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Picture No 12916278
Date 1924
Description An ostrich farm in South Africa,Hoffman Girls at Hippodrome
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The famous Hoffman Girls performing as ostriches (!) in the London Hippodrome's 1924 revue, Leap Year. 1924 was the year of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, a theme picked up on for the revue - hence their rather artistic interpretation of British territories around the world.
Source Unattributed photograph in 'The Sketch', 23 April 1924, page 182
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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