Thursday, October 02, 2008

Cole Bros. Program 1947 #9


Scan10797, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Mrs. Tennyson would sing during the band concert on the come-in as well as spec and the web number.
A very nice lady, I remember she had a device that could mend ladies stockings which during the war was pretty handy and a good source of of side income.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 10/02/2008 06:19:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The ladies who couldn't afford stockings would use "leg makeup" and (since stockings then had seams) would draw a line up the back of their legs with an eyebrow pencil.

02 October, 2008 13:05
Anonymous said...

And what a voice she had. I can still remember her belting it out during the show.
Bob Kitto

03 October, 2008 20:05
Anonymous said...

Hello! A few years ago, I purchased some fairly elaborate wardobe on eBay with a photo of a woman wearing it in the backyard. The seller told me after I won the auction that it came out of an abandoned storage unit sale that she had bought in St. Louis. For several months, I couldn't identify who it belonged to or even what show it came from, as the photo had cropped most of the background out except for the last 6 or 8 inches of the back of a baggage wagon and a canvas tent that was blurry. The costume included a hat with large white yarn pompoms that seemed quite odd. The jacket had these carefully hand-sewn sequined balls that must have taken hours and hours to sew. Finally one day while looking through a 1948 Cole Bros. Program, there was the odd hat and the jacket! It had belonged to Florence Tennyson and she was pictured in the program wearing it. The photo that came with it showed her wearing the hat and jacket with this flower-printed skirt and "street" shoes, which seemed quite unusual to me, but seeing that she was the featured vocalist made much more sense. To me the set of the costume and photo are priceless! Neil Cockerline

08 October, 2008 17:41
Buckles said...

This picture shows a much younger Miss Tennyson than the one I remember with the Cole Show in 1947.
She might have been on the show about the time it was framed, or even earlier.

08 October, 2008 18:10

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