Albert Guillaume (1873-1942) was a French illustrator and painter with a satirical mindset. His Wikipedia entry is here.

Guillaume usually poked fun at the haute bourgeoisie, so for this post I decided to present some of his works dealing with the theatre.

Gallery

[Image]Musique savante
The music lover seems inspired, but I'm not so sure about the others nearby.

[Image]La Loge au théâtre
He tended to depict pretty younger women with older men, so maybe there was a good deal of that during the Belle Époque and later.

[Image]Les admiratrices (Lucien Guitry dans sa loge) - 1922

[Image]Private opera box
A group utterly fixated on what's happening on stage.

[Image]Au theatre - 1920s

[Image]Les retardataires
The performance of the late arrivals.