Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Applin NPG P967

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Benington

At the age of 22 Applin went to train with the Ben Greet Shakespeare Company. He appeared in plays including in Black Tulip and Sweet Nell of Drury and as well as producing plays including Gerhart Hauptmann's Hannele. Applin's novels and plays such as Rags (1913), London Love (1926) and murder-mystery The Death Mask (1931) were hugely popular but were often criticised by the intellectual elite. A Life of Admiral Jellicoe (1914) won praise and his Philandering Angler (1948) is described as 'one of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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