Bert Coote smoking a cigarette
Drawing
1925 (drawn)
1925 (drawn)
| Place of origin |
Born in London, the music hall comedian and actor Bert Coote (1868-1838), son of the prolific Victorian composer of popular music Charles Coote, married the dancer Ada Russell. Bert Coote made his stage debut at Sadler’s Wells in December 1873 as one of the babes in the pantomime Babes in the Wood, and at Christmas 1877 he and his sister Lizzie played Clown and Columbine in the Adelphi Theatre’s children’s pantomime, Blanchard’s Goody Two Shoes. By the 1890s was appearing in the USA in Seattle where he played Billy Giltedge in Little Puck at the Seattle Opera House, May 1892, and Hector Timid in Dead Shot at Cordray’s Theatre, February 1893. His son was the successful actor Robert Coote (1909- 1982) who created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original 1956 Broadway run of Lerner and Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady.
Object details
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| Title | Bert Coote smoking a cigarette (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink drawing |
| Brief description | Silhouette line drawing of Bert Coote (1868-1938) smoking a cigarette. Anonymous, pen and ink, 1925, probably published in The Echo, 23 November 1925. |
| Physical description | Silhouette line drawing of Bert Coote smoking a cigarette. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Echo 23.11.1925 |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Peggy Coote-Caswell |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Born in London, the music hall comedian and actor Bert Coote (1868-1838), son of the prolific Victorian composer of popular music Charles Coote, married the dancer Ada Russell. Bert Coote made his stage debut at Sadler’s Wells in December 1873 as one of the babes in the pantomime Babes in the Wood, and at Christmas 1877 he and his sister Lizzie played Clown and Columbine in the Adelphi Theatre’s children’s pantomime, Blanchard’s Goody Two Shoes. By the 1890s was appearing in the USA in Seattle where he played Billy Giltedge in Little Puck at the Seattle Opera House, May 1892, and Hector Timid in Dead Shot at Cordray’s Theatre, February 1893. His son was the successful actor Robert Coote (1909- 1982) who created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original 1956 Broadway run of Lerner and Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.1265-1986 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2010 |
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