Huntley Wright as Li in San Toy, or the Emperor's Own, a Chinese musical comedy by Edward Morton and Sidney Jones, 1899. Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, 1868-1941. Photograph by Alfred Ellis and Walery (Stanislaw Julian Ignacy). 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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