Aimée Campton
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Aimée Campton or Miss Campton was a dancer, music hall artist, postcard beauty and a French actress of English origin. A silent film actress, she played the lead role in a series of French-made Maud f
Aimée Campton c.1905
Aimée Campton in about 1910
The shared grave of Aimée Campton in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris
Tiller Girls
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The Tiller Girls were among the most popular dance troupes of the 1890s, first formed by John Tiller in Manchester, England, in 1889. In theatre Tiller had noticed the overall effect of a chorus of da
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…as Emily Strahan Cager, the illegitimate daughter of domestic servant Emily Cager and raised in London, she arrived as a dancer in one of the first of Tiller Girls troupes to visit Paris at the time of the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and would never leave again. Her lively on-stage character and English accent…
Tiller Girls posing on a ship, c. mid-late 1920s
The Tiller Girls in an impromptu dance line