RARE "1930/40's Stars" Multi Signed Album Page For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "1930/40's Stars" Multi Signed Album Page. Signers are; Will Fyffe, Daisy Wood and Bertram Wallis. 

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Will Fyffe, CBE (16

February 1885 – 14 December 1947) was a music hall and performing artist from

Scotland, a star of the 1930s and 1940s, on stage and screen. Fyffe made his

debut in his father's stock company at the age of six. He travelled extensively

throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK, playing the numerous music halls of the time, where he performed his sketches

and sang his songs in his own inimitable style. During the 1930s, he was one of

the highest paid musical hall artistes in Britain. In addition, Fyffe appeared

in 23 major films of the era (American and British), sometimes starring, and

recorded over 30 songs, delivered with his own unique style. His

singer-songwriter skills are still well-known today, particularly his own

composition, "I Belong To Glasgow". This

song has been covered by Danny Kaye, Eartha Kitt, Gracie Fields and Kirk Douglas:

"If your money, you spend,

You've nothing to lend,

Isn't that all the better for you"

As a result of this song, Fyffe became

forever associated with Glasgow, even though he was born 70 miles

(110 km) away in the east coast city of Dundee, where a street bears his surname. Fyffe was also

Freemason, who was initiated and then became a full member of Lodge St John,

Shotts No 471. Fyffe left some rare footage of his stage act, which gives us a

glimpse of stage life in those times. In the footage, he performs the

"Broomielaw" sketch and sings his song "Twelve and a Tanner a

Bottle". The footage came about as a result of a screen test, shot for

Pathe in New York in 1929. Fyffe died after falling from a window in the Rusacks

Hotel in St Andrews in December 1947. The fall has been attributed to dizziness

caused by an operation on his ear.

Daisy Violet Rose Wood (15

September 1877 – 19 October 1961), was an English music hall singer. Wood was born in Hoxton, London, the fifth of nine children, the

oldest being Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870–1922), who performed under the

stage name Marie Lloyd. Seven of the

siblings took up stage careers. In their earliest years, costumed by their

mother (Matilda Mary Caroline), they performed as The Fairy Bells

Minstrels, singing temperance songs in local missions and church halls. This

ceased when the eldest sister made her professional debut at the age of

fifteen. The children were entranced by music hall, their father (John, an

artificial florist) working in the evenings at the nearby Royal Eagle Tavern. Daisy

made her own first professional appearance in a play entitled My Willie at

the South London Palace, on 17 March 1890. She went on to perform a solo

musical act, making the most of her petite and dainty figure. She was thought

to have been the prettiest of the sisters. On 26 April 1899 she married Donald

Alexander Munro, an insurance broker and chairman of the Crown Theatre. She was

only 21, and her husband 26, when she retired from the theatre. They had two

children, Donald (1902) and Dorothy Grace (1906). They moved to Kensington, but Donald fell ill the following year, and their

fortunes were under pressure. In her late twenties, Daisy returned to the

stage, and due to the increasing fame of her sisters, at the top of the bill.

In 1908 she was offered an immense sum to tour New York with her sisters (Marie, Alice and Rosie), by

the William Morris Agency, and

in the autumn they performed in New York, to great acclaim. Her husband died on

24 September 1911, aged 39. She continued to tour throughout the British Isles

and internationally, until she finally retired in 1928, but occasionally

returned to the stage with her sisters Alice and Rosie during the 1930s

and World War II. Daisy Wood

died on 19 October 1961, aged 84 at her home in Banstead, Surrey.

Bertram Wallis (22

February 1874 – 11 April 1952) was an English actor and singer known for his

performances in plays, musical comedies and operettas in the early 20th century, first as leading men

and then in character roles. He also later appeared in several film roles. Wallis

was born in London. He was the son of Frederick Augustus Wallis and Sarah

Mary (née Williams). A huge man who stood almost 7 feet tall,[ he

won the Westmorland Scholarship to study voice at the Royal Academy of Music, where

he won the Parepa-Rosa gold medal and the Evill Prize.  After his studies, his first role was Amiens

in George Alexander's production

of As You Like It in

1896.[5] Edward German composed the music for the production, and

Wallis's performance of his songs won praise: "Mr. Bertram Wallis as

Amiens sings his solos so well as to quite justify Jacques's remark, 'More, I

pr'y thee, more'." Soon afterwards, he played in Much Ado About Nothing,

his last production of a Shakespeare play. In the early years of the 20th century,

Wallis had his first successes on the musical stage. He sang in a five-man act

called "The Musketeers" music hall at the Tivoli Theatre in 1901. In 1902 he

appeared in the musical comedy Three Little Maids at

the Apollo Theatre, with Lottie Venne, Sybil Grey and Edna May. In 1904 he appeared with Kate Cutler in The Love Birds. He then

travelled to New York City to play in several Broadway productions,

including A Madcap Princess (1904), Princess Beggar (1907)

and Miss Hook of MacDonald.[ After this, Wallis

starred in a series of successful London musicals, often with Isabel Jay or Jose Collins, including King of Cadonia (1908), Dear Little Denmark (1909) and The Balkan "What a ... fine specimen of mankind is the Grand Duke Sergius

as played by Mr. Bertram Wallis!" He next starred in The Count of Luxembourg (1911).

In 1911, Wallis temporarily left the musical stage to appear in a

non-musical melodrama, Beau Brocade at

the Globe Theatre, for which

he won good notices.

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