Item #93536 An autograph inscription signed 'Gladys L. Moncrieff, Royal Comic Opera Coy, 23/5/'17'; on a large detached album leaf (195 × 165 mm, with an autograph inscription signed by Maie Baird, 'Pink Lady' Company, 1917, on the same page). Gladys MONCRIEFF, Australian soprano.

An autograph inscription signed 'Gladys L. Moncrieff, Royal Comic Opera Coy, 23/5/'17'; on a large detached album leaf (195 × 165 mm, with an autograph inscription signed by Maie Baird, 'Pink Lady' Company, 1917, on the same page)

'During 1915-16 Moncrieff was well received during a seven-month, Williamson-sponsored engagement in South Africa with an English company.... Her first great theatrical success was as Teresa in The Maid of the Mountains at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, on 2 January 1921.... "Our Glad" became a legend in Australia in her lifetime' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

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