Comedy Collection (page 17)

Cartoon, Freddy Leader and Gussy Harris
Cartoon, Freddy Leader (right) thinks he will touch up Gussy Harris (left) this Christmas -- a reference to the Drury Lane pantomime season

Scenes from The Cabaret Girl at Winter Garden Theatre, Londo
Scenes from the musical comedy The Cabaret Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre, London, 1922 featuring Dorothy Dickson (seen in the middle wearing a Dolly Tree creation) Date: 1922

Abies Irish Rose by Anne Nichols - The Jewish and Irish fathers do not like their children marrying out. Rosemary, the Irish girl, is seen here with Solomon, the Jewish father

Theatre Characters - Comedy. 19th century

Miss Rachel Sanger in The Bonnie Fishwife
Miss Rachel Sanger in the role of Maggie MacFarlane in The Bonnie Fishwife, a comedietta or farce in one act by Charles Selby. circa 1880s

Old Batchelor benefit performance for Joe Miller
The Old Batchelor, benefit performance for Joe Miller at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Joseph Miller (1684-1738) was an English actor who first played Sir Joseph Whittol in William Congreves

Viola, in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night
Viola (disguised as the page Cesario), in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4. 19th century

Rosalind, by R W Macbeth (from As You Like It). 1888

Sweet Anne Page, by G D Leslie (from The Merry Wives of Windsor). 1888

Spooners Magic No. 21 - Harlequin reviving the Blue Pig circa 1840s

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the role of Falstaff
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the role of Sir John Falstaff. circa 1900s

Music cover, Do Ra Mi Fa, A Singing Lesson, song for voice and piano, written and composed by Arthur Lloyd, performed by Charles Coborn. circa 1889

Shakespeare - Twelfth Night - Malvolio: I extend my hand to him thus. circa 1830

Shakespeare - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Silvia: I do detest false perjur d Proteus. circa 1830

Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew - Hostess (to Sly): You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? circa 1830

Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor - Anne Page (to the bashful Slender): Will t please your worship to come in, sir? circa 1830

Shakespeare - Loves Labours Lost - Biron: Where lies thy grief, O tell me, good Dumain? circa 1830

Shakespeare - King Henry IV - Falstaff: This chair shall be my state. circa 1830

Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors - Adriana: Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine. circa 1830

Henry IV Part I - title page - Falstaff and Prince Hal. 1862

The Comedy of Errors - title page - exorcism scene. 1862

As You Like It - title page - Phoebe and Silvius, shepherdess and shepherd. 1862

Kitty Gordon 1909
Kitty Gordon (n饠 Constance Minnie Blades), (1878 - 1974), English actress, posed with a Merry Widow hat in a long provincial tour playing Olga in The Dollar Princess at the London Pavilion

Flanagan and Allen - British comics - holding cards (1 / 2)
Flanagan and Allen - a British singing and comedy double act popular during World War II. Formed of: Bud Flanagan (18961968) and Chesney Allen (18931982) - pictured here holding playing cards (1/2)

English comic stage performer (or clown?) wearing Arab Clogs, a fez a massive moustache, fake enlarged head and a jerkin decorated with birds and flowers

Scenes from musical comedy The Island King, at Adelphi Theat
Scenes from the musical comedy The Island King, at the Adelphi Theatre, London, 1923 featuring Zelia Raye as dancer-in-chief Date: 1923

Joan Morgan in Adam and Eva by Bolton and Middleton
Adam and Eva by Guy Bolton and George Middleton. First produced in England at the Little Theatre, London, on 13 April 1925. The Brilliant Farcical Comedy

All Trumps, revue by John P Harrington and Harry Lane
All Trumps, a musical comedy revue by John P Harrington and Harry Lane. First produced at the Pavilion, Weymouth, 15 February 1915, and in Middlesex, 17 May 1915

Music cover, Alone, Marx Brothers
Music cover, Alone, words by Arthur Freed, music by Nacio Herb Brown, as sung by Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle in the MGM film A Night at the Opera, featuring the Marx Brothers. 1935

Pet Shop - Hilarious Postcard - Purchasing a Puppy. Lady (after purchasing dog): " And what do you call the little fellow

A Little Mouse keen to be put among the girls and to see what chaos may then ensue! Date: 1913

Miss Phyllis Monkman - English Actress and Dancer
Miss Phyllis Monkman (1892-1976) - English Actress and Dancer in the title role in Dear Little Billie a musical comedy at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London

Mrs Ann Barry as Sir Harry Wildair in The Constant Couple
Mrs Ann Barry in the character of Sir Harry Wildair, in George Farquhars comic play, The Constant Couple, saying: Here is a nest of the prettiest goldfinches that ever chirp d in a cage from Act II

Madge Mavis in role of Fay Collen, Spring Cleaning, London
Miss 1925 - Actress Madge Marvis in the role of Fay Collen in the comedy play Spring Cleaning, by Frederick Lonsdale, in production at St Martins Theatre, London

Twelfth Night - Duke Orsino listens to music. 1862

Twelfth Night - title page - Malvolio cross-gartered before Olivia. 1862

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - title page - Valentine, Proteus, Launce and his badly behaved dog, Crab. 1862

The Taming of the Shrew - title page - Petruchio and his servant Grumio. 1862

Much Ado About Nothing - title page - the wedding between Hero and Claudio is interrupted. 1862

Loves Labours Lost - title page. 1862

Requirement for Two Bassinettes - Growing Family
Comic Postcard with a Financial Play on words - " Stocks as Good as Money", using a metaphor of a gowing family

Changes which marriage and children bring - Comic postcard
Comic postcard - " Look before you leap" - A cautionary tale of the changes which marriage and children bring - Alone = one pair of boots. Sallie and I = Two pairs of boots

Harry Tate - Music Hall Star
Harry Tate - (Ronald Macdonald Hutchinson) (1872-1940) - English comedian who performed both in the music halls and in films. Date: 1905

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a mouse
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome (or elf) riding a mouse to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a frog
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome riding a frog to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast...!)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Goblin riding a hare
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Goblin riding a hare to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast)

Dan Leno as Mother Goose in her homely dress. Date: 1903

Comic Postcard - a play on the phrase Bar & Bolt (to secure the door). This gentleman was enjoying a light snack in the Station Buffet when he suddenly realised the time

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