Play Collection (#86)

Cricket Forward Play Shot
Batsman showing the forward played shot. Date: 1892

Scenes from the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A page from Femina magazine, showing scenes from the first and second act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand

Carol Coombe Gives a Chopstick Lunch
Carol Coombe, who was then playing the lead role in the play, Lady Precious Stream at the Little Theatre, John Street, London, hosts a Chinese lunch

Once Upon a Time - a sketch by Claude Shepperson
Two nymphs sit and watch a group of fauns and magical creatures happily play. Date: 1918

Tatler cover - Winifred Barnes
Front cover of The Tatler magazine, featuring the popular stage actress, Winifred Barnes (1892-1935), appearing at the time as the heroine in an Albert de Courville production, Soldier Boy

Billie Carleton in Fair and Warmer
Billie Carleton (4 September 1896 28 November 1918), an English musical comedy actress during the First World War. She began her professional stage career at age 15

The Freaks at the New Theatre by Claude Shepperson, 1918
The drop-scene of The Freaks, at the New Theatre, a comedy by Sir Arthur Pinero staged from 1917 to 1918. Date: 1918

Cricket Back Play Shot
A batsman demonstrating the back play shot, playing the shot behind him. Date: 1888

Cricket asking for guard
A batsman is comes on to play when hes getting ready in hes crease he asks for guard. Date: circa 19th century

Cricket the right and wrong way of batting
A batsman demonstrate the correct way of batting; straight play and then the incorrect way; cross play Date: 1892

Billie Carleton & Dennis Eadie in Freedom of the Seas, 1918
Billie Carleton (4 September 1896 28 November 1918) was an English musical comedy actress during the First World War. She began her professional stage career at age 15

Enough of war plays - theatre in WW1 by Norman Morrow
A soldier back home on leave from the trenches is disgruntled to find that the entertainment on offer at the theatre is war-themed. He sees enough of that at the Front

Jigsaw puzzles of six scenes of French children (late 19th C
A boxed set containing jigsaw puzzles of six late 19th Century scenes of French children at play. Puzzles & Games

An Englishmans Home filmed, WW1
Scenes from the film version of the stage play, An Englishmans Home, produced by B and C Film in 1914. Originally written by Guy du Maurier (who was killed in action in 1915)

Wolverhampton Royal Orphanage - Girls at Play
Girls at play, some with skipping ropes, at the Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum. Designed by Joseph Manning, the orphanage opened in 1854 at Goldthorn Hill. Date: circa 1905

Bristol Diocesan Home
Children at play at the Bristol Diocesan Home run by the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society. Date: Date unknown

Beauty of Bath
Comic postcard depicting a tramp (or casual ) taking his regulation bath at a workhouse. The The Beauty of Bath was a popular play of the period. Date: 1907

Young woman with ball on beach
A young woman holding a ball above her head on the beach. Date: circa 1960s

Man playing with son on beach
Man playing with his son on the beach. Date: circa 1960s

Cartoon, Sir Herbert Tree as Falstaff in Henry IV Part I at His Majestys Theatre, London. A speech bubble says: Zounds! I am so big that they ve had to make a full page of me. Date: 1914

Little girl playing in sandpit
Little girl playing in a sandpit. circa 1960s

Dennis Eadie & Isobel Elsom in The Man who stayed at home, W
Mr Dennis Eadie and Miss Isobel Elsom as Christopher Brent and Molly Preston in " The Man Who Stayed at Home, " at the Royalty Theatre

Children play at tanks by Leslie Shaw
We re not little wretches - we re the Tanks!" Two little boys, with heads in coal scuttles pretend to be tanks and scare their girl playmate. Date: 1917

Laurette Taylor in Out There, war-themed play in New York, W
Miss Laurette Taylor (1883-1946) American actress born Loretta Helen Clooney, pictured appearing in various scenes in the play, " Out There

Soliders of the King, Children playing at war, WW1
Charming illustration showing a line of little boys queuing up outside a recruiting office dressed up as soldiers with the imaginative use of a variety of boxes, flags, paper hats and borrowed items

Captain Arthur Eliot, 1917
Captain Arthur Eliot, co-author with Captain Bruce Bairnsfather of the play, The Better Ole, based on Bairnsfathers Old Bill cartoons in The Bystander and staged at the Oxford Theatre

Ping Pong in Fairyland
Fairies playing ping pong on a mushroom. Date: 1902

Abraham Lincoln a the Lyric
The actor, Mr William J. Rea as Abraham Lincoln at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith in 1919, playing the lead role in the play by John Drinkwater

Hamlet
A portrait of Hamlet in Shakespeares play of the same name. Date: 1891

The Better Ole as a Film Play, 1918
Scenes from the film version of The Better Ole, a 1918 Welsh Pearson film based the cartoons of trench life by Bruce Bairnsfather published in The Bystander magazine

Children playing game, Japan
Children playing a game, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Colonials playing croquet, India. Date: circa 1890s

Marwari men playing board game, India
Four Marwari (or Marwadi) men, originating from Rajasthan, India, seen here playing a board game. Date: circa 1890s

Mlle. Edmee Dormeuil in the Better Ole
Edmee Dormeuil, French actress and star of The Better Ole, the musical play based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

The Better Ole at the Oxford Theatre in 1917
Sketches taken from the musical The Better Ole by Bystander cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, staged at the Oxford Theatre (formerly the Oxford Musical Hall)

Pug Peter -- animals playing cricket with an orange
Pug Peter -- There She Goes! Animals playing cricket with an orange. Date: 1905

Gordon Highlanders playing cards, WW1
Gordon Highlanders playing cards in a reserve trench before moving up the line on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton
Girls at play with hoops, skipping ropes and a swing at St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton. Nuns stand in supervision. Date: Date unknown

Children from Scholfield Home, Wavertree, at Conway
Children from the Scholfield Home, Church Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, play at sea nymphs on the beach on a trip to Conway in North Wales

Sikh Officers playing quoits at Hampton Court Palace, 1902
Sihk officers, in London to form part of the Indian contingent for the Coronation of King Edward VII, passing the time at their quarters at Hampton Court Palace

Vera Poliakoff by Madame Yevonde
Vera Poliakoff (wife of Basil Burton) by Madame Yevonde. Seen here in the role of Mary Norton, Lady-in-Waiting, in Clifford Baxs play, The Rose Without a Thorn, taking place at the Duchess Theatre

Miss Tennyson Jesse by Madame Yevonde
Miss Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (1888-1958) by Madame Yevonde. She was an English criminologist, journalist and author, sometimes using the pen name Wynifried Margaret Tennyson

Our pleasant parlour games! 1928
Children sitting around a table playing cards. Date: 1928

Miss Faith Celli by Madame Yevonde
Miss Faith Celli (Dorothy Faith Standing, 1888-1942), by Madame Yevonde. She was an actress in plays including The Blue Lagoon and the comedy Threads at the St Jamess Theatre, London. 1921

The Round Pond angler in silhouette
A small child with a fishing net amuses himself at the Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, London. Date: 1926

My Skyscraper by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy plays with his building bricks. Date: 1944

Playtime by Muriel Dawson -- a little child kneels on the grass with a ball. Date: 1940

Scenes from a play, Tommy Atkins, at the Lyceum Theatre
Scenes from a play entitled Tommy Atkins, at the Lyceum Theatre, London. It was no doubt put into production to help encourage recruitment in the early days of the First World War

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