Performing Collection (page 56)

Circus Horses / 1916
The trainer makes his pair of bay horses rear up in front of the audience

Franconi Performs / Circus
Laurent Franconi performs in Paris. Standing on one leg on the back of his black horse, he canters around the outdoor ring

Girl & Performing Horses
A girl with two white performing horses. She has several props in the ring with her

Garrick / Alchemist / Abel
DAVID GARRICK English actor as Abel Drugger in Ben Jonsons The Alchemist

Garrick / Liotard / Paris
DAVID GARRICK English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles, in Paris in 1751

Garrick / Pond / Allen
DAVID GARRICK English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles, as he first appeared in London at the age of 25

Bird Dance / Japan / 1862
An elegant dancer performing the Bird Dance in a elaborate costume and headdress

Garrick / Essex / Miniature
DAVID GARRICK English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles

Garrick / Cwb
DAVID GARRICK English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles

Bartley as Falstaff
George Bartley as Sir John Falstaff

David Garrick / Hogarth
David Garrick in the character of Richard III

Louis Jouvet / Postcard
Louis Jouvet, French stage and screen actor

Isadora Duncan / Robe
ISADORA DUNCAN American dancer in a long robe

Mata Hari / Dagger Dance
MATA HARI (= Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) dances the sacred Brahmic Dagger Dance, claiming to have learnt it as a child from the priestesses of Java

Talma / Philippoteaux
Francois-Joseph Talma French actor

Vareska Night Attire
Mlle Vareska of the Theatre de l Athenee in her night attire

Murder Mystery Games
A group of adults play a murder mystery game. The detective writes notes and interrogates the suspects while the corpse lies on the floor

Stockton - Darlington Centenary
Celebrating the centenary of the opening of the Stockton Darlington railway - Locomotion performing again at Stockton station

Connie Gilchrist / Fancy
CONNIE GILCHRIST English actress as a young girl, posing in costume: she left the stage in the late 1880s to become Countess of Orkney

Mlle. Mastico / Actress
Mlle. Mastico as Hero in the Paris production of Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing

Bernhardt as Theodora
Sarah Bernhardt in the fifth act of Theodora

Irving Illustration
Study of Sir Henry Irving

Camargo Dancing
Marianne de Camargo, Belgian ballerina, is not only a remarkably talented dancer but also a notable innovator in style, techniques, costume and coiffure

Tom Brown Performing
Tom performing the old west country song of The Leather Bottle, with considerable applause

Dorothy Jordan (Smith)
nee Bland; Actress, and mistress to the duke of Clarence (who became William IV)

Guillemette at Sabbat
Guillemette Babin, at the sabbat, dances with demons, performing with them acts which decendy forbids to be named

Bear Performs Fight
A bear and its trainer engage in a mock combat to entertain the residents of a Russian village

Performing Monkey
To reward the monkeys performance, a girl offers its Italian owner a choice between an apple for the monkey or a penny for herself

Clement in Stage Role
Mademoiselle Clement, in the role of Nina Vernon in La petite ville, is grieved at the behaviour of her beloved and flourishes her hankie in despair

Girl and Dog / Begging
Give me your paw ! - a small girl shakes hands with her Saint Bernard before giving it a dog-biscuit

Monkey Rides a Dog / 1845
A monkey jockey belabours his steed to run faster, faster

Mademoiselle Follette
La Promenade de Mademoiselle Follette - four dogs take a fifth for a ride in a pram- like vehicle

Entertainer and Dogs
A street entertainer with a mixed pack of performing dogs

Dogs at Hippodrome
Dogs performing all sorts of clever tricks at the Paris Hippodrome

Circus Dogs / Dog Biscuits
Circus dogs advertising Greensmiths Derby dog biscuits

Concert Des Chats
The Concert des Chats, a feature of the Foire de Saint- Germain : the animals miaow when the monkey gives the signal

Performing Cats
Street entertainer with performing cats and birds in cages

Circus Clown and Horses
Two horses perform at the circus clowns bidding

Pauline Chase / Postcard
Pauline Chase, actress, notable for playing the part of Barries Peter Pan

Sacha Guitry / Journal
SACHA GUITRY French actor

Strauss and Monkey
Strauss, a German savant, believes that by careful dieting, animals can be taught to think and speak, and fish can be taught to sing

Siddons / Lady Macbeth
SARAH SIDDONS as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeares Macbeth

Charles Kean / R3 Gloster
Charles Kean as Gloucester in Shakespeares Richard III Act I Scene I

David Garrick as Lear
DAVID GARRICK English actor, producer and dramatist plays the part of Shakespeares King Lear. Date: 1717 - 1779

Garden Scene 1770
A general garden scene with people performing various operations

Giuditta Pasta / Singer
GIUDITTA PASTA Italian opera singer. She sang in Venice, London, Paris and St Petersburg

John Liston, Actor
Mr Liston as Biully Lackaday in Sweethearts and Wives

Wonderful Horse of 1595
A horse named Morocco or Marocco, exhibited by Banks; it was trained to leap on its hind legs, and count numbers on dice; it was shown in London at the Bell Savage Inn

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