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Julie Sudo, DancerOriental dancer Julie Sudo, appearing in Carnival Time at the Criterion Restaurant. Date: circa 1925
Dorothy Seacombe (1906-1994) was a British actress who went on to have a film career. Here she is appearing in a stage production of Just Married at the Comedy Theatre. Date: circa 1925
Laura Cowie in Yoicks!Laura Cowie (1892-1969) was a Scottish stage and silent film actress. Here she is portraying Lucrezia Borgia in the revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre. Date: circa 1925
Mother Goose PantomimeA production of Mother Goose at the London Hippodrome, featuring Shaun Glenville (1884-1968) as Mother Goose, Isobel Elsom (1893-1981) as the daughter, and Fred Conquest
Playtime at the PiccadillyPerformers in Playtime at the Piccadilly, a cabaret show at the Piccadilly Hotel. The artists pictured are Mimi Jordan, Rene Lorrimore, Evelyn Wrentmor, Amelia Allen
The Revue Show Yoicks!The revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre, with images of performer Marjorie Gordon (1893-1983). Date: 1924
Renee Houston advertising OvaltineScottish actress and performer Renee Houston (1902-1980) in an advert promoting the re-vitalising effects of Ovaltine. Date: 1939
Peggy Ashcroft and Gwen Ffrangcon-DaviesPeggy Ashcroft (1907-1991) appearing as Cecily Cardew and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992) as Gwendolyn Fairfax, in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Globe Theatre. Date: 1939
Tommy TrinderSketch depicting comedian Tommy Trinder (1909-1989) appearing in Band Waggon at the London Palladium. Date: 1939
Freddie Schweitzer and Marion BelletSketch depicting variety acts Freddie Schweitzer and Marion Bellet & The English Brothers. Presumably they were supporting Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch at the London Palladium. Date: 1939
Arthur Askey and Richard MurdochSketch depicting comedians Arthur Askey (1900-1982) and Richard Murdoch (1907-1990). Their radio show Band Waggon had been a hit in 1938, and was turned into a stage show which they took on tour
Ram Gopal and Maya RaniIndian dancers Ram Gopal (1912-2003) and Maya Rani, promoting performances at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Date: circa 1939
Regent's Park Open Air TheatreSketch depicting a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Date: 1939
Maurice and Cordoba, dancersDance partners Maurice and Cordoba, appearing at the Savoy Hotel. Date: circa 1939
Lydia Kyasht, ballet dancerLydia Kyasht (1885-1959) was a Russian ballerina and dance teacher. She moved to London in 1908, to be ballerina at the Empire Theatre. Date: 1910
Marie Alexandrowicz, opera singerMarie Alexandrowicz, here depicted at the age of 17, having just signed up for a five year engagement at the Opera House, Paris. Date: circa 1910
Mlle Ameta Butterfly DancerPerformance artist Mlle Ameta uses costume, lighting effects and newly-invented machinery to perform her butterfly dance in Vienna. Date: circa 1910
Shilling Theatre, Fulham, photographs of founders, volunteers and performers rehearsing. Captioned, Fighting the films: The Shilling Theatre at Fulham'
Beach entertainers lined up on stage at Eastbourne beachThis superb image shows six dress-suited performers with their straw hats, on stage in front of a deck-chaired audience. Behined the stage are five wheeled beach huts in striped livery
Famous conjoined sisters Daisy and Violet HiltonThe Brighton United Twins - famous conjoined sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton (1908-1969). The twins were exhibited in Europe as children, and toured the United States sideshow
Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Eisenstein and others, MoscowGroup photo, from left to right: Boris Pasternak (Russian writer), Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russian writer and actor), Tomizi Tamiji Naito (Japanese writer), Arseny Voznesensky (Soviet diplomat)
Exterior of the Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden in Westminster, London, a place for entertainment, performance and sport, opening on the 22nd January 1876. Date: 1875
The Smart Set Entertainers - who performed at Tunbridge Wells in 1906. Date: 1906
Actresses on Footlight Favourites Fan Date: 1890s
Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - popular songTa-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - the popular song in musical notation, with portraits Date: 1890s
Japanese opera singers, performers, JapanVintage 19th century photograph: Japanese opera singers, performers, Japan
Japanese street performers, acrobats, children, Japan, c.1880 s
A Ring of Iron, a melodrama by Frank Harvey, the Beatrice Company. Date: late 19th century
The Flying Reos, Have a Bouquet? Date: 1922
Alda and Doret, acrobatic performers, sensational, unique, and thrilling, the act without duplicate Date: 1934
The Grotesques, pierrot troupe Date: circa 1914
The Two Exceptions, Comedy Artistes Date: early 20th century
Tew & Lea, Comedy Artistes, Hippodrome, Leeds - undoubtedly hold the key to the floodgates of mirth. Date: circa 1912
Robert Loraine as Cyrano, Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London Date: early 20th century
Theatre show, promotional postcard
Dalys Girls enjoying themselves at the swimming baths. Standing (left to right): The Misses Stella Riga, Jean Stirling, Veda Le Grand and Irene Flower
The Parisian performers Sacha Guitry and his wife Yvonne Printemps, 1926 appearing in Mozart at the Gaiety Theatre, London Date: 1926
Beryl Wallace picked by The Dance Magazine as the typical Earl Carroll Girl (Floradora 1930 Model) - she was one of the leading performers of Earl Carrolls Vanities
A little girl does the splits in a jolly stage costume of striped trousers and top hat. Date: 1930s
The Ju Jitsu Waltz comes to the Gaiety. Date: 1907
Barnardos Boys with Rev WJ MayersMusical performers from Barnardos homes, accompanied by the Rev. W.J. Mayers. Date: circa 1910
The Song the Kettle is Singing (in a dear little place called home) - written and composed by Worton David and Lawrence Wright - sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde and Miss Dora Lyric
Three Maidens from Sais at London HippodromeThree Maidens from Sais, a new dance act in which the dancers formed silhouette tableaux, performing at the London Hippodrome in 1910. Date: 1910
Sketches at the Hippodrome, 1909 by Norman MorrowVarious 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
Newest turns at the London Hippodrome 1900Newest turns at the London Hippodrome in October 1900 - Eugene Sandow, the famous strong man, Ghezzi the clown, the Sisters O Meers, the clever wire artists and M. Batty and his famous bear
Fish-catching cormorants at the HippodromeFour cormorants, brought from China to appear at the London Hippodrome in 1905. Their act consisted of retrieving fish thrown into the water tank and when a large trout was put in
Marceline the Droll & Otto Twigg, London HippodromeMarceline the Droll, the Spanish clown who who performed at the London Hippodrome in the first three years of it opening in 1900. Pictured with the Hippodromes ring master Mr Otto Twigg. Date: 1901
Maud, Ethel and Gladys Finney, exhibition swimmersThe Misses Maud, Ethel and Gladys Finney, part of the Finney family, swimming champions, and appearing with their father James, and aunt Marie, at the newly-opened London Hippodrome in 1900