"The Hassans" in character, performing on stage. Photograph, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2045018i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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"The Hassans" in character, performing on stage. Photograph, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Publication/Creation

London (28 Augusta Street, E.14) : Lew Lewis, [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 13.4 x 8.2 cm

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Contributors

Lettering

The Hassans. Sauvenin E. Raslau[?] Feb. 19 / 27 Lettering printed in white on bottom recto and written in blue ink on centre recto

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Performers on the music-hall stage had to have a gimmick to get noticed. The Hassans, pictured on this postcard of ca. 1927, certainly have gone all out in the costume department . A 'slave' in clown make-up, fringed skirt and towering straw hat fans a 'Salome' style dancer of indeterminate gender wearing so much in the way of costume and accessories that it cannot have been easy to perform."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045018i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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