Theatres Collection (#33)

Pantagleize
The Tower Theatres production of Pantagleize by Michel de Ghelderode. Actor Bill Phillips. Date: 1962

George Couloris in The Father
George Couloris playing the Captain in the Tower Theatres production of The Father by August Strindberg. Date: 1961

Raymond Cusick stage set for The Madwoman of Chaillot
Stage set designed by Raymond Cusick (designer of the Daleks for Dr Who). The Tower Theatres production of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux. Date: 1957

Harold Bennett in The Madwoman of Chaillot
Harold Bennett playing the Baron in the Tower Theatres production of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux. Date: 1957

Alfred Molina actor (on right)
Alfred Molina (on right) actor in Tower Theatres production of Burkes Company (British Premiere). Date: 1971

Raymond Cusick stage set for Ambrose Applejohns Adventure
Stage set designed by Raymond Cusick (designer of the Daleks for Dr Who). The Tower Theatres production of Ambrose Applejohns Adventure by Walter Hackett Date: 1961

Harold Bennett in Asmodee
Harold Bennett as the CurÚá®n the Tower Theatres production of Asmodee by Andre Mauriac Date: 1956

Gloster Gladiator -the only British pre war biplane fighter to see wartime service Used in the Middle East and Merditerranean theatres

Curtiss P-40E Warhawk-while inferior to German fighters encounter over Europe, the type served well in other theatres

Consdolidated B-24H Liberator -later, bigger, faster and longer ranged than Boeings B-17, the Liberator served in all theatres of operation

Bristol 152 Beaufort of No 217 Squadron First flown in October 1938, this anti-shipping type entered service in early 1940 and saw action in all major theatres 2, 129 built

Mlle Alphonsine in male drag as the Princess
Mlle. Alphonsine in male drag as the Princess Castorine in Les Cinq Cents Diables.. Actress and singer Jeanne Benoit (1829-1883) appeared under the stage names Mlle. Alphonsine and Mlle. Fleury

Mme Guyon as Mme de Maintenon in the play Le
Mme. Guyon as Mme. de Maintenon in the play Le Comte de Lavernie at the Porte St. Martin.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1854

Mlle Alphonsine as the Princess Castorine in
Mlle. Alphonsine as the Princess Castorine in Les Cinq Cents Diables at the Theatre de la Gaite.. Actress and singer Jeanne Benoit (1829-1883) appeared under the stage names Mlle

Desire Louis Eugene Gouget (d1897) as the demon
Desire Louis Eugene Gouget (d.1897) as the demon Belphegor in Les Cinq Cents Diables at the Gaite.. A fairy spectacle by Dumanoir and Dennery

Mlle Decroix in Les Trovatelles at the Opera Comique
Mlle. Decroix in Les Trovatelles at the Opera Comique.. Marguerite Jeanne Camille Decroix was a soprano opera singer who debuted in 1848

A pageboy in Le Comte de Lavernie, a five-act drama by Auguste Maquet, at the Porte St. Martin.. He wears an extravagant uniform of white, blue, gold and black with ribbons, cuffs and embroidery

Gueymard in La Nonne Sanglante (The Bloody Nun) at the Opera Imperial.. Louis Gueymard (1822-1880) was a French operatic tenor, who performed at the Paris Opera for 20 years from 1848

Mlle Boulard in La Fiancee du Diable at the Opera Comique
Mlle. Boulard in La Fiancee du Diable at the Opera Comique.. Miss Boulard was called very ordinary and mediocre by the critics

Mlle Celine Montaland in La Rose de Boheme
Mlle. Celine Montaland in La Rose de Boheme at the Palais Royal.. A child prodigy, she poses in two different costumes as a Spanish dancer with tambourine

La Senora Perea Nena at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Perea Nena was a celebrated Spanish flamenco dancer who later performed in England in ballets such as El Gambusino and Los Cautivos

A hussar in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. A woman dressed in a blue and scarlet hussars uniform. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Mlle Caroline Duprez as Catherine in L Etoile
Mlle. Caroline Duprez as Catherine in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. She was the daughter of the famous French tenor Gilbert-Louis Duprez

Mlle Lefevre as Prascovia in L Etoile du Nord
Mlle. Lefevre as Prascovia in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. Constance-Caroline Lefebvre (1828-1905) was a French actress and singer

Mlle Decroix as Ekimonna in L Etoile du Nord
Mlle. Decroix as Ekimonna in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. Marguerite Jeanne Camille Decroix was a soprano opera singer who debuted in 1848

Soprano singer Marie-Charlotte Lemercier as Nathalie in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. She had a sweet and flexible voice

Mocker as Danilowitz in Meyerbeers comic opera L Etoile du Nord (The North Star).. Toussaint-Eugene-Ernest Mocker was a French tenor

Bataille in the role of Peters (Peter the Great) in L Etoile du Nord.. Charles-Amable Battaille (1822-1872) was a bass opera singer and vocal teacher

Arnault as Menzaroff in Les Cosaques at the Theatre de la Gaite.. The Cossacks was a five act drama by Alphonse Arnault and Louis Judicis

Talon as Juliani in La Moissonneuse at the Theatre Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1853

Mme Mallet as Bertha in le Billet de Marguerite
Mme. Mallet as Bertha in le Billet de Marguerite, a comic opera in three acts, at the Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Mme Marguerite Ugalde as La Tonelli at the Opera Comique
Mme. Marguerite Ugalde as La Tonelli at the Opera Comique.. Mme Ugalde was a famous soprano opera singer and beauty and later moved to the Varietes

Mme Cheri Lesueur as Suzanne in George Sand s
Mme. Cheri Lesueur as Suzanne in George Sands Le Pressoir at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Born in 1826, Cheri Lesueur, nee Anna Cizos, Anna Cheri, was the sister to the actress Rose-Marie Cizos

Bernard Dupuis as Noel Plantier in George Sand s
Bernard Dupuis as Noel Plantier in George Sands Le Pressoir at the Theatre du Gymnase Dramatique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Lesueur as Valentin Pere in George Sands Le Pressoir at the Theatre du Gymnase Dramatique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1853

Mlle Scriwaneck in costume as Satan in Les
Mlle. Scriwaneck in costume as Satan in Les Enfers de Paris at Theatre des Varietes.. Augustine-Celestine Scriwaneck (1825-1910) had a sharp and wiry voice

Actress in costume as the Diable (devil) in Les Sept Merveilles du Monde at La Porte St. Martin.. The Seven Wonders of the World was a great fairy spectacle by Adolphe d Ennery with music

Adolphe Paert as Fortunio in Les Sept Merveilles du Monde at La Porte St. Martin.. The Seven Wonders of the World was a great fairy spectacle by Adolphe d Ennery with music and ballet by Gondois

French bass opera singer Roger as Richard in La Fronde at the Academie Imperiale de Musique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Obin as the Duc de Beaufort in Niedermeyer s
Obin as the Duc de Beaufort in Niedermeyers La Fronde at the Academie Imperiale de Musique.. French bass opera singer Louis-Henri Obin (1820-1895) later became a professor at the Paris Conservatory

Mme Guichard as Morielle in Le Roi des Halles
Mme. Guichard as Morielle in Le Roi des Halles at the Theatre Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1853

Mlle Figeac as Julie in Philiberte at the Gymnase Dramatique
Mlle. Figeac as Julie in Philiberte at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Madame Figeac later married a rich industrialist and died in 1884

Mlle Rose Cheri (Rose-Marie Cizos) as Philiberte
Mlle. Rose Cheri (Rose-Marie Cizos) as Philiberte at the Gymnase Dramatique.. French actress Rose Cheri (1824-1861) was one of a famous family of stage performers

Charles Albert Fechter in the role of Boccace (Boccaccio) at the Theatre du Vaudeville.. Fechter (1824-1879) took nine roles in this staging of The Tales of Boccaccio

Mlle Marie Cico as Simonne in Les Contes de
Mlle. Marie Cico as Simonne in Les Contes de Boccace at the Theatre du Vaudeville.. Mlle. Cico (1843-1875) was a French actress and singer famed for her performances in Orphee aux Enfers

Madame Guyon as Elisa in La Case de l Oncle Tom at l Ambigu Comique.. This French play based on Uncle Toms Cabin was first staged in Paris in January 1853

Arthur Saint-Leon in the ballet Le Lutin de la Vallee at the Theatre Lyrique 1853.. St. Leon (1821-1870) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer most famous for his choreography to Coppelia

Marie Guy-Stephan in the role of Katty in Le Lutin de la Vallee at the Theatre Lyrique.. French ballerina Madame Guy Stephan (b)

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