Miss Constance Collier as Iras in Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ, a spectacular play by General Lew Wallace at the Drury Lane, 1902. Laura Constance Hardie, English stage and film actress, 1878-1955. Photograph by Biograph Studio. Colour printing of a hand-coloured illustration based on a monochrome photograph from George Newnes’s Players of the Day, London, 1905.

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