FRANK RANDLE - SELF-CARICATURE SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: TED PLAYER - HFSID 165664
Price: $420.00
FRANK RANDLE
The English comedian's pen self-caricature on an album leaf, signed
with a "Cheerio".
Self-Caricature signed: "Cheerio/Frank Randle", 3¾x4¾ album.
Unflattering pen drawing of himself, signed with the same instrument. ANS on
verso "The team spirit was/the most important/spirit in the Bar of/the
Queen's Hotel -/and you were one of/the team./Yours Aye/Ted
Player/18-11-1950" English music hall and film comedian FRANK
RANDLE (1901-1957), known for his zany antics, had a touring show called
Randle's Scandals. After failing his physical for the RAF in World
War II, he joined the Home Guard, and made his mark in films. Randle
typically played an underdog flouting authority, a role he also played in real
life in his continuous battles with the police chief of the seaside resort
of Blackpool. (His police charge sheet there is now in the charge of the
Lancashire County Museums. No solid information is available on "Ted
Player", but he may have been a bartender. The Café Royal Cocktail
Book, edited by W. J. Tarling (1937), attributes one of the cocktails there
to J. E. (Ted) Player, and the note's association with a bar makes that
connection plausible. There is a Queen's Hotel in Blackpool, a town where Frank
Randle spent much of his time. Light surface creases. Ink smear on "Ted Player",
but legible. Fine condition.
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