PEGGY VERE : MUSIC HALL PERFORMER, STAGE STAR, AND FILM ACTRESS : A NOYER : RPPC

This vintage real photo postcard features pretty British music-hall performer, dancer, singer, and stage and screen actress, Peggy Vere. She performed in French music halls. Her debut was in Paris at both the Concert Mayol and at the Theatre des Varietes. In 1920 she performed at the Ambassadeurs and at the Casino de Paris. Between the years 1920 and 1940 she performed predominately at the Concert Mayol. Vere helped popularize “The Lambeth Walk”, a song from the musical “Me and My Girl” (1937). In 1919 he made her screen debut in a propaganda drama. The IMDb reports that Vere appeared in five films between 1919 and 1933. This postcard was published by Alfred Noyer (Paris, France) as part of a series (No.14). (SOLD)

MARCELLE LENDER : FRENCH SINGER AND DANCER : MODELLED FOR TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

This uncommon vintage real photo postcard features French singer, dancer and entertainer, Marcelle Lender (1862-1926). Lender was also famous for her modelling in paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lender began dancing at age sixteen and quickly escalated her fame by performing at the Theatre des Varietes in Paris, France. Lender was the model for several works by Lautrec. Her most notable appearance in his paintings was of her dancing the Bolero, in full costume, during an 1895 performance of “Chilperic”. That painting is today in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. This postcard portrait of Miss Lender was taken by the famed Reutlinger studio. The card was published by the English firm, Rotary Photo. SOLD