Edward O'Connor Terry

Spy (Leslie Ward) presents the actor-manager Edward O'Connor Terry in profile, dressed in a dark double-breasted frock coat with pince-nez perched on his nose, one hand tucked behind his back in a pose of comfortable self-possession. The caption beneath reads simply Edward O'Connor Terry. Terry had made his name in burlesque and comedy at the old Strand Theatre before founding Terry's Theatre on the Strand in 1887, where he ran respectable middle-class entertainments for two decades. Ward's caricature gently exaggerates his broad, reddish face and slightly stooped posture—the prosperous provincial impresario rather than the glamorous leading man.