The Girl from Kay's by Owen Hall
Promotional flyer for The Girl from Kay's Promotional postcard for The Girl from Kay's by Owen Hall music Ivan Caryll and Cecil Cook. First produced at the Apollo Theatre, London 15th November 1902. The original London production, from 1902 to 1903, played for a long run of 432 performances and was followed by provincial tours. A successful New York run of 223 performances began in 1903, and successful Australian runs followed. The plot is triggered when a wife sees her husband kissing a shop girl who has delivered her new hat from Kay's hat shop. This is a postcard in a series depicting stage personalities, Willie Edouin is shown as the American millionaire, the part he created in this show - caption: "I'm Hoggenheimer". As so often in productions of the period, the American millionaire is a comic character, but in this case the audience is asked to laugh with rather than at him
