Hippodrome Collection (page 3)

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

Miss Jessie Winter appearing at the Hippodrome, London
Miss Jessie Winter appearing at the Hippodrome Theatre, London. 1911

Osca Marah, Australian soprano, appearing at the Hippodrome Theatre, London. 1911

London Hippodrome posters revealed after air raid
Posters for the London Hippodrome revealed after a bomb blast stripped away hoardings in October 1940. The poster dates from 1900 and in the centre is one for Miss Mary Arnotis

Jack Buchanan signing records
Jack Buchanan, at the time he was starring in Sunny the hit musical comedy at the London Hippodrome, signing records at a London store assisted by his co-stars in the production

Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in her dressing room, Hippodrome
Binnie Hale, star of the hit musical comedy Sunny at the London Hippodrome, pictured in her dressing room wearing the fetching shorts for her gymnasium scene and arranging various toys

Jack Buchanan in kaleidoscope
Jack Buchanan (1890 - 1957), Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director, pictured in a kaleidoscope photographic effect at the time he was appearing in the musical comedy

Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in Sunny at the Hippodrome
Binnie Hale pictured on the cover of The Sketch in the gym costume she wore in the title role of the hit comedy musical, Sunny, at the London Hippodrome in 1926. Date: 1926

An ostrich farm in South Africa, Hoffman Girls at Hippodrome
The famous Hoffman Girls performing as ostriches (!) in the London Hippodromes 1924 revue, Leap Year. 1924 was the year of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley

Lace scene in Leap Year at the London Hippodrome
The lace scene in Leap Year at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1924

The Hoffman Girls performing webbing act, London Hippodrome
The eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls performing their extraordinary acrobatic webbing act at the London Hippodrome, Leap Year, in 1924. Date: 1924

Mother Goose at the London Hippodrome
Scene from Mother Goose, the 1924-5 pantomime at the London Hippodrome. Shaun Glenville as Mother Goose, Isobel Elsom as her daughter and the unfortunate Fred Conquest as the goose. Date: 1925

The Hoffman Girls in rehearsals
The Hoffman Girls, the dance troupe founded, managed and choreographed by Gertrude Hoffman, pictured in rehearsals for Leap Year which had had a successful run at the London Hippodrome

Shirley Kellogg at the London Hippodrome
A caricature of the revue star, Shirley Kellogg walking among the audience on the gang-plank (or joy-plank ) during WW1-era revues. Famously she would throw flowers to the gentlemen in the stalls

The Jazz Mistress at the London Hippodrome
Some pictorial jazz jottings from the Hippodrome. Sketches by Hynes of various performers in The Jazz Mistress, the 1925 revue at the London Hippodrome

Julian Wylie auditioning chorus girls, London Hippodrome
Julian Wyle, theatre producer known as the King of Pantomime pictured on the stage of the London Hippodrome auditioning a huge number of girls for roles in the chorus

Hullo Ragtime! at the London HIppodrome
The Beauty Chorus of the London Hippodrome, led by the star of their popular revue, Hullo Ragtime! walking along the gangplank from the stage, over the orchestra and through the stalls

Simone de Beryl performing at the London Hippodrome
Dancer Simone de Beryl as The Fairy of the Fountains at the London Hippodrome. Her dance act consisted of her dancing amid a fountain illuminated by many ever-changing lights

Three Maidens from Sais at London Hippodrome
Three Maidens from Sais, a new dance act in which the dancers formed silhouette tableaux, performing at the London Hippodrome in 1910. Date: 1910

Swan Lake at the London Hippodrome, 1910
Dancers of the Imperial Opera House of St. Petersburg and Moscow, appearing at the London Hippodrome in May 1910 where they performed Le Lac des Cygnes or Swan Lake for the first time in the UK

Evelyn Nesbit and Mr Clifford
Evelyn Nesbit, aka Mrs Harry Thaw, pictured with Mr. Clifford with whom she was performing at the London Hippodrome revue, Hello Ragtime in 1913

Sahary Djeli, oriental dancer
Sahary Djeli, Oriental dancer, appearing at the London Hippodrome with a dance in which she displayed particularly sinuous arm movements in what was known as the, Les Danse des Bras Date: 1911

The Wiesenthal Sisters, appearing at London Hippodrome
The embodiment of joy, the three Wiesenthal sisters, Grete, Elsa and Berta, demonstrating their carefree and ecstatic form of dance

Sahary Djeli, dancer
Sahary Djeli, oriental dancer who was performing at the London Hippodrome in 1911. Her act was notable for the sinuous, serpentine movement of her arms. Date: 1911

Turkey Trot, The Agony of Terpsichore
Page from The Bystander showing Oscar and Suzette demonstrating various steps from the new ragtime dance, the Turkey Trot, which they were performing at the London Hippodrome in 1912

Sketches at the Hippodrome, 1909 by Norman Morrow
Various performers at the re-opened London Hippodrome in August 1909. Acts included the Ahearn Troupe who seem to be comedy cyclists, The Marvellous Schenk Brothers, Braatz Performing Dogs

Mascagni at the London Hippodrome
Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor, featured in The Bystander at the time he was conducting a special orchestra at the London Hippodrome, where performances of his world-famous opera

The Sisters Wiesenthal at the London Hippodrome
The three Wiesenthal sisters, Grete, Elsa and Berta, who were causing a sensation at the London Hippodrome in 1909 when the theatre had re-opened after a four-month long refurbishment

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

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

Black Velvet revue at the London Hippodrome
Double page spread in The Sketch featuring photographs of the London Hippodrome wartime revue, Black Velvet, starring Iris Lockwood, Pat Kirkwood, Teddy Brown, Vic Oliver and Carol Lynne

The Stone Age scene in Zig-Zag! London Hippodrome
The Stone Age scene in the 1917 Hippodrome revue, Zig-Zag! featuring Daphne Pollard as Mrs Stone Hatchett who flirts with her lover, played by George Clarke

Daphne Pollard as Mrs Stone Hatchett, Zig-Zag, Hippodrome
Daphne Pollard in the comic role of Mrs Stone Hatchett in the Stone Age scene, part of " Zig-Zag!" the 1917 revue at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1917

George Robey, quick-change scene in Zig-Zag, Hippodrome
George Robey in " Zig-Zag!" the 1917 revue at the London Hippodrome, in a scene where he performed a burlesque of the methods of Fregoli, the quick-change artist, with comic results

Shirley Kellogg & chorus in Zig-Zag, Hippodrome
A zig-zag effect in " Zig-Zag!. Shirley Kellogg, star of the 1917 revue at the London Hippodrome, " Zig-Zag!" seated on a cushion as Shir Lee in the Chinese Lacquer scene

Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome, 1903
Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome in 1903. Top left, Dick and his sweetheart played by Ruth Lytton and Fanny Dango. Top right, Dick with his cat (played by Mr Fred Farren Jnr)

Sketch cover - Cicely Debenham in Zig-Zag, London Hippodrome
Cicely Debenham as Louana Lou of Honolulu in the revue " Zig-Zag!" at the London Hippodrome in 1917. Date: 1917

Behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome, Bow Bells
Behind the scenes in Bow Bells at the London Hippodrome, 1932. Robert Hale and his daughter Binnie are seen chatting in the wings with the production and stage director, Charles Henry. Date: 1932

Behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome, scene shifters
Stage hands moving scenery behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome during the production of Bow Bells. Much of the scenery was hinged and could fold up like a concertina. Date: 1932

Chung Ling Soo at the London Hippodrome
Chung Ling Soo, Chinese conjuror (real name Billy Robinson) in publicity photographs for his act at the London Hippodrome in 1904. Date: 1904

Behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome
Mr Hawkins, the electrical engineer in the switch-room of the London Hippodrome, which was situated behind the stage and exclusively used for lighting that part of the building. 1904

Marceline the Droll, Spanish-born clown. He became famous at the newly-opened Hippodrome in the early twentieth century and then went to New York to perform at the hippodrome there

The Golden Princess & the Elephant Hunters, Hippodrome
Scene from The Golden Princess and the Elephant Hunters, the Christmas production at the London Hippodrome, with Miss Ened Hett as the princess and Hetty Chattell as the Silver Prince

The Treasure Ship in Fairy Seas, London Hippodrome
The Christmas production at the London Hippodrome, using its famous water tank to enact an underwater wcene about treasure seekers beneath the sea

The Sands of Dee, how the waves are formed at Hippodrome
Page from The Sketch reporting on how the immense waves was created during the London Hippodromes latest dramatic water spectacle, The Sands of Dee

Frank Parker & Frank Allen of the London Hippodrome
Frank Allen, manager and then managing director of the London Hippodrome, and partner in Moss Empires Ltd. at the wheel of his twelve horse-power Eagle car

Frank Parker, stage director at London Hippodrome
Frank Parker, , stage director at the London HIppodrome where he was the brains behind the theatres incredible water spectacles, plunging elephants, diving cyclists, snowstorms

Houdini & Daily MIrror Challenge
Houdinis great lock-picking feat at the London Hippodrome. Harry Houdini shown on stage at the London Hippodrome, having specially made cuffs locked to his wrists in the presence of representatives

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