Actors, some in drag, pose for Ernie Payne and Bennie Browne's "New Signals" revuette. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929]
Reference:
2045166i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Credit

Actors, some in drag, pose for Ernie Payne and Bennie Browne's "New Signals" revuette. Photographic postcard, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photograph of the group sitting down, posing in a line, with men in formal black suits alternating with men wearing light coloured dresses and wigs.

Publication/Creation

Leeds : Fielding, [between 1920 and 1929]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.7 x 13.8 cm

Lettering

Ernie Payne and Bennie Browne's "New Signals" revuette Lettering printed in black ink on bottom recto.

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A semi-amateur revue in the mid-1920s. The three drags are wearing short flapper costumes, including shingled and Marcel waved wigs."
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045166i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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