Male impersonators
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Betti Kuhn, weiblicher Gesangskomiker, preisgekront, 1910
Kuhn dressed in an informal suit, holding a cigarette.
Carbonell-Lopez, 1900
Two male impersonators dressed in folk-dance suits against studio backdrop of café.
Ce petit coin tranquille, 1905
Same characters and setting as portrayed in card 314.
Chasse-croise, 1900
Series of 5 postcards number I through V showing an 18th century picnic. The series is highly unusual as the only postcards of the genre documented to date that represent a cross-dressed woman and a man dressed as a man both portraying male roles. Inscription: "Addressed to Mesdemoiselles Bonnet; signed on recto of each card: Henriette."
Chavarny, 1904
Performer dressed as an 18th-century male aristocrat in a beribboned outfit and an enormous feathered cavalier hat. Inscription at upper left on the photo indicates that Mlle. Chavarny appeared at La Scala, a music hall in the 10th arrondissement of Paris open from 1874 to 1936 where many of the grand stars of the era appeared. Addressed to Isabelle Garon; signature of sender illegible.
Colin et Jeannette, 1905
Couple in fancy dress, 1905
Cricket on the Hearth, 1910
Based on the indication of the roles noted on the verso, the actors are appearing in a play based on the Charles Dickens novella The Cricket on the Hearth. On verso: Logo of a bridled horse head framed in a horse-shoe. Pale blue rubber-stamp impression on verso giving name and city of publisher.
de Brives (Varietes), 1905
Declos Gaity, 1903
Inscription: "Addressed to Clara (?) Boissier. inscription at upper right on the recto indicates that Mlle. Declos and Mlle. Gaity appeared at La Cigale, a music hall on the Place Pigalle in Paris that opened in 1887.