Actor Gallery

Anton Chekhov with actors

Anton Chekhov with actors of the Moscow State Art Theatre in 1899 from l. to r standing.: Vishnevsky, Luzhski, Niemirovich Danchenko, Knipper, Stanislavsky, Roksanova, Nikolaeva, Andreiev,. and from l. to r. sitting: Rayevskaya, Artyom, Chekhov, Lilina, Tikhomirov, and Meyerhold. Russian playwright. Pre-Bolshevik Russia. Writer. photographic postcard

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Anna May Wong in The Circle of Chalk

Miss Anna May wong as Chang-Hi-Tang dancing before the tea-shop keeper in The Circle of Chalk, an ancient Chinese lay translated into English by James Laver and produced at the New Theatre in London by Mr. Basil Dean, with a cast headed by Anna May Wong as Chang-Hi-Tang, a young girl who is sold to a tea-house by her poverty striken mother. Date: 1929

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Two women preparing for show at Windmill Theatre 1939

Two women in tin helmets photographed as they prepare for a show at the Windmill Theatre. The Windmill Theatre, which today uses the motto "we never closed", had just reopened after its only compulsory state-enforced closure between 4th-16th September 1939. The Sphere comments on the "topical" nature of the performance the women were preparing for which featured tin hats and gas masks. Date: September 1939

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans