Performing Collection (page 18)

Why wear your diamond on your neck? 1913
Anna Held (1872 1918), Polish-born French and later Broadway stage performer and singer, wearing lavish diamond stockings. 1913

Balancing act at the Alhambra
Les Kiners-Moulins performing The Tribulations of a Soubrette, an extraordinary balancing act at the Alhambra in London in 1903. Date: 1903

Amateur theatre performance, The Pyjama Game. Date: circa 1980s

Two ice skaters in a skating rink, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Children performing Fame routine, Cornwall
Three children from a gym club in Cornwall, performing an energetic routine from the TV programme Fame in a village hall. Date: circa 1980s

Theatre Rotto, Sancreed Village Hall, Penzance, Cornwall
Theatre Rotto in action, Sancreed Village Hall, Sancreed, near Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Street theatre on the beach, St Ives, Cornwall -- five actors (male and female) from the National Theatre Company, Bath, in teeshirts and miniskirts holding boxes of Kelloggs Cornflakes

Nanette Newman on location, filming in Cornwall
The actress Nanette Newman on location near Lands End, Cornwall, in the role of the Newlyn School artist Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (nee Armstrong, 1859-1912), in A Breath of Fresh Air

Elise de Vere (1879 - 1934), French Stage Actress Date: 1909

Grace Palotta (1870 - 1959), Austrian actress who appeared in several of Mr. George Edwardes burlesques and was noted as one of the best-loved performers of Londons Gaiety Theatre

Franklin McLeay
Franklin (Franklyn) McLeay (1864 - 1900), Canadian-born actor, shown here in costume as Jediah in The Daughters of Babylon. Date: 1899

Forbes Robertson and Patrick Campbell
Forbes Robertson (1853 - 1937) and Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865 b 1940). Johnston Forbes Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager

Eva Moore (1868 - 1955), English stage and film actress who was active in the womens suffrage movement. Her daughter, Jill Esmond, was the first wife of Laurence Olivier. Date: 1899

Maud Hoffman (1875 - ?) - American actress and theosophist of the Victorian era. Date: 1899

Florence St. John (1855 1912), English singer and actress of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, famous for her roles in operetta, musical burlesque, music hall

Maud Jeffries (1869 - 1946), American actress. She was noted for her height and beauty and became a popular subject for a wide range of theatrical post-cards and studio photographs

Ethel Matthews (1869 - 1957), English actress of the 19th and 20th centuries. Date: 1899

Evelyn Millard (1869 1941) - English Shakespearean actress, actor-manager and " stage beauty" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dorothea Baird (1875 - 1933), English stage and film actress. She first appeared on stage in 1894 as Iris in Oxford University Dramatic Societys production of The Tempest

Lewis (Kate Terry) and Mabel Terry-Lewis
Lewis, previously Miss Kate Terry (1844 - 1924), English actress and member of the Terry-Gielgud dynsasty of actors. Pictured here with her daughter: Mabel Gwynedd Terry-Lewis (1872 - 1957)

Letty Lind (Letitia Elizabeth Rudge) (1861 1923), English actress, singer, dancer and acrobat. Best known for her work in burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre, and in musical theatre at Dalys Theatre

Sybil Carlisle (1871 - 1951), English actress of the Victorian era; sister of Mary Helen Carlisle. Date: 1899

Maskelyne and Devant performing trick 1906
A trick without a title, Maskelyne and Devant stage magicians are offering 50 for the best title for their trick. In the course of the trick a man is bound to an iron frame in such a way that he

Phyllis Bedells 1913
Phyllis Bedells (1893 1985), English ballerina and teacher. Photographed here appearing in The Reaper Dream, ballet produced by Lydia Kyasht. 1913

Jane Renouardt (1890 1972), French actress, front cover photograph showing the latest craze by going stockingless. Date: 1914

Moscow State Circus dancers in Cornwall
Moscow State Circus dancers performing during a visit to Cornwall. Date: 1970s

Brinsley Forde performing at Penwith, Cornwall
Brinsley Forde (b.1953), founder member of the reggae band Aswad, performing at Penwith, Cornwall, in an open air concert. 1983

Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905), English stage actor and actor-manager of the Victorian era. Shown here in the role of Cardinal Wolsey. Date: 1899

Lady Diana Cooper (1892 1986), actress and socialite, was previously Lady Diana Manners, before her marriage to Duff Cooper, and later Diana, Viscountess Norwich

Bicentennial pageant, Medway, Massachusetts, USA, Independence Day, 4 July 1913. Date: 1913

Illustration to a story, There -- there is my child
There -- there is my child! A woman in desperate search for her missing child catches sight of her performing on an outdoor stage

The Water King in the Silver Palace. early 19th century

Cartoon, ringmaster and performing elephants
Cartoon, a ringmaster with two performing elephants -- the one with the long, thin moustache is the theatre manager William Holland. 1883

Spanish Flamenco Dancer with Guitarist. 1936

Pageant Vehicle and Play -- people performing and watching a religious mystery play. 1827

Hurdy Gurdy man and woman performing in street
Hurdy Gurdy man and woman performing in the street. 19th century

Aunt Babsie as a lion-tamer - failing miserably
Aunt Babsie runs away from a lion rearing up on his hind legs - she is a complete failure as a circus lion-tamer! Date: 1923

Kitty Gordon 1909
Kitty Gordon (n饠 Constance Minnie Blades), (1878 - 1974), English actress, posed with a Merry Widow hat in a long provincial tour playing Olga in The Dollar Princess at the London Pavilion

Poster, Carnival scene with cars and performers
Carnival scene with cars and performing artistes. circa 1925

Music cover, Hollywood Nights, Mirth and Melody, William Fox Musical Movietone. 1939

Travellers - A superb photograph of a Jazz Ensemble (Jazz Orchestra), who are performing in front of a fantastic Art Deco backdrop featuring their name

Miss Phyllis Monkman - English Actress and Dancer
Miss Phyllis Monkman (1892-1976) - English Actress and Dancer in the title role in Dear Little Billie a musical comedy at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London

Binche, Belgium - people in carnival costume
Binche, Belgium - people (known as Gilles) in carnival costume with ostrich feather headdresses, performing the Rondeau in the town square. Date: circa 1930s

Antique painting found in ruins of Herculaneum
Reproduction of an antique painting of a young man found in the ruins of Herculaneum, the ancient Roman town buried under solidified mud after the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. 1779

Stunt woman rides over wooden plank with a woman underneath. Date: circa 1970s

Gymnasium at Barnardos Leopold House Home, Limehouse, Londo
Boys performing a drill in the gymnasium at Barnardos Leopold House Home, Limehouse, London. Date: circa 1905

Clown with bottle and sausages on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Clown going to market on a Victorian scrap
Clown going to market with a piglet under his arm on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1870s

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