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Front cover of The Tatler featuring theatrical impresario Charles B. Cochran with actresses Peggy Wood and Evelyn Laye. Wood
Pat Kirkwood in Black Velvet at the London HippodromePat Kirkwood performing the hit, Most Gentlemen Don t Like Love in the popular wartime revue Black Velvet at the London Hippodrome in 1940. Date: 1940
Nina Vanna in a white evening gown by Madame YevondeNina Vanna (Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, 1899-1953) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian-born British film and theatre actress
Elinor Glyn and Gloria SwansonWriter, scriptwriter and journalist Elinor Glyn (right) pictured with actress Gloria Swanson at the West Coast studios of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation at the time Glyn had written a
Music cover, Tenderly, Joan CrawfordMusic cover, Tenderly (from the MGM film Torch Song), Joan Crawford. Lyrics by Jack Lawrence, music by Walter Gross. 1947
Music cover, Love Me or Leave Me, Doris Day, lyrics by Gus Kahn, music by Walter Donaldson. 1955
Actress in dressing room preparing her makeup. 1926
The Tatler and Eve at the Advertising Ball - fancy dressMiss Lily St. John, representing The Tatler and wearing a replica costume of the eighteenth century gentleman who appears on the cover, together with Evelyn Laye representing its sister magazine
Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in her dressing room, HippodromeBinnie Hale, star of the hit musical comedy Sunny at the London Hippodrome, pictured in her dressing room wearing the fetching shorts for her gymnasium scene and arranging various toys
Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in Sunny at the HippodromeBinnie Hale pictured on the cover of The Sketch in the gym costume she wore in the title role of the hit comedy musical, Sunny, at the London Hippodrome in 1926. Date: 1926
Bystander cover - Elsie Mackay (Poppy Wyndham)Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring a portrait of Elsie Mackay (1893-1928), aristocratic daughter of Lord and Lady Inchcape, actress, interior decorator and aviator
The actress June by Madame YevondeThe actress known simply as June at the time she was appearing in the new musical comedy, Toni in Birmingham before moving to the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1924
Daphne Pollard as Mrs Stone Hatchett, Zig-Zag, HippodromeDaphne Pollard in the comic role of Mrs Stone Hatchett in the Stone Age scene, part of " Zig-Zag!" the 1917 revue at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1917
Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome, 1903Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome in 1903. Top left, Dick and his sweetheart played by Ruth Lytton and Fanny Dango. Top right, Dick with his cat (played by Mr Fred Farren Jnr)
Sketch cover - Cicely Debenham in Zig-Zag, London HippodromeCicely Debenham as Louana Lou of Honolulu in the revue " Zig-Zag!" at the London Hippodrome in 1917. Date: 1917
Behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome, Bow BellsBehind the scenes in Bow Bells at the London Hippodrome, 1932. Robert Hale and his daughter Binnie are seen chatting in the wings with the production and stage director, Charles Henry. Date: 1932
Camille Clifford at homeCamille Clifford (1885 - 1971), Belgian-born stage actress, the model for the Edwardian Gibson Girl drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, who married the Hon
Sybil Carlisle, English actress. 1904
Mabel Love, British dancer and stage actress. 1904
Lily Brayton, English actress and singer. 1904
Lena Ashwell, British actress and theatre managerLena Ashwell, British actress, producer and theatre manager. 1903
Enid Spencer Brunton, actressEnid Spencer Brunton (1874-1963), actress. 1904
Edna May Pettie, American actress and singerEdna May Pettie (1878-1948), American actress and singer, known on stage as Edna May. 1903
Sonia HenieSonja Henie (1912 - 1969), Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies Singles
Ginger Rogers by G. CattermoleGinger Rogers (1911 - 1995), dancer and actress, drawn by G. Cattermole for The Sketch at the time she was appearing in the new RKO movie Vivacious Lady. Date: 1938
Frances Day in The Fleets Lit Up at the London HippodromeFrances Day riding a horse as Polly Brown in the musical comedy, The Fleets Lit Up at the London Hippodrome in 1938. The Sketch writes, " she gives her usual delightful, elusive
Elsie Randolph in Stand Up and SingElsie Randolph (1904 - 1982), film and stage actress and entertainer, pictured wearing a rather dashing naval outfit in the hit musical Stand Up and Sing at the London Hippodrome
Elsie Randolph in Stand Up and Sing by HynesElsie Randolph in the role of Ena in the comedy musical Stand Up and Sing at the London Hippodrome in which she starred with long-time stage partner, Jack Buchanan. Caricatured by Hynes. Date: 1931
Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph Mr. Whittington, HippodromeJack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph in a scene from Mr. Whittington, a comedy musical starring Buchanan as a modern-day Dick Whittington
Frances Day (1908 - 1984), born Frances Schenk, revue, cabaret, television and film actress and one of the original blonde bombshells
Angela Baddeley and children by Madame YevondeAngela Baddeley (1904 - 1976), English stage and television actress, " in private life Mrs Glen Byam Shaw" pictured with her children Jane and George by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1931
Anna Neagle, pictured in The Bystander at the time she was starring in the London Hippodrome in Stand Up and Sing, the first principal role she had in the West End. Date: 1931
Binnie Hale, playing Jill in Mr CindersBinnie Hale (Bernice Hale Munro) (1899 - 1984), British revue artiste and actress, photographed by Sasha at the time she was playing Jill opposite Bobby Howes in the hit musical comedy Mr Cinders
Lord and Lady Charles Cavendish (Adele Astaire)Adele Astaire (1896 - 1981), comedy actress and dance partner of her brother, Fred Astaire from childhood until 1932, when she retired from dance to marry the British aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer
Peggy O Neill to star in Mercenary Mary at London HippodromePeggy O Neill (1898-1960), Irish-born theatre actress and entertainer pictured with a Pekingese puppy in The Sketch at the time she was appearing in Mercenary Mary at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1926
Florence Mills (1896 - 1927), born Florence Winfrey, American cabaret singer, dancer and comedienne. At the time she was appearing in " From Dover Street to Dixie" at the London Pavilion
Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph in Thats a Good GirlJack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph, stars of Thats a Good Girl at the London Hippodrome in 1928, caricatured by Sallon. They were a popular pairing
Marion Davies by AutoriCaricature of Marion Davies (1897 - 1961), actress, producer, screenwriter, philanthropist and lover of William Randolph Hearst
The Gaiety Girls - Constance Collier and Lily Harold, with an unknown actress. circa 1894
Pauline Chase (1885 - 1962), American actress, photograph showing her seated in an aeroplane. Date: 1909
Fay Compton in Dick Whittington at London HippodromeFay Compton in the role of Dick Whittington for the pantomime Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome in 1932-3. Date: 1932
Laura Cowie with daughter Ursula by Madame YevondeActress Laura Cowie (1892 - 1969), who in private life was Mrs John Hastings Turner, wife of the author and playwright, pictured with her daughter Ursula on the front cover of The Sketch in 1932 at
Cartoon, Another Juliet. Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre, for a matinee slot
Enid Lowe, actress, in London Rhapsody musical at The London Palladium. 1937
Hilda Simms (cover of Checkers)Hilda Simms (1918-1994) African American actress who came to Britain in 1947 in her Broadway success Anna Lucasta. Checkers was a short-lived black British magazine. Date: 1948
Hilda Simms (The Sketch)Hilda Simms (1918-1994) African American actress who came to Britain in 1947 in her Broadway success Anna Lucasta. Date: 1947
Hilda Simms (cover of Theatre World)Hilda Simms (1918-1994) African American actress who came to Britain in 1947 in her Broadway success Anna Lucasta. Date: 1948