2-321-609 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lily Elsie and George Graves in The Merry Widow, c1907. Elsie as Sonia, and Graves as Baron Popoff. Allow me to escort you. The English adaptation of Franz Lehar's operetta, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, opened at Daly's Theatre in London in June 1907, running for 778 performances.