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Little Tich (1867-1928),
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(photo: unknown, circa 1908)
Footlight Notes no. 534
contents
for the week ending
15 December 2007
Read about Kurt Gänzl's latest biography, EMILY SOLDENE: IN SEARCH OF A SINGER, which has just been published. This long-awaited and detailed study of a fascinating Victorian theatrical celebrity and her contemporaries includes almost 700 illustrations. (This page is best viewed in Internet Explorer.)
Home - FOOTLIGHT NOTES, images of theatre and other popular entertainment, 1850s-1920s - The brothers Charles and Henry Webb as the twins Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse in the production of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Princess's Theatre, London, 27 February 1864
Celebrity of the Week - 'Lord' George Sanger (1827- 1911), English circus showman entrepreneur and proprietor of the 'Hall-by-the-Sea,' Margate
Postcard of the week - Princess Pauline (b. 1873), English music hall comedienne
Betty Barclay & a Baritone
Please use the above image © John Culme, 2008
Cigarette Card of the week - Vashti Earle (fl. late 19th/early 20th Century), American soubrette
Minor Player / Variety Act of the week - Four Sisters Ruby (fl. circa 1912), English variety theatre entertainers
Press Clippings of the week - Eddie Foy on tour in Off the Earth, with Sadie McDonald, Kate Uart, Lola and Lillian Hawthorne, Joseph Doner, Henry Carter, et al, Grand Theatre, Decatur, Illinois, March 1895 / Mattie Edwards, late of the In Dahomey company, appears in Klaw & Erlanger's gigantic production of Edmund Day's drama, The Round-Up, Majestic, Fort Wayne, March 1912
A selection of Footlight Notes handmade greetings cards for you to buy.
'Just to let you know the cards arrived safely this morning.
Frankly they are delightful and even finer than I thought they would be . . .
They are so good I hardly like to use them!' - Tim Taylor
(George Glover)
English variety theatre dettiests (fl. circa 1910-1920)
(photo: unknown, circa 1915)
Sound file (3.5 mb) - the English variety theatre act known as 'Betty Barclay & a Baritone' toured the circuits between about 1910 and 1920 with their refined entertainment at a white grand piano, in which the 'Baritone' (George Glover) sang to the accompaniment of Miss Barclay. They made a handful of recordings for the HMV label about 1915 of which this example is a version of the song, 'I Want My Home In Ohio' (HMV C-669), which would not have disgraced any drawing room. Betty Barcaly's husband, Lieut.-Commander Beal, R.N., was killed on active service in the Spring of 1917.
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