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It opened on tour at Richmond for the week of 16th May the following year, produced by Henry Dundas who held the touring rights for the Drury Lane melodramas. Audiences at Drury Lane came to expect the visual feasts that were always provided by the many scene designers including Henry Emden, William Perkins, Robert McCleery, Robert Caney, Bruce Smith and Julian Hicks, who worked on Collins' sell-out dramas. The public was undeterred by the fact that the probability of the action on stage might not live up to the realism of the scenes and relished the sequence of fast-paced action taking place on one detailed set after another, which in The Price of Peace included St. Thomas's Hospital, the terrace at the House of Commons, the Commons itself, a carnival in Niagara complete with skating rink, Westminster Abbey, <i>The </i><i>Marigold </i>, and 'the cruel sands'.\r\n\r\nThis poster illustrates various scenes in the play that featured a double-dealing, state-secret selling Prime Minister who murders a Russian diplomat, his wicked accomplices the villainous Marcus Benton and the Chinese servant Tom Sin who meet their doom in a mid-ocean collision between <i>The Marigold </i>steam yacht and a liner, and the brave heroine who is conveniently rescued by life rocket apparatus. True to form for advertising these Drury Lane annual spectaculars, other posters were produced enticing audiences with single scenes from the play, such as the one in which the Prime Minister dies on the floor of the House of Commons (S.1741-1995). Like this one these were overprinted the following year with details of the touring venues, which could hardly have staged them as lavishly as Drury Lane with all its advanced stage technology - especially only for one week. ","physicalDescription":"Pictorial and typographic. 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