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Looks like he signed a lot of these photos

www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/345681406330923-ant...

Here he is dancing in 1935 -
youtu.be/y5HkZC0MbCs?si=oXW8XrN9aFxBtjQF

And speaking -
youtu.be/owp5qhsJhvI?si=hgWZqaUAungBd27I

"Sir Anton Dolin (27 July 1904 – 25 November 1983) ... was born in Slinfold in Sussex as Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay (generally known as Patrick or Pat Kay to his friends). He was the second of three sons of Henry George Kay (1852-1922) and his wife, Helen Maude Chippendall Healey (1869-1960), from Dublin."
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Dolin_(ballet_dancer)

I wonder if his maternal Irish connection explains the inscription "God save Ireland".

beachcomber australia No, I think he had a stack of these photos, and signed them to suit the recipient.
Sort of like some Hollywood fan club

In 1926 he suffered temporary blindness. Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Monday 20 December 1926:

On Friday night, said the dancer's secretary, Mr. Dolin was dancing in a cabaret while the show was being filmed for a news picture. The glare of the lights so affected his eyes that early the following morning he woke up in agony and discovered that be was blind. He was taken to a specialist in Wimpole Street, who stated that the optic nerves were terribly bruised and burned.

I understand that in the early days of cinema, the film available was in today's terms very slow, necessitating very bright artificial lights. As a consequence, actors being filmed got into the habit of wearing dark glasses. So if you wanted to look like a film star, you'd wear dark glasses and they thus became a fashion accessory.

This would be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sutherland-Leveson-Gower,_5t... who succeeded to the title in 1913 and lived until 1963. In March 1914 he put 300,000 acres of a Scottish estate up for sale, needing cash for estate (inheritance) taxes. The year before, he had sold paintings (including old masters) at Christies. NYT of March 02, 1914, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01E1DE163AE633A... indicates that he had returned recently from the United States on the Amerika.

That's a nice professional portrait, beautifully lighted.

I always thought "Bristol Fashion" meant there were two !

It's not looking immediately familiar, which generally means Cork or Kerry somehwere. With the skyline cropped like that, you never know how many mountains are missing form the background.

Though having said that, most of the Lawrence stereo pairs seem to be in Down.

The NLI Ref text is off, should be NLI 2224 (the link is correct).

Niall McAuley Thank you Niall, corrected now!