Theatrical Moments

Photographs of performances and social events from the early 20th century, highlighting entertainment culture in various settings.

Anefo photo collection. Gala evening in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam on the occasion of Book Week 1962. Flemish and Dutch authors were transported by floats to the book ball in the Concertgebouw. March 30, 1962. Amsterdam

10/19/1917. At the Martin Theater in Madrid a scene from Zarzuela in One Act, by Tristan Larios, music by Gregorio Jiménez, "el Zorro", Premiered last night.

10/18/1918. Madrid. Premiere in Cervantes. A scene from the Comedy, by José López Pinillos, "las Alas".

Maternal Matinee Days -- Dick and Ann survey the kids upon their return to the theatre and marvel at their vitality. They are dog-tired, and there's an evening show to be given. But the kids appear as fresh as they did when they started making the rounds nearly three hours before. July 24, 1947. (Photo by Wide World Photos).

Anefo photo collection. Sale. August 2, 1948

Dance at Paducah, KY., U.S.O. , Dance parties, Soldiers, Dancers, Musicians, USO clubs. Jack Miller Collection

Anefo photo collection. Jordaanvisfeest Award ceremony. September 10, 1952

Dance at Paducah, KY., U.S.O. , Dance parties, Soldiers, Dancers, Musicians, USO clubs. Jack Miller Collection

Anefo photo collection. Student ball in Lido Amsterdam. July 1, 1952. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Gala evening in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam on the occasion of Book Week 1962. Flemish and Dutch authors were transported by floats to the book ball in the Concertgebouw. March 30, 1962. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. Exclamation of Prince Carnival 1948 in Maastricht. Prince Carnival arrives in bottle juice. January 17, 1948. Maastricht

Tony Martin (Band Leader), on-set of the Film, "Life Begins in College", 20th Century-Fox, 1937

Japan/USA: U.S. servicemen and Japanese women dancing at th Oasis nightclub, Tokyo, 1945

Elsevier photo collection. Pressed Jaarbeurs Utrecht 1938 Philips television demonstration stand. 1938. Utrecht

Distinguished Foreigners Attend Unique Japanese Concrete -- Guests arriving at the concert, in the lobby of the Board of Information building (formerly Imperial Theatre). May 27, 1946. (Photo by Japan Photo Library, Inc.).

Anefo photo collection. Mission Columbia Film. March 25, 1962

01/24/1918. In the Spanish theater, in Madrid. A scene from the comedy in three acts, by Antonio Domínguez, "Juan, the Fool", Premiered last night.

Poll photo collection. Report Paris. Dance opportunity and nightclub Balajo in the Rue de Lappe; French actress Mme Moreno with a white scarf. 1936. France, Paris

Orchestras - Music (See Also: Bands Music). March 8, 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Carnival Nijmegen. Arrival Prince Carnival and Procession. 19 April 1953. Nijmegen

Anefo photo collection. Home textile exchange in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Musicemble whose guitarists have headphones on. September 5, 1966. Utrecht (Prov), Utrecht (city)

1940S Crowd Of People Men Women Outside The Entrance To A Circus Tent Midway Entertainment Fun Amusement Big Top

Anefo photo collection. Ball ANV. peace. January 8, 1949

Illustrators at play

Anefo photo collection. Viennese Poppentheater of Rolf Trexler from Vienna in Amsterdam, Rolf Trexler and his assistant Hannelore Schmerer present the dolls. March 1, 1960. Amsterdam, Vienna

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-1134. 1956

Anefo photo collection. Entertainment: Rialto cinema. Ticket sales and row waiting public for the Rialto Theater in Amsterdam. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Attention grabber at the saloon (OV2023_124)

Anefo photo collection. Veiling Legacy Willem Mengelberg at Waay broker. March 25, 1952

07/30/1921. Madrid. In the national shot distribution of Awards of the recent Contest, Verified on Sunday Last.

Pacific Showboat Concert Party- Royal Navy Music and Dance Rehearsals, London, England, UK, 1945 Sub-Lieutenant H Briggs (left) leads members of the Pacific Showboat Concert Party in the rehearsal of a dance sequence, somewhere in London. A pianist can be seen in the background, accompanying the men as they rehearse their steps.

Anefo photo collection. USC Lustrum Play. With Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and Princess Beatrix. July 3, 1956. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Scene, scenes, theater players. January 8, 1949

Wartime Theatre- Entertainment in London, England, UK, August 1943 A view of the busy theatre bar in the interval of 'Flying Colours' at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. Serving the drinks is Mrs Thompson, from Ashford in Middlesex. The crowd consists of civilians and various service personnel.

Anefo photo collection. National ballet left for Monte Carlo. December 23, 1962

Interior Barvagnen, Swedish Night Light Cruising, SNLC. The "dollar train" emerged as an attempt to reduce post -war currency deficiency, they were primarily aimed at strong American tourists, hence the coined name

KID MILLIONS (1934).

Anefo photo collection. Interest in television sets at the Firato for the Netherlands against Austria. September 25, 1957. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Sint Nicolaas in Amsterdam. Play Jan Klaassen and Katrijn. December 1, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

DEU, Germany: The historical colour photos from the times of the 1970s show events and people from politics, culture, trade unions, working life, medicine, etc. Ruhr area. DKP demonstrates against the right. ca. 1965

Public House Concert- Music and Entertainment at the Wharncliffe Hotel, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK, September 1944 A barman delivers beers to members of the audience in the concert saloon at the Wharncliffe Hotel in Sheffield. Between pieces, the audience can call for drinks at the saloon bar, which are then brought through for them. Tonight's concert is by pianist Noel Mewton-Wood (not pictured).

Penasco, New Mexico: July, 1940 A traveling Hispanic band playing outside a bar and dance club.

Anefo photo collection. Party at Drakenstein, Queen Juliana between two girlfriends from Princess Beatrix and Prince Bernhard for the court car. December 21, 1964

Anefo photo collection. REPETITION VPRO television game "high is heaven", Ton Keyl, Mariane Rector and Huib de Vries. November 9, 1959

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Party in Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

FERNANDO FERNAN GOMEZ in I WANT TO MARRY YOU (1952) -Original title: ME QUIERO CASAR CONTIGO-, directed by JERONIMO MIHURA.

GERMANY YEAR ZERO (1948) -Original title: GERMANIA ANNO ZERO-, directed by ROBERTO ROSSELLINI.

Carter delivers on - the spot lectures to anyone who's drunk too much. He's been warring on liquor since joining the Band of Hope at 12. January 28, 1953. (Photo by David R. Jones)

Theater-making theater performance of the Amateur Society Boden, 1924.

Anefo photo collection. The Amsterdam Alhambratheater with announcements for the Documentary film "People of tomorrow" direction: Kees Brusse. Busy for the theater there next Thursday the film will be discontinued. November 3, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Quatrieme Festival Edudiant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Current band at Boldootfabriek in Amsterdam. August 5, 1956. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana performs opening exhibition Expo Asmara Hare Majesty and Haile Selassie on stage. February 2, 1969

Anefo photo collection. Annual drum feast in the stock exchange held at the Damrak. September 19, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Stay at Home Holidays- Entertainment and Relaxation in Wartime London, England, 1943 After an afternoon in Hyde Park, Private Christopher Murray, Aircraftman Jimmy Clark, (both hidden behind their companions), Peggy Franks, and Pinkie Barnes enter the Regal Cinema and Ballroom at Marble Arch, London. The film they are about to see is 'Watch on the Rhine', starring Bette Davis, Paul Lukas and Geraldine Fitzgerald.

With a new dance, the stop-op, the star player of BVB Dortmund Lothar Emmerich tried to create in 1966 in a Dortmund pub, The success he had as a footballer, however, did not come to him, Germany, Europe

10/03/1968, performance of the Play "Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat Represented by the Inmates of the Charenton Asylum under the direction of Mr. Sade" By Adolfo Marsillach. Marsillach himself plays Sade and José María Prada plays Marat. With this work, a new stage begins for the national chamber and rehearsal theater.

Anefo photo collection. August 31 pirate channel Radio Veronica will be out of the air; DiscJockey wants LiègePa (L) and Technician Atze Veenstra during recording. 26 August 1974

Anefo photo collection. The launch of howling at the NDSM in Amsterdam. November 22, 1958. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the exhibition of motorcycles, Scoote mopeds, by Minister Aartsen, Minister Aartsen in the middle of "Readyovers". 26 February 1959

THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955) -Original title: BLACKBOARD JUNGLE-, directed by RICHARD BROOKS.

Orchestra with traveling show (Spanish-American). Penasco, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Penasco, New Mexico , Taos County

Anefo photo collection. New prison system in the Netherlands. National work design Kamp Bergveen (in Veenhuizen). Rehearsal for theater evening. April 29, 1949. Drenthe, Norg, Veenhuizen

Anefo photo collection. Reception. T.V. The opening of the new factory. July 18, 1957

11/14/1922. Madrid. In the King Alfonso theater. A scene from Gonzalez del Toro's play "The Trickster of Medina" Premiered Last Night. (photo Larregla).

Wartime Theatre- Entertainment in London, England, UK, August 1943 Large numbers of men and women queue for tickets outside the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. The entrance visible in the centre is for the Upper Circle. A street entertainer stands in the road with his dog, trying to keep the theatre-goers amused as they wait to enter.

Anefo photo collection. Fifty anniversary singing association Cecilia. January 20, 1947

Wartime Opera- Music and Entertainment at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, England, UK, 1943 Two members of the ATS count their change after buying tickets at the No. 1 Box Office at the New Theatre on St Martin's Lane in London. Behind them, men and women queue to buy tickets. A sign above a doorway directs people to the stalls and dress circle, numbers 1 to 12. According to the original caption 'the operas are so popular that it is very difficult to get seats on the night of the performance'.

Dan Duryea, Peter Finch, Christian Marquand, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine, Ronald Fraser, George Kennedy, Ian Brennan, on-set of the Film, "The Flight of the Phoenix", 20th Century Fox, 1965

California delegates cheering on stagecoach at the 1912 Republican National Convention held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-22, 1912

Noel Coward (far right), on-set of the Film, "The Scoundrel", Paramount Pictures, 1935

Anefo photo collection. View day of auction Paul Brandt in Arti et Amicitiae. November 28, 1960

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "Figaro" in the RAI. October 26, 1948

Anefo photo collection. The robbery in the Cinetone studio started. September 10, 1962

12/31/1929. One Saturday, at the Cafe De "A la Consigne", where "Ramón" has established the "Branch" of his Pombo Literary gathering: To the left, between the bold American journalist Korsi and the first French comedian Cami, Gómez de Exhibites La serna the mirror of a Banad Sedeña on the Chest. Writers and Artists of Various Origins Complete the Group, and among them, standing, in the left corner, the Spanish Cartoonists Tono and Beberide.

New York City Ballet Rehearsal. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Screens k.o.o.s. in Breda. February 5, 1950. Breda

View of the dance floor at Sherman's, big dance and bar establishment in San Diego, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County

Anefo photo collection. Poppent theater. Poppent theater. January 28, 1946

The new gambling game: Where will the mouse run A concession at South Louisiana State Fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Donaldsonville, Louisiana , Ascension Parish

Anefo photo collection. "Miss Disc" chosen in City Theater Amsterdam. Bernadette Walenkamp Miss Disc. December 16, 1969

Original Film Title: THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE. English Title: THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE. Film Director: DAVID BUTLER. Year: 1944. Stars: BOB HOPE.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK in FAMILY PLOT (1976), directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

Televising a Spanish scene at the Crystal Palace, filmed on cine-film at the studios of the Baird Television Company. On the 2nd February 1935 the Baird system transmitted indoor and outdoor scenes to an audience in Westminster. The subjects of the recording included horse jumping and racing film scenes. Date: 1935

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0703. 1956

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Cabaret Zandvoort. May 29, 1954. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort

Anefo photo collection. Series. Advertising campaign film "Funny Girl" (in Cinema du Midi in Amsterdam). Shop window. 28 February 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Entertainment: Rialto cinema. Ticket sales and row waiting public for the Rialto Theater in Amsterdam. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. The Netherlands Blazersensemble gives concert at the courtyard Amsterdams Historical Museum, Amsterdam. August 19, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Poll photo collection. Dutch acrobats Scott & Black in the National Scala. Scott and Black in a doorway of the theater. March 1954. Denmark, Copenhagen

Anefo photo collection. Return Concertgebouw Orchestra. Clarijs and Labordus. June 6, 1961

Anefo photo collection. Visit beauty queen at Lucas Bols. March 6, 1953

Image from the recording of the movie "Kronans Rallare".

Jubilee's ending in the concert hall .. Actor in the performance. A small table.

Anefo photo collection. Finland. Folk dance group Merend district. July 5, 1967. Finland

Auction of secondhand garments. Boise, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Boise, Idaho , Ada County

LAUREN BACALL and JACK CARSON in BRIGHT LEAF (1950), directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ.

Anefo photo collection. Speedbeker (presumably) offered to the Uline Director, Mr Ter Wolbeek, by the 1 April Committee of the Savings Bank for the City of Amsterdam. Scottish dance, executed on the occasion of the ceremony. October 27, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Start of the parties in Amersfoort T.G.V. The seventh anniversary, founding the beer stuff in the Phoenix brewery. June 12, 1959

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