"The Gay Sparks" in conversation. Photographic postcard, 1929.

Date:
1929
Reference:
2058924i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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"The Gay Sparks" in conversation. Photographic postcard, 1929. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

The group of actors are dressed as clowns, likely during rehearsal, with a piano to one side of the men.

Publication/Creation

Weston-Super-Mare (Boulevard) : Sandys Ltd., 1929.

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.9 x 13.7 cm

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"The Gay Sparks" Weston-Super-Mare 1929. Hal Martin. Versatile comedian in song, step & story To Mrs. Wood, with love from Hal Martin (written on verso).

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: As the word 'gay' in a homosexual context became more widely used in the second half of the twentieth century, it began by degrees to lose it's original meaning of happy or joyful; by the beginning of the twenty-first century it was never colloquially used in that context.
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Wellcome Collection 2058924i

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  • Romantic fantasy and comic postcards

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