A prompter in a music hall enjoys watching a woman can-can dancer, tells an unpopular man entertainer to get off the stage, and is finally arrested at the request of two dissatisfied men. Process print after Albert Guillaume.

A concert hall. Watercolour and crayons by Tomasz Sitkowski, 1976.

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A concert hall. Watercolour and crayons by Tomasz Sitkowski, 1976.

A prompter in a music hall enjoys watching a woman can-can dancer, tells an unpopular man entertainer to get off the stage, and is finally arrested at the request of two dissatisfied men. Process print after Albert Guillaume.