an English actress and singer of the early 20th century,

known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies.

Beginning her career at age 13, Millar was a prominent star of musical comedies

for two decades. In 1902, she married the composer Lionel Monckton, who wrote the scores of many of her shows and

songs that she made famous. She was one of the most prominent West End theatre performers of the early 20th century,

starring in such long-running hits as The Toreador (1901), The Orchid (1903) The

Spring Chicken (1905), The New Aladdin (1906) The Girls of Gottenberg (1907), Our Miss Gibbs (1909), The Quaker

Girl (1910), Gipsy Love (1912), The Dancing Mistress (1912), The Marriage Market (1913),

and A Country Girl (1914).

After Monckton died in 1924, Millar married the 2nd Earl of Dudley. Millar

was born in Manningham, Bradford,

where her father, John Millar, was a mill worker, and her mother, Elizabeth

(née Miller), was a worsted-stuff worker and dressmaker. As a child, Millar

performed in London pantomimes, beginning with Babes in the Wood at the St. James Theatre in Manchester, at the age of 13. She started out as a singer and dancer in

the music halls of Yorkshire. Later, she moved to London

where she was soon earning good notices and better pay appearing in variety show bills. By 1897, she was playing the role of Phyllis

Crosby in A Game of Cards at Shodfriars Hall, Boston, Lincolnshire. Next

she toured in The New Barmaid in the role of Dora; in The

Silver Lining; and as Sadie Pinkhose, the "other woman", in The

Lady Detective. In 1899, she played Dandini in a version

of Cinderella at the Grand Theatre, Fulham. In

the new century, she starred in a series of hit musical comedies produced

by George Edwardes. In 1900,

she played Isabel Blythe in the touring production of The Messenger Boy. Edwardes's next show was The Toreador in 1901 at the Gaiety Theatre in

London. Lionel Monckton, one of

the show's composers, had seen Millar in The Messenger Boy and

requested that she be given the role of the bridesmaid Cora in the new musical,

singing "Keep Off the Grass". She made the song popular and earned a

second song, "Captivating Cora", and a third, "I'm not a simple

little girl". These hits established Millar in London. The

Gaiety Theatre closed for renovations in 1902, and the last show at the old

theatre was The Linkman; or, Gaiety Memories, with Millar starring

as Morgiana. She married Monckton on 25 December 1902 in St. Mark's Church,

Surbiton, England.[5] Monckton continued to write hit songs for her in

subsequent shows. Millar became one of the most photographed women of the Edwardian period. She had top billing as the Hon. Violet

Anstruther in The Orchid, the show

that opened the new Gaiety (1903; introducing the songs "Little

Mary", "Liza Ann", and "Come with me to the zoo"). She starred as Rosalie in The

Spring Chicken (1905; singing "Alice sit by the

fire" and "The Delights of London") and as Lally in The New Aladdin (1906). She next starred as Mitzi

in The Girls of Gottenberg (1907;

singing the duet "Two Little Sausages", with Edmund Payne, and Soon afterwards, Edwardes cast her as Franzi at

the Hicks Theatre in the English-language production of Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream, 1908) by Oscar Straus. Although

Millar was able to sell the light musical comedy songs composed for her at the

Gaiety, Oscar Straus's music was

too demanding for her small voice, and she was sent to New York to star in the

Broadway production of The Girls of Gottenberg. On the morning of

30 October 1905 at Millar's and Monckton's residence in Russell Square, London, Baron Gunther Rau von Holzhauzen, an

infatuated young admirer of Millar's, shot himself with a revolver in Millar's

boudoir. A maid discovered him hiding there, and she ran upstairs screaming to

wake the Moncktons as the gun was fired. Von Holzhauzen died hours later at a

nearby hospital. He visited and lunched with Millar occasionally over a period

of many months and had written letters to her professing to love her and later

expressing despondency over his finances. 

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