22.00 USD
Polly Koss, Viennese actress, and an an assembled cast of adorable chicks, at the Apollo Theater for a performance of Chantecler, a play whose characters are made up of barnyard animals, based on very old European fables. A tale of Chantecler (meaning "clear singing,"), is retold as far back as Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales (Chaucer having drawn it from older sources), but this play is probably a German translation from the French of Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and L'Aiglon.
Rostand, it has been said, came up with the idea for the play, Chanticler, while observing farm animals near his home in the south of France.
Polly Koss was a highly respected Viennese actress, 1880-1943. We have included for your viewing pleasure, but NOT FOR SALE, an image of the Apollo Theater in Vienna. We are only listing for sale the Polly Koss, Chantecler card. We are guessing this card is from the early 1910s (Rostand's play premiered in France in 1910).
A very nice, preciously cute, even, unposted card. Photograph by Bing of Vienna.
We are pleased, as we so often are, to acknowledge Wikipedia as an important source, in this case for the image of the Apollo Theater in Vienna, as well as for much of our historical and biographical information. Thanks Wikipedia!
Please examine our high res scans for detail.
Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.