Author’s Note
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Author’s NoteThe Gaiety Theatre with its wealth, its happy sparkle, its vivacity and its full-blooded enjoyment, was a symbol of the Naughty Nineties.
The centre of London amusement, the Gaiety shows were always beautifully staged and superbly dressed and, under George Edwardes’s brilliant management, became unique.
As lovely as Goddesses, the Gaiety Girls had a grace, glamour and femininity that every man admired and desired.
The Runaway Girl, produced on 21st of May 1898, ran for 593 performances until 1900.
The unique authority of a ship’s Captain to marry any of his passengers who demanded it stemmed from the long voyages in sailing ships when women became pregnant and the child was likely to be born before they reached land.
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