December 1912: Lafayette’s Group Photograph of The Players’ Club

As for many other entries across this website, sources such as the Daily Record and Mail (Daily Record, in The British

Newspaper Archive), provide rare and valuable information.

 

I always find pre-war photographs of people and places especially moving, such as in a group photograph, by Lafayette,

of The Players’ Club, on page eight of the Daily Record and Mail, on Tuesday the 17th of December, 1912.

 

The Club was giving its 21st annual performances in the Glasgow Athenaeum on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of December, in

aid of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Seaside Homes.

 

The photograph shows: Mr. A. Y. Summers, Miss N. McLeod Jardine, Mr. Percy Cooke, Miss Connie B. Donald, Mr. Wm.

R. Hunter (manager), Miss J. Hunter, Mr. Jas. Summers (secretary), Miss Daisy Scott, Mr. Stuart Forbes (producer),

Miss M. Ewing, Mr. W. R. Parnell, Miss W. Wilton, Mr. T. S. Tatlock, Miss M. Hunter, Mr. J. M. Summers, Miss A. E.

Campbell, Mr. Wm. H. McClure (treasurer), Miss Grace Ludlow, Mr. C. W. Stewart (musical conductor), Miss Ruby

Wood, and Mr. D. G. Rankine.

 

 

The Players performed Sir Arthur Pinero’s The Times, in the Athenaeum Hall. Please see the advertisement on page

eight of The Glasgow Herald, on Wednesday the 18th of December, and the article on page three of the Herald, on

Thursday the 19th.

 

 

On the same page, in the Daily Record and Mail, is a photograph, also by Lafayette, of the Milngavie Players, who

were to present Are you a Mason? in Milngavie Burgh Hall, on the 20th and 21st of December, in aid of the poor.

 

 

 

The British Newspaper Archive.

 

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, July 2024.