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2 unusual facts about The Yellow Iris


The Yellow Iris

The cabaret artistes were compered by Cyril Fletcher, later famous for his appearances on the television consumer programme That's Life!.

Joyce Grenfell reviewed the play in The Observers edition of 7 November 1937 when she said, "I had hoped to say such nice things about Agatha Christie's Yellow Iris" but found that Holles was, "the only happy thing in the broadcast".



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Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region

The yellow Iris, an Iris pseudacorus, as a symbol for Brussels dates back to before 1924 with Cornette writing that the flower was chosen to represent the city as it could be found growing in the marshes - the city itself was founded on marshy ground on Saint Gaugericus Island - today even through the expansion and industrialisation of the city.