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Miss Gabrielle
Ray
(1883-1973)
Musical comedy actress and dancer,
born Gabrielle Elizabeth Clifford Cook on 28 April 1883 at Stockport,
Cheshire, England
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A Fellow Golly Collector!
Along with her fame as an actress
and dancer Gabrielle was also renown for her Gollies. She
was an avid collector and her dressing rooms were full to
the brim with golly dolls
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Golly is not just an ornament and
cuddly toy, as can be seen from these Theatrical postcards, he also
worked for a living partnering such celebraties
as Gabrielle Ray and Ethel Oliver
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 Miss
Billie
Burke
Miss Rita
Everard
Miss Stella
De Marne
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Katawampus
The parliament of toys scene from the
children's play "Katawampus" written and
directed by Edward Abbott Parry from a production
in Manchester, England around 1896
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Boy Dressed as Golly
Young boy dressed in golly
costume and holding a golly
Doll by its hair
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Miss Ethel
Oliver
(1903-1920)
Actress and onetime chorus girl
at the Gaiety Theatre, London
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