Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Olive May (née Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda as Doris Bartle in 'Peggy' NPG x101989

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Olive May had the distinction of being a Gaiety Girl, who married into the peerage twice. Firstly, she became Lady Victor Paget (marrying in 1913 and divorcing in 1921), and then the Countess of Drogheda (marrying the 10th Earl in 1922). She retired from the stage in 1912. As Doris Bartle in Leslie Stuart's Peggy in March 1911 she sang 'The Lass With a Lasso'. A sextet of chorus boys in military uniform, were roped-in one by one by Miss May, whose character... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.