Mary Anderson de Navarro Performance to Raise Money for First World War Relief Funds

Mary Anderson as Galatea, 1883

On 6th June 1917, Mary Anderson de Navarro gave a matinee performance of Galatea in W.S. Gilbert’s satire Pygmalion and Galatea at the Grand Theatre, Birmingham, to raise money for the War Relief Funds and her private hospital for wounded soldiers at her home, Court Farm, High Street, Broadway.