Description
Autograph Letter Signed, to Sir Gerald Du Maurier, asking whether “you have a Box to spare” for tomorrow’s performance of Dear Brutus. 1 page 6 x 4 inches, in good condition. West Hampstead, 12 December 1922. Ben Davies (1858 –1943) was a Welsh tenor singer, who appeared in opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd, as a leading British tenor, and retained something of his style and repertoire in concert performance.