QUEEN OF POSTCARDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19060, 3 May 1930, Page 14

QUEEN OF POSTCARDS.

Miss Marie Studholme, the beautiful musical comedy actress before the war, and the most popular postcard beauty' of her day, whose smile went round the world, died in London last month. When Mr George Edwardes was at the height of his fame, and the Gaiety Theatre and Daly’s were in their heyday, Miss Marie Studholme really inspired the pictufe postcard vogue. She was probably the most photographed actress of the day. Her postcards sold by the million. Her first appearance on the London stage was at the age of sixteen, in “La Cigale,” in a one-line part originally played by Miss Ellis Jeffreys. She had come to London from her native Yorkshire a year before. By the time she was twenty she had made -her first big success in “An Artist’s Model,” and her popularity steadily grew in a succession of musical pieces at the Gaiety and Dal>'’s. Her last appearance was seventeen years ago, in a sketch called “tier Ladyship,” in which she toured the musical halls. It was said that out of that sketch alone she made £IO,OOO. In 1908 she married Mr Giles Borrett, and during the later years of her life lived quietly' at her home in Hampstead. She v'as only' fifty-four, and died from heart failure after a short illness.