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Lupino and Lauri Lane

Lupino Lane (Henry William George Lupino, 1892-1959) with his son Lauri Lupino Lane (1921-1986).

Lupino first went on the stage at the age of four, and he was professional from early adolescence. Lane achieved renown in a 1921 pantomime production of ALADDIN, where (per Wikipedia) he “dived through sixty three stage traps in six minutes” at the Hippodrome in London. He had already appeared on Broadway in AFGAR (1920-21) with his wife, Violet Blythe. Three years later he was back, performing in the long-running ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1924 (1924-25) with Will Rogers. His final appearance in New York was as Ko-Ko in the Shuberts’ MIKADO (1925).

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Helmut Riedmeier, London 1969

Arthur Robin, 

Professional Mr. Universe 1957

Georges Schiffelers

Gaston Ségaert, Trouville 1953

François Testard

Mr. Universe contest, London, 21 September 1968

Backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Photo by Studio Arax

First row, left to right: Wilfred Sylvester of Saint Lucia, Franco Columbu of Italy, and Adolf Ziegler of Austria.

Second row, left to right: Michael Wyatt, Michael Baker, Brian House, and Michael Filiotis (obscured) — all from England. 

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Young man with mutton-chop whiskers 

Carte de visite by Fradelle, “Portrait Painter & Photographer,” at 246 Regent Street in London, and associated with the National Photo-Mezzo-Tint Gallery. In 1880, Albert Eugene Fradelle appeared in the London city directory with those attributes and at that address. 

Albert Eugene Fradelle, the son and grandson of artists, was born in 1840 and died in 1884. Following a period in partnership during the 1870s, he established a solo operation; after his death, Albert Young took over the studio under the name Fradelle & Young.

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Waynflete Henry Patten-Saunders (William Henry Saunders, 1832-1899), a self-made man, who granted himself a pedigree and a backstory wholly at odds with his early life; his later life featured bigamy, a thrilling novel, and success as a dog breeder.

This carte de visite was taken by Camille-Léon-Louis Silvy (1834-1910) on 27 February 1862; it appears in Silvy’s office records as sitting 7099. Silvy, a native of Nogent-le-Rotrou (Eure et Loir), moved to London in the 1850s and opened a studio at 38 Porchester Terrace in Bayswater. His career lasted little more than a decade, a period in which he managed 17,000 sittings; his later life, in and out of hospitals and convinced he had poisoned himself in the darkroom, was a sad one.

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An unidentified gentleman [”J.D.B.F.”] by Alexander Bassano, 72 Piccadilly, London, dated 28 January 1880.

The Royal Academy website lists Bassano at 72 Piccadilly 1870-81. A leading society photographer of the Victorian and early Edwardian eras, Alexander Bassano (1829-1913) was particularly admired for his portraits of the British royal family; his photograph of Earl Kitchener was the model for the World War I recruiting poster “Your Country needs you.”