Foster and Ninon in character, having a conversation. Photographic postcard, 192- (?).

Foster & Ninon

Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

The actors sit by a piano, one is in drag, in conversation; they are both wearing smart attire. Foster and Ninon appear to be a musical duo, possibly one of any number of variety acts featuring drag which proliferated after World War I. Ninon's chosen stage name is probaby a reference to the French courtesan Ninon de l'Enclos (1620-1705), infamous at this time as the subject of a risqué, witty and popular sketch by the French revue singer Alice Delysia at the London Pavilion in 1918, in C.B. Cochran's revue 'As you were'

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Item Information:

Identifier: 7p88cg82t
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1918 to 1929?
Genre: Photographs
Prints
Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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