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Charlie Bray in character as a Dutch girl. Photographic postcard, 191-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
He is performing a curtsey and smiling at the viewer. Acts featuring singing and dancing troupes of children were popular items on music-hall and vaudeville bills in Europe and America in the early years of the twentieth century. The 1958 Stephen Sondheim musical 'Gypsy' based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee gives a very good idea of what life was like for these children, touring the country, going from one small theatre to another. Novelty dances in comedy costumes were standard routines, and the subject of the present work, dressed as a clog-dancing Dutch girl, is typical of the genre.
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