Poster advertising The Better Ole, Theatre Royal, Chatham
Poster advertising a comedy produced by Charles Cochran, The Better Ole, or The Romance of Old Bill, at the Theatre Royal, Chatham. Performed twice nightly, with a Wednesday matinee. Smoking allowed in all parts of the theatre. The Better Ole was a catchphrase talen from a Great War cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, the famous World War One cartoonist and artist, whose curmudgeonly soldier creation Ole Bill featured in weekly cartoons in the Bystander. Ole Bill went on to star in numerous revues and theatrical shows, some of them penned by Bairnsfather
Picture No
10281133
Media ID
47523235
Size
2169px x 6620px
(2.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/ONSLOW AUCTIONS LIMITED
Source
Onslow Auctions Collection
Date
October 1918
