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George Alexander - English actorSir George Alexander (18581918), born George Alexander Gibb Samson, English actor, theatre producer and theatre manager. He played many roles in the leading companies
John Lawrence Toole - English comic actor, actor-managerJohn Lawrence (J. L.) Toole (1830-1906), English comic actor, actor-manager and theatrical producer, famous for his roles in farce
Herbert Beerbohm Tree - English actor and theatre managerMr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), English actor and theatre manager, was managing the Haymarket Theatre and winning praise for adventurous programming and lavish productions. Date: 1890
Wilson Barrett - English manager, actor and playwrightWilson Barrett (1846-1904), English manager, actor and playwright. Here he poses as Mercutio in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. Date: 1890
Marie Effie Bancroft - English actress and theatre managerMarie Effie Bancroft (18391921), English actress and theatre manager. Bancroft and her husband were important in the development of Victorian era theatre through their presentation of innovative
Sir Squire Bancroft - English actor-managerSir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager. He and his wife Marie Effie Bancroft are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as " drawing-room comedy" or "
Georges Fleury, hotel manager, Monte CarloGeorges Fleury (1859-19??), French hotel manager, Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo. Date: 1925
Aaron Hill - English dramatist, writer and opera managerAaron Hill (1685-1750) - An English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of " Voltaires Zaire" and " MÚ▓»pe"
Group photo of a baseball team, Wisconsin, USAGroup photo of a baseball team and their manager, Wisconsin, USA. The players names include: Weaver, McIntyre, Lohr, Holmes, Gail, Richardson, McMahon, Cousins, Anderson and Davis. Date: circa 1908
Jack May & Tony Sarg at Murrays Club, 1914Jack May, manager of Murrays nightclub in Beak Street, London (opened 1913) tops up the glass of champagne of the artist Tony Sarg at the club
Group of Edwardian men in countryside on Eyam MoorThe purpose of this gathering is not known, only the man at extreme left is know and he is George Barnshaw, a manager at Battersbys Hat Factory in Stockport
Charles B. CochranSir Charles Blake Cochran (1872-1951) theatrical manager and impresario. Date: 1929
Ernest of the Kit-Cat restaurant in HaymarketErnest, the well-known manager of the popular Kit-Cat restaurant in the Haymarket, London, pictured in 1929. Date: 1929
St Jamess Theatre, LondonView of St Jamess Theatre, London, where George Alexander was theatre manager. Date: early 20th century
Corona vans and drivers, Chadwell Heath, East LondonCorona vans and their drivers in a depot at Chadwell Heath, East London. Corona was a popular brand of soft drinks, delivered regularly to peoples homes. Date: 20th century
Frank ReeSir Frank Ree (? - 1914), British railway manager, General Manager of the London and North Western Railway and the North London Railway from 1909. He was made a knight bachelor in 1913
H. Granville BarkerHarley Granville Barker (1877-1946), English actor-manager, director, producer, critic and playwright. Date: 1914
People We Don t Envy: No. 1: The first German salesmanPeople We Don t Envy: No.1: The first German commercial traveller in England after the war. An imagined senario featured in The Bystander in 1915
Marie Lohr - a wartime actress-manageress, WW1Marie Lohr, Australian actress (1890-1975) pictured in The Tatler at the time she had taken on the role of manager at the Globe Theatre in London where she was staging a play by W. Somerset Maugham
May Fortescue, actressMay Fortescue (Emily May Finney, 1862 - 1950), English actress, singer and actor-manager. Date: 1887
Award-winning scouts, Queensland, AustraliaThree award-winning scouts in Queensland, Australia -- they won a hygiene award for the best-kept campsite, sponsored by a firm of Coca Cola bottlers
Lena Ashwell in a Three Arts overall, WW1Lena Ashwell, OBE(28 September 187213 March 1957), British actress and actor-manager, known as the first to organize large-scale entertainment for troops at the front
Whats Bred in the Bone... by Bruce BairnsfatherWhats Bred in the Bone... Lieut. O.P.Corner (late of the Colidrome Theatre, where he has been stage manager for so many years) forgets himself in the heat of the moment
Sir Gerald du MaurierSir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (18731934) - English actor and manager. Date: 1926
George Grossmith Jr. - British actor and theatre producerGeorge Grossmith, Jr. (18741935) - British actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies. Date: 1926
Sir William G. Granet, Vanity Fair, SpySIR WILLIAM GUY GRANET (1867-1943) Italian born, British railway administrator, becoming general manager of the Midland Railway (later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway)
The Diner Who Addressed The Maitre D Hotel As GarconMaitre D Hotel stunned by a offensive presumption that he is a waiter not a manager. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander
Charlotte CushmanCHARLOTTE CUSHMAN (nee Saunders) American actress and theatre manager, consid- ered the first native- born star of the American theatre. with her autograph Date: 1816 - 1876
Firmin GemierFIRMIN GEMIER French actor and theatre manager who worked hard for popular theatre presenting classics at low cost. Photo 1910. Date: 1869 - 1933
Thomas Wm RobertsonTHOMAS WILLIAM ROBERTSON playwright and stage manager Date: 1829 - 1871
Karl Freiherr PerfallKARL Freiherr von PERFALL German musician and theatre manager. Date: 1824 - 1907
Picture FramersA workshop of busy picture framers, with the foreman or manager surpervising them. Date: early 1930s
Building a Stage SetA theatre production worker hauling up a stage set of a castle, under the direction of the stage manager! Date: early 1930s
Wonky Stage SetA theatre production worker holds onto a stage set of a castle to prevent it from falling on the stage manager! Date: early 1930s
C. C. Pearson, President and General Manager of the Glenn?C.C. Pearson, President and General Manager of the Glenn L. Martin Company
Heathfield Harman Stephenson, Tom Hearne, Notable CricketersHeathfield Harman Stephenson (on left) (1833-1896) - captained the first English team to travel to Australia in 1861/2 and umpired the first Test match ever played in England in 1880
Well, Au Reservoir, Monsieur. - Engishman abroadA Jocular Briton (leaving French Hotel) - " Well, Au Reservoir, Monsieur." Hotel Proprietor - " Tanks!!" Date: 1896
Winning Team of the Met. Fire Brigade Football Challenge CupWinning Team of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Football Challenge Cup (1903-4) -Central District. The MFB was renamed the London Fire Brigade in 1904 Date: 1904
Owner and Staff of a Rollerskating rinkA wheely great photographic postcard of the owner and principal staff of a Rollerskating Rink in Northern England. The floor is marked showing that the participants performed very neat circles around
C C PearsonC.C. Pearson, president and general manager of Martin and Glen L. Martin welcome Sqn Ldr Arthur E. Callard, Flt Lt Ernest A.J. Haskett, and Flt Lt Arthur J.R. Robson
Major Jack Stewart BoultonFrom left: Major Jack Stewart, Boulton & Paul sales manager; Dr J.D. North, chief engineer and Sqn Ldr C.A. Rea, test pilot, in front of the Boulton & Paul P64 Mail-Carrier. circa 15 June 1933
William ShorrockFrom left: William Shorrock, manager of the Preston works of English Electric, Roland Beamont, chief test pilot and Frederick Page, chief engineer
Teak mill - Moulmein
Alfred BunnALFRED BUNN Theatre manager, notably at Drury Lane Theatre, London. Bunn never served up a bad dish. Date: 1796 - 1860
Anna Eva Fay TicketTicket (to admit one lady) to a seance by the American stage medium. Date: circa 1855 - 1927
The Union Jack Hockey Club. CanadaThe Union Jack Hockey Club. Junior O.H.A. champions of Western Ontario 1914. In the centre of the picture is Frank Selke, times winner of the Stanley cup as manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Harry M. Clark, manager. Poster advertising manager of the play, The hidden hand. Date 1884
The theatrical managers bunco-game, and how he works it. Illustration shows at center a theater manager, his hands and pockets stuffed with money; around him are four scenes showing how he manages a