[Ruby Miller, actress, one of the ‘Gaiety Girls’.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Popie’ (the theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope), regarding BBC TV, ‘the Gaiety fiasco’ and ‘Gaiety Girls who married out of the peerage & retired into the country’.

See her entry and his in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Signed ‘Ruby’. Begins: ‘Popie, darling, / What are we coming to? / You - as a pierrot with the “Fol-de-Rols”! / BBC/TV must be mad not to let you do a talk on the St. James’s. / But after the Gaiety fiasco I can believe anything of them. / Both Evadne & I have suggested you for the Lustgarten [broadcaster and crime writer Edgar Lustgarten] programme: “Crosstalk.” / They are delighted [last word underlined] & will contact you.’ She gives details of the ‘present series’ adding: ‘They also want the names of Gaiety Girls who married out of the peerage & retired into the country, for another programme they are doing in the autumn, so I told them to ask you as I don’t remember their names. / There was Phyllis (Barton, I think) & a Nancy (Taylor, I think) who were with us at the Saxone “do.”’ She ends with love to him and his wife Stella.