Two amateur actors, one in drag as 'Charley's Aunt', greet each other in front of painted scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2043403i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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Two amateur actors, one in drag as 'Charley's Aunt', greet each other in front of painted scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The man in drag is dressed in white and is holding a small fan. He is greeted by a man in smart attire with a top hat. Amateur drag behind the lines, early in World War I, with the same backdrop as in another photograph (Wellcome Library no. 2043401i).

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.9 cm

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Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A ‘Charley’s Aunt’ outfit has been hastily improvised from a printed bedcoverand a few hand props. This popular figure created by the actor W.S. Penley in 1892 in the farce by Brandon Thomas of the same name had a plot which involved a young undergraduate masquerading as an elderly Victorian lady, and was always played wearing the distinctive black bonnet as seen here."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043403i

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

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