PFAS106 Antique hand signed 5.5" x 3.5" photo for Winifred Barnes English actress and singer known for roles in Edwardian musical comedy and operetta, who has personally signed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait undedicated postally used graded vg condition. This is a very scarce signing to obtain.
"Winifred Barnes made her stage début in Edwardian musical comedy with a minor role in Our Miss Gibbs at the Gaiety Theatre in London in 1909. She toured the provinces in the companies of George Edwardes, playing such roles as Marjory Joy in a revival of A Country Girl (1914) and the title role in Betty at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester (1914) and then at Daly's Theatre in London in 1915, where it ran for 391 performances. She appeared as Mary, Princess of Valaria in The Happy Day (1916) at Daly's Theatre in London, which ran for 241 performances. She was Aloney opposite Charles Hawtrey in Anthony in Wonderland by Monckton Hoffe at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1917.In 1917 Barnes played the title role in the operetta Arlette at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London on 6 September 1917 where it ran for 260 performances, and in 1918 she played Marlene de Launay in the operetta Soldier Boy! with music by Sigmund Romberg and Emmerich Kalman at the Apollo Theatre. [8] In 1919 she appeared in Maggie with music by Marcel Lattès and lyrics by Adrian Ross at the Oxford Theatre in London. She played Ariel in The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre in 1921 and Betty in the Victor Herbert musical Angel Face at the Strand Theatre in London in 1922. Her last role was Hélene in the operetta The Three Graces, with music by Franz Lehár, at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square in early 1924."
