Item #CL198-113 Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection
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Tivoli Circuit Performance Collection

c1936. Forty-five (45) vintage silver gelatin photographs, postcard format, one dated “1936” and most numbered (possibly negative numbers) in pencil verso, 13.7 x 9cm (approx. each). Minor creases, scuffing, silvering, chips to edges.

Four photographs in this collection show billboards advertising performing acts of the season. Their text includes “Frank Neil presents new international variety stars, Windsor Troupe. The big show of 1936. Jim Gerald. Alexander Santos & Co. Direct from Folies Bergère, dancing burlesque sensation. The Geddes Bros. Buster Shaver and his favourite midgets, Olive & George.” Other photographs show novelty acts, burlesque dancers and theatre performances.

The Tivoli was a major outlet for variety theatre and vaudeville in Australia for over 70 years. It promoted both “local and international musical, variety and comedy acts…the Tivoli was famous for its scantily clad chorus girls, who were colloquially known as ‘Tivoli tappers.’” Frank Neil (d.1940) became managing director of the Tivoli enterprise in 1934 and renamed it Tivoli Circuit Australia. He has been credited with saving the Circuit during the great depression and the introduction of television in Australia by producing top-end vaudeville. Ref: Wiki; Djubal, (Aust. Variety Theatre Archive), 2017.

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Item #CL198-113

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