Edmund Payne
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Edmund James "Teddy" Payne, was an English actor, comedian and singer best known for creating comic roles in a series of extremely successful Edwardian musical comedies. He was often paired with the comic actor George Grossmith, Jr.
Gertie Millar and Payne in The Spring Chicken, 1905
With George Grossmith, Jr., in The New Aladdin, 1906
Payne in The Toreador
The Orchid
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The Orchid is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, a book by James T. Tanner, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and additional numbers by Paul Rubens. The story concerns marital mix-ups and the quest of a wealthy man for a $2,000 Peruvian orchid to be sent to France. When foul play keeps the flower from reaching its destination, it is discovered that a nearly identical orchid is growing in the garden of the horticultural college.
Millar, as Violet, and boys
Fausset, Violet, Meakin, Josephine and Guy in the Wedding Dance
Thisbe and Chesterton
Connie Ediss (left) with Edmund Payne, George Grossmith, Jr. and Gertie Millar