A Backstage Gallery

Behind the scenes... rehearsals, dressing rooms and theatre technology on postcards.

See also: Liebig Card Series: Vor und hinter den Coulissen

Stage and Stage Technology

Cigaretten-Bilderdienst - Deutsche Kultur-Bilder - Nr. 149
Dekorationsmaler

Backstage
Le peintre décorateur de théâtres

Backstage; Collecting Card; Chocolat Debauve & Gallais
Danse des Sorciers

France - Paris: Theatre du Chatelet
presentation of a stage set by the scenographer

Sweden - Drottningholm: Slottsteater
pieces of scenery

Sweden - Drottningholm: Slottsteater
scene machinery

Germany - Gotha: Ekhof-Theater
scene machinery model

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
sub-stage scene machinery

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
scene machinery

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
scene machinery

Czech Republic - Cesky Krumlov: Zamecke divadlo
scene machinery

Backstage
scene machinery
(Alexander Camaro: Die Kulissenmaschine, 1946,
from the painting cycle "Das Hölzerne Theater",
inspired by the Ekhof-Theater, Gotha)

Germany - Bad Lauchstaedt: Goethetheater
sub-stage scene machinery

Germany - Muenchen: Altes Residenztheater revolving stage (right)
sub-stage machinery: revolving stage

United Kingdom - London: London Coliseum (English National Opera)
sub-stage machinery: revolving stage

United Kingdom - London: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
area under the stage of the Royal Opera House, London 1951

United Kingdom - London: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
cloth store under the stage of the Royal Opera House, London 1950

United Kingdom - London: London Coliseum (English National Opera)
scene setting

Sweden - Drottningholm: Slottsteater
wave machine

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
fly loft

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
fly loft above the stage

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
fly loft above the stage

France - Nanterre: Theatre Nanterre-Amandiers
fly loft above the stage

Germany - Baden-Baden: Festspielhaus
fly loft above the stage

Spain - Barcelona: Teatre Tivoli
fly locking rail on stage level

Comic Postcard - signed Perly - I am earning my living on the stage
I am earning my living on the stage.

Vocation! - Rêve - Réalité! (collectible card by La Chicorée Extra à la Boulangère)
Vocation! - Rêve - Réalité!

Switzerland - St. Gallen: Stadttheater (new)
freight elevator in the wings

United Kingdrom - Brighton: Theatre Royal
prompt corner

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
ballerina waiting side-stage for her entrance

Dans les coulisses en 1830, by A. Muller; Divided Back; sent in 1906
A. Muller: Dans les coulisses en 1830

LÄOeuvre de Gavarni, ND Phot; Divided Back; not sent
lithograph by Paul Gavarni

Backstage (stage fright)
Au moment d'entrer en scène l'émotion inséparable
d'un premier début est victorieusement combattue
par quelques gouttes de l'exquis Alcool de Mente
de Ricqlès.

Backstage (firefighter talks with an actor)
C'est cet artiss'la, dites-vous,
qui brûle les planches en jouant?
J'aurai l'œil sur lui...
un malheur est si vite arrivé.

Backstage (singer talks with a theatre critic)
- Vous, le premier critique d'Agen, vous
osez dire que j'ai crié la ^role de ténor
d'une façon éclatante!
- Désolé, cher maître, c'est une coquille
de l'imprimeur... j'avais écrit crée.

Backstage: La Parade

Dans les coulisses. Cherchez le pompier de service; Blank Back

Ballett

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)

Salon de 1912 - Geo. Roussel, Avant le rideau (dancing gils). Before drawing the curtain. Wartendend die Vorstellung (sic!), ND Phot.; 6073 dt.
Links: Georges Roussel: Avant le rideau, 1912

Backstage (Collecting card; Chocolat Félix Potin; Léopold Verger et Cie, Paris
Manque d'Érudition
- Qu'est-ce qui lui a pris de me dire
que je ressemblais à un 'Boucher'?

Idylle Choréographiqe; Collecting Card, Samaritaine Paris
Idylle Choréographiqe

Backstage
Pendant l'entracte

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)

Backstage (Publisher: B. B., London, Series 2116)
Are you There!! I am remaining behind to night -
These little details require personal attention -
dont wait dinner.

Backstage ('Danse... ballerine, danse...' Publisher: M. D., Paris; Série No. 3100)

Advertisement for Alcool de Menthe de Ricqulès, by A. Guillaume
Au théâtre une défaillance est victorieusement combattue
par quelques goutes d'Alcool de Menthe de Ricqlès
prises sur du sucre ou dans un verre d'eau.

Backstage
Gaston de La Touche: À l'Opéra, 1900

Backstage
Étoiles filantes
- Il t'a engagé pour le prochain ballet? - Non! -
Qu'est-ce qu'il t'a dit? - Il m'a dit qu'il m'engagerait
quand il aurait besoin d'un manche!...

Backstage: Arts et Métiers. - Danseur et Acrobate

Backstage (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside; CKENT 38)
Laura Knight: Ballet

Belgium - Antwerpen: De Poesje
a puppeteer backstage

Backstage
stagehand opening the curtain

Backstage
fireman on duty and prompter in the prompt box watching two ballerinas

Backstage (Simplicissimus-Karte Serie I., No. 10)

Backstage
view from the side towards the stage
(Sergey Riksovich Volkov: Before entering the stage)

Backstage
view from the side towards the stage
(Heidi Selkie: Dancers Backstage)

Italy - Reggio Emilia: Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli
view of the stage and backstage area with decoration storage

France - Paris: Comedie-Francaise
view of the stage and backstage area with decoration storage, seen from the auditorium

United Kingdom - London: Theatre Royal Stratford East
stagehands working on the stage

Germany - Magdeburg: Theater der Landeshauptstadt
view from the stage

United Kingdom - Glyndebourne: Opera House (new)
stage

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
stage with prompt corner

COllecting Card, Comprimés de Vichy
footlights

Germany - Koblenz: Stadttheater
stage with lights

Switzerland - Zurich: Opernhaus
stage with lights

Germany - Muenchen: Nationaltheater
stage with lights and other technology

Austria - Wien: Staatsoper
stage with lights and other technology

Liechtenstein- Schaan: TAK Theater Liechtenstein
lights

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
stage with lights

Pam Gems's Marlene at Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, 2001 (advertisement postcard not designed for postal use)
stage wall and spotlight

Germany - Baden-Baden: Festspielhaus
colour filters for stage spotlights

France - Paris: Opera Bastille
stage

Czech Republic - Praha: Stavovske Divadlo

France - Carcassonne: Theatre Jean-Alary
stage light controls

United Kingdom - London: London Coliseum (English National Opera)
main switchboard and revolving stage control

United Kingdom - London: London Coliseum (English National Opera)
stage manager's corner

Germany - Leipzig: Neues Theater
electrical transformers

Pyongyang: April 25 House of Culture
light control booth

Germany - Aalen: Theater im Alten Rathaus
sound system


sound cable

Liechtenstein- Schaan: SAL Saal am Lindaplatz
backstage staircase

United Kingdom - London: Royal National Theatre
auditorium, stage and backstage areas

Stage Hand (Art on a Postcard, 2015 Secret Auction)
Deborah MacMillan: Stage Hand at Royal Ballet

various theatre images
prompt box, spotlight

Props

Stage Life (published in the United States)
"Stage Life" (actors looking for props)

Troitzsch advertisement
swan prop for "Lohengrin" on an advertisement postcard for ropes
("Kulisse, Prospekte und Vorhang / Kannst Du nicht heben,
Erst Seile von Troitzsch / Verschaffen der Bühne das Leben!")

USA - Universal City, CA: Universal City Studios
film property room at Universal City Studios, California

Germany - Essen: Aalto-Theater
scenery and props storage

France - Paris: Comedie-Francaise
scenery storage

France - Paris: Comedie-Francaise
scenery storage

France - Paris: Comedie-Francaise
props storage

Germany - Stuttgart: Staatstheater - Grosses Haus
applied arts department (during a guided tour)

Orchestra Pit

A performance of Don Giovanni (Liebig Card, series 1652: La Carriera di Mozart, 4. La scuola del mondo

Der Freischütz, Oper von Carl Maria von Weber (Fritz Homann AG, Dissen, Geschichte unserer Welt, Bild 132)

France - Paris: Salle de la rue Le Peletier

Germany - Bayreuth: Festspielhaus

France - Paris: Opera Bastille

Unied States - Chicago, IL: Civic Opera House

Germany - Baden-Baden: Festspielhaus
music stands in the orchestra pit

Management

Belgium - Gent: Koninklijke Opera
theatre director in his office

Publisher: Davidson Bros. Pictorial Post Cards
"If you don't pay this bill at once I shall cut off the gas"
(by Tom Browne)

Casting

(Before the audition. Divided Back; sent within France, postmark illegible)
Avant l'Audition.
Avant d'aller au Directeur,
Offrir son talent et ses charmes
Elle met dehors toutes armes
Afin de tomber... l'amateur.

Series 3004
Have you ever worn pink tights?
No Sir, only loose red flannel ones.

Engaging; Raphael Tuck & Sons, Oilette; Series: Theatrical Terms, sent from Lonton to France, 1906
Theatrical Terms. Engaging.

Nos Bons Paysans; sent from Bourbon-Lancy to Saint-Brice, 1931
Nos Bons Paysans. Au Théâtre : Débuts
- Allons, remettez-vous mon enfant... Pour les débutantes,
le directeur est sinon un père, tout au moins un ami, voyons,
dans, quelle pièce et avec qui avez vous débuté ?...
- Mais, Monsieur, c'était pas dans une pièce, c'était dans un bois,
avec Léon, le fils de voisins.

Theatrical Agency; Publisher: Kardorama Ltd, No. 67
"I've a nice big part that will just fit you Miss Needit"

Rehearsals

Choregos and actors
Ancient Roman choregos and actors
(mosaic from Pompei in the
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli)

France - Paris: Salle de la rue Le Peletier
Edgar Degas: La Répétition de chant, ca. 1869.

France - Paris: Salle de la rue Le Peletier
Edgar Degas: Le foyer de la danse à l'Opéra de la rue Le Peletier.
(see Salle de la rue Le Peletier for more works by Degas)

Calais: Casino (old)
Calais, Music-Hall, Une répetition de ''La Girouette'' (1904)

Rehearsal
Danse au théâtre (ballet rehearsal room, postcard sent in 1906)

Rehearsal
Ulysse Caputo: Avant la Répétition (Salon der Paris 1908)

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
Paul Mesplès: Dans les Coulisses de l'Opéra (Salon de l'École Française 1910)

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
Paul Mesplès: Les petites élèves de l'Opéra - "Ça c'est un jeté" (Salon de Paris 1912)

Rehearsal
Paul Mesplès: La répétition (Salon de Paris 1914)

Rehearsal
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse:
La danseuse à l'arrosoir.
Rehearsal
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse:
Les pointes en dehors.

Publisher: Sovyetsky Khudozhnik; Moskva, 1956
Zinaida Serebriakova: Baleriny v ubornoi, 1923

Backstage, ballerinas in dressing room
Zinaida Serebriakova: Snowflakes (The Nutcracker), 1923

Saint-Honore-les-Bains: Casino

Fontainebleau: Theatre du Chateau

RB 03; Aldin Series 231, designed and printed in England
Sorry you're in need

Carmen I. Act - Und wenn ich lieb, nimm Dich in acht

Rehearsal
Yu. L. Frolov: A. M. Gorky na repetitsni
v Moskovskom Khudoshestvennom teatre
(Gorky rehearsing at the Moscow Art Theatre)

Rehearsal (Publisher: E. A. Seemann, Leipzig; Nr. 75)
Ulisse Caputo: Theaterprobe

Ballet class ath the house of culture; Sovyetsky khudozhnik, Moskva; Sh01039-60
Nadezhda K. Korniyenko: V baletnom klasse doma Kultury, 1956

Brighton: Gardner Arts Centre
lighting rehearsal

Rehearsal
Olivia Young: Play Reading, 1998
(MED Theatre / Performing Dartmoor)

Sweden - Goteburg: Stora Teatern
ballet rehearsal break

Italy - Reggio Emilia: Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli
ballet rehearsal room (a former painters' hall)

Germany - Muenchen: Staatsthater am Gaertnerplatz
ballet barre in a rehearsal room

Germany - Baden-Baden: Festspielhaus
dancers playing table tennis in the ballet rehearsal room

Ballet rehearsal room; Photo: Philippe Hachez

Dressing Rooms

Theatregoers; [Shakespeare] In the Green Room; Tuck & Sons
Charles Cattermole: [Shakespeare] In the Green Room

Sweden - Drottningholm: Slottsteater
dressing room at Drottingholm

Backstage
Pyotr M. Shmelkov: Sbory v teatr [Call in the theatre]

France - Paris: Theatre des Varietes
dressing room at Théâtre des Variétés, Paris

Backstage (Art Unlimited, Amsterdam; A 24465)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:
Le régisseur dans les coulisses, 1885
(director ringing a handbell to make
the actors appear on stage)

France - Paris: Comedie-Francaise
Mounet-Sully in his dressing room, ca. 1901
see also more cards from this series:
Les artistes de la Comédie-Française dans leur loge

Roi de Théâtre, by Roger-Jourdain, Salon [de Paris] 1908
Roger-Jourdain: Roi de Théâtre, 1908

Backstage
Cocquelin ainé (1841-1909) in his dressing room

France - Paris: Theatre de la Renaissance
Édouard Vuillard: Sacha Guitry dans sa loge, 1911

France - Paris: Theatre de l'Opera (Palais Garnier)
Henri Lebasque: "Mademoiselle Zambelli
dans sa loge, 1912

Backstage (Collecting Card, Paris-Crédit)
Oh saperlote ! Mais c'est le gilet de
mon fils; et le régisseur qui appele

Backstage (Hinter den Coulissen; sent within Switzerland in 1900)

Backstage - Albert Guillaume: Les Admirateurs
Albert Guillaume: Les Admirateurs
Antoni Piotrowski: Zu kulisami. Entre les coulisses.

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
ballerinas' dressing room
P. E. Mesplès: A l'Opéra, Entrée manquée (Salon de Paris 1906)

Backstage (Salon de Paris, A. N. Paris, No 272)
ballerinas' dressing room
P. E. Mesplès: Réception d'un Grand Duc (Salon de Paris)

Backstage - A. Piotrowski: Zu kulisami. Entre les coulisses. Wyd. Galeria Polska, Kraków; 402

Backstage - J. M. Avy: Entr'Acte
J. M. Avy: Entr'Acte (Salon de Paris 1907)

Backstage - Danseuse dans sa loge
Danseuse dans sa loge
Pardonnez-moi, ma charmante, suis-je indiscret?
Daignez accepter des quelques fleurs
en hommage à votre beauté.

Backstage - Dans la Loge da la Danseuse (P. Helmlinger & Cie., Nancy)
Dans la Loge da la Danseuse
- Nous mangerons des écrevisses,
Des huîtres avec des saucisses,
Et nous boirons, oui, c'est certain,
Du champagne et du chamberlin.

Backstage (Publisher: Davidson Bros. Pictorial Post Cards; Serie 2639-6)
"Spooning in the dressing room"
(by Tom Browne)

Backstage - Étoile d'Opéra - La Toilette et la Parure avant le Ballet; Cliché Manuel; No. 8; Undivided Back
Étoile d'Opéra - La Toilette et la Parure avant le Ballet

Backstage - Albert Guillaume: Artistes de Music-Hall
Albert Guillaume: Artistes de Music-Hall

Backstage - E. Tabary: Une étoile dans sa loge
E. Tabary: Une étoile dans sa loge

Backstage - Rud. Fuchs: Der Brief
Rudolf Fuchs: Der Brief

Backstage - Robert Schiff: Leichter als Luft
Robert Schiff: Leichter als Luft

Austria - Wien: Theater an der Wien (Rita Georg in her wardrobe)
soloist's dressing room

Backstage
ballerinas playing cards
(Pierre Carrier-Belleuse: La réuisste. The success. Kartenlegerinnen.)

USA - New York NY: Century Theatre
choir dressing room

Backstage - Photo prise avec Leica et Summar par M. Sicard; Les Cartes Tiranty, Paris
ballet dressing room

Backstage - Nos artistes dans leur loge: Sarah Bernhardt
Nos artistes dans leur loge: Sarah Bernhardt
Backstage - Nos artistes dans leur loge: Jane Rollette
Jane Rollette
Backstage - Nos artistes dans leur loge: Jean Yonnel
Jean Yonnel
Backstage - Nos artistes dans leur loge: Signoret
Signoret
Backstage - Nos artistes dans leur loge: Tarquinid'Or
Tarquini d'Or
Backstage - Nos artistes dans leur loge: Fontaine
Fontaine

United Kingdom - London: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Margot Fonteyn in her dressing room, London, 1940s/1950s

Germany - Berlin: Ruhleben Camp Theatre
dressing room in a World War I internment camp theatre

Backstage -
backstage area of a children's recital
( O. V. Zarankayte: "Samodeyatelnost
uchashchikhsya", 1956)

United Kingdom - London: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
ballet corps dressing room, London, 1959/1960

Backstage - Reconstitution de la loge de Mado Robin (1918-1960) au centre social d'Yzeures-sur-Creuse (Indre-et-Loire), Cantatrice de l'Opéra de Paris, née a Yzeures-sur-Creuse
reconstruction of the dressing room of opera singer Mado Robin
at the museum in her hometown

Backstage - Circus Girl (VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 455/129/57)
Bert Heller: Zirkusmädchen

Backstage - Je ne demande qu'une toute petite place...
Je ne demande qu'une toute petite place...

Backstage - Backstage at the Windmill, Theatre Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum
Zsuzsi Roboz: Backstage, 1964
(Backstage at the Windmill)

Portugal - Lisboa: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
dressing room

Backstage, by thearcher777, http://thearcher777.redbubble.com
dressing room

Backstage, ballerina in dressing room
Anastasia Vostrezova: During the entracte

Backstage, ballerinas in dressing room
by Konstantin Razumov

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
extras' dressing room

Backstage, dancers walking towards the stage; from the animated film 'Les triplettes de Belleville'

Masks, Make-Up and Hair

Backstage
Laboratorio d'un fabricante di maschere al medio-evo

Backstage - Haiyu Gakuya no Omokage: Nakamura Fukusuke IV
Toyohara Kunichika: Nakamura Fukusuke IV

Backstage - Carl Spitzweg: Hinter den Kuliseen (Ausschnitt), Neue Pinakothek, München
Carl Spitzweg: Hinter den Kulissen, ca. 1855-1860

Backstage - Réjane, dans sa loge
Réjane, dans sa loge

Backstage - Dancer in the dressing-room, Tuck Write Away series, TuckDB 38792
Lance Thackeray: "I must finish!" (1905)

Backstage - Collecticle Card (Chocolat Devinck, Avant le spectacle)

Backstage - Grete Egenolf (in der Garderobe), Verlag Fr. Groth, Hamburg
Grete Egenolf (in der Garderobe)

Backstage - K. T. Blazek: Pripravy na prvni Maskarni
K. T. Blažek: Přípravy na první maškarní

Backstage - Al Teatro della Guerra
Al Teatro della Guerra
Lui: Siete attesa per l'entrata trionfale.
Lei: Un momento! ...Perchè voglio figurar bene!
(Italian political caricature)

Venezia: Teatro La Fenice
Maria Callas at Teatro La Fenice, Venezia, 1950

Hong Kong / Xianggang: Lee Theatre
Lee Theatre, Hong Kong, 1977

Backstage (Publisher: Editions Amira; PHC 39)
Le Théâtre du Soleil - Maquillage pour "La Nuit des Rois" (1983)

Backstage - Le Prince: Loge de théâtre; Trompe-l'oeuil 162x130 cm, Maîtres de l'art contemporain, Impresison Pierron, Sarreguemines
Le Prince: Loge de théâtre

Backstage - Advertisement card for 'Les Acteurs sont fatigués', Comédie Caumartin, Paris

Backstage - Advertisement card for Elise Esmoun, Zénith de Pau, 2006, not designed for postal use

Backstage - Weißclown im Spiegel, Circus Roncalli 2003
Loredana Nemes: Weißclown im Spiegel, Circus Roncalli, 2003

France - Villeurbanne: Theatre National Populaire
actor in a dressing room wearing blackface, a traditional
part of the Persian popular theatre genre "Siah Bâzi"

Singapore - Chinese Opera Stages
applying make-up in the dressing room

Germany - Baden-Baden: Festspielhaus
applying make-up in the dressing room

Backstage (National Geographic Channel; ShowReal Asia 2)
applying make-up

Backstage - Universal Studios Make-up Artists dipslay their skills
Universal Studios Make-up Artists
dipslay their skills in "Show of 1,000 Faces", 1975

Pyongyang: April 25 House of Culture

Austria - Wien: Oesterreichisches Theatermuseum im Palais Lobkowitz: Therese Krones: Schminkkassette (1828)
theatre make-up box (1828)

Germany - Muenchen: Nationaltheater
shelves with wigs

Czech Republic - Praha: Stavovske Divadlo
wig in a dressing room

Costumes

Backstage - Carl Spitzweg: Hinter den Kuliseen
Carl Spitzweg: Hinter den Kulissen

A. Gaussen, Chez le costumier Souplet, Salon de Paris No. 182
A. Gaussen: Chez le costumier Souplet - Beim Theaterschneider, 1914

H. Gervèse: Nos Marins. Avant la Représentation; Edition: Raffaelli, Toulon
H. Gervèse Nos Marins. Avant la Représentation.

V. A. Vasilyev: Kostyomernaya masterskaya, 1956 r.
V. A. Vasilyev: Kostyomernaya masterskaya (costume workshop), 1956

Peter Muzeniek (DDR); Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin
Peter Muzeniek: "Eure Theater-Kostümprobe
interessiert mich nicht, zieh dich zur
Arbeit vernünftig an!"

France - Paris: Opera (Palais Garnier)
costume workshop

France - Paris: Comedie-Frabncaise
costume workshop

United Kingdom - London: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
headgear

Cinema technology

projection room (Collectible Car, Phosphatine Falières, Asnières-Paris, Série Le Cinéma, 10. Salle de projection
projection room

Italy - Milano: Fiera Milano - Ridotto dei Cineconvegni
projection room

Cafeteria
Germany - Berlin: Staatsoper unter den Linden
Staff cafeteria at Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin, 1901

Travelling Theatres


travelling actors
(Carl Spitzweg: Reisende Komödianten, 1838)

collecting card by Jos. Küfferle Chocolat, Vienne, titled Wanderschauspieler
travelling actors

Backstage - Ludwig Knaus: Hinter dem Vorhang
Ludwig Knaus: Hinter dem Vorhang

Backstage - Napoléon et l'Aiglon
Rosalie... dépèche-toi de reprendre le gosse...
on sonne pour Waterloo!

Backstage - Hinter den Coulissen
Hinter den Coulissen

Backstage; circus clowns playing cards; Publisher: ?; No. 7013; Undivided Back; Sent from Zürich (Switzerland) to Basel (Switzerland) , 1901

At the Stage Door

USA - New York NY: Belasco Theatre
stage door

United Kingdom - London: Prince Edward Theatre
stage door

Austria - Wien: Volkstheater
artists at the Volkstheater stage door, Wien, Austria
(see Volkstheater, Bürgertheater, Staatsoper,
Burgtheater and Lustspieltheater for more
stage door portrait postcards from Wien)

Stage Door
"To find a match you may always go
next to a stage door - dont you know"
(postcard made from leather, c. 1900)

Stage Door; Publisher: Davidson Bros. Pictorial Post Cards; Serie 3002
Stage Door (by Dudley Hardy)

Stage Door (Phil May Series, Tuck's Oilette)
Outside the Gaiety Stage Door.
The Masher: "Here she comes!"
(by Phil May)

Stage Door (Publisher: H. D. Series, London)
"On your travels Georgie did you touch Florence?"
"No - But I had a darn good time with Mabel"
(by Donald McGill)

Stage Door (Publisher: T. P. Co., N. Y.; Series 565; sent rom Providence RI, 1910)
"I love my wife but oh you kid"
(by Albert Carmichael, 1909)

Stage Door (Publisher: The London View Co. Ltd., F. S. Comic Series)
"Not a word to the wife!"

Stage Door (Publisher: Davidson Bros. Pictorial Post Cards )
"A thing of the past, old dear!"
(by Tom Browne)

Stage Door (Mason's Alpha, Dinah Series; 12/1)
"Housewives' Choice!"

Stage Door  Stage Door
"Mon vieux, allons voir ça dans les coulisses..."
"Il paraît que cette petite a un grand coeur... Je serais curieux de voir ce qui se cache derrière!..."
(foldable pop-up greeting card)

Sortie des Artistes
Fred: "Guignol-Théâtre" - "Sortie des Artistes"

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