On May 9, 1911, The Great Lafayette was performing The Lion’s Bride in front of a sold-out crowd of 3,000 people at Edinburgh’s Empire Theatre. A lantern ignited hanging fabric, but the audience first ...

Jessie Buckley in <em>The Bride!</em> Credit - Courtesy of Warner Bros. “I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible ...