German actors, some in drag, gather on stage at a party. Photographic postcard, 1930-45.

Date:
[between 1930? and 1945?]
Reference:
2043873i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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German actors, some in drag, gather on stage at a party. Photographic postcard, 1930-45. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The actors, playing a variety of characters, are drinking and in conversation on stage, with lanterns hanging from the layered stage ceiling. A German amateur theatrical (presumably military) group, in a variety of costumes including four in drag. World War II period from the style of the hair, shoes and facial hair (thin pencilled moustaches) sported by the men, a style popularised by the British movie actor Ronald Colman, and German star of the Weimar cinema Adolph Wolbruck (who fled to Britain when the Nazis came to power and enjoyed a second career on the British screen as Anton Walbrook)

Publication/Creation

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1930? and 1945?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.6 x 13.7 cm

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043873i

Where to find it

  • Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag

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