Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gaby Deslys NPG x160493

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by J. Beagles & Co

First appeared at the Gaiety Theatre in 1906, as 'The Charm of Paris' in The New Aladdin, performing the 'Ju-Jitsu waltz', but the dance that made her famous was 'The Gaby Glide'. Famous for her extravagant clothes, jewels and millinery, she lived up to her notoriety. J.M. Barrie was so smitten by her that he wrote a one-act play for her, Rosy Rapture (1915). Gordon Selfridge gave her a rope of pearls as long as her height. Her last stage appearance was at the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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