Role Collection (page 19)

A Japanese actor plays a female role
A Japanese male actor plays a remale role. It is common in long plays for men to play a variety of different roles. Date: 1932

A Japanese actor dresses
A Japanese male actor prepares to play a female role. It is common in long Japanese plays for the same actors with play many roles. Date: 1932

Girls in Japan being instructed in chanoyu or tea ceremony
Girls in Japan being instructed in chanoyu or the tea ceremony. Knowledge of the behavious involved in this is thought essential for every well-educated Japanese girl. Date: 1932

Julia Neilson - English actress
Julia Neilson (1868-1957), English actress, wife of Fred Terry, best known for her numerous performances as Lady Blakeney in " The Scarlet Pimpernel" and for her roles in many tragedies

Violet Loraine knitting in Round the Map, WWI
Actress Violet Loraine, darning socks in her role in Round the Map at the Alhambra, where she sang a sock darning anthem to music composed by Herman Fink

Decima Moore
Lilian Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg, CBE (11 December 1871 18 February 1964), better known by her stage name Decima Moore, English singer and actress

Women working in Army Remount Depot by Cecil Aldin, WW1
Sketch by Cecil Aldin for his painting of women working at one of the Army Remount Depots under his command in Berkshire during the First World War

Female Army Remount Workers during First World War
A group of women working as stable hands at an Army Remount Depot in Berkshire, overseen by the artist Cecil Aldin who was also a keen huntsman and Remount Officer for the area

Gwen Aldin at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Gwen Aldin, daughter of the artist Cecil Aldin, pictured with one of her charges at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War

An Autumn Renunciation - WW1 fashions
A woman in uniform, possibly the WaC or police, turns down a fashionable frippery, despite the temptation. Date: 1915

Garments for Women Who Work, WW1
First World War advertisement for clothing from Mrs Oliver Ltd of 39 Old Bond Street, featuring some suggested, garments for women who work

WW1 - Balkan Indecision
WW1 - An illustrated personification of Romanias and Bulgarias indecision and role in the war. The two countries are personified as two men in conversation to decide whether to take a swim in

Heinkel He 111H -the Luftwaffe standard bomber at the time of the Battle of Britain, some later found a useful role as test aircraft-seen here carrying a Henschel Hs 293 missile

Heinkel He 60 -designed to to be catapulted from cruisers, the type had been replaced in this role with the He 114 by 1939 However some He 60 stayed in patrol use until 1943

Paul Boisselot in the role of Jules in La Perruque de mon Oncle at the Folies Dramatiques.. Boisselot (1829-1905) was a French vaudeville actor and comedian

Female lift attendant at a West End business, WW1
" Men must fight, and women must work." A woman lift attendant at a business in London in 1915. 1915

Womens Emergency Corps making toys, WW1
Members of the Womens Emergency Corps learning to make toys in September 1914. Before the war, Germany was the main exporter of toys to Britain but a number of voluntary organisations

Women gunnery opticians, Illustrated War News, WW1
Women gunnery " opticians". Learning gun-sight lens making at Northampton Institute during the First World War. Date: 1917

Care of the Bus Conductress, WW1
A female bus conductor working for the London General Omnibus Company during the First World War, pictured seated on a special platform installed to allow for a rest on long journeys about the city

Women ambulance attendants and drivers, WW1
Women acting as attendants and drivers at the new London County Council Ambulance station in Bloomsbury, wearing a special uniform adapted to the special needs of their employment when on duty

David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
The face of David Lloyd George adorns the front of a tank as he takes on the role of British Prime Minister during World War I. Date: 1916

Girls at work making ammunition boxes, WW1
Young women manufacturing ammunition boxes, fixing together the dovetailed pieces at an unidentified British factory during the First World War. Date: 1915

Elsie Janis in The Passing Show
American actress, Elsie Janis as Kitty O Hara in The Passing Show, the popular revue at the Palace Theatre in 1914. Date: 1914

Regine Flory in The Passing Show by George Barbier
La Marchande de Masques. Regine Flory in The Passing Show, the popular revue at the Palace Theatre in 1914. Date: 1914

2 Plain, 1 Purl, WW1 knitting cartoon
Cartoon by Stan Terry in The Tatler showing two plain old ladies and one pretty purl of a young woman all sat knitting comforts for troops at the Front. Date: 1917

Business as Usual revue - Knitting and Sewing scene
A scene from Business as Usual a new revue at the London Hippodrome with a vicar addressing a group of ladies who are knitting and sewing comforts for troops. Date: 1914

Herbert Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of Sir Herbert Tree in the role of Professor Higgins, and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion

Geraldine Oliffe as Mrs Pearce in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of actress Geraldine Oliffe in the role of Mrs Pearce, housekeeper to Professor Higgins in the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion

Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of Mrs Patrick Campbell in the role of Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion, which opened in London for the first time at His Majestys Theatre on 11 April 1914. Date: 1914

Herbert Tree as Professor Higgins in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of the actor Sir Herbert Tree in the role of Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion first staged in London on 11 April 1914. Date: 1914

Pygmalion drawn by Tony Sarg
Scenes from Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw which opened at His Majestys Theatre in London on 11 April 1914. The sketches drawn by Tony Sarg show the various characters including Mrs

Scene from Pygmalion by Tony Sarg
Sir Herbert Tree in the role of Professor Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion which opened in London at His Majestys Theatre on 11 April 1914

Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion
Edmund Gurney in the role of Alfred Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion which first opened in London on 11 April 1914 starring Mrs Patrick Campbell and Sir Herbert Tree as Eliza Doolittle

Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot (Kaiser Wilhelm II, the ham actor), showing the German Kaiser in four different theatrical roles: ignoring treaties, being deceitful, involved in litigation, and as Tartuffe

Bureaucratic staff in ministries in 1919
A diagram showing the inflation in temporary and female personnel in various Ministries in Westminster and Whitehall necessitated by the First World War

WAGNER, Richard (1813-1883). German composer of Romanticism. Siegfrid, opera by Richard Wagner. Tenor Jacques Urbus in the title role

WW1 knitting song music sheet - I m Knitting a Rosary
Front cover of a music sheet for a knitting-themed song - I m Knitting a Rosary, - words by Robert Levenson and music by Vincent Plunkett

WW1 knitting song sheet music
Front cover of sheet music for Knitting Song, published during the First World War when national patriotism was manifested by knitting comforts for troops. Date: c.1917

Japan - Temple of Kwannon at Mizusawa
Lantern slide of Temple of Kwannon at Mizusawa. Mizusawa Temple, founded over 1000 years ago, plays an important religious role as one of the 33 sites of the Kanto Kannon Pilgrimage

China - Junks on the Pei-Ho
Lantern slide of Junks on the Pei-Ho. 19th century junks (Qing Dynasty) Junk Keying travelled from China to the United States and England between 1846 to 1848

Pears Soap Advertisement, WW1 - munitions worker
Advertisement for the famous Pears soap, the first in their Womanhood in War-Time series. No. 1 is My Lady of Munitions and features a munitions worker or munitionette in uniform at a wash bowl. 1917

The Last Tea by Higgins
Swiftly fled each honey d hour Spent with military male; Metropole became a bower Cecil an Arcadian vale. A rather mournful female clerical worker or secretary takes her last cup of tea of her

Dolly Goes Back to the Land, land girl, WW1
An attractive young woman posed with a spade on a farm, part of the female agricultural workforce during the First World War - though her outfit does not suggest shes a member of the Womens Land

Munitions Girl by Helen McKie
Look at the girls who REALLY work To strafe the German and the Turk - The girls who slave at making shells And scorn the screeds of H. G

Geraldine Hedges, Transport Officer in the Balkans, WW1
Geraldine Hedges, Chief Transport Officer in charge of the motor column for the Elsie Inglis unit of the Scottish Womens Hospital in the Balkans during the First World War

A Countess Gave me a cup of tea, WW1 soldier & canteen
A First World War soldier received a cup of tea from an aristocratic lady in a nurses uniform. Canteening was one of the favourite voluntary occupations of well-born women during the Great War

Land girls on a Surrey farm, WW1
A group of cheery land girls taking a break from work on a Surrey farm in 1917. The Bystander magazine, in which this photograph was published, comments

Sock darning by men, WW1
A middle-aged man employed in darning a sock and rocking a baby - a reversal of roles during the First World War. Date: 1917

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