Banjo Gallery

Dr White Eyes Littlehampton Royal Court Minstrels

Dr White Eye's Littlehampton Royal Court Black Diamond Minstrels - Minstrel Troupe comprising Dr White Eye's himself in academic robes and holding a banjo (one eye white, one black), two jovial ladies, a Chinaman and a more traditional minstrel with tambourine. Date: 1937

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Club in the Latin Quarter of Montparnasse, Paris, 1920s

A scene in the bohemian environment of a club in the Latin Quarter of Montparnasse, Paris, during the 1920s. The Graphic comments, "Cocktails, odd dresses and odder attitudes give an air of abandon and sensationalism to Strick's, the Dingo, and other haunts of the Anglo-American "Latin" Quarter in Montparnasse). In the centre sits a woman with cropped hair and androgynous dress, a black musician plays the banjo and the expert hands of a bartender makes a cocktail in the foreground.
1928

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Cartoon, Monsieur Jacobi and Alexander Henderson

Cartoon, Monsieur Jacobi, theatre director (in the background) -- I had engaged to give those people a taste of The Beggar Student, and now there is Alexander Henderson on the same job! A comment on a production of Der Bettelstudent, a three-act German operetta which premiered in Vienna in 1882. The production at the Alhambra Theatre, London, in 1884, included a grand military ballet by Jacobi. Henderson, theatre owner and director, stands in costume in the foreground, playing a mandolin.
1884

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