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First Royal Command Performance at Palace TheatreA 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, USAFootprints, handprints and autographs of film stars outside Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA. Included is Joan Crawford. Date: 1939
Joe Coyne & Ellis Ashmead-BarlettFront 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 trenchesIn 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, WW1Two 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 clubThe 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
The Principal Boy by Bevan PetmanA pretty actress in a top hat shows off her shapely legs on stage. Illustrations full title is: The Principal Boy - And a Real Topper too
The Queen of the Jaguars and her Trained TroupeMadame Morelli pictured with her jaguars, part of Bostocks famous menagerie. Date: 1904
Robinson MagicianWilliam Ellsworth Robinson, stage name Chung Ling Soo, enjoyed a successful career as a stage magician until his catching-a-bullet-in-his-mouth trick went fatally wrong... 1861 - 1918
Showgirl Andlauder / B. FlyMademoiselle Andlauder of the Moulin Rouge, in a beautiful butterfly costume. She spreads her wings. Date: 1926
Showgirl Gina PalermeMademoiselle Gina Palerme of the Moulin Rouge, in her dress of pearls. Date: 1926
Daring Ice JumpStuntman HOPE BRAIN peforming a daring ice jump at the Ice Palais, Sydney, Australia. He was impressed with this photograph, taken with a new high speed camera. Date: 1940s
Motorcycle StuntA stunt involving a motorcycle driving off rocks above a girl crouching on the beach below! Date: early 1930s
Japan - Japanese Dancing girl and Shamisen player. Date: circa 1904
Grace and Sybil Arundale - British ActressesGrace Arundale and her (slightly better-known) sister Sybil Arundale (1879-1965) - British Actresses and popular Music Hall performers as a double-act
China - Chinese Actors representing a Council of WarChina - Chinese Actors representing a scene involving a Chinese General holding a Council of War. Date: 1910s
China - Chinese Actor and Actress - Tianjin. Date: 1910s
China - Hong Kong - Chinese Actors in lavish costumes Date: circa 1903
A Serbian Theatrical Troupe or Georg N. Babit. Date: 1905
Paris Worlds Fair of 1900 - Circus entertainersCircus entertainers and performers and their Caravan. Illustration by Caputo on a postcard published by Courmont Freres as part of a book of discount coupons for attractions at the Paris Worlds Fair
Thessaloniki, Greece - Itinerant Street Musicians. Date: circa 1910s
Palace entertainers - Hue, VietnamPalace entertainers and dancers in demonic costume at Hue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam. Date: 1907
Algeria - Arabian Dancers Date: circa 1905
The Tiller Girls / The Palace GirlsThe Palace Girls - clockwise from top left: Nell Home, Ethel Karri (Ethel Lucy Carrie Thomas), Margery Douglas and Nell Grey
Arabian Dancers - Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1902
The Knife Throwing Denvers - UK US Wild West ActThe " Knife Throwing Denvers" - UK US Wild West Act - famous for being the first " circus style" act to appear on the newly formed BBC Television Service in 1936. Date: circa 1940
German female dance troupe striking a sculptural pose! Date: 1907
Two off-work clowns attract attention in a Garrison TownIn a Garrison Town. First Loafer to second Loafer (as out friends from the circus pass by) - " Officers!". This is likely to derive from the two clowns often getting entangled with the law
A duet - two singers in full flow at a concert. Date: 1895
Indian street Gymnastic and Acobatic Display Date: circa 1910s
French Midget Entertainment Troupe - Les Colibris - Troupe Royal de Liliput. Date: circa 1910s
High level Dancers - Egyptian Harem - AlmehAlmeh - a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. Date: circa 1907
Statue of the Coquelin Brothers - Boulogne-sur-Mer, FranceStatue of the Coquelin Brothers (French Comics) at (their birthplace)Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Benoit-Constant Coquelin (18411909)
Scarlet Merrions performing at Faulkes Cave, LlandudnoThe Scarlet Merrions (variety act) performing at Faulkes Cave, Great Ormes Head, Llandudno. Date: circa 1910s
Birthday of Vietnamese Emperor Khai Dinh - DancersVietnam - Dancers from North Vietnam - art of the large parade during the 40th Birthday Celebrations for Emperor Khai Dinh (1885-1925) on 8th October 1925
Mademoiselles Dargyl & Ananie de L Opera - CorsetsMademoiselles Dargyl & Ananie de L Opera - Two French musical actresses, each wearing a fine whalebone corset. The card is entitled La Silhouette Moderne - The Modern Silhouette. Date: circa 1905
Vietnam - 40th Birthday Celebrations for Emperor Khai DinhVietnam - Street Theatre during the 40th Birthday Celebrations for Emperor Khai Dinh (1885-1925) on 8th October 1925. Khai Dinh was very unpopular with the Vietnamese people
Blind Musician, Bermuda with three young children persussionists accompanying his banjo playing. All are wearing remarkable costumes (which must have been seriously hot!). Date: circa 1909
Ulrich Von LiechtensteinUlrich von Liechtenstein, German lyric poet, born around 1200 and died about 1277. Date: 13th century
