Item Details
Theatrical Keepsake: Metal burglar’s jimmy, stamped “Raffles 'Jimmy' Presented by Kyrle Bellew Princess Theatre 100th Performance Jan 18th 1904”
9.5 x 1 inches, Fine.Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman, written by Eugene W. Presbrey, who shared credit with E.W. Hornung (author of the Raffles stories), opened in Atlantic City on 19 September 1904, and then moved to the Princess Theatre in New York. Kyrle Bellew (1855-1911) was a popular English actor, associated with Henry Irving in London in the early 1880s and had successful runs in America, where he met Mrs. Cora Brown-Potter, who left her husband to join Bellew. The company they formed toured the world for a decade. “Bellew was an actor of ease and distinction, with a beautiful voice, handsome, clear-cut features, and a courtly bearing” (ODNB). After spending time in Australia, Bellew returned to America in 1902, where he starred in Raffles (1903) and The Thief (1907). An interesting theatrical keepsake
Item #220893 Price: $400.00
