Hospital Sunday: at the entrance to a theatre, the audience are required to surrender their wigs, lipstick, etc. Drawing by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1932.

  • Sullivan, Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph), 1869-1933.
Date:
7 October 1932
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460375i
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Hospital Sunday: at the entrance to a theatre, the audience are required to surrender their wigs, lipstick, etc. Drawing by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1932. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The subject appears to be people, characterised as middle-class, attending a Sunday performance in aid of a hospital (as organized by e.g. the Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund) It is implied that regulations have been planned or introduced restricting the nature of public events on Sundays to non-dramatic events solely: the artist imagines the effect of such a regulation on Hospital Sunday events

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[London?], 7 October 1932.

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil ; sheet 28 x 38 cm

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If wigs, tam o'shanters etc. are permitted in the auditorium on Sundays, but not on the stage, it is only fair that steps should be taken to end the anomaly. Cloak room attendant, "Any skullcaps, wigs, toupets, transformations or pin-curls - any paint, powder or lipstick to declare? Edmund J. Sullivan Oct. 7, 1932 Behind counter, notices: "Fancy costume, disguise or make-up is not permitted to be worn in the auditorium on Sundays By order", "Performance in aid of St. Ch...'s Hospital, Sunday". A man removing his skull-cap is inscribed "Professor taking off skull-cap"

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Wellcome Collection 460375i

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