Performing Arts
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# 32733
ŠEVČÍK, Otakar (1852-1934)
Otakar Ševčík, violinist and influential pedagogue: autograph note, signed, on a postcard featuring a portrait of himself. Sent from Prague, and addressed to a music critic in Berlin, April 1904.
Prague : Mojmír Urbánek, [1904]. Postcard, 91 x 141 mm; on the left side of the recto is a photomechanical process portrait of Ševčík from a photograph by V. Donát, with a printed caption ‘PROF. OT. ŠEVČÍK’ at top centre; the right side is occupied by an autograph note by Ševčík written in German in pen, …
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# 33102
BATE, Jonathan
Shakespeare: staging the world
London : The British Museum Press, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional creative imaginations in history. While matters of religion, trade and war were being contested, the role of the playwright …
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# 24171
WHITEHALL PRODUCTIONS (SYDNEY); [MINERVA THEATRE]; [COPPEL, Alec]
[SYDNEY; THEATRE; CINEMA] Minerva. Whitehall Productions presents “Mr. Smart Guy”.
[Cover title]. Sydney, NSW : Publicity Pty. Ltd., 1941. Small quarto (247 x 184 mm), original pictorial wrappers (light vertical fold), staple bound, 16 pp, with photographic portraits, including writer/director Alec Coppel and actors, advertisements for local businesses; a good copy. Programme produced for the world premiere on May 10 1941 of the play Mr. …
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# 31795
STEWART & CO.
Studio portrait of Madame Majeroni in costume as Mary Stuart. Melbourne, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 164 x 106 mm (mount); recto of mount with gilt imprint of ‘Stewart & Co., 40 & 42 Bourke St., East, near Parliament House, Melbourne’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in fine condition. A rare potograph of the Italian tragic actress Madame Majeroni (née Giulia Tessero: …
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# 32603
NORMAN, Karyl [performer] WEBER, Edwin J. [music]
[SHEET MUSIC] I’m through (shedding tears over you)
New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ dressed in drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …
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# 32602
NORMAN, Karyl [performer] SANTLY, Henry W. [composer] CONRAD, Con [composer] DAVIS, Benny [lyricist] De SYLVA, B. G. (Buddy Gard) [lyricist]
[SHEET MUSIC] Don’t leave me mammy
New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ dressed in drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …
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# 32642
LOW, Reg (words & music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Ukulele dream girl.
Words & music by Reg. Low. Arrangement for ‘banjulele’ banjo and ukulele by Kel Keech. Cover: A new haunting Hawaiian fox-trot song. Sung by Iza Crossley and Jock Thompson of Pat Hanna’s “Diggers” Costume Comedy Co. / Featured by Queenie & David Kaili with Kaai’s Hawaiian Troubadors / Delightfully featured by Jack Blake on Columbia …
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# 32643
O'HAGAN, Jack (1898-1987) (words & music); HALL, Frederick (arranger)
[SHEET MUSIC] Along the road to Gundagai : song.
/ Words and music by Jack O’Hagan. Melbourne : Allan, 1922. Publisher’s number “B558”. Folio (315 x 240 mm), disbound, original pictorial wrappers (light printing flaws front and back) with inset portrait of “The Big Four” singers, and the early ownership signature of Grace Ward; 4 pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano, with …
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# 32373
BARDWELL, William (1836-1929)
Studio portrait of George Bennett, stage actor. Ballarat, October 1869.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, cabinet card format, 160 x 120 mm; recto with gilt border and imprint in lower margin ‘Cabinet Portrait. From Bardwell’s Royal Studio, Ballarat.’; verso with the sitter’s inscription in ink ‘George Bennett, Oct. 1869, Ballaarat, Australia’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. A magnificent hand-coloured studio …
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# 32042
MURMANN STUDIOS
Promotional photograph of Australian vaudeville star Maude Shipp. Sydney, circa 1918.
Silver gelatin print, 207 x 153, printed on heavy stock, blind-stamped lower right ‘MURMANN STUDIOS, 80 HUNTER ST. SYDNEY’; signed across the imprint in fountain pen by the sitter, vaudeville performer Maude Shipp, ‘Sincerely, Maude Shipp’; in very good condition. An apparently unrecorded studio portrait of Sydney vaudeville star Maude Shipp. It was taken by …
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# 32332
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE (LAMBETH); Hugo VAMP (pseud. of J. R. O'NEILL]
Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre. Amakosa! or Scenes of Kaffir Warfare … [and] “In For a Dig,” or, Life at the Diggings.
The Audience are requested to have in mind, that, despite the sudden change from England to Australia, that the action in the first and second scenes is NOT simultaneous … … Lambeth : J. W. Peel, Printer to the Establishment, 25 April 1853. Double-page playbill, 380 x 510 mm; lithograph printed; original central fold, some …
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# 31951
[CIRCUS HISTORY] Royal Hippodrome, Great Victoria Street, Belfast … The Famous Australian Bushman and Stock-Whip Expert Mr. Fred Lindsay. An adaptation of Sensational Feats of Swordsmanship to the Stock-Whip. Special Scenery & Production.
Twice Nightly, 6.40 9 o’clock, Monday, November 20th, 1911, and during the week…. Belfast [Ireland] : Baird Ltd., 1911. Large format variety bill, 500 x 300 mm, printed in brown on yellow paper; light horizontal folds (one with a short edge tear), but a very clean and well preserved example; unmounted. A scarce pre-World War …
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# 31950
ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH; [BYRON, Henry J.]
Royal Princess’s Theatre, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday! Or Harlequin King Hoop-de-Dooden-Doo & the Savages of the Desolate Island.
The Overture and Music Composed, Selected, and Arranged by Mr R. B. Stewart. The whole produced under the entire direction of Mr J. W. Kimber, and Personal Supervision of Mr W. Paterson … … Edinburgh : [s.n.], 1864 [5 – 30 January]. Playbill, 760 x 255 mm; lithograph printed recto only, with an illustration by …
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# 31873
TIMPSON, Ant (publisher / editor)
[CINEMA] Violent Leisure. Vol. no. 4, February 1989.
Auckland, N.Z. : Ant Timpson, 1989. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), photocopied fanzine, [16] pp including wrappers; very good condition. An obscure New Zealand zine devoted primarily to reviews of classic and current movies in the horror / slasher / giallo / splatter, sci-fi, and sleaze / sexploitation genres. It also contains book and record …
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# 31880
NORTH, Gerry, et al.
The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (limited edition)
Sydney : Rural and City Media Services, 1992. Quarto, full leather with pictorial inlay, glassine wrapper, corrugated card slipcase (some marks and a small chip), illustrated endpapers (a little foxed), presentation inscription, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. Limited to 4000 numbered copies, explanation slip for the design of the limited edition stamp loosely enclosed. The deluxe …
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# 32305
POHL, William J. (photographer); [JOHNSTONE, Valda, 1914-2007]
Studio portrait of an Australian violinist, inscribed for legendary pianist and music teacher Valda Johnstone. Melbourne, early 1940s.
Silver gelatin print photograph, 115 x 160 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 200 x 250 mm; inscribed on mount in ink beneath image ‘To dear Valda, “my true teacher”, with gratitude and thanks, Buck(?)’; signed lower left in pencil by the photographer ‘William J. Pohl, ARPS’; verso with wet stamp of the …