Lillie Langtry

Starring Phill Jupitus, and featuring live music from Chumbawamba, Boff Whalley's play is subtitled "a music hall comedy" and will be performed in the recently refurbished Leeds City Varieties which has played host to Charlie Chaplin, Lillie Langtry and Harry Houdini among others.

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O'Brien has half the field for the Irish Champion Stakes, as well as Starspangledbanner in Haydock's big sprint, but reportedly views Lillie Langtry in the Matron as a weak link.

Ebor-winning Marcus Reeder fails to pass 'fit and proper person' test 2010

Lillie Langtry and Oscar Wilde, as seen in 'Lillie':

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Lillie Langtry and Oscar Wilde, as seen in 'Lillie':

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‘Do write, Lily darling,’ scrawled one of several London friends who used that tag–the punning allusion was to beautiful Jersey-born Lillie Langtry–as their pet name for Virginia.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

In connection to our salute to the two official portrayals of Lillie Langtry, here a couple of musical tributes to both her incarnations which I found on YouTube.

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Francesca Annis, having her own mini-series as Lillie Langtry, is automatically the face of the chanteuse for Toobworld - especially as she also portrayed the role in a mini-series about 'Edward The Seventh'.

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In connection to our salute to the two official portrayals of Lillie Langtry, here a couple of musical tributes to both her incarnations which I found on YouTube.

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Lillie Langtry 13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929, born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a highly successful British actress born on the island of Jersey.

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As the leader of the Toreador clan in San Francisco, Lillie Langtry is the one historical Western figure who is still aliv- er, "active" in Toobworld.....

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