Picture No | 10638561 |
Date | 1st July 1912 |
Description | First Royal Variety Show cast, 1912 |
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Some of the cast of the first Royal Variety Show performance at the Palace Theatre, 1912.~~~~1. Hermann Finck(conductor of the Palace Orchestra)~~2. Cinquevalli(the human billiard-table juggling act)~~3. Mr. Barclay Gammon(songs and humerous remarks at the piano)~~4. Miss Ida Crispi(a grotesque dance with Mr. Farren)~~5. Mr. Fred Farren(a grotesque dance with Miss Ida Crispi)~~11. La Pia(a fire dance and 'the spirit of the waves')~~12. Miss Fanny Fields('The happy little Dutch girl')~~13. Mr. Henry Hanson Paulo(in the bouncing act Humpti-bumpsti)~~17. Mr. Harry Lauder('Roamin in the gloamin')~~18. Mr. James W. Tate-'that'(accompanist to Miss Clarice Mayne)~~21. Boganny's Lunatic Bakers(a comedy acrobatic act. 'Fun in Chinatown)~~22. Miss Vesta Tilley('Algy')~~23. Little Tich('the gamekeeper' and his big boot dance)~~
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Source | Page in a supplement to The Sketch, 3rd July 1912, page 4. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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