Performer Collection (page 21)

Adelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, London
Adelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London SW5. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator

Korea: circus performer, rope walker
Vintage early 20th century photograph - Korea: circus performer, rope walker

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Clowns face on a hat-shaped New Year card
Clowns smiling face on a hat-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Chantelle Crop - Murrays Cabaret Club costume design
Chantelle Crop - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London

Victorian Scrap - Circus Horse Rider jumping through a ring of fire - An exciting moment. late 19th century

Victorian Scrap - Circus Clown Feeding the Baby. late 19th century

Victorian Scrap - Circus Clown trying to ride a Donkey - Whoa Plunger! late 19th century

Cartoon, The Brothers Griffiths -- Athletic Drolls. Two clowns in costume. 1884

France - Loie Fuller - Dance of the Seven Veils (Salomes dance performed before King Herod Antipas). Date: circa 1905

Arthur Prince ventriloquist
Arthur Prince (1881 1946), music hall entertainer and ventriloquist, with his puppeteered dummy Sailor Jim, seated upon his knee. Date: 1905

Madame Marzella with white cockatoos 1905
Music Hall star, Madame Marzella with her cockatoos. Date: 1905

Bedouin dancers on Fair Day, Sheikh Othman, Aden
Bedouin dancers on Fair Day, Sheikh Othman, British colony of Aden (now in Yemen). Date: circa 1930s

The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, starring Henry Irving
The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, first produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, November 1871. Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) was identified with the role of Mathias in this play more than with any other

As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, the Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton (seen here as Rosalind) 1907-8 season at His Majestys Theatre, London (they also played Othello, The Taming of the Shrew)

Caroline by W Somerset Maugham, first produced at the New Theatre London, February 1916. Leaning on the chair back, Dr Cunningham addresses Isabella Trench, Maude Fulton

Cartoon, Edward Compton, performer
Cartoon, Edward Compton, as Charles Goldfinch, in The Road to Ruin. 1884

Music cover, Say it with a Ukulele, words and music by Art Conrad, sung by Miss Gwladys Stanley. 1923

Proscenium Arch, Pantheon Theatre, London. 1815

Victorian Ballerina in folk costume. circa 1850

A Trio of French Child Contortionists and Acrobats. Date: circa 1930s

Henry Ainley and Nina Sevening - English stage actors
Henry Hinchliffe Ainley (1879-1945) - English Shakespearean stage and screen actor and Nina Gladys Sevening.(1885-1958) - English stage actress Date: circa 1908

Flo Hastings and Wee Georgie Wood
Late 19th/early 20th century music hall performers Flo Hastings (1880-?) and Wee Georgie Wood (1894-1979), attending a screening of rare clips of early music hall acts at the National Film Theatre in

Bruce Lacey, performance artist
Bruce Lacey (b.1927), eccentric performance artist, out shopping with one of his mechanical constructs, together with a toddler. Date: 1962

Mark Lester, child star
Mark Lester (b.1958), child star, best known for his title role in the film version of Lionel Barts musical, Oliver! Seen here sitting on a tree branch. Date: late 1960s

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