Leonard Bentley
Waterloo Bridge
This is a Sunday School Union postcard which was sold from their premises at 57-59 Ludgate Hill, although this postcard is getting on for 110 years old, I must correct the title of the postcard. This is a photograph of Waterloo Bridge taken from the south bank and not London Bridge. It is early summer 1909 and the bus nearest the camera is advertising “The Chorus Lady” at the Vaudeville Theatre starring the famous American actress Rose Stahl in her second and final appearance on the London stage, she had appeared at the Palace Theatre in 1906 in a sketch show together with Will Rogers who had a lassoing act. At that time the sketch was called The Chorus Girl, the author expanded the sketch into the play, The Chorus Lady.
Waterloo Bridge
This is a Sunday School Union postcard which was sold from their premises at 57-59 Ludgate Hill, although this postcard is getting on for 110 years old, I must correct the title of the postcard. This is a photograph of Waterloo Bridge taken from the south bank and not London Bridge. It is early summer 1909 and the bus nearest the camera is advertising “The Chorus Lady” at the Vaudeville Theatre starring the famous American actress Rose Stahl in her second and final appearance on the London stage, she had appeared at the Palace Theatre in 1906 in a sketch show together with Will Rogers who had a lassoing act. At that time the sketch was called The Chorus Girl, the author expanded the sketch into the play, The Chorus Lady.