Entertainers Collection (page 5)

Myanmar - Yangon - Pongyi Street Dramatic Troupe of traditional Burmese entertainers/dancers/performers. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Tea Pickers Dance of the Allies - 1918
Japan - Tea Pickers Dance of the Allies, composed for the occasion - performed at an informal entertainment for Japanese and Foreign Exporters by the Shidzuokaken Tea Association, July 3rd 1918

Japan - Riogoku Family of Japanese Performers
Japan - The Riogoku Family - An Internationally-famous troupe of touring Japanese Performers, posing for this group photograph in full costume. Date: circa 1905

Three frogs playing banjos on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Indian Marriage Process
An Indian marriage procession is accompanied by musicians and entertainers. Date: circa 1790

Madame Saqui at Vauxhall
Madame Saqui, the celebrated tightrope walker, wearing a magnificent plumed headdress performs at Vauxhall Gardens in London Date: circa 1816

the Palace Girls
The Palace Girls of London. Date: circa 1910

Mademoiselle Lo Date: circa 1904

Niagara Bridge Stunt
Laurence Donovan drops 200 feet from Niagara Bridge Date: 1886

Skyscraper Table Tower
A stuntman builds a tower of tables and chairs on the top of a New York skyscraper and perches himself at the top Date: 1926

Strong Man & Aircraft
Hans Packer, an American strongman, proves his strength by resisting the attempt of two aircraft to tear him apart Date: 1931

Freres Marco / Lautrec
LES FRERES MARCO (The Brothers Marco) Entertainers at the Folies-Bergere Date: 1895

Show Girls / Dolly Sisters
Betty Grable & June Haver camp it up in the Hollywood film of the lives of the Dolly Sisters looking very 1940s & blonde despite the fact the sisters were brunette Date: 1945

Hurdy-gurdy organ player
A hurdy-gurdy (orgue de Barbarie) player and his daughter in a French village Date: 1866

The Houston Sisters
British vaudeville entertainers, Renee and Billie Houston, better known as the Houston Sisters. Date: 1927

Sychronised Swimming Team, Bournemouth - group of performers
Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team, Bournemouth - group of male performers - some obviously in clown roles surrounding the hunky star of the show. Date: 1961

Orlando Dando by Basil Hood
Promotional postcard for Orlando Dando by Basil Hood; music Walter Slaughter. First produced at the Grand Theatre, Fulham, 1st August 1898.The show was written as a vehicle for Dan Leno

Ernie Mayne by George Cooke
Promotional image on an envelope fpr Ernie Mayne (17 March 1871 - 15 May 1937), an English music hall entertainer. He weighed about 20 stone

Miss Renouf and Mr Bennett performing The Wedding Glide
Miss Renouf and Mr Bennett on stage performing The Wedding Glide of 1912 (From the Passing Show of 1912 ) - Music & Lyrics by Louis A. Hirsch

Marceline
Promotional postcard for Marceline. The London Hippodrome opened 15th November 1900. In 1902, The Playgoer, said Since the opening of the Hippodrome, Marceline has scarcely been out of the bill

Society of Entertainers, Upper Baker Street, London
Society of Entertainers, with Webster & Girling Ltd theatre ticket box office, Upper Baker Street, London. Date: 1924

Harry Mason and Lily Bart - Novelty Comedy Gymnasts of Brixton, London. " Ah! But What Gymnasts!" It looks conceivable as if Harry Mason is here taking on the persona of King George V

Paradise Girls of the Paradise Cabaret Restaurant, New York - 49th Street and Broadway. " Gorgeous! Glamorous! Thrilling!" Date: circa 1938

Sammys Bowery Follies, New York City, USA
Sammys Bowery Follies, Bowery, New York City, USA, showing the performers grouped together on stage. Date: 1944

Childrens entertainer at a party
" Uncle" Piet Tovenaar (born Frederick Bliss) in action with his ventriloquists dummy at a childrens party in London in 1965. Date: 1965

Little Tich as Captain of the Forty
LITTLE TICH (Harry Relph) Music hall entertainer (1867 - 1928), posed in his famous 28" boots called slapshoes, for his Big Boot dance. Date: 1929

Vesta Tilley in khaki
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations. During the First World War, she earned the nickname

Seven Seas cruise yacht, Miami, Florida, USA
Seven Seas cruise yacht, Scenic Wonderland Cruise, Miami, Florida, USA, with inset photos of the captains (Dad and Bill Albury) and the cabaret entertainers (The Singing Maxsons). Date: 1930s

Advert for Columbian Trio Concert Company, Ohio, USA
Advertisement on a postcard for the Columbian Trio Concert Company of West Salem, Ohio, USA, offering instrumental and vocal music. Date: 1910

Sporting & Dramatic News cover - A Better Ole
Front cover of The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News featuring photographs of three stars of the stage in 1917. On the left is Miss Vera Clarke

Leslie Henson during WW1
One of the most popular male entertainers of the First World War, Leslie Henson (1891 - 1957), appearing in Yes, Uncle! at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1918 dressed in his R.F.C uniform

Ideal Entertainers, Oakenshaw, Yorkshire
Ideal Entertainers, Oakenshaw, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1900s

Miss Ethel Levey in Hullo Tango
Colour photograph of Ethel Levey (1880-1955), American actress and singer, pictured in one of the costumes she wore in the theatre production, Hullo Tango! in 1914. Date: 1914

Roseray and Capella at the Embassy Club
An Embassy Thrill - the Dancers Roseray and Capella. Roseray and Capella, the cabaret stars of the Embassy Club pictured performing some of their act which combined acrobatics with dance

Madame Stroeva in Chez Fysher at Oddenino s
The Chez Fysher show at Oddeninos restaurant in London, 1924 featuring as its star attraction, Madame Stroeva who sang her strange sobbing

Miss Dora Dubey, one of the company appearing in Dollys Revels at the Piccadilly Hotel in London in 1924. The Bystander comments that she is

Cortez and Peggy
The dancing cabaret performers, Cortez and Peggy, who in 1924, following a successful residency at Rectors in Paris, went on to delight Londoners at the Hotel Metropole. Date: 1924

Dina Harris and Ted Trevor exhibition dancers at the Carlton
Miss Dina Harris and Mr Ted Trevor, the popular Exhibition Dancers, who were appearing at the diners-dansant at the Carlton Hotel in 1924. Date: 1924

Tosh sisters
Cabaret entertainers the Tosh Sisters from Vienna - amusing the patrons of West End clubs in London in 1929. Pictured here in feather-skirted costumes. Date: 1929

Leslie Henson in Yes, Uncle! during WW1
One of the most popular male entertainers of the First World War, Leslie Henson (1891 - 1957), appearing in Yes, Uncle! at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1918

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

Vesta Tilley, WW1
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Entertainment within the two miles of the front
British troops as pierrots, only two miles from the trenches. Date: 1915

Tatler cover - George Robey
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a portrait of (Sir) George Robey (1869-1954), British comedian known as the Prime Minister of Mirth

Edmee Dormeuil by William Barribal
Edmee Dormeuil, French actress and star of The Better Ole, the musical play based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Harry Lauder with his recruiting pipe band, WW1
Harry Lauder (1870-1950), Scottish music hall entertainer, pictured with a pipe he had organised, with the sanction of the War Office

Aileen D Orme in Chu Chin Chow, WW1
Aileen D Orme, actress and soprano singer, pictured in costume in the hugely popular wartime show, Chu Chin Chow, in which she played the role of Alcolom and sang the song, Any Times Kissing Time

Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 February 26, 1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sweetheart of

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