Lily Elsie and Joseph Coyne in The Merry Widow Wendy Law 'Building houses with cards'

'Building houses with cards'

clad in his dressing-gown

" Thomas Baldwin made a pioneering flight from Chester on 8 September 1785 sketching the landscape as he travelled

He is using an old fashioned scythe to cut the corn

He won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in It Happened One Night (1934) but it is his portrayal of Rhett Butler in the epic Gone With the Wind (1939) that he is best remembered for

Lily Elsie and Joseph Coyne in The Merry Widow Wendy Law 'Building houses with cards'Lily Elsie and Joseph Coyne in The Merry Widow, c1907. Elsie as Sonia (the Merry Widow) and Coyne as Prince Danilo. The English adaptation of Franz Lehar's operetta, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, opened at Daly's Theatre in London in June 1907, running for 778 performances.