Entertainers Collection (page 6)

Paradise Girls of the Paradise Cabaret Restaurant, New York - 49th Street and Broadway. " Gorgeous! Glamorous! Thrilling!" Date: circa 1938

Sammys Bowery Follies, New York City, USA
Sammys Bowery Follies, Bowery, New York City, USA, showing the performers grouped together on stage. Date: 1944

Childrens entertainer at a party
" Uncle" Piet Tovenaar (born Frederick Bliss) in action with his ventriloquists dummy at a childrens party in London in 1965. Date: 1965

Little Tich as Captain of the Forty
LITTLE TICH (Harry Relph) Music hall entertainer (1867 - 1928), posed in his famous 28" boots called slapshoes, for his Big Boot dance. Date: 1929

Vesta Tilley in khaki
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations. During the First World War, she earned the nickname

Seven Seas cruise yacht, Miami, Florida, USA
Seven Seas cruise yacht, Scenic Wonderland Cruise, Miami, Florida, USA, with inset photos of the captains (Dad and Bill Albury) and the cabaret entertainers (The Singing Maxsons). Date: 1930s

Advert for Columbian Trio Concert Company, Ohio, USA
Advertisement on a postcard for the Columbian Trio Concert Company of West Salem, Ohio, USA, offering instrumental and vocal music. Date: 1910

Sporting & Dramatic News cover - A Better Ole
Front cover of The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News featuring photographs of three stars of the stage in 1917. On the left is Miss Vera Clarke

Leslie Henson during WW1
One of the most popular male entertainers of the First World War, Leslie Henson (1891 - 1957), appearing in Yes, Uncle! at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1918 dressed in his R.F.C uniform

Ideal Entertainers, Oakenshaw, Yorkshire
Ideal Entertainers, Oakenshaw, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1900s

Miss Ethel Levey in Hullo Tango
Colour photograph of Ethel Levey (1880-1955), American actress and singer, pictured in one of the costumes she wore in the theatre production, Hullo Tango! in 1914. Date: 1914

Roseray and Capella at the Embassy Club
An Embassy Thrill - the Dancers Roseray and Capella. Roseray and Capella, the cabaret stars of the Embassy Club pictured performing some of their act which combined acrobatics with dance

Madame Stroeva in Chez Fysher at Oddenino s
The Chez Fysher show at Oddeninos restaurant in London, 1924 featuring as its star attraction, Madame Stroeva who sang her strange sobbing

Miss Dora Dubey, one of the company appearing in Dollys Revels at the Piccadilly Hotel in London in 1924. The Bystander comments that she is

Cortez and Peggy
The dancing cabaret performers, Cortez and Peggy, who in 1924, following a successful residency at Rectors in Paris, went on to delight Londoners at the Hotel Metropole. Date: 1924

Dina Harris and Ted Trevor exhibition dancers at the Carlton
Miss Dina Harris and Mr Ted Trevor, the popular Exhibition Dancers, who were appearing at the diners-dansant at the Carlton Hotel in 1924. Date: 1924

Tosh sisters
Cabaret entertainers the Tosh Sisters from Vienna - amusing the patrons of West End clubs in London in 1929. Pictured here in feather-skirted costumes. Date: 1929

Leslie Henson in Yes, Uncle! during WW1
One of the most popular male entertainers of the First World War, Leslie Henson (1891 - 1957), appearing in Yes, Uncle! at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1918

Frances Day (1908 - 1984), born Frances Schenk, revue, cabaret, television and film actress and one of the original blonde bombshells

Vesta Tilley, WW1
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Entertainment within the two miles of the front
British troops as pierrots, only two miles from the trenches. Date: 1915

Tatler cover - George Robey
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a portrait of (Sir) George Robey (1869-1954), British comedian known as the Prime Minister of Mirth

Edmee Dormeuil by William Barribal
Edmee Dormeuil, French actress and star of The Better Ole, the musical play based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Harry Lauder with his recruiting pipe band, WW1
Harry Lauder (1870-1950), Scottish music hall entertainer, pictured with a pipe he had organised, with the sanction of the War Office

Aileen D Orme in Chu Chin Chow, WW1
Aileen D Orme, actress and soprano singer, pictured in costume in the hugely popular wartime show, Chu Chin Chow, in which she played the role of Alcolom and sang the song, Any Times Kissing Time

Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 February 26, 1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sweetheart of

Sketch cover, George Robey in Bing Boys on Broadway, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch featuring George Robey as U-Ka-Lip-Tus, Chief of the Wah Wahs in a scene from The Bing Boys on Broadway, playing at the Alhambra

Gaby Deslys sailing to England, 1915
Celebrated French actress and music hall artiste, Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), pictured showing her papers at Boulogne before sailing to England where she was to star in Rosy Rapture

Balachowa and Mordkin leaving for the front
The famous Russian dancers, Mme. Alexandra Balachowa, who is to be a Red Cross nurse, and M. Michael Mordkin, who is a reservist, leaving Charing Cross for the front

George Grossmtih & Peggy Kurton, The Pigeon Walk
The Pigeon Walk, a new dance demonstrated by Peggy Kurton and George Grossmith in Tonights the Night at the Gaiety Theatre in 1915

Tatler front cover - Miss Vesta Tilley
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations. During the First World War, she earned the nickname

Phyllis Dare and Evie Greene singing recruiting songs, WW1
A page from The Tatler featuring the actresses and music hall entertainers, Phyllis Dare and Evie Greene (inset) who were singing the recruiting song, Your King and Country Want You

Tatler front cover featuring Elsie Janis, 1916
Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 February 26, 1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sweetheart of

The Pom Pom Pierrots, entertainers of wounded soldiers. The troupe was formed expressly for the voluntary entertainment of convalescent and wounded soldiers in hospitals

Scene from Bric a Brac at the Palace Theatre, 1915
Mr Nelson Keys, Mr Arthur Playfair, Miss Gwendoline Brogden (back row from left) and Mr Simon-Girard and Miss Gina Palerme, all appearing in Bric-A-Brac, a new revue at the Palace Theatre

The Soldiers Theatre in France, WW1
The Follies, one of numerous entertainment troupes performing for soldiers in France, giving a performance to an audience from an undisclosed division at a converted factory near the British front

Dolly Sisters wearing the Bulldog collar 1924
The Dolly Sisters wearing the `Dolly Dog Collar or the Bouledogue (bulldog) collar invented by Marthe Regnier, the famous French actress and couturier

The Merry Mummers, World War One entertainment troupe
The Merry Mummers entertaining troops at a West African Concert Party organised by Major P. a Beckett, son of the late Arthur a Becket of Punch

The Gamecocks, WW1 entertainment troupe
The Gamecocks, one of the many divisional concert parties entertaining troops on the Western Front. Despite the deceptive appearance of the girl in the middle, she really is a man. Date: 1918

Group of entertainers, the Balmorals, Western Front, WW1
A group of six entertainers in costume, near the Western Front during World War One. They belonged to a troupe called the Balmorals, and were attached to a Scottish regiment. Date: circa 1916

George Robey by H. M. Bateman
Sir George Robey (1869 1954), English music hall comedian and singer, pictured byy cartoonist H. M. Bateman with money falling through the sky into his trademark bowler hat

First Royal Command Performance at Palace Theatre
A page of sketches by artist Norman Morrow, recording the acts on the bill at the first Royal Command Performance of in the Art of Variety (later known as the Royal Variety Performance)

The Horsburgh Brothers, Alex and Archie, Scottish performing duo. Alex (1911-1986) was also known by the stage name Alex Munro. Date: 1933

Footprints and autographs, Hollywood, USA
Footprints, handprints and autographs of film stars outside Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA. Included is Joan Crawford. Date: 1939

Joe Coyne & Ellis Ashmead-Barlett
Front cover of The Tatler featuring Joseph (Joe) Coyne (1867-1941), American actor and singer, entertaining crowds at the Empire Theatre during World War

Gleams of sunshine for the trenches
In response to a request from one Officer fighting at the front who wrote to The Tatler syaing, wWe are fed up with war pictures, let us see some pretty faces

Two entertainers with Scots troops, WW1
Two entertainers in costume, walking along a road with Scots soldiers near the Western Front during World War One. They belonged to an entertainment troupe called the Balmorals

Military amateur dramatic club
The Band of the 2nd SOM.L.I, dramatic club, in opera Pip-ard. British army amateur dramatic club, probably the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers stationed in China around 1911. Date: C.1911

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