Performers Collection (page 3)

John Barrymore and Fay Compton
Actors John Barrymore (1882-1942) and Fay Compton (1894-1978) in their roles as Hamlet and Ophelia for a production soon to open at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Date: 1925

Gertrude Lawrence
British actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952). Around this time she was appearing in revue shows in London and New York. Date: circa 1925

Julie Sudo, Dancer
Oriental dancer Julie Sudo, appearing in Carnival Time at the Criterion Restaurant. Date: circa 1925

Dorothy Seacombe (1906-1994) was a British actress who went on to have a film career. Here she is appearing in a stage production of Just Married at the Comedy Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Laura Cowie in Yoicks!
Laura Cowie (1892-1969) was a Scottish stage and silent film actress. Here she is portraying Lucrezia Borgia in the revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Mother Goose Pantomime
A production of Mother Goose at the London Hippodrome, featuring Shaun Glenville (1884-1968) as Mother Goose, Isobel Elsom (1893-1981) as the daughter, and Fred Conquest

Playtime at the Piccadilly
Performers in Playtime at the Piccadilly, a cabaret show at the Piccadilly Hotel. The artists pictured are Mimi Jordan, Rene Lorrimore, Evelyn Wrentmor, Amelia Allen

The Revue Show Yoicks!
The revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre, with images of performer Marjorie Gordon (1893-1983). Date: 1924

Renee Houston advertising Ovaltine
Scottish actress and performer Renee Houston (1902-1980) in an advert promoting the re-vitalising effects of Ovaltine. Date: 1939

Peggy Ashcroft and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991) appearing as Cecily Cardew and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992) as Gwendolyn Fairfax, in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Globe Theatre. Date: 1939

Tommy Trinder
Sketch depicting comedian Tommy Trinder (1909-1989) appearing in Band Waggon at the London Palladium. Date: 1939

Freddie Schweitzer and Marion Bellet
Sketch depicting variety acts Freddie Schweitzer and Marion Bellet & The English Brothers. Presumably they were supporting Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch at the London Palladium. Date: 1939

Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch
Sketch depicting comedians Arthur Askey (1900-1982) and Richard Murdoch (1907-1990). Their radio show Band Waggon had been a hit in 1938, and was turned into a stage show which they took on tour

Ram Gopal and Maya Rani
Indian dancers Ram Gopal (1912-2003) and Maya Rani, promoting performances at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Date: circa 1939

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Sketch depicting a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Date: 1939

Maurice and Cordoba, dancers
Dance partners Maurice and Cordoba, appearing at the Savoy Hotel. Date: circa 1939

Lydia Kyasht, ballet dancer
Lydia Kyasht (1885-1959) was a Russian ballerina and dance teacher. She moved to London in 1908, to be ballerina at the Empire Theatre. Date: 1910

Marie Alexandrowicz, opera singer
Marie Alexandrowicz, here depicted at the age of 17, having just signed up for a five year engagement at the Opera House, Paris. Date: circa 1910

Mlle Ameta Butterfly Dancer
Performance artist Mlle Ameta uses costume, lighting effects and newly-invented machinery to perform her butterfly dance in Vienna. Date: circa 1910

Shilling Theatre, Fulham, photographs of founders, volunteers and performers rehearsing. Captioned, Fighting the films: The Shilling Theatre at Fulham'

Beach entertainers lined up on stage at Eastbourne beach
This superb image shows six dress-suited performers with their straw hats, on stage in front of a deck-chaired audience. Behined the stage are five wheeled beach huts in striped livery

Famous conjoined sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton
The Brighton United Twins - famous conjoined sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton (1908-1969). The twins were exhibited in Europe as children, and toured the United States sideshow

Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Eisenstein and others, Moscow
Group photo, from left to right: Boris Pasternak (Russian writer), Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russian writer and actor), Tomizi Tamiji Naito (Japanese writer), Arseny Voznesensky (Soviet diplomat)

Exterior of the Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden in Westminster, London, a place for entertainment, performance and sport, opening on the 22nd January 1876. Date: 1875

The Smart Set Entertainers - who performed at Tunbridge Wells in 1906. Date: 1906

Actresses on Footlight Favourites Fan Date: 1890s

Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - popular song
Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - the popular song in musical notation, with portraits Date: 1890s

Japanese opera singers, performers, Japan
Vintage 19th century photograph: Japanese opera singers, performers, Japan

Japanese street performers, acrobats, children, Japan, c.1880 s

A Ring of Iron, a melodrama by Frank Harvey, the Beatrice Company. Date: late 19th century

The Flying Reos, Have a Bouquet? Date: 1922

Alda and Doret, acrobatic performers, sensational, unique, and thrilling, the act without duplicate Date: 1934

The Grotesques, pierrot troupe Date: circa 1914

The Two Exceptions, Comedy Artistes Date: early 20th century

Tew & Lea, Comedy Artistes, Hippodrome, Leeds - undoubtedly hold the key to the floodgates of mirth. Date: circa 1912

Robert Loraine as Cyrano, Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London Date: early 20th century

Theatre show, promotional postcard

Dalys Girls enjoying themselves at the swimming baths. Standing (left to right): The Misses Stella Riga, Jean Stirling, Veda Le Grand and Irene Flower

The Parisian performers Sacha Guitry and his wife Yvonne Printemps, 1926 appearing in Mozart at the Gaiety Theatre, London Date: 1926

Beryl Wallace picked by The Dance Magazine as the typical Earl Carroll Girl (Floradora 1930 Model) - she was one of the leading performers of Earl Carrolls Vanities

A little girl does the splits in a jolly stage costume of striped trousers and top hat. Date: 1930s

The Ju Jitsu Waltz comes to the Gaiety. Date: 1907

Barnardos Boys with Rev WJ Mayers
Musical performers from Barnardos homes, accompanied by the Rev. W.J. Mayers. Date: circa 1910

Three Maidens from Sais at London Hippodrome
Three Maidens from Sais, a new dance act in which the dancers formed silhouette tableaux, performing at the London Hippodrome in 1910. Date: 1910

Sketches at the Hippodrome, 1909 by Norman Morrow
Various performers at the re-opened London Hippodrome in August 1909. Acts included the Ahearn Troupe who seem to be comedy cyclists, The Marvellous Schenk Brothers, Braatz Performing Dogs

Newest turns at the London Hippodrome 1900
Newest turns at the London Hippodrome in October 1900 - Eugene Sandow, the famous strong man, Ghezzi the clown, the Sisters O Meers, the clever wire artists and M. Batty and his famous bear

Fish-catching cormorants at the Hippodrome
Four cormorants, brought from China to appear at the London Hippodrome in 1905. Their act consisted of retrieving fish thrown into the water tank and when a large trout was put in

Marceline the Droll & Otto Twigg, London Hippodrome
Marceline the Droll, the Spanish clown who who performed at the London Hippodrome in the first three years of it opening in 1900. Pictured with the Hippodromes ring master Mr Otto Twigg. Date: 1901

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