Card of the Day - 2022-04-26

This set was issued in three formats, what is usually regarded as A being a set of twenty five cards addressed as either (a) "Belfast - Ireland" or (b) "London & Belfast", and our version, B, being a set of 26 cards.

Strangely it does not tell you there are 25 cards on the cards of the first version, so maybe there is another card we don’t yet know about?

Our dancing girl is described as “Miss Renie Joliffe, the well known acrobatic dancer” who “performs a feat which looks easy until you try.” They are right.

Her amazing acrobatics can also be seen at Getty Images.

However, there does not seem to be any form of biography.

I know that in the 1930s she was at the Cosmo Club, in London, appearing as a contortionist, just one of several different acts on the bill, and was captured on a newsreel. 

There is no denying she was very talented so sadly she just never seems to have made the big time; or maybe the opportunities for her kind of act were just not there. 

If anyone does know more of her story, please do pass it along.