Performing Collection (page 2)

Dionne Quintuplets / Bath
Cecile, Yvonne, Annette, Emilie & Marie Dionne; Canadian quintuplets b. May 28th 1934

Dionne Quintuplets / Cover
Cecile, Yvonne, Annette, Emilie & Marie Dionne; Canadian quintuplets b. May 28th 1934

Rudolph Valentino / Sketch
Rudolph Valentino arrives in England with his wife Natacha Rambova, after crossing the Atlantic on board the Aquitania

Indonesian Dancers
Two royal court dancers performing the female style of Javanese dance. The bent knees, flexed wrists and refined movements are characteristic of this style

Vaslav Nijinsky / Tennis
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, seen here in his tennis outfit for Jeux

Polaire / Boyer Postcard
POLAIRE French music hall entertainer, in an elegant white dress

Groucho Marx / Postcard
GROUCHO MARX (Julius Marx) American comedian with his characteristic cigar and painted-on moustache

Jenny Lind / 1850 Print
JENNY LIND Swedish soprano, known as The Swedish Nightingale and The Queen of Song, depicted exchanging her notes for gold

Greta Garbo / Nino Za
GRETA GARBO Swedish-American film actress: a caricature

Feral Benga / Beaute
FRAINCOISE BENGA. Celebrated Senegalese dancer. Stared at the Folies Bergere, Paris using his stage name Feral Benga

Edith Piaf [Head]
EDITH PIAF French singer

Dan Leno / Panto Dame
DAN LENO Music hall artist dressed as a woman

Arthur Roberts, music hall entertainer
ARTHUR ROBERTS Music hall entertainer. Date: 19th century

Anna Pavlova / Rumney
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer on stage

Richard Tauber / Schubert
RICHARD TAUBER Austrian opera singer based in Britain, in the role of the composer Franz Schubert in Blossom Time

Laurence Olivier / Signed
(Sir) LAURENCE OLIVIER British actor of stage and screen

Laurence Olivier
(Sir) LAURENCE OLIVIER British actor of stage and screen

Nellie Melba / 1904
NELLIE MELBA (originally, Helen Porter Mitchell) Australian soprano, probably in the role of Bizets Carmen

Amy Webster / L Charles
AMY WEBSTER Actress, looking like a Pre-Raphaelite model

Isadora Duncan / Ils 1909
ISADORA DUNCAN American dancer, seen here with some of her pupils

WILLIAM GILLETTE American actor and dramatist, in the role of Sherlock Holmes Date: 1855 - 1937

German circus scrap -- dog jumping through a paper hoop. 19th century

Abba at Airport
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Annifrid (Frida) photographed with security police upon their arrival in Britain for their famous Wembley Arena concert. Date: November 1979

Lily Elsie (1886 - 1962), Popular actress and singer wearing a jewelled costume in Lehars The Merry Widow Date: 1909

Ethel Levey by Kate Carew
Ethel Levey (1880-1955), American actress and singer, caricatured for The Tatler by Kate Carew. Date: 1915

Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Classical Composer
Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875-1912) - Classical Composer. Professor at the Crystal Palace School of Music and conducted the orchestra at the Croydon Conservatoire

Bonzo - Bostocks remarkable Sea lion
Bonzo a remarkable performing Sea Lion at Bostock and Wombwells Travelling Circus - pictures with trainer Zetta Hills Date: circa 1926

Britannia and Eve magazine, March 1931
Front cover featuring an elegant couple performing the Flamenco. The beautifully poised woman wears a yellow Bata de cola dress with frills and an enormous white headdress

Boys Band, Training Ship Indefatigable
The Boys Band of the Training Ship Indefatigable pose for their photograph in a field, near a tent -- probably at a local fete where they were performing

Sacha Guitry / Wife / 1929
SACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, with his wife Yvonne Printemps during a visit to London

Errol Flynn / Robin Hood
Errol Flynn is at his swash- buckling best in Michael Curtizs saga which also offers Olivia de Havilland as Marian, Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone as the nasties

Joan Crawford / Postcard
JOAN CRAWFORD American film actress looking haughty

Carlotta Grisi / Giselle
CARLOTTA GRISI (Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi) Italian ballet dancer, seen here in Giselle

Veronica Lake / Paramount
VERONICA LAKE (Constance Ockleman) American film actress

Jessie Matthews / Wilding
JESSIE MATTHEWS British singer and dancer of stage and screen

Dolores Del Rio / 1930
DOLORES DEL RIO (Lolita Dolores de Martinez) Mexican film actress

Laurence Olivier / Tie
(Sir) LAURENCE OLIVIER British actor of stage and screen

Vivien Leigh / Paramount
VIVIEN LEIGH English actress of stage and film

Maggie Teyte / Theatre 07
MAGGIE TEYTE (Maggie Tate) English operatic soprano, seen here in the role of Glycere in Circe at the Opera Comique, Paris

Leontyne Price / Warfield
LEONTYNE PRICE American operatic soprano with William Warfield in Gershwins Porgy & Bess

Vera Lynn / Stars / Song
VERA LYNN Popular English singer: The Stars Will Remember

Deborah Kerr / Winchester
DEBORAH KERR (Deborah Kerr-Trimmer) English film actress

Circus Clown Pointing
A young child, with a hoop decorated with flowers, rides on the back of a skewbald (brown and white) horse, while a clown stands and points

Isadora Duncan / Barefoot
ISADORA DUNCAN American dancer, barefoot on stage

William Kemp, Dancer
WILLIAM KEMP(E) English actor and dancer in comic roles. Famous for jigs and for morris dancing from London to Norwich

Operating Table 1930S
A group of student nurses in theatre, observing a surgeon performing an operation

Dd home and Chair
Daniel Dunglass Home, Scottish-American medium, remains the most enigmatic of all spirit mediums, performing extraordinary feats which have never been explained

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