Sir Laurence's Outdoor Part Tribute to Beerbohm Tree

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
17 December 1953 in Haymarket

Planet News photograph titled 'Sir Laurence's Outdoor Part Tribute to Beerbohm Tree'. Caption on back reads: Londoners were able to hear Sir Laurence Olivier making a speech to-day without entering a theatre. It happened outisde Her Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, where Sir Laurence spoke a tribute to the memory of actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, the centenary of whose birth is to-day...Behind him is a plaque commemorating the fact that Sir Herbert opened the theatre in 1897. He died in 1917 at the age of 63.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/30139
Materials:
ink and paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 255 mm x 203 mm
type:
photograph
credit:
Daily Herald Archive, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford