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Autograph request

Picture postcard sent by Bray to Olive May on 31st May 1905 requesting her autograph.

Olive May (née Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda (1886-1947), Actress; former wife of Lord Victor Paget, and later wife of 10th Earl of Drogheda

Olive May had the distinction of being a Gaiety Girl, who married into the peerage twice. Firstly, she became Lady Victor Paget (marrying in 1913 and divorcing in 1921), and then the Countess of Drogheda (marrying the 10th Earl in 1922). She retired from the stage in 1912. As Doris Bartle in Leslie Stuart's Peggy in March 1911 she sang 'The Lass With a Lasso'. A sextet of chorus boys in military uniform, were roped-in one by one by Miss May, whose character announced herself as being from 'Out West', 'where a horse's hooves, the beating of a heart and the swish of a lasso are the only sounds heard on the prairie'.

Source: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp67175/olive-may-nee-olive-mary-meatyard-countess-of-drogheda

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