Queenie Thomas — Photographic Impressions (1919) 🇬🇧

Some photographic impressions of one of Britain’s leading screen artistes.

Queenie Thomas started her professional career at the Gaiety, under the management of the late Mr. George Edwardes. Later, she was introduced to James Welch, and she appeared for him in his last revival of When Knights Were Bold, The New Clown, and The Man in the Street.

During this time she received much valuable coaching, both from Jimmy Welch and Mr. Bertram Phillips, which laid the foundation for the extraordinary knowledge of technique so rarely found in combination with youth — Queenie not yet having attained her majority.

Subsequently, having taken a fancy to screen work, Queenie Thomas “walked on” in a Barker [William Barker] production so successfully that she was given an opportunity to play several parts of varying importance for Mr. Samuelson and Martin Thornton [G. B. Samuelson | F. Martin Thornton]. This was followed by an agreement giving Mr. Bertram Phillips the exclusive rights to her services, and since that time she has played for no one else.

Queenie is remarkably versatile, and can still play the part of a child of fifteen, while also being capable of giving an excellent performance as a woman of thirty-five.

She has an exceptionally beautiful head of dark brown hair, with natural bronze lights, and her eyes, although sometimes described as blue, grey, or even brown, are really a deep violet.

Queenie plays a good game of golf, rides and drives well, and confesses to being excitable, impulsive, and temperamental to a degree.

Her latest production is called A Little Child Shall Lead Them.

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Photo captions:

• Making up for a picture.
• Plain Jane, and no nonsense.
• After “Coming through the rye.”
• Good old Saturday night.
• Very fond of sweetmeats, especially chocolates.
• Sunday morning.
• Nobody’s darling!
• I hear you calling me!

Collection: Picture Show Magazine, September 1919

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The beautiful British screen Star, who rose to fame in five years.

(Bertram Phillips)

Collection: Picture Show Magazine, July 1919