This caricature shows Tyrone Power (1914-1958) in The Devil's Disciple at the Oxford New Theatre on 18 April 1956. It was drawn by Gilbert Sommerlad (1904-1976), a rehearsal pianist and orchestral violinist at the Brighton Theatre Royal from 1932 until 1936, and at the Oxford New Theatre from 1936 for over forty years. Sommerlad sketched the stars on stage when he wasn't needed in the orchestra pit, compiling the sketches in a series of albums.

Tyrone Power was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of the Shakespearean actors Frederick Tyrone Edmund Power and Helen Emma Reaume Power, known on stage as Tyrone Power and Patia Power. He made his first stage appearance at Chicago in 1931 in a small role in The Merchant of Venice, and in New York the same year he played a page in Hamlet with the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Company. His film career began in May of 1932, with a minor part in the filmTom Brown of Culver, and he went on to become one of the leading male sex symbols in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s. He died of a heart attack while rehearsing for a film in Spain, and his only son Tyrone William Power IV was born two months after his father’s death.