Fancy Pants
Poster
1956 (designed)
1956 (designed)
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Poster advertising Fancy Pants, Hippodrome, Aldershot, 1956. The poster lists the revue's stars, including comedian Jack Haig, the "Personality Girl" Mary Harkness, the Palm Beach Lovelies, magician Eric Williams, dancers Sheila Holt and Tom Gillis, and the Disc-Chords - Eddie Hart, Billy Redman and Eddie Atkins.
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Title | Fancy Pants (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Printed ink on paper |
Brief description | Poster advertising Fancy Pants, Hippodrome, Aldershot, 1956 |
Physical description | Poster advertising Fancy Pants, Hippodrome, Aldershot, 1956. The poster depicts a woman dressed as a cowgirl. She wears a white shirt with fringed sleeves, red trousers, and white cowboy boots. She wears two studded belts, one with a pistol in a holster. She wears a blue scarf around her neck. Behind her she holds a banner with the revue's title, Fancy Pants, with a lasso loop in which the show is billed as a "slick American-styled Revue". In the background are a number of sky scrapers, along with a man wearing a suit, bowler hat and tie, carrying a briefcase and an umbrella, but wearing no trousers. The poster lists the revue's stars, including comedian Jack Haig, the "Personality Girl" Mary Harkness, the Palm Beach Lovelies, magician Eric Williams, dancers Sheila Holt and Tom Gillis, and the Disc-Chords - Eddie Hart, Billy Redman and Eddie Atkins. |
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Summary | Poster advertising Fancy Pants, Hippodrome, Aldershot, 1956. The poster lists the revue's stars, including comedian Jack Haig, the "Personality Girl" Mary Harkness, the Palm Beach Lovelies, magician Eric Williams, dancers Sheila Holt and Tom Gillis, and the Disc-Chords - Eddie Hart, Billy Redman and Eddie Atkins. |
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Accession number | S.98-2018 |
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Record created | February 1, 2018 |
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