Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hetty King (Winifred Emms) NPG Ax160072

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd

King was a popular entertainer in the music halls, and by 1905 she had established her own solo act as a male impersonator, dressed as a 'swell' (man-about-town). During the war she regularly appeared in the uniforms of either a soldier or sailor, and took the part of principal boy in pantomimes. Known for her interpretation of such songs as Ship Ahoy (All The Nice Girls Love A Sailor'), she is remembered for presenting an act called The Songs The Soldiers Sing, in which she... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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