Performers Collection (page 8)

Chinese Actors holding up masks, a rake and a broom
A Chinese Actor and Actress in a posed studio portrait holding up masks in one hand and a rake and broom in the other. Date: circa 1908

Theatrical Troupe supporting Womens Suffrage Movement
A Theatrical Troupe performing a play supporting Womens Suffrage Movement Date: circa 1908

Myanmar - Street Musicians with Pattala and Mon Violin
Myanmar - Street Musicians playing a curved Burmese Xylophone or Pattala and the Mon violin, a 3-string fiddle with a western-like body played upright. Date: circa 1906

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

Cartoon, English actors will soon be crowded out. 1880

Cartoon, acrobats advised to emigrate
Cartoon showing acrobats being advised to emigrate, possibly with their livelihoods under threat because of the Dangerous Performance Bill

Cartoon, behind the scenes in a theatre -- A member of the audience who likes to go behind the scenes and chat up the actresses. 1880

Music cover, Barnum Circus by Maurice Vandair
Music cover, Barnum Circus, music by Maurice Vandair, words by Charlys and Vandair. 1941

Music cover, The Forty Thieves Lancers, by W Meyer Lutz. circa 1880s

Caricature of James Fawn and Arthur Roberts
Caricature of James Fawn (1850-1923) and Arthur Roberts (1852-1933), music hall performers. Goodness Gracious! A reference to their comic duet in a Drury Lane pantomime, Mother Goose

Cartoon, Actors from Drury Lane changing allegiance
Cartoon, Actors from Drury Lane Theatre changing allegiance. They were at Drury Lane for years, but this season they go over to the opposition shop. 1880

Caricature of Harry Payne and Augustus Harris
Caricature of Harry Payne (1833-1895) clown and pantomime entertainer, and Augustus Harris (1852-1896), British actor, dramatist and impresario, seen here dressed as a policeman

Caricature of the actor Fred Vokes
Caricature of the actor and dancer Fred (Frederick Mortimer) Vokes, member of the Vokes Family of performers -- High Art. circa 1880s

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

Man listening to brass band
Man sitting on a deckchair, listening to a brass band. Date: 1970s

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

Circus Elephant / Chaos
A circus elephant runs amok with with one of the performers sitting astride his trunk. The ring-masters top hat gets a soaking. Date: 1928

HANDEL COMMEMORATION, Westminster Abbey
The Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey when the orchestra and performers were seated in tiers round the organ Date: 1785

Pantomime fairies in the flies, perhaps about to make a surprise entrance from above the stage. 1871

Verdi / Trovatore / Iln 1855
IL TROVATORE a scene from the first London performance of the opera at Covent Garden in May 1855 - Pauline Viardot was one of the performers Date: 1855

Zeynards Liliput Speciality Troupe, with two miniature ponies on a seesaw. Date: circa 1908

The Will O The Wisps
Promotional postcard for The Will O The Wisps, a touring concert party company Judging by the number of faces among the reeds, there were seven concert party performers

See-Saw by Arthur E Eliot
Promotional postcard for See-Saw by Arthur E. Eliot and others, edited by R. C. Carton; music Ivor Novello and others. First produced at the Comedy Theatre, 14th December 1916

Beauty and the Beast, Lyceum Pantomime
Beauty and the Beast Pantomime, Lyceum Theatre, London. 1937

Harry Mason and Lily Bart
Promotional postcard for Harry Mason and Lily Bart. These novelty comedy gymnasts were obscure performers. This postcard was commissioned it to advertise their act to music hall managers

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

Duchess of Westminster - amateur dramatics, Eaton Hall
A scene from Scaramouch an amateur theatrical production performed at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster

George Robey (1869-1954)
Promotional postcard for George Robey (1869-1954). Sir George Edward Wade, CBE. known professionally as George Robey, was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre

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

Madame Karina and Dancing School Pupils - Karina was a Russian Ballet dancer at the Royal Opera House, and founder of the school of dance at 123 ladbroke Grove under the patronage of Queen Alexandra

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

Victorian Scrap, circus ring with performers and animals. circa 1880s

The Music Hall by Harry Furniss
Portrayal of an interior of an Edwardian music hall. Date: 1929

Three Japanese chorus girls talk backstage. All three are wearing elaborate costumes. Date: 1932

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

Souvenir book of postcards, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico
Back cover of a souvenir book of postcards from Agua Caliente, a popular leisure centre in Tijuana, Mexico, Central America

Barnardos Visit to Australia
Barnardos musical performers accompanied by the Rev. W.J. Mayers meet the Governor of South Australia during a fund-raising visit to the country. Date: circa 1910

Two Sani women, Yunnan Province, south west China
Two young Sani women of Yunnan Province, south west China, playing Chinese lutes. Date: 1953

Wayang puppet theatre of Bali, Indonesia
Wayang puppet theatre and gamelan musicians of Bali, Indonesia. Date: circa 1920s

Two film stars in Paris Plaisirs magazine: Madge Bellamy (Fox Film) and Agnes Petersen, as seen in the film Scheherazade (Alliance Cinematographique Europeene). Date: circa 1928

Concert in the War Zone for soldiers and others, France, WW1
Concert in the War Zone for the boys in khaki and blue. British soldiers, nurses and others listen to an open air concert in the shade of trees, somewhere in France. Date: 1915

The Hengler Sisters dancing and singing starts at the turn of the century in America and Euope Date: circa 1900

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

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

Celebrating the royal wedding at the Grafton Galleries, 1923
Cabaret performers dressed up for a mock wedding at Londons fashionable Grafton Galleries, in order to celebrate the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York in April 1923

Henry Wood, English conductor, and his first wife
Henry Wood (1869-1944), English conductor, and his first wife, Olga Michailoff (Ouroussoff, Urusova), a singer. Date: early 20th century

Harry Fragson
arry Fragson (2 July 1869 31 December 1913), born L鯮 Philippe Pot, was a British music hall singer and comedian, born in Soho, London

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