Circa 1890 signed cabinet card of Horace Mills. British singer, actor, dramatist & Pantomime Dame. Glasgow photographer.

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"Yours Sincerely Horace Mills". Horace Mills (1864 ?1941) was a British singer, actor and dramatist who specialised in playing pantomime dames in the early 20th-century. Born in Portsea in Portsmouth in 1864, he was the oldest of six children born to Elizabeth Ann née Jolly and Herbert James Mills, a Colonel in the Ordnance Supply Board. For some years he appeared as the Dame in the annual pantomime at the Prince's Theatre in Bristol, playing the Dame in Humpty Dumpty (1906) and Jack and the Beanstalk (1911), the widow Mrs Tutt in the pantomime Goody Two Shoes (1915), Old Mother Hubbard in Mother Hubbard at Bristol (1922), and Mrs Tippett in Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1924). His stage appearances include: Bertie Fitz Bunnyon in As Large as Life (1890) at Terry's Theatre. Remendado in Carmen up to Data (1890) at the Gaiety Theatre. Tom Edge in Zephyr (1891) at the Avenue Theatre, touring in The Circus Girl (1897). Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Prince?s Theatre in Manchester (1900). With Ada Reeve and G. P. Huntley, in the Comedy Oddity ?Mashing the Misses? (1904) at the Argyle Music Hall in Birkenhead. Adolphus Dudd in The Girl Behind the Counter (1906). Valet in The Hon'ble Phil with Denise Orme and G. P. Huntley at the Hicks Theatre (1908). Swaak in A Persian Princess (1909). He co-wrote the book for the musical play Miss Esmeralda (1887) to music by Meyer Lutz and first performed at the Gaiety Theatre in London. Mills died at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary in Derby in 1941 aged 76. Size: Roughly 10.5 x 15.5 cm. Condition: Age-related wear and discolouration to image with trimming to bottom edge of mount. N° de ref. del artículo 000908

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