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Gertie Gitana (27 December 1887 – January 1957) was a British music hall entertainer.
She was born Gertrude Mary Astbury in Shirley Street, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent.[1] Her father was a pottery works foreman and her mother Lavinia taught at St Peter's RC school in Cobridge. When she was three, the family moved to Frederic Street in nearby Hanley.[2]
Gitana is Spanish for (female) 'Gipsy' and she was a member of Tomkinson's 'Royal Gipsy Children' at the age of four. On account of her petite form and supposed Gipsy origins, she was sometimes billed as 'The Staffordshire Cinderella'.
She made her professional debut in 1896 at the age of eight on the stage of The Tivoli in Barrow-in-Furness. Two years later at the age of ten she had a significant billing at The Argyle in Birkenhead and her first London appearance was in 1900. At the age of 17, she topped the bill for the first time at The Ardwick Empire at Manchester and Gertie Gitana had arrived. In her prime she was reputed to have earned in excess of £100 per week and her name was always sufficient to ensure a full house.
Her music hall repertoire included "A Schoolgirl's Holiday", "We've been chums for fifty years", "When the Harvest Moon is Shining", "Silver Bell", "You do Look Well in Your Old Dutch Bonnet", "Queen of the Cannibal Isles", "Never Mind", "When I see the Lovelight Gleaming", and especially "Nellie Dean" - written by Henry W. Armstrong - which an audience first heard her sing in 1907. "Nellie Dean" was an instant success and became her 'signature tune'. Her first gramophone recordings, dating from 1911–1913, were made in London on the Jumbo label. During the 1914–18 war she was the Forces' sweetheart and often entertained the war wounded in hospitals.
After the war, she appeared in pantomime, notably as Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella. Gertie also appeared in a Royal Command Performance. Two musical shows were specially written for her: Nellie Dean and Dear Louise, and in 1928 she married her leading man in the latter — Don Ross. She retired in 1938 but made a very successful come-back ten years later with other 'old timers' in the show Thanks for the memory produced by her husband. Her final appearance was on 2 December 1950 at The Empress Theatre, Brixton.
She died of cancer in January 1957 and was buried in Welford Road cemetery in Wigston Magna. Some lines of the song "Nellie Dean" are engraved on the grave stone.
In the early 1950s, Frederic Street in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, was renamed Gitana Street in her honour;[2] the street leads to the rear of the Theatre Royal in Hanley and the public house now called 'The Stage Door' (at the corner of Gitana Street) was at one time called 'The Gertie Gitana' and it still has her portrait over the door. Her name continues at 'Gitana's', a public house in Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent.
Her London memorial — 'The Nellie Dean' at the corner of Dean Street in Soho (renamed thus in her honour) — at one time had a shrine of her stage memorabilia. In Cockney rhyming slang, Gertie Gitana means a banana.
Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, was a New York City political organization founded in 1789. It was the political machine that played a major role in controlling the politics of New York City and State. It was also one of the first organizations to help the immigrant, and poor population, thus gaining their allegiance. Tammany Hall also served as an engine for graft, unscrupulous abuse and political corruption, perhaps most infamously under William "Boss" Tweed, (The Tweed Ring), and "Big Tim" Sullivan.
This is East 14th St. Looking West from Third Ave towards Irving Place. Just past Tammany Hall on the corner is the New York Academy of Music. In 1926 both Tammany Hall & The Academy of Music were demolished for the expanding Consolidated Edison Building and Clock Tower which is behind them on Irving Place. Tammany Hall was rebuilt at 100 East 17th St. and Union Square, that is now a landmark. The Academy of Music was rebuilt across 14th street. The venue was renamed The Palladium, it's now NYU Dorms and Trader Joe's.
This image restoration and enhancement is the product of Photoshop, Topaz, and Nik plugs, & Akvis' Sketch renderer.
The original photograph was obtained from the Library of Congress, and can be seen via this link: www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c01734/
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Certificate of Registration for Harry Clifford Scott, American music hall entertainer, living in England.
Harry Scott was born in or near Cleveland Ohio on November 18, 1879. From 1909, he lived mainly n England and had a successful comic act with Eddie Whalley. The pair later had a popular radio show, also in England.
Music Hall Josephine Baker logo's.
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Composition by using the original theater decoration logo's found and photographed in the Music Hall at Chateau-des-Milandes. Overall a location where you can still feel her vibrant presence.
Photo July 2023, Josephine Baker (Born as Freda Josephine Baker / June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) after 48 years in time. In the year 2025 it's 50 years since.
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Chateau des Milandes - Freda Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture. During her early career, Baker was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris with her costume, consisting of only a short skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded necklace. She became an iconic image and a symbol both of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties.
She raised her children in France at Chateau des Milandes. She aided the French Resistance during World War II and awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle.
On November 30, 2021, she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, the first black woman to receive one of the highest honors in France. As her resting place remains in Monaco Cemetery, a cenotaph was installed in vault 13 of the crypt in the Panthéon.
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What a picture, what a photograph
Comes the print in a little while
Lost 'er 'ead, but she kept 'er smile
Clap 'ands, stamp yer feet, Ye-e-a-y!
Bangin' on the big bass drum
What a picture, what a picture
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Stick it in your fam'ly album
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Image quasi introuvable sur Internet, le véritable slibard de bananes de Joséphine Baker BIIIiiiiim. Jamais restauré, jamais customisé depuis 1926. Comme il était interdit de faire des photos, j'ai bien entendu tout de suite fait une photo en mode CIA FBI, déplacement en pas chassés façon crabe de rivière. Sans flash bien sur, car un flash sur une vitrine serait une hérésie totale et insupportable....cet acte de rébellion m'a bien sur valu d'être instantanément suivi à la trace par une dame mi femme mi pit-bull qui aurait certainement pu m’abattre simplement avec son index...
Mais, j'ai bien tout écouté et je m'en vais vous compter la véritable histoire de Joséphine avec force détails et anecdotes croustillantes.
Joséphine elle avait pas de sous. Puis elle a tombé les poupous, levé la patte et là elle a eu plein de sous. Avec tout ces sous elle a acheté plein de trucs pour faire encore plus de sous. Jusque là c'était bon.
Puis, un jour, certainement sous l'emprise d'alcool ou de drogues, elle a décidé d'avoir des gosses. Comme ça n'a pas marché avec 1, elle en a adopté 12 ! Mais, pour rester simple, ils étaient tous d'une nationalité différente et ils avaient bien entendu aussi tous un prof a domicile de la même nationalité que le gosse. Alors déjà, essaye de coordonner deux profs Français...tu vas voir le bordel que ça va être quand ils vont se mettre à manifester dans le parc de ton château tout neuf, marcher partout sur tes pelouses et faire chier ton jardinier qui lui même va te faire chier ensuite...
Forcément une telle entreprise était vouée à l'échec.
Détournée de son gagne pain par sa "Tribu arc-en-ciel", ça a rapidement été le bordel total. Pépito son manageur, (qui est je suppose l'inventeur de gâteaux du même nom bien que aucun guide n'ai su répondre à ma question) lui avait dit : "Joséphine, tous ces enfants c'est bien mais ça coute un peu quand même...tu aurais du adopter des oies...je te l'avais dit...Il va falloir renfiler ton slibard de bananes etc etc la résistance c'est bien, défendre la cause noire aussi mais bon...là faudrait retourner turbiner". Elle n'a rien fait et puis elle ne levait probablement plus la patte aussi haut qu'à ses débuts. Elle a donc rapidement fini par perdre son château, un peu comme Mickael Jackson quand il a du laisser son singe Bubbles.
Elle a quand même résisté à fond et puis, un soir d'hiver, dans le froid Périgourdin le plus total, elle est allée dehors par la porte de la cuisine. Ses gens de maison l'ont alors enfermée à l'extérieur comme une merde et elle a passé toute la nuit assise sur les marches de la porte de sa propre cuisine...avant de se réfugier chez Grace de Monaco en 1968 qui lui offrit le gîte et le couvert...et de mourir à Paris en 1975 d'une hémorragie cérébrale...fin de la visite, après il y'avait le spectacle de rapaces et je suis allé manger un croque Monsieur...avant d'aller jeter du pain aux poissons...(je n'avais plus de cailloux)
John Young Kraton
Born 1 July 1884 in Lynchburg VA
Vaudeville/ Music Hall Performer who lived and performed in Europe for many years. His travel documents state that he resided in England for most of the years between 1908 and his death in Paris in 1933.
His theatrical troupe, called “The Kratons” were a renowned juggling act, specifically the variety called a hoop act. In 1917, he was performing with the married couple Clarence and Leonora Johnson. There are indications that earlier versions of the act included his brother Harry, and sister-in-law, Ethelyn Kraton. Kraton was associated with the performer and promoter Henry Make Johnson.
“Of all the great hoop acts, one stands out. The Kratons, popular in 1908, set their stage as a small town with stores, churches, factory, saloon, school and other buildings. The hoops showed individual personalities of people in the town.Singly, in pairs or in groups, the hoop people would roll out of a store and into a house, or leave home for church or the factory. One hoop came out of the saloon, staggered around, and landed happily against a lamppost, friend of all drunkards. When the school bell rang, a passel of kids rushed out the door in every direction. When the factory whistle blew, the worker hoops headed for home, some making detours to the saloon.Hoop couples danced. A girlish hoop dropped a hanky and a courting hoop, with the aid of a pin embedded in the rim, raced along to pick it up and follow her behind some stage scenery. At the finale, the lights dimmed, the church bell rang, and families streamed into the church where a hymn was sung and the curtains lowered.Until that moment there hadn't been a single person on stage. Only then did the Kratons appear for their final bows.”
www.juggling.org/jw/87/2/hoops.html
John Young Kraton died in Paris on 27 Dec 1933 of tuberculosis. At the time he was employed as a bootblack at the Rue de Scribe offices of American Express. His few possessions and clothing were disposed of for the payment of his bills.
B.L.U.E.S. starring Ian Siegal, Big Pete, Mischa Den Haring, Dusty Ciggaar &Daryl Ciggaar (GB/NL)
Big Pete
A plaque to the north east’s first full-time professional singer-songwriter on the Central Station, Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Unveiled on May 9, 2017.
The Royal Olympic Concert Hall - renamed The Tyne Concert Hall in 1862 - is now the site of the Central Station. As the largest concert hall in North East England, it had the capacity to hold 2,840 people. Ned Corvan performed here in 1853.
The card's postmarked Goole where there was a Palace cinema. I think it's more likely that they're the Victoria Palace Girls who appeared in the Royal Variety Performance in the 1920s. There are a couple of videos on Youtube.
Sheet music sung by The Romps can be found at the V and A site collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1291195/oh-those-ever-loving-...
This beautiful Gothic Revival building, constructed in 1878, has served as the Cincinnati Music Hall since 1975 and now has a reputation as one of the most haunted sites in the city. According to Haunted destinations: Cincinnati Music Hall, it may actually be the history of the land itself rather than the building that is the source of the haunting. Previous to the music hall, a lunatic asylum and orphange stood on the site, and the bodies of many homeless, suicides and unknowns and unfortunates were buried on the grouds, many without coffins.
Throughout its history, excavations in and around Music Hall have yielded human bones; in fact, a map from 1830 shows that the south part of the structure was built over a Potter's Field. It is believed to be these ''souls and spirits'' that wander Music Hall, upon occasion making their presence known.
Longtime employees of organizations based in Music Hall testify to being in the presence of ghosts. The late Cincinnati Pops Music Director Erich Kunzel, who spent many nights at Music Hall working on programs and arrangements, believed that they were basically quite friendly. ''They are definitely in this building, some sort of spirits. If anybody thinks I'm nuts, come here at 3:00 in the morning, 4:00 in the morning.''
Cincinnati Music Hall - Ghost Hunt
Built in 1878, the red-brick, Victorian Gothic structure rises majestically on the corner of 14th and Elm streets. Central Parkway runs parallel to the rear of the building now, but when Music Hall first opened its doors that thoroughfare was actually the Miami Canal. Designed by a local architectural firm, the edifice is an architectural eccentricity with its garrets, turrets, gables, insets, nooks, broken surfaces and planes, and ornate rose window. Some witty Cincinnatians have dubbed the style “Sauerbraten Byzantine.”
The building is located upon the site where the tin-roofed wooden Sangerhalle once stood, a hall built by a German immigrant singing society, the Saengerbund, for its May Festivals. But there is also a more somber atmosphere associated with other former occupants of the site. The present Music Hall rests upon the foundations of the 1844 Orphan Asylum. Before that was the Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum with its Pest House, a section for the indigent with contagious diseases. A potter’s field also occupied the site, the final resting place for suicides and strangers, the indigent and homeless of Cincinnati, and those who died in the Pest House. These unfortunates were buried without the benefit of co;ns; they were simply bundled up and dropped into the earth. Over the years, there have been many renovations to Music Hall, and human bones have often been unearthed during construction.
The famous Cincinnati journalist Lafcadio Hearn wrote about one such discovery in the October 22, 1876, edition of the Cincinnati Commercial: "This rich yellow soil, fat with the human flesh and bone and brain it has devoured, is being disemboweled by a hundred spades and forced to exhibit its ghastly secrets to the sun . . . you will behold small Golgothas—mingled with piles of skulls, loose vertebrae, fibulas, tibias and the great curving bones of the thigh . . . All are yellow, like the cannibal clay which denuded them of their fleshly masks . . . Bone after bone . . . is turned over with a scientific application of kicks . . . dirty fingers are poked into empty eyesockets . . . ribs crack in pitiful remonstrance to reckless feet; and tobacco juice is carelessly squirted among the decaying skulls . . . by night there come medical students to steal the poor skulls."
Hearn reported that the dead soon began to make themselves known to the living just shortly after these macabre discoveries were made. Shadowy figures roamed the halls at night and ghostly dancers were seen in the ballroom on the second floor. One exhibitor at a business fair in Music Hall saw a young, pale woman in old-fashioned clothing standing by his booth. As he approached her, he felt a sudden rush of cold air as the figure became transparent, then disappeared. Hearn wrote: “The tall woman had been sepulchered under the yellow clay below the planking upon which he stood; and the worms had formed the wedding-rings of Death about her fingers half a century before.”
Half a dozen skeletons were unearthed by workers in 1927, placed in a cement crypt, and reburied, only to be discovered again during a renovation in 1969. The bones were placed inside another concrete box and reburied—and uncovered in 1988 for the third time when the shaft for the concert hall’s freight elevator was deepened.
Even though Ed Vignale said that he has never seen or heard spirits in the thirty-four years he has worked at Music Hall, he admits that some people have told him of seeing men and women dressed in late nineteenth-century clothing walking through the halls of the building. Other people have said that sometimes an extra, unknown “cast member” may appear in an operatic production, or that unusual-looking figures may appear among the audience.
“There is definitely something strange going on here,” Ed said. “In all the time I’ve worked here, I’ve only seen two mice and one rat in the building, very unusual for a building of this size and age.” Ed went on to say that during a 1967 production at Music Hall called Wild Animal Cargo, two baby snakes, a python and boa constrictor, somehow disappeared and were never found. The show left town without them and Music Hall was left with a unique system of rodent extermination.
Eugene Stratton, American performer, wearing burnt-cork make-up and costume with chequered waistcoat, holding a cane behind his back.
Stratton worked with Giovanni Raffo, father of the donor. Raffo was a music hall singer, born around 1869 in Lever Street, Manchester. He retired due to a lung condition and took over the White Lion public house, Poland Street.
French colors for Josephine Baker.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Nikon D90) / #logo #JosephineBaker - #JosephineBaker / #MusicHall at #ParcJosephineBaker #ChateaudesMilandes in #CastelnaudlaChapelle, #Dordogne - #France
Josephine Baker is finally wearing the French colours. I made this composition by using the original theater decoration logo's found and photographed in the Music Hall at Chateau-des-Milandes. Overall a location where you can still feel her vibrant presence.
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Pantheon Paris (mausoleum of France) - after her death she was the only American-born woman to receive full French military honours at her funeral, Baker was interred at Monaco's Cimetière de Monaco. In 2021, nearly half a century after her death, President Emmanuel Macron granted her to be honoured at the Pantheon Paris, mausoleum of France, this in recognition of the fact that Josephine Baker's "whole life was dedicated to the twin quest for liberty and justice.". She's the first black woman who received this highest honour in France, and sixth of woman, now among "Les Grands Hommes" of France. Also the first entertainer immortalized at the Pantheon alongside revered historical figures like Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Marie Curie
At 30 november 2021 Josephine Baker merged with full honours into the colours of France for eternity. Among "Les Grands Hommes" honoured at the Pantheon Paris, mausoleum of France. Symbol of the French Resistance, symbol for so many people.
Photo July 2015, Josephine Baker (Born as Freda Josephine Baker / June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) after 40 years in time. In the year 2025 it's 50 years since.
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Chateau des Milandes - Freda Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture. During her early career, Baker was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris with her costume, consisting of only a short skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded necklace. She became an iconic image and a symbol both of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties.
She raised her children in France at Chateau des Milandes. She aided the French Resistance during World War II and awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle.
On November 30, 2021, she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, the first black woman to receive one of the highest honors in France. As her resting place remains in Monaco Cemetery, a cenotaph was installed in vault 13 of the crypt in the Panthéon.
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Publicity card picturing soubrette Edna May, with name crossed out and re-labelled "Nellie Raffo" (Giovanni Raffo's wife). Card tinted and glitter pasted on.
Raffo was a music hall singer, born around 1869 in Lever Street, Manchester. He retired due to a lung condition and took over the White Lion public house, Poland Street.
Letter from the servant of Eugene Stratton (an American performer who worked with Giovanni Raffo) to Giovanni, referred to as "Jack".
Raffo was a music hall singer, born around 1869 in Lever Street, Manchester. He retired due to a lung condition and took over the White Lion public house, Poland Street.
Kitty Dennick in male costume, seated on a table. Signed "From Mum to My Dear Daughter". List of songs written on the back: Do Something; Tell Me About Love; Kiss Walze (sic); Exactly Like You. Dated Jan 21, 1930.
Kitty Bertha Dennick, mother of the donor, was the daughter of George Dennick, an early music hall performer. She went on stage in her teens in a "cakewalk" double act, and later went solo, specialising in male impersonation. She married twice and had three children, living mainly in the Midlands.