BOOTH, Margery Autographs Actors - Letter X-Y-Z and Susannah

and Susannah

double signed photo showing them in Lohengrin

signed and dated by the soprano on June 18th

who wrote librettos for several of Michael Balfe's operas including The Bohemian Girl and The Maid of Artois

Autograph letter in French (sold with translation) signed by him

BOOTH, Margery Autographs Actors - Letter X-Y-Z and SusannahMargery Myers Booth (1906 1952) was a British mezzo soprano who emigrated to Germany during WWII and became a spy. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and tortured, she was later released by the liberating army. Not being recognized for what she did after her return to London, Myers Booth emigrated to New York where she died of breast cancer in 1952, at age 46. Rare signed postcard photograph, shown as Dryade in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos dated