Acting Collection (page 16)

Actress Mary Ellis
MARY ELLIS American-born stage and film actress. Found success in London in the 1930s in plays such as Kern/Hammersteins " Music in the Air" and

Game / Acting / Mask 18C
Two girls play with a theatrical mask

Christianity / Barbados
Henry Martin, acting Dean of Barbados

Augustus Harris
SIR AUGUSTUS HENRY GLOSSOP HARRIS Actor and theatre manager

Miss Mary Anderson
MARY ANDERSON Actress born in California who always played leading roles in Londons West End. Dubbed " Our Mary" by American audiences

Madame Marie Roze
MARY ROZE Madame Marie Roze, French actress and singer pictured in theatrical costume

Mrs Bernard Beere
FANNY MARY BERNARD-BEERE Whitehead), actress, known for many roles including that of Mrs Arbuthnot in Wildes A Woman of No Importance

Pedro Fuentes Guzman
PEDRO GUZMAN, count of FUENTES Spanish acting governor of the Netherlands

Chales Fechter as Hamlet
Mr Charlesl Albert Fechter (1822-1879), actor, in the role of Hamlet, complete with the skull of Yorick

Rehearsing in 1863
A rehearsal taking place on stage with actors reading from their scripts. Date: 1863

Scene in a Green Room
A scene in the Green Room as two actresses argue and shout wearing their costumes, while a bystander looks on

The Model Actress
The model actress tries to read her script and stir a cup of tea at the same time

COQUELIN(A) / GILL 1886
COQUELIN AINE elder of two acting brothers, probably the greatest of all French actors

1393 French Court
The French court, with the ducs de Bourgogne and Berri acting as regents

Dickens / Coldstream / Play
CHARLES DICKENS In the role of Sir Charles Coldstream in the play " Used Up", 1850

Game / Playing Mothers
Two little girls play at mothers, wheeling their dolls in their prams through the park

Playing Shops
Children playing shop under a large parasol

Sick Child & Girl Nurse
CLOGS A young girl acting as nurse has removed her clogs and sits on the edge of the sickbed while she offers sustenance to an ill sibling

Murder Mystery Games
A group of adults play a murder mystery game. The detective writes notes and interrogates the suspects while the corpse lies on the floor

Deluge Fire Engine
Merryweathers Deluge direct-acting fire engine

Actorly Speciment 1790
Attic Miscellany Theatrical Portraiture No.3: What Nature ought to be! A foppish looking thespian, hand on hip & monstrously mishapen wig, hams it up on stage

Theatrical Ranter
The Theatrical Ranter: a Georgian thespian acts his stockings off wearing armour, sword & plumed helmet. The sort of acting style ridiculed in Blackadder III

Theatrical Pose
An unknown actress strikes a pictureque theatrical pose. Stage lighting is used to create an atmospheric quality. She gazes upwards forlornly with a hand on her heart

Lily Damita, French dancer and film star of silent films and early talkies more famous for brawling with husband Errol Flyn (married 1935 - 1942) than her acting skills

Actor Thomas Sheridan
Thomas Sheridan, actor and father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in the prologue to Joseph Addisons play " Cato"

Dementia Praecox
A patient suffering from catatonic dementia praecox, Kraepelins term for what is today classified as schizophrenia. The patient is acting out a private delusion

Harry Brodribb Irving
HARRY BRODRIBB IRVING, in the stage version of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Son of Sir Henry Irving, went into acting and theatre management on his own account

Celestial Influx
The CELESTIAL INFLUX acting on the body of a woman

Marcus Tullius
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Roman statesman, murdered by Popilius, acting on behalf of Marcus Antonius

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