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BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Either he's flogging seats for My Fair Lady, or he's an AEU bloke going to King Street."
Two bobbies discuss a skulking figure, his face concealed by a broad-brimmed fedora. By the mid-1950s more members of the AEU - Amalgamated Engineering Union - belonged to the Communist Party - headquarters in King Street - than those of any other union. Bentley ties together black market demand for tickets for the opening of My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on the 30 April, and the threat of communist-inspired labour unrest.
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 29 April 1958, and with pencil reproduction instructions recto.
