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Billie Manders and members of the Quaintesques. Photographic postcard, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
A group photo of Billie Manders and six other members of the Quaintesques in action, in Tenby. They are wearing an elaborate variation of the typical Pierrot costumes worn at seaside concert parties, with one character in blackface. They lean on six rectangular decorated boxes with Manders third from the right. Manders was a popular Rhyl-based female impersonator: he and his troupe 'The Quaintesques' were concert party entertainers from the early 1920's right up to World War II. Billie was a performer from a very early age and a a pioneer of 'glamour drag', presenting a less exaggerated female appearance.
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