Two amateur actors, both in drag, having a drink on stage. Photographic postcard, 191-.

The two characters perform a scene on a very detailed and furnished stage set; both are seated at a table. Amateur drag depicted without location on a British photographic postcard. One performer wears really quite good women's clothes and shoes ca. 1918, while the other is in hastily improvised costume with a headscarf and carpet slippers. A notice on stage left says (Silence est owrum" (dog Latin, "Silence is gold") and a notice on stage right says "Oratio est argentum" (Latin, "Speech is silver")

Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.

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Identifier: hd76s0367
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1910 to 1919?
Genre: Photographs
Prints
Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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