Word: flaxman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them from their cards, pasted them on the effigies of contemporary actors. They took pains. Often the scenes constructed in the three-sided rooms of the toy theatres were works of subtle art. Artists afterwards famed sometimes got bread by engraving the penny cards, the tuppeny cards-Blake, Flaxman, Cruikshank. Thousands worked at the making of the theatres; now only one man is left who gets his living so-one B. Pollock of London; he is the last. Yet there still remain here and there a few people who cherish the toys. Ellen Terry, actress, possesses a little theatre...