Visual Materials
Messett’s Musical Entertainers
You might also be interested in
Dainty Fanny Rice : America’s queen of mirth and music
Visual Materials
Image of a full-length portrait of American performer Fanny Rice sitting atop a stone pedestal outdoors and holding a yellow rose in her hand, and wearing a dancing costume with a short-sleeved corseted top, skirt, and petticoat, and a white hat with a floral decoration, with yellow roses in her lap and tree leaves and branches behind her.
priJLC_ENT_002332
Child slaves of New York
Visual Materials
Image of an Arab man, wearing a robe with a knife in his belt, grabbing a detective by the neck and choking him at the direction of an elderly man in a similar costume and headdress who stands behind a table labeled "Kaldah the mystic" with a star and crescent symbol, while a worried young woman in a pink dress, hat, and fur stole looks on; the poster advertises the melodrama "Child Slaves of New York" written by Charles E. Blaney and Howard Hall.
priJLC_ENT_000281
Over the garden wall : Mrs. Geo. S. Knight
Visual Materials
Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight in formal dress and wearing a large hat and framed by an Art Nouveau-style floral border; the poster advertises the musical and burlesque show "Over the Garden Wall" by Scott Marble produced by Knight and her husband, German comedian George S. Knight.
priJLC_ENT_000236
Hans and Nix : everything new but the title : fun, music and song : the positive limit in polite comedy
Visual Materials
Image of a group of eight young women in matching costumes playing drums tied with pink ribbons; the poster advertises the musical comedy "Hans and Nix" written by Harry F. Matthews.
priJLC_ENT_000199
The Sherrys Musical Comedy Co. : Mrs. J.F. Sherry
Visual Materials
Image of a black-and-white full-length photographic portrait of musical comedy performer Mrs. J. F. Sherry (May Sherry), in a formal dress and hat, standing next to a table with flowers; decorative flowers above text.
priJLC_ENT_000347
Bella Vivian as Bettina : in our Jonathan or the law of the land
Visual Materials
Image of a young woman, presumably actress Bella Vivian, wearing a short skirt, apron, corset, red tights, and had standing in a country field by a fence with a farmhouse and hills in the distance; head-and-shoulders portrait of Vivian in a frame decorated with French and American flags inset at top left; with a date sheet for an August 25, [1886], show, presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom of poster; the poster advertises the comedy "Our Jonathan."
priJLC_ENT_002538