Keywords: Tivoli dressing room fire1.jpg en Title Back view of man presumably a detective in a tulle skirt behind a stage curtain Found in an envelope marked 'Tivoli dressing room fire 1945' Format Picture Glass plate negative Record Number 31915 in the Sydney Police Justice Museum Caption The Tivoli Theatre in Castlereagh Street was for decades Sydney's most popular variety theatre famous for among other things its barley-clad showgirls The circumstances behind this photograph may be thus police are called in to make a report in the aftermath of a fire They find themselves granted access to one of the most titillating locales in Sydney - the 'Tiv' dressing room In the ensuing mood of ribald jocularity a policeman is photographed clowning about http //collection hht net au/firsthhtpictures/fullRecordPicture jsp recnoListAttr recnoList recno 31915 New South Wales Police Deptartment 1945 Restored version of File Back_of_a_man _Tivoli_dressing_room_fire _1945 jpg Cropped Dirt and scratches removed Selective brightness adjustments Skirt not altered because of possibility of fire damage source notes were unclear No alterations to histogram; no other versions 33 52 11 4 S 151 12 35 2 E PD-Australia Sydney in the 1940s Police officers of the New South Wales Police Force Theatrical costume Culture of Sydney Tulle textile |