German actors, some in drag, gather on stage at a party. Photographic postcard, 1930-45.

The actors, playing a variety of characters, are drinking and in conversation on stage, with lanterns hanging from the layered stage ceiling. A German amateur theatrical (presumably military) group, in a variety of costumes including four in drag. World War II period from the style of the hair, shoes and facial hair (thin pencilled moustaches) sported by the men, a style popularised by the British movie actor Ronald Colman, and German star of the Weimar cinema Adolph Wolbruck (who fled to Britain when the Nazis came to power and enjoyed a second career on the British screen as Anton Walbrook)

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

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Identifier: qn59q4164
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1930? to 1945?
Genre: Photographs
Prints
Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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