Theatre Collection (page 3)

Star and Stargazer 1926
THE STAR AND THE STAR-GAZER An actress in her dressing room receives a friendly visit from a lover of the theatre

Empire Theatre / 1889
The cover of a programme for the Empire theatre, London. The bill featured comedians including Dan Leno and Cleopatra, A Grand Ballet Divertissement

Falstaff in Basket
Falstaff is hidden in a laundry basket

Hamlet and Skull
Hamlet with Yoricks skull

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (2 of 2)

The Windmill Theatre, 1940
Eric Woodburn, seated at the piano, rehearses along with the girls of the Revudeville company at the Windmill Theatre, London. 1940

Air Raid Drills at the Windmill Theatre
At the Windmill Theatre, London, the showgirls are given a crash course in fire-fighting and first aid. 1940

Bardelys The Magnificent, by Hamilton and Sabatini
Bardelys The Magnificent, by Henry Hamilton and Rafael Sabatini, from Sabatinis novel (1906). First produced at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, August 1910, then the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

Programme design, Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Ida, Savoy Theatre, London. A respectful operatic perversion of Tennysons " Princess" in Three Acts. circa 1880s

Cymbeline - title page - Iachimo emerges from the trunk as Imogen sleeps. 1862

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Conductor. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Barbette (Van der Clyde), Paris, 1923
Barbette (Van der Clyde) at the Casino de Pari), Paris, from Paris Plaisirs number 18 December 1923 Date: 1923

Programme cover for The Beauty Spot, 1917
Programme cover for The Beauty Spot at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 1917. Artwork by Dolly Tree. Date: 1917

Crescent Gardens Ballroom and Theatre, Revere Beach, Massachusetts Date: circa 1909

Coliseum, London
The London Coliseum, on St Martins Lane, London, now the home of English National Opera (ENO). The memorial statue to Edith Cavell is in the foreground left. Date: 1947

Dominion Theatre and Horse Shoe Hotel
The Horse Shoe Hotel next door to the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road, London. The Dominion is showing Stewart Granger and Kathleen Ryan in Captain Boycott

Programme cover for the Palace Theatre, Paris 1926-1931. Artwork by Edouard Halouze 1926

The Clock Tower, Victoria Station, Pimlico, London
The Clock Tower ( Little Ben ), Victoria Station, Pimlico, London. Behind is the Royal Standard Music Hall, built (in 1886) on the site of the Royal Standard Hotel which was built in 1832

Ford Car Advertisement
A woman stops in her new Ford Cabriolet convertible by a small provincial theatre to show off her new costume to fellow co-stars

The Red Moth by William Barribal
A showgirl in a fabulous stage costume with enormous butterfly wings plays to a theatre audience

Royal Festival Hall 1951
The newly built Royal Festival Hall at the South Bank in London

OPHELIA
Ophelia Goes Mad, Hands out Wild Flowers Date: 1906

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

Theatregoing / Globe / C16Th
The Wooden O : Shakespeares summer theatre. Outside the first of the Globe theatres; the audience arriving at the playhouse

9 O clock in London Pub
The busy interior of a London pub near the Old Vic Theatre, at nine o clock in the evening

Globe Theatre
The Globe Theatre (on the right) and the Bear Garden (left) are located on the South Bank, in a somewhat unprestigeous quarter of the city

Beardsley / Salome / Head
The dancers reward : the head on a platter

LADY MACBETH & DAGGERS
Macbeth, Act II, Scene ii Lady Macbeth: "give me the daggers..." Date: 1925

A study of the dancer Lena King, London, 1922. Has succeeded Phyllis Bedells at the Empire Theatre Date: 1922

Soho, London - Shaftesbury Avenue - Queens Theatre with neon sign for Private Lives by Noel Coward, directed by John Gielgud. 1973

Soho, London - Old Compton Street W1 - Cinerama and London Casino (now the Prince Edward Theatre). Photographed at night. 1973

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

The couple who caught their last train 1926
Couple arriving late to the theatre, much to the annoyance of the seated audience. Date: 1926

Opera / Paris / 1905 / Inside
The main staircase of the Paris Opera House called l escalier d Honneur. Date: circa 1900

A Member of Tattersall s
A scene from the play A Member of Tattersall s, by Captain H.S.Browning, which opened at the Whitney Theatre (now the Novello Theatre, Aldwych, London) on 28 February 1912

Programme cover for the Theatre Daunou, Paris, 1920s 1920s

Leicester Square Looking Towards the Empire Theatre
The Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, now the Empire cinema, illuminated at night during a season of performances by the celebrated Russian ballet

Globe Theatre at Shakespeares England
A replica of the Globe Theatre at the Shakespeares England exhibition

In the Stalls at the Empire Theatre, 1894
Engraving showing three theatre-goers heading for their seats, in the stalls, at the Empire Theatre, 1894. All these people are depicted wearing formal, evening attire for their trip to the theatre

Puss at the Play - Tragedy and Comedy
A group of cats in a box at the theatre. Wains rendering of cats in human situations and poses gained him widespread popularity around the turn of the 20th century

His Majesty
A theatre poster advertising Fred Karnos company in " His Majestys Guests". Fred Karno was a theatre

Verdi / Rigoletto / Liebig2
La Scala, Milano, and a scene from the opera which was actually first performed at La Fenice, Venezia

Hamlet & Ophelia
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Ophelia

Allenburys Pastilles Ad
Advertisement for Allenburys pastilles; this advert suggests that they will stop people coughing through a talkie

Play / Racine / Phedre
Sarah Bernhardt wears a full dress with sleeves to the floor as they plays Phedre by Jean Racine

Play / Capek / R. u. R
Programme for the first English production of the play, also known as R.U.R. and written by Karel Capek, when it was performed at St. Martins Theatre in London

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