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Picture No 10724099
Date 1918
Description Sketch cover, George Robey in Bing Boys on Broadway, WW1
Details

Front cover of The Sketch featuring George Robey as U-Ka-Lip-Tus, Chief of the Wah Wahs in a scene from The Bing Boys on Broadway, playing at the Alhambra, a spin-off show from the hugely successful wartime revue, The Bing Boys are Here. According to the description, the feathers on Mr Robey's headdress stand up to attention on receiving the bottle of fire water he holds here.
Source Photograph by Foulsham & Banfield on the front cover of The Sketch, 6 March 1918
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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