2-623-773 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Mrs Olga Nethersole in ''Sapho''', c1900. Olga Isabella Nethersole (1867-1951), English actress, theatre producer, and wartime nurse/health educator. Sapho was a 1900 play by Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), based on an 1884 French novel of the same name by Alphonse Daudet and an 1885 play by Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It was at the center of a sensational American indecency trial involving the play’s star and producer/director, Olga Nethersole. From Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co., London, 1903-4]