George Alexander as poet Francois Villon in If I Were King, a play by Justin Huntly McCarthy, New National Theatre, 1901. Sir George Alexander, English stage and film actor, theatre manager, 1858-1918. Photograph by Alfred Ellis and Walery (Stanislaw Julian Ignacy). Colour printing of a hand-coloured illustration based on a monochrome photograph from George Newnes’s Players of the Day, London, 1905.

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