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Title	The Night Owls Beauty Show'; Poster, Pauline Markham
Date	n.d.
Date era	1890-1910
Production	The Night Owls Beauty Show
Character roles	Pauline Markham (The General)
Artistic roles	Pauline Markham (Actor)
Genre	Burlesque
Theme	Women in 19th C. Theatre
Item description	Lithograph poster advertising ' The Night Owls Beauty Show'; starring Pauline Markham (1847-1919). Poster is in color and is estimated to be dated 1891. The show was produced by the Robert Manchester French Folly Company.
Object narrative	Pauline Markham (1847-1919) was born in England and began her performance career there in 1867 at the Queen'; s Theatre in ' The First Night.'; She came to the United States in 1868 with the Lydia Thompson Troupe as Venus in ' Ixion,'; later closing with the same company at Niblo'; s Garden, New York. She was mentioned in an article in ' The Galaxy'; magazine as early as 1869 as already being a burlesque actress of note. Her ' ...speech is vocal velvet...her voice and her smile give to her presence a rare attraction, that calls to mind the allurements which Horace immortalized...'; (The Galaxy, Aug. 1869). It is rumored that she quit the Lydia Thompson company in order to join the cast of ' The Black Crook.'; ' The Night Owls Beauty Show,'; a Robert Manchester French Folly Company production, was performed in 1891. It says that Markham played the part of ' The General.'; Women playing men in burlesque shows was the practice of the time, with pictures of burlesque actresses even being sold as souvenirs in the streets. Pauline Markham was most often billed as an ' actress in tights'; in these pictures, rather than an ' actress showing bust,'; as other actresses were pictured. ' The National Police Gazette'; in 1879 noted: ' Miss Pauline Markham, the popular and widely famous artiste, who has by general approval been invested by right of her beauty and magnificent statuesque form with the title of ' Queen of the burlesque stage'; ...';
Original format	Poster
Repository	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/)
Collection	MSS255 Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection
Series	9.1 Posters -- Plays/Perfomances
Finding aid link	http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/manuscripts/ead/mss255.xml
Preferred citation	[Identification of item], Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection, 1753-2006 (MSS255), Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives and Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
Copyright	http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/copyright
Object ID	MSS255_P002
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
Digital collection homepage	http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/Hansen

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