Sugarchurch's Outside Talker
the Tumblr of a fictional character. Sugarchurch is the Barker or "Outside Talker" in the play Left-Handed Darling
This blog by mikl-em (I played Sugarchurch) features Stuff about carnival sideshows, the 1800's to 1930’s, Vaudeville, clowns, freaks, silent film, or whatever else seems to fit.
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Photo reblogged from No You Shut Up
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Venezia Frandi (July 20, 1898 - November 10, 1974)—lower with Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell on the set of 1928’s Street Angelvia whataboutbobbed
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Photo reblogged from kitten on the keys
“On the set of the Cardboard Lover, 1928 with Nils Asther and Marion Davies via doctormacro.com & vintagemarlene
A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his “cardboard lover”—to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back. What he doesn’t realize is that the girl isn’t pretending—she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.
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Photo reblogged from Hold This Photo
1920’s Broadway star Perle Germonde in costume via the NYPL image collection and holdthisphoto
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Photo reblogged from Maudelynn's Menagerie
Smoking up to some tunes, 1920s style. “Le Jazzoflute” art by Georges Lepape Gazette du Bon Ton (1922) via maudelynn
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Photo reblogged from Maudelynn's Menagerie
Bebe Daniels and Doris Hill in Take Me Home c.1928. Via maudelynn
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Photo reblogged from TheShinyBoogie
frog and bat “Protection from Fire”: jumbo size Japanese matchbox label (circa 1920) on Flickr via Michelle Ilizaliturri Feshari and klappersacks
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Photo reblogged from SECRETCIGARETTE
“Illustration for “masque rouge” parfum de Guerlain” from 1926. Via colettesaintyves
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Photo reblogged from sloth unleashed
BLACK HOUDINI | 1920s. Black magician and his assistants. From the book “A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts 1920-1936.” Credit: South Carolina ETV. via blackhistoryalbum
