Performing Arts
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# 30564
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New copy. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the …
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# 28380
TAYLOR, Tom (1817-1880)
[GOLD RUSH] New Holborn Theatre Royal … This Evening, Saturday June 8th … The Antipodes! Or, The Ups and Downs of Life. By Tom Taylor, Esq.
Author of “Still Waters Run Deep”, “Plot and Passion”, “The Ticket of Leave Man” &c. &c. The Extensive Scenery designed and painted by Mr. William Telbin, Mr. Telbin, Jun., Mr. H. P. Hall and Assistants. The Appointments by Mr. A. Lloyds. Costumes by Mr. S. May. The Music composed and arranged by Mr. G. Richardson …
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# 30087
THE WATTLERS
[WORLD WAR ONE] Wattler’s Theatre. Some where in ….. Grand Christmas Pantomime “Robinson Crusoe”. Nightly 6 p.m. Produced by The Wattlers. Presented at popular prices. Officers: 2 francs. Other ranks: 50 cents. Programme 1d.
Hazebrouk : Imp. Stoven, [December, 1917]. Octavo bifolium (245 x 160 mm), lithograph printed on thickish green paper, centre pages with full cast for the evening’s entertainment, rear page with humorous notices such as ‘If you want anything done come to us [The Wattlers]. Our speciality is beershifting. We do this free providing you have …
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# 29593
VON TILZER, Albert (music); BROWN, Lew (words)
[SHEET MUSIC] Oh gee! Say gee! You ought to see my gee gee from the Fiji isle! : song fox-trot
/ written by Lew Brown ; composed by Albert Von Tilzer. Cover: Sung by Leyland Hodgson in Harry G. Musgrove’s Tivoli show, ‘All the winners’. Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [1920]. Folio (340 mm), disbound, illustrated wrappers with idealised depiction of an exotic dancer from the South Seas and vignette illustration of Leyland Hodgson; 5 pp, …
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# 30084
SCHUSTER, Ira (music); WEST, Eugene (words)
[SHEET MUSIC] Hi Lee, Hi Lo : chop suey a la fox-ee trot-ee
/ Sung by Hector St. Clair. J. C. Williamson’s Christmas Pantomime “Aladdin”. Presenting Ada Reeve. Produced by George Shurley. Musical director Cass Downing. Melbourne : Allan & Co. [c.1923]. Large quarto (310 x 240 mm), pictorial wrappers (wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Marston’s), 5 pages of music notation, including music for Saw Mill River Road …
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# 29591
SCOTT, Maurice (music); WOOD, Frank (words)
[SHEET MUSIC] Archie P. C.
/ written by Frank Wood. Composed by Maurice Scott. Cover: Sung by Ella Shields on the Harry G. Musgrove Tivoli Theatre Circuit. Melbourne : Chappell & Co., 1920. Folio (340 mm), disbound, illustrated wrappers with vignette illustration of Ella Shields in policeman’s uniform, wet stamp of Mebourne music seller; [2] pp, music notation (arrangement for voice and …
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# 30090
MARSH, Anne
Performance ritual document
Melboure : Macmillan, 2014. Octavo, illustrated limp card wrappers, illustrated endpapers, pp. 271, extensively illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. Includes works by Deborah Kelly, Julie Rrap, Catherine Bell, Marina Abramovic, Mike Parr, Jill Orr, Peter Kennedy, Fiona McGregor, Brown Council and others. ‘Performance art in Australia emerged in the 1970s and …
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# 29792
HUBBARD, Lucien (1888-1971) (producer, director & screenwriter); Jacqueline GADSDEN (aka Jane DALY) (1900-1986) (actor)
Original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenplay for the Technicolor film “The Mysterious Island” (1929), dated July 24, 1928 and credited to Lucien Hubbard; personal copy of leading actress Jacqueline Gadsden (Jane Daly).
Culver City, Calif. : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], July 24, 1928. Original yellow wrappers preserved (with some marginal loss) on later card covers (303 x 230 mm), front wrapper with typed title at centre ‘”The Mysterious Island” / Screen Play / by / Lucien Hubbard’; at top right is typed ‘Prod. No. 273’, and at lower right …
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# 28974
Photographer unknown.
Signed photograph of dancer Edna Busse, of the Borovansky Ballet. Melbourne, 1946.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 140 x 90 mm, signed in ink at lower right ‘Edna Busse’; verso with original owner’s annotation in pencil ‘21.11.46’; the print is in fine condition, although the verso is foxed. A superb signed portrait of Australian dancer Edna Busse, of the Borovansky Ballet, taken in Melbourne in November 1946. The …
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# 29913
DEBUSSY, Claude (1862-1918)
Claude Debussy : autograph note on his personal calling card, circa 1900.
[Paris, n.d., but 1899-1904]. Carte de visite, 47 x 95 mm, recto printed CLAUDE DEBUSSY at centre and with his address 58, rue Cardinet at lower right (Debussy lived at this address in the years 1899-1904); inscribed in ink by Debussy below his printed name: ‘avec son meilleur remerciement a Monsieur L – Millevoye.‘; one small, pale …
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# 28973
SHMITH, Athol (1914-1990)
Signed photograph of dancer Sally Gilmour, of the Ballet Rambert. Melbourne, circa 1948.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 125 x 82 mm, inscribed in ink beneath the image ‘Best wishes, Sally Gilmour’; verso with wet stamp of photographer Athol Shmith, 125 Collins Street, Melbourne; the print is in fine condition, although the verso is foxed. A superb portrait by Athol Shmith of Sally Gilmour, leading British ballerina of the …
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# 29301
[WARNER BROS.] [RALSTON, Marcia, 1906-1988]
Signed photographic portrait of Australian Hollywood screen actress Marcia Ralston, circa 1937.
[Burbank, Ca. : Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., circa 1937]. Gelatin silver print publicity photograph, 175 x 125 mm, inscribed in white fountain pen by the actress ‘Sincerely, Marcia Ralston’; verso blank; in fine condition. The classically beautiful Sydney-born actress Marcia Ralston – winner of a Miss Australia contest – was one of a small number …
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# 29461
BROWN, Jenny
[AUSTRALIAN POP MUSIC] Skyhooks : million dollar riff. (Inscribed by Freddy Strauks)
Collingwood, Vic. : Dingo, 1975. Trade paperback, octavo (190 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers (front corners a little dog-eared), 160 pp, photographic illustrations; a significant presentation copy, inscribed in blue pen on the title page by one of Skyhooks‘ founding members, drummer “Freddy” Strauks, aka Freddy Kaboodle Schnitzer: I hope this brings you many happy hours …
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# 29929
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New copy. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the …
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# 29659
[GERALD, Maurice]
[HOLBROOK] School of Arts, Germanton … Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company … Conn, the Shaughraun.
Germanton [i.e. Holbrook], N.S.W. : “The Courier” office, [circa 1908]. Broadsheet, 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides, verso with lithographed portraits of Maurice Gerald (acror-manager) and Miss Maud Philippi (actor); loss to upper corner (marginal only), old fold lines. Maurice Gerald’s Dramatic Company toured extensively throughout Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and New …
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# 29658
MELBA, Nellie, (Dame), 1861-1931
In response to numerous requests Dame Nellie Melba will substitute “Chanson Indoue” … Rimsky-Korsakoff in place of “Mandoline” …. Debussy in her group of Songs in French.
[London? : probably between 1918 and 1922]. Concert programme insert, 155 x 125 mm, printed recto only; foxed. Melba made Chanson Indoue (Hindu Song), from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Sadko, famous. It became one of the most popular pieces in her later recital repertoire.