Footlight Notes

Popular Entertainment, mid 19th-early 20th century.

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Oldbury Brough, American-born English entertainer - https://t.co/GYceeaOtac

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Blanche Owen, English music hall and concert singer - https://t.co/oFdWxLRu9Z

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Bromley Booth, English violin virtuoso - https://t.co/I8rA66SXV2

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Topsy Sinden and Lily Elsie on tour in See-See, early 1907 - https://t.co/z3xfC2gak5

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Lily Elsie as Princess Soo Soo in A Chinese Honeymoon, April 1903 - https://t.co/P3Qlfnn0Jc

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Lisa Weber's death and burial, Buffalo, New York, October 1887 - https://t.co/RkXqbvyrVm

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First edition of Footlight Notes, November 1994 - https://t.co/74GPIsVUDd

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Odette Myrtil, French violinist, actress and singer - https://t.co/HmmnzsaEjS

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May Yohé, the future Lady Francis Hope, owner of the Hope Diamond - https://t.co/fHYtI2rncf

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James Crockett the 'Lion Conquerer,' photographed at the time of his appearances in Paris, 1863 - https://t.co/qT2128q7NY

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Phoebe Don, English burlesque actress and singer - https://t.co/vdmhVb1ULm

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Fay Davis as Monica Blayne in The Tree of Knowledge, St. James's Theatre, London, 1897 - https://t.co/FaR6NZx2aS

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Anna Hana, American vaudeville comedienne and singer - https://t.co/Ntsfscj0uu

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Zarmo, international juggler and equilibrist - https://t.co/Ja37ay2BGl

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Martin Harvey and cast in a scene from Don Juan's Last Wager<, Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, 1900 - https://t.co/GH30jBds12

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Gertrude Glyn as she appeared as Sonia during the run of The Merry Widow, Daly's Theatre, London, 1907-1909 - https://t.co/Lp9k9jLTAB

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seaside entertainers in blackface, New Brighton, Merseyside, late 1890s - https://t.co/FvUFrzgKiP

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Leona Lewis, 'The Little Gem,' New York, circa 1895 - https://t.co/2p9Nbmkx9v

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Marguerite Baretti as Minerve in a revival of Orphée aux enfers, Gaité Théâtre, Paris, 1878 http://t.co/0XtFvPIUn5