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 : The Dolly Sisters performing their Persian Dance 1921


The Dolly Sisters performing their Persian Dance 1921

The Dolly Sisters, Rosie and Jenny, photographed as they perform their Persian dance at the League of Notions revue at the New Oxford. Both sisters wear their dancing dresses, made up of abbreviated and befringed trousers and tight skull-caps of gleaming silver'. Despite being attractions at the New Oxford, the Dolly Sisters travelled at the end of each show to the London Pavilion in order to perform their Pony Trot in the last scene of the Fun of the Fayre

Picture No
12688968
Media ID
46129340
Size
4000px x 5285px (4.3MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photographed by Foulsham and Banfield in The Sketch', 23 November 1921, page 299
Date
1921

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