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Theater and opera scrapbooks, 1902-1918.

Title: Theater and opera scrapbooks, 1902-1918.

Scrapbooks containing programs, publicity photographs, newspaper illustrations, and reviews of plays, operas, and vaudeville performed in London, with a few from Brussels. Included are stills or programs from performances of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, The Winter's Tale, King Henry VIII, Twelfth Night, and Midsummer Night's Dream; Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado and The Yeomen of the Guard; Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme; J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Rosalind, and other plays; G.B. Shaw's Pygmalion, John Bull's Other Island, Overruled, Fanny's First Play, and Androcles and the Lion; Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband; and lesser-known plays by Seymour Hicks, George Edwardes, Edward Knoblauch, and others, as well as several plays produced by Granville Barker. Actors pictured include Ellen Terry, Lewis Waller, Sir Henry Irving, Ellaline Terriss, Fred Terry, Winifred Emery, Ernest Mainwaring, Gerald Du Maurier, and Annette Kellerman. Theaters featured include the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; the Garrick Theatre; the Theatre Royal, Haymarket; the Savoy Theatre; and the Playhouse. Operas include Verdi's Otello and Rigoletto; Puccini's Madama Butterfly; Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila; Rossini's Barber of Seville; Richard Strauss's Salome; and Wagner's Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Singers shown include Luisa Tetrazzini, Dame Nellie Melba, Ema Destinnova, John McCormack, and Giovanni Zenatello. Theaters featured include the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. : ill. ; 32-41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63906283 View

George Edwardes caricature, 189-

Title: George Edwardes caricature, 189-

Ink drawing of English theater manager George Edwardes is signed Thos D.

ArchivalResource: 1 drawing : b&w ; 15 cm. x 24 cm.

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Edwardes, George, 1855-1915. Autograph letter signed : 11 Beaufort Buildings, Strand, W.C., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1880 June 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : 11 Beaufort Buildings, Strand, W.C., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1880 June 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270126520 View

Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899. Theatrical papers of Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1863-1900.

Title: Theatrical papers of Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1863-1900.

These papers arose out of Daly's various theatrical enterprises. Some years are more fully documented than others. Contents: Deeds, including leases of theaters in New York and London, 1869-1893 (1-17); licenses to operate his New York theaters, and to employ children, and the Lord Chamberlain's permissions to perform various plays, 1873-1899 (18-40); insurance policies, 1872-1893, (41-56); agreements with theatrical producers, authors, actors and actresses and others, n.d., 1863-1900 (57-304) (includes agreements to sell his theatrical costumes to Fanny Davenport, 1877 (170-172), papers arising out of the performance of "Pique" (adapted from Mrs. Lean's novel, February 1884), (224), the agreement between Tennyson and Daly about the performance of The Foresters, January 25, 1892 (257), and a translation of Sarah Bernhardt's agreement with M.L. Mayer, Paris, September 22, 1894, (266)); receipts for salaries signed by his company mostly while on tour, 1867-1898 (305-462); bills and receipts, including several pay sheets, n.d., 1867-1898 (463-667); canceled checks, including a few promissory notes, 1871-1899 (668-1880); rules of the theater, n.d., ca. 1885-1898 (1881-1888); memoranda to his company concerning the day to day running of his theaters, bringing the members to heel, n.d., 1872-1899 (1889-2102) (including a memorandum of October 10, 1893 stating that Mr. Gordon Craig may have to play at short notice, (2028)); resolution of the company, January 1873 (2103); inventories of the Grand Opera House, ca. 1874 (2104-2105); notes relating to performances (2106-2114); cast lists (2115-2129); a song with music for Violet in "The life of an actress" and the synopsis of a play, by D. Boucicault (2130-2131); a draft of a scene for some play (2132); proposal for scenery for "The Merchant of Venice," 1896 (2133); a Chinese Consular passport for L.L.Daly, 1888 (2134); assignment of judgment in A.Daly v. C.A.Byrne, October 2, 1879 (2135); affidavit of Franz and Paul von Schonthan, May 18, 1885 (2136); brief for plaintiff in George Edwardes v. Cissy Fitzgerald, 1894 (2137); drafts of speeches, n.d., 1873-1894, including a copy of The Players, 1908 (2138-2146); a poem, December 13, 1878 (2147); a printed leaflet containing an invitation to Daly from The New York Shakespeare Society and Daly's answer, 1896 (2 copies, 2148-2149); Daly's Certificate of Governorship of the Shakespeare Memorial Association, 1888, and its resolution thanking him for his gift of a bust of Ada Rehan, April 23, 1898 (2150-2152); an address book (2153); menus, invitations and tickets, n.d., 1867-1900, including a ticket to Daly's funeral, June 19, 1899 (2154-2178); a translation of the extract from the minutes of Acts of Decease of the First Precinct of Paris reporting the death of Daly, June 8, 1899 (2179); miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and oddments (2180-2214). Some items undated. All items cataloged separately.

ArchivalResource: 2285 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434080584 View

Edwardes, George, 1855-1915,. Autograph letters signed from George Edwardes to various recipients [manuscript], 1888-1897.

Title: Autograph letters signed from George Edwardes to various recipients [manuscript], 1888-1897.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281846324 View