Variety 101 Photo Gallery

Variety-Vaudeville Gallery II
compiled by John Kenrick
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Vaudeville star Julian Eltinge, the only female impersonator to have a Broadway theater named after him. (It is now the AMC Empire multiplex on 42nd Street.)

Fay Templeton, the beloved vaudeville comedienne who introduced George M. Cohan's "Mary's a Grand Old Name" in 45 Minutes from Broadway. She ended her career introducing Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays" in Roberta (1933).

A vintage postcard gives us this great full color look at New York's Hippodrome Theatre. The spectacular structure was replaced by a parking garage and office building in the 1960's.

A photo from a Hippodrome souvenir program shows the interior. Imagine what kind of lung power it took for vaudevillians to entertain such a vast audience, two to four times a day.

Hippodrome stage spectacles were noticed nationwide. Here is a colorful (if somewhat blurry) postcard view of "The Court of the Golden Fountain" scene from A Society Circus (1905).

An autographed "cabinet photo" of musical comedienne May Irwin. Performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries were featured in these postcard-sized photos that were made available for friends and fans.

May Irwin is seen here as she appeared on sheet music for one of her hits.