Comedy Collection (page 32)

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama. Date c1897

The electrician an American comedy drama : Chas. E. Blaney s
The electrician an American comedy drama : Chas. E. Blaneys greatest success. Date c1898

Blaneys latest musical comedy, A female drummer. Date c1898

Blaneys, A hired girl his latest musical comedy success
Blaney s, A hired girl his latest musical comedy success. Date c1898

Wm. H. Crane presenting a farcical comedy, His honor the mayor by Charles Henry Meltzer & AE Lancaster. Date c1898

Wm. H. Crane in a new comedy, Worth a million by Eugene W. Presbrey. Date c1898

Reno & Curtis successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story, laughingly told. Date c1899

Earl & Jenschs humorous banterers handing the public, Will F. Phillips complicated comedy, A bell boy. Date c1899. Earl & Jenschs humorous banterers handing the public, Will F

A hired girl the big farce comedy success. Date c1899

The new musical comedy, Hotel Topsy Turvy. Date c1899

The sensational comedy-drama taken from life, Kidnapped in New York by Howard Hall. Date c1899

David Belascos new farcical comedy, Naughty Anthony. Includes musical scale with text: Oh! that dainty silken stock - - ing. Date c1899

On the stroke of twelve the plausible American comedy drama : by Joseph Le Brandt. Date c1899

HJ Sargents Comedy Company (organization no. 4) in Dion Boucicaults farcical comedy, Contempt of court. Date c1879

Mestayer Comedy Company. Date 1885

A modern Cinderella a notable production of the last word in musical comedy : book & lyrics by Caspar Nathan, music by Hampton Durand. Date c1901

Pantomime artist Will Evans on his farm
Will Evans (1866 -1931) was an eccentric comedian who performed in pantomime from a young age, and appeared on the music halls in the 1890s

Ridiculous Scottish Comic Postcard
A quite utterly ridiculous Scottish Comic Postcard, where a couple are hoodwinked into believing that the actions of a (not very) nearby donkey are actually the amorous advances of their partner

Theatre going: audience mirth
An upper class theatre audience enjoying a performance of Gloriana at the Globe Theatre. Date: c.1850

River Humour - The Amateur Punter circa 1909

Mr Adrian Ross at Home
Arthur Reed Ropes (1859 - 1933), better known by his pen name of Adrian Ross, pictured at home at Addison Mansions in London

Taking the Waters and its effect
Taking the Waters - The First Glass ! Nine gentlemen take the waters in a spa town, with the result depicted by a tenth chap at the base of the card, from whom bubbles are issuing forth. circa 1904

Satire on amateur musicians, 1799
A trio of unattractive but enthusiastic regency ladies make music together. Date: 1799

The Comedy of the Rhinegold by Aubrey Beardsley
Frontispiece to The Comedy of the Rhinegold by Aubrey Beardsley Date: 1896

Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan in Chu Chin Chow
Mr Oscar Asche in the lead role of Abu Hasan in Chu Chin Chow - a musical comedy based on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves he wrote, produced and also directed! Date: circa 1919

False-set-o
A women singing on stage hits the high note and her dentures come flying out. 1930

Binnie Hale in Nippy
A scene from the musical comedy, Nippy, starring popular actress Binnie Hale in the title role (the nippy was a particular sort of waitress associated with J)

Poster, The Recruit Who Took To It Kindly. Showing an army recruit learning to use his bayonet and demolishing a row of stuffed sacks

Anarchy by H. M. Bateman
Anarchy, as imagined by a peaceful British humorist (H. M. Bateman) showing two mischievous rather than menacing anarchists with a large comedy style bomb which appears to dwarf them. Date: 1909

Royal Artillery Review, Rouen, France
A stage review by members of the Royal Artillery stationed in Rouen, France during World War One. The participants are mostly dressed as Pierrot clowns. Date: 1917

Granpop Gets Down to Brass Tacks by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood featuring his orang utan character, Granpop, descending a ladder only to stand painfully on some brass tacks. His porcine companion seems to find this hilarious

Poster, Drury Lane Pantomime, The Babes in the Wood, by J Hickory Wood and Arthur Collins. early 20th century

Illustration for Faun for the musical Comedy Phi Phi, 1920s

Scene from an Edwardian theatrical production
A scene from an Edwardian theatrical production. Four men are on stage, one of them inside a wooden kiosk. The play appears to be a comedy

Commandeered - postcard by Lawson Wood
Commandeered - A postcard by Lawson Wood showing two solid-looking British soldiers commandeering a (now very upset) young lads toy horse

Lady skiing down a mountain
A lady in Edwardian dress skis down a mountain -- behind her, a man has fallen over, perhaps in surprise at her expertise or bravery

DFP car speeding through the desert
A car manufactured by DFP -- Doriot, Flandrin & Parant -- is driven through the desert by four French tourists, causing shock and surprise to people and camels

Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe (1921-2001), Welsh entertainer and comedian with a fine tenor singing voice. Seen here singing in Newlyn Harbour, Cornwall, possibly for a TV programme

Music cover for Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille
Music cover for Charles Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille, based on airs from Herves popular opera buffa (or operetta) Chilperic

Music cover for Chilperic Quadrilles
Music cover for the Chilperic Quadrilles, based on airs from Herves opera buffa (or operetta) Chilperic, arranged (probably for piano) by C H R Marriott

Sketches While You Wait by George Ranstead
Original pen and ink drawing on a postcard showing a humorous scene from the trenches. A pleasant looking British Tommy, possibly George Ranstead, the artist

Miss Mabel Green - Comedy Artist
Miss Mabel Green (Actress and vocalist, born London 1890 - died c.1970), standing alongside her fine open-top Sunbeam car (" which she drives herself" ) at Johannesburg, South Africa

Poster advertising A Brace of Partridges, a farcical comedy in three acts by Robert Ganthony

Their Winter Sport by Illingworth
Four local and proficient child skiiers have a laugh at the expense of a man (probably British) who seems to have come a cropper on the piste

Testing Candidates for the Post of Milk Sourer at a Cream Cheese Factory. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Little Games for the Holidays - Pitching Poached Egg for Ter
Another ridiculous and rather messy game from the imagination of William Heath Robinson showing territorial army officers throwing poached eggs at a slice of toast skewered by a toasting fork

Little Games for the Holidays - Bouncing the Beechum
A curious game invented by Heath Robinson whereby a tiny ball or beechum is sprung into the air by the hefty use of a mallet while a number of public school boys wait to catch it with nets poised

Zip Goes a Million theatre programme
Theatre programme front cover designed by Arthur Ferrier with George Formby, star of the musical revue, Zip Goes a Million, playing his banjo, wearing a crown and trailing a number of enthusiastic

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