Entertainer Collection (page 5)

Fats Waller, legendary American jazz musician
Fats Waller (Thomas Wright Waller, 1904-1943), legendary American jazz musician, composer, singer and entertainer. Date: circa 1930s

Louis Armstrong Daniel 1901 1971 Nicknamed Nickname
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Dame Edna Everage and Larry Hagman on a chat show
Comic personality, Melbourne housewife and superstar (or gigastar) Dame Edna Everage (played by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries, b 1934) with the American actor Larry Hagman (b 1931)

Charlie Chaplin 1889 1977 Comic Actor Film Star
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Charlie Chaplin and Max Linder in Hollywood
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), comic actor, film star and director, with Max Linder (1883-1925), French pioneer of silent film, comedian, writer and director

Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter, and political activist
The singer, songwriter, alternative rock musician and left-wing political activist Billy Bragg (Stephen William Bragg, b 1957). Seen here singing and playing an electric guitar. Date: circa 1980s

Albert Einstein with Charlie Chaplin at movie premiere
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, with Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), film star and director, at the premiere of Chaplin's movie, City Lights

Josephine Baker (1906 - 1975), American-born French entertainer. Began her career as an entertainer dancing on Broadway. She travelled to Paris in 1925 to star in La Revue Negre

ALEC HURLEY (1871 - 1913), English music hall singer entertainer, tenor singer of coster songs

GEORGE H CHIRGWIN/HALLS
GEORGE H CHIRGWIN Music hall entertainer, known as the White-Eyed Musical Moke or the White- Eyed Kaffir Date: 1854 - 1922

Saharet - a famous continental dancer
Saharet, real name Paulina Clarissa Molony (1878 - 1964), famous Australian-born dancer, who performed many styles in variety theatre in the America

Actress Beatrice Lillie pictured in 1920 in The Tatler following her 1919 marriage to Robert Bobbie Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel

Beatrice Lillie, popular stage actress and entertainer, pictured in her dressing room at the Prince of Wales Theatre where she was starring in Bran Pie with her fiance, Robert Peel

Portrait of Mata Hari at the height of her fame Date: 1929

A Japanese Fantasy by Ernestine Day showing her
A Japanese Fantasy by Ernestine Day (one of the Denishawn dancers) showing her new fan dance - an interpretation of Japanese life - will be seen in concert halls, 1927 Date: 1927

Two dancers: Virginia Marvin - left - and Barbara
Two dancers in 1927: Virginia Marvin (left) had been with Mikhail Mordkin as solo dancer and in the Eastern tour company of the Shubert Operetta My Maryland

Two photographs of Eddie Cantor, 1927
Two photographs of the American entertainer Eddie Cantor, 1927 Date: 1927

A portrait of George M. Cohan, 1928 - American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer Date: 1928

A portrait of George M. Cohan in the role of Happy Farrell in his revived play The Song and Dance Man, 1930 Date: 1930

Portrait of Adelaide Hall, 1931 Date: 1931

Portrait of Amercian tap dancer Bill Robinson, 1931
Portrait of Amercian tap dancer Bill Robinson (Bojangles), 1931 Date: 1931

Connie Ediss (Ada Harriet Coates) - English actress
Connie Ediss (Ada Harriet Coates) (1871-1934) - English actress best known as a jovial comedian in many of the popular Edwardian musical comedies around the turn of the 20th century

Man and woman of the Black Forest, Germany, 1818. She holds a rake and he is sharpening a scythe ready for harvest. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present

Rattlesnake, hummingbirds and fireflies
The rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes 55, Trochilinae hummingbirds 56 and man reading a book by the light of fireflies in a vial 57. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Fred Karno, music hall star, pictured in the well-appointed living room of his house-boat on Taggs Island near Hampton Court

Pat Kirkwood in Black Velvet at the London Hippodrome
Pat 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

Cartoon, The Celebrated Indian Crown Trick (Disraeli)
Cartoon, The Celebrated Indian Crown Trick -- a satirical depiction of Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, as Bendizzi the Great Faker, performing as a magician to various heads of state

A Bare living by Wilton Williams
A cabaret dancer wearing very little entertains diners at a smart restaurant. Date: 1928

Performing polar bears 1903
Herr Litz with his performing polar bears. Date: 1903

Performing cats 1903
Herr Litz with his performing cats. Date: 1903

Claire Heliot and her performing lions 1903
Claire Heliot (1866 -1953), renowned female lion tamer, photograph showing her in a huge cage caressing and talking to the large cats. Date: 1903

Phroso, the puzzle man at the London Hippodrome
Phroso, a performer who pretended to be a mechanical man by making his limbs go rigid. To be seen at the London Hippodrome in October 1902. Date: 1902

Elsie Randolph in Stand Up and Sing by Hynes
Elsie 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

Frances Day (1908 - 1984), born Frances Schenk, revue, cabaret, television and film actress and one of the original blonde bombshells

Binnie Hale, playing Jill in Mr Cinders
Binnie 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

Claire Heliot, lion tamer
Madame Claire Heliot, renowned female lion tamer with one of her dangerous pets at the time she was wowing audiences at the London Hippodrome

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

Harry Champion, legendary music hall performer
William Henry Crump (1865-1942), better known as Harry Champion, music hall composer, singer and Cockney comedian, appearing in London Rhapsody musical at the London Palladium, 1937. 1937

Cartoon, George Leybourne, music hall singer
Cartoon portrait, George Leybourne (1842-1884), British music hall singer, described as a lion comique, famous for his song Champagne Charlie. 1880s

Cartoon, E W Mackney, Ethiopian entertainer (blackface minstrel). 1880s

Bystander front cover - Elsa Macfarlane
Bystander cover featuring a colour photograph of actress and entertainer, Elsa Macfarlane, who was a member of the revue group, the Co-optimists

Cartoon portrait, Mr J H Stead
Cartoon portrait, James Hurst Stead (1828?-1886), comic singer, music hall performer. Disabled: Now is the time to give him a helping hand

Alfred Lester impersonating Gwen Farrar
Actor Alfred Lester doing a very decent impression of actress Gwen Farrar, with whom he was starring in the revue, Rats at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1923. Date: 1923

Norah Blaney as Mademoiselle Yvonne in Out of the Blue
Norah Blaney appearing in Out of the Blue at St. Martins Theatre in 1928. She played the part of Julia Marlowe, " Mademoiselle Yvonne

London Nights - at the Cafe Anglais by Hynes
Rex Evans at the CafÚáünglais, playing the piano and singing. M. Poulsen, who ran the club, is seen standing on the left, while his co-directors, Capt. Robin Humphries and Mrs

Gwen Farrar at home
Page from The Sketch featuring a number of photographs of actress, cellist, singer and all round variety artist Gwen Farrar at her home

Gwen Farrar drawing a caricature of herself
Gwen Farrar, the famous variety artist, making a caricature of herself. The Sketch explains she had been working on a series of sketches of celebrities which were to be sold for charity. 1927

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