Drama Collection (page 2)

Dip in the morning and Dip at Night. A housewife seems to be gaining a lot more personal pleasure from her morning soak than her evening with her soak who is not performing to quite her

The Youngest of Three, New Theatre, Cambridge
The Youngest of Three, a play by H F Maltby, at the New Theatre, Cambridge, with a scene from Act 3. First performed in Jersey in 1905. circa 1911

The Vic-Wells Season & Dance, Waterloo, London, with portraits and signatures of creative staff, actors and actresses, including Tyrone Guthrie, Athene Seyler, Charles Laughton, Flora Robson

Mrs Patrick Campbell in The 13th Chair, London
Mrs Patrick Campbell in The 13th Chair, an Albert de Courville Production, Duke of York's Theatre, London Date: 1917

Melodrama at the Theatre
Watching Melodrama at the Theatre, by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Date: 1862

Portrait of Miss Constance Collier
Miss Constance Collier (22nd January 1878- 25th April 1955), born Laura Constance Hardie, was an English stage and film actress and acting coach

White City Greyhounds
Advert promoting the White City Greyhound Racing Club. Date: 1932

Scene from The Merchant of Venice
Ernest Milton (1890-1974) as Shylock and Lydia Sherwood (1906-1989) as Jessica, in a production of The Merchant of Venice at the St James's Theatre. Date: 1932

The Miracle at the Lyceum Theatre
Scenes from Max Reinhardt's production of The Miracle at the Lyceum Theatre, a story told entirely in mime. Inset is Lady Diana Duff Cooper (1892-1986) as the Madonna. Date: 1932

Production of Othello
Actor Ernest Milton (1890-1974) played the title role in this production of Othello at the St James's Theatre. Also pictured are Nicholas Hannen (1881-1972) as Cassio and Henry Oscar (1891-1969)

Scene from See Naples And Die
The cast of See Naples And Die, a play by Elmer Rice (1892-1967) staged at the Little Theatre. Date: 1932

Racing at Kempton Park
A low-angled shot captures both spectators and competitors at the Easter Saturday horserace at Kempton Park. Date: 1932

Grand Hotel Scene
A scene from the play Grand Hotel being performed at the Adelphi Theatre. The production ran from September 1931 to January 1932 and was noted for its special effects. Date: 1931

The Wasp Sting
Reproduction of a painting by Margaret Mower White. Date: circa 1930

Louise Hampton in Late Night Final
British actress Louise Hampton (1881-1954) in a publicity photograph for the play Late Night Final at the Phoenix Theatre. Date: 1931

Soccer Action
Coventry City's goal-keeper colliding with a Fulham player during a soccer match at Craven Cottage. Date: 1931

D. A. Clarke-Smith
British actor D. A. Clarke-Smith (1888-1959) appearing in a variety of guises in the play Queer Fish at the Apollo Theatre. Date: 1931

Cedric Hardwicke in Role
A portrait of the actor Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) playing the role of Edward Moulton-Barrett in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street'

Ivy Tresmand and Gene Gerrard
Ivy Tresmand (1898-1980) and Gene Gerrard (1892-1971), appearing in a production of the musical comedy Katja the Dancer at the Gaiety Theatre in London's West End. Date: 1925

Horace Hodges in Lightnin
Actor Horace Hodges (1863-1951) performing in the play Lightnin at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1925

Georges Carpentier, boxer, in film The Wonder Man
Georges Carpentier, boxer, in film drama The Wonder Man, at the Electric Palace cinema, Littlehampton Date: 1921

Juan de Fermoselle (1468-1529), called Juan del Encina. Spanish poet, playwiright and composer. Illustration by Llanta. Detail. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916). Spanish engineer, playwright, politician and mathematician. Leading of the Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century

Scene from Japanese Noh Drama, Eguchi
Scene from the Japanese Noh Drama, Eguchi - the yokyoku (noh song) Eguchi is thought to have been composed by the priest Ikkyu-Zenji

Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, Japanese traditional story
Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, in a Japanese traditional story involving the beautiful daughter of a village magistrate who falls in love with a young priest

Ivor Brown
The Observer's drama critic - and later editor - Ivor Brown (1891-1974) at the Clifton Hotel in Blackpool, Date: 1940

Tableau of Hope
Mrs Ernest Platt performing a tableau of Hope at the Ritz Hotel in London. She is representing a painting of the same name by the artist George Frederic Watts, painted in 1886. Date: 1910

Noel Coward's Cavalcade was a thirty-year retrospect of England in peace and war. It ran at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane between October 1931 and September 1932 and had a cast

Lance Percival playing a signalman in Andy Robson
Lance Percival playing a signalman in the first episode of Andy Robson, a Tyne Tees Television period drama. Date: 1983

Illustration by Kenny Meadows to Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare. Cast list, with dead deer and two spears. Date: 1840

Illustration by Kenny Meadows to Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare. Introductory Remarks, with a hand showering coins and jewels, to represent Timon's excessive generosity. Date: 1840

Theatre Theatrical Popular Entertainment Stage
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The Blue Mazurka - George Graves
The Blue Mazurka English book by Monkton Hoffe from the German Die Blaue Mazur of Leo Stein & Bela Jenbach; music Franz Lehar (Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 28/5/1920)

The Blue Mazurka - Elisabeth Pechy
The Blue Mazurka English book by Monkton Hoffe from the German Die Blaue Mazur of Leo Stein & Bela Jenbach; music Franz Lehar (Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 28/5/1920)

The Blue Mazurka English book by Monkton Hoffe from the German Die Blaue Mazur of Leo Stein & Bela Jenbach; music Franz Lehar (Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 28/5/1920)

David with the Head of Goliath. 1620s by Domenico Fetti
Domenico Fetti (1589-1624). Italian painter. David with the Head of Goliath. 1620s. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden. Date:

The Severed Heads, c. 1819, by Jean-Louis Andre Theodore
Jean-Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). French painter. The Severed Heads, c.1819. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden. Date:

Illustration, Gravediggers scene, Hamlet
Illustration to the Gravediggers scene in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet (Act. V, Scene I)

Richard III - with Lady Anne Neville, who is on her way to bury the late King Henry VI. 1862

Henry V - after the battle. 1862

Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, American writer
Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945), American novelist, poet and playwright, best known for two novels: The Quick or The Dead? (1888) and World's End (1914). Date: 1914

Kenneth Tynan with J B Priestley
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Seen here (left) with J B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984)

Harold Pinter, English writer, director, political activist
Harold Pinter (1930-2008), English playwright, poet, screenwriter, actor, theatre director and left-wing political activist. Seen here giving a speech. Date: circa 1980s

Laurence Olivier and Dorothy Tutin
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) and Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001), British actors, during rehearsals for John Osborne's play The Entertainer. Date: 10 April 1957

Epstein portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw
A portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist, by Jacob Epstein (this is the second portrait bust made by this sculptor). Date: 20th century

George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and dramatist
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist. Seen here on the right, in old age. Date: circa 1940s

Maggie Smith, renowned English actress
Maggie Smith (Dame Margaret Natalie Smith Cross, b 1934), renowned English actress of stage, television and film. Date: circa 1960s

Scene from O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars
Three actors in the pub scene from Sean O'Casey's play, The Plough and the Stars (first performed 1926). From left to right, Carmel McSharry (b circa 1930) as Mrs Gogan

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