Blog: Another Nickel In The Machine

Marie Lloyd and Claire Loumaine 1913 If Heat magazine had existed before the First World War they would have surely printed the picture above which features a 43 year old Marie Lloyd embracing and kissing a woman called Claire Loumaine. The photograph was taken on 25th April at Paddington Station where the music hall star had gone to meet Loumaine on her return from Australia Does anyone know who Claire Loumaine is? I can't find anything about her at all. There is a strange film made in 1967 called The London [...]