Dorothea Baird

Dorothea Baird (May 20, 1875 – September 24, 1933), English stage and film actress, and the daughter of Sir John Forster Baird, a prominent English barrister-at-law, vintage silver print postcard.

Her first stage appearance was with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in February 1894, when she played Iris in 'The Tempest.' She went on to appear in a number of distinguished Shakespeare plays with her husband, H. B. Irving. She made her London debut in 1894 as Hippolyta in Ben Greet's production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' In 1895 she played the lead role in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's stage play 'Trilby' at the Haymarket Theatre, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by George du Maurier.

She portrayed Mrs. Darling in the original 1904 production of 'Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.' In 1913 she retired from the stage and involved herself in charitable causes, especially with infant welfare. 

Verso bears original postcard graphics, else blank and clean. In very good condition.