Black & White Budget - Backstage 1901 - Special Feature

Backstage Articles Index

This month's 'Special Feature' is taken from the pages of 'Black & White Budget' 1901, a weekly magazine produced in the UK during the late 1800s and early 1900s. What you will see here are a number of pages from the 1901 editions, featuring articles on behind the scenes activities of Theatres and Performers that year. The Feature was first added to the site in June 2002 but was updated in March 2015 when all the pages were combined into this page, and then again in 2017.

Above - Where Palaces and Forests are made. An article on scenic construction and painting in 1901

Above - A rehersal at the Vaudeville

Above - The Pounds Shillings and Pence of Pantomimes

Above - The work of the Variety Acrobat

Above - Miss Ellaine Terriss In the dressing Room

Above - The art of Making Up

Above - The art of the Quick Change

Above - Music Hall Artistes at a Charity Cricket Match

Above - The Building of a new Theatre in the Provinces. Northampton's Palace of Varieties as it will appear.

Above - Pantomime Song at Drury Lane

Above - How Music Hall Artistes Relax Back Stage at Drury Lane