Performing Collection (page 3)

Shaman mask, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia (B. C. ), Canada, North America
Shaman mask, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada, North America

Jessie Matthews / Wilding
JESSIE MATTHEWS British singer and dancer of stage and screen

Dolores Del Rio / 1930
DOLORES DEL RIO (Lolita Dolores de Martinez) Mexican film actress

Laurence Olivier / Tie
(Sir) LAURENCE OLIVIER British actor of stage and screen

Vivien Leigh / Paramount
VIVIEN LEIGH English actress of stage and film

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

Leontyne Price / Warfield
LEONTYNE PRICE American operatic soprano with William Warfield in Gershwins Porgy & Bess

Vera Lynn / Stars / Song
VERA LYNN Popular English singer: The Stars Will Remember

Deborah Kerr / Winchester
DEBORAH KERR (Deborah Kerr-Trimmer) English film actress

Circus Clown Pointing
A young child, with a hoop decorated with flowers, rides on the back of a skewbald (brown and white) horse, while a clown stands and points

Isadora Duncan / Barefoot
ISADORA DUNCAN American dancer, barefoot on stage

William Kemp, Dancer
WILLIAM KEMP(E) English actor and dancer in comic roles. Famous for jigs and for morris dancing from London to Norwich

Operating Table 1930S
A group of student nurses in theatre, observing a surgeon performing an operation

Dd home and Chair
Daniel Dunglass Home, Scottish-American medium, remains the most enigmatic of all spirit mediums, performing extraordinary feats which have never been explained

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

Covent Garden Theatre, 1786 (pen and ink with wash on paper)
XCF282036 Covent Garden Theatre, 1786 (pen and ink with wash on paper) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

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

A couple of tango dancers perform a live-show in a restaurant of La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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

A couple of Professional Tango dancers on Avenida Corrientes at sunset, with the Obelisk monument in the background. Buenos Aires, Argentina. (MR)

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

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