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With songs and a false mustache, Violet Murray, the Belle of the Gay Nineties, wooed the latest of her stage-door johnnies, Harry Kenmarg, 65, at the (...)
With songs and a false mustache, Violet Murray, the Belle of the Gay Nineties, wooed the latest of her stage-door johnnies, Harry Kenmarg, 65, at the (...)

With songs and a false mustache, Violet Murray, the Belle of the Gay Nineties, wooed the latest of her stage-door johnnies, Harry Kenmarg, 65, at the (...)

Date12/16/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: With songs and a false mustache, Violet Murray, the Belle of the Gay Nineties, wooed the latest of her stage-door johnnies, Harry Kenmarg, 65, at the Toronto General Hospital out-patients' annual Christmas concert held at the hospital recently.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0070330F
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