Performing Collection (page 3)

Christmas cracker box label
Label for a box of Batgers crackers depicting three performing monkeys, one balancing with a parasol, another playing the ukelele and a third banginga drum

Gus Elen / Spoofer 1905
GUS ELEN Ernest Augustus Elen) Music hall entertainer

Ella Shields / Pyke 1927
ELLA SHIELDS Music hall entertainer: Burlington Bertie from Bow

MATA HARI/WALERY PARIS
Mata Hari (1876 - 1917), (Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) Dutch-born exotic dancer, became a German spy in 1916, then a double agent for the French; she was executed

Elvira Henderson in Peggy Ann
Miss Elvira Henderson, stage actress and niece of Lord Faringdon, appaering in Peggy-Ann at Dalys Theatre in London. Pictured granting an interview to a small dog who looks a little like Uggie

The Wallenda Family performing on the high wire, Olympia, 19
Photograph showing the Wallenda family performing their high wire act, as part of Bertram Mills Circus, at Olympia, London, 1931

Flamenco dancer
Illustration by William Barribal showing a dancer on stage performing a Spanish flamenco

Victoria Monks / Variety
VICTORIA MONKS Music hall entertainer: Bill Bailey

Serpentine / Reznicek
Every illustrator of the day has a go at depicting the Serpentine Dance : Reznicek admirably captures the swirling movement which is the essence of the dance

Indonesian Dancer
A Javanese dancer performing the female style in a seated pose. The use of the wrists and scarf are characteristic of this style

Luisa Tetrazzini / Signed
LUISA TETRAZZINI Italian opera singer in 1909

Harry Lauder / Pyke
(Sir) HARRY LAUDER Scottish music-hall entertainer

Jessie Bond / Photograph
JESSIE BOND Actress

Coquelin(A) / Cyrano 1900
CONSTANT COQUELIN Aine (elder) French actor in the role of Cyrano de Bergerac

Chaliapin / Don Quixote
FYODOR IVANOVICH CHALIAPIN Russian opera singer as Don Quichotte (Don Quixote)

Joseph Grimaldi Clown

Gertrude Lawrence / Sketch
Gertrude Lawrence, actress

Dog Begging Owner
Her dachshund is proposing a walk : she is reluctant to abandon her book just as its getting interesting, but she will probably yield

Poodle and Hoop
Poodle wearing clothes performs with a hoop

Alain Delon / Postcard
ALAIN DELON French film actor who appeared in British and American films

The Vampire Dance by Alice Eis and Bert French. 1910

Rudolph Valentino in the role of a faun for a film version of L Apres-midi d un Faune which - alas ! - was never made 1923

Maude Edwards ventriloquist
Maude Edwards (1886 - 1976), female ventriloquist, with her puppeteered dummy Nobbler, stable boy seated upon her knee. Date: 1905

Sophia Loren / Amazon
SOPHIA LOREN Italian film actress, seen here in Amazonian pose on board a ship

MORRIS DANCE / MUSTO
Morris dancers, performing by the Norfolk Arms Hotel, At Glossop, Derbyshire. Date: 1950s

Victorian Scrap - Circus Elephant riding a Tricycle - A heavy weight. late 19th century

Meat Loaf in concert, Penwith Rock Festival, Cornwall
Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday, b. Marvin Lee Aday, 1947), American rock musician and actor, performing on stage with a female singer at the Penwith Rock Festival in 1983. Date: 1983

Valerie Hobson (1917 1998), English actress

Rudolph Valentino / Mail
RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol with his fan mail Date: 1895 - 1926

Three Marx Bros / Mgm
HARPO, GROUCHO & CHICO MARX (Adolph, Julius & Leonard) American comedians, three of the five Marx Brothers (Zeppo and Gummo not shown) Date: 20th century

Gene Tierney (1920 - 1991), New York socialite who became an actress on film and stage, first on stage, then in Hollywood films

Victorian Scrap showing Circus Performers in a Big Top Circus Ring, including a lady balancing on a performing horse and a clown holding a hoop. Date: circa 1880s

Gaby Deslys and her gowns by Drian 1913
Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), French actress, dancer and singer, pictured in a variety of lavish outfits designed by Drian and realised by Landolff for her latest revue at the Palace Theatre, London

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales. Wearing only a T-shirt and hot pants she entered the tunnel at 60 mph

Norma Shearer with Leslie Howard
Norma Shearer (1902 1983), American film actress of the 20s and 30s, with Leslie Howard (1893 - 1943), English stage and film actor, director and producer

Vaslav Nijinsky / Clown
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, seen here in the role of Petrushka Date: 1890 - 1950

Edna Purviance (1895 - 1958), American film actress

L M Korenava as Water in Maeterlinks The Bluebird
L M Korenava as Water in Maurice Maeterlincks The Bluebird directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky (Stanislavski) for his Moscow Ats Theatre Date: circa 1908

Clark Gable with Joan Crawford in Love on the Run 1936
Clark Gable with Joan Crawford in Love on the Run a romantic comedy film. Date: 1936

Dorma Leigh in 1920
Dorma Leigh (1890 - ?), British stage performer, appearing here in The Whirligig, at the Palace Theatre, London. 1920

Bali Dancing Girls
Lovely young women of Bali, Indonesia, performing the Kebyar, a purely demonstrative dance, in which they interpret the mood of music played by a gamelan orchestra. Date: 1930s

Feasting in the Middle Ages by Pauline Baynes
A detailed scene depicting a medieval feast with a jester and performing monkeys entertaining diners while they are served exotic looking roast birds (heron and peacock). 1958

Vaslav Nijinsky / Jeux 3
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer with Schollar and Karsavina in Debussys Jeux during the 8th season of the Ballets Russes Date: 1890 - 1950

The Famous Astaires by Nerman
Caricature of brother and sister dance act, Fred and Adele Astaire by Nerman during the time of their successful run in Stop Flirting at various London theatres during the mid 1920s

Jan Kiepura Film Poster
The artwork for a Film staring Jan Kiepura, the Polish singer (tenor) and actor

Edmund Kean / Richard III
EDMUND KEAN English actor in the role of Shakespeares Richard III

Rita Hayworth / Columbia
RITA HAYWORTH American film actress and dancer

Maude Adams / Peter Pan 06
MAUDE ADAMS Actress, as Peter Pan in JM Barries play

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