Performing Arts
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# 28942
[ANDERSON, Frances Margaret (Judith), Dame, 1897–1992]; Photographer unknown
Portrait of actors Judith Anderson and Leon Gordon during their 1927 Australian tour.
[Melbourne? : s.n., 1927]. Sepia tone gelatin silver print, 155 x 205 mm, on heavy stock; no photographer’s imprint; verso blank; superb condition. Adelaide-born Judith Anderson, who was to become one of the greatest ever Australian stage and screen actors, had arrived in Hollywood with her mother in 1918, with a letter of introduction to …
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# 28963
HERALD & WEEKLY TIMES LTD. (MELBOURNE)
Press photograph of Marlene Dietrich during her 1965 Australian tour.
Black-and-white press photograph on glossy paper, 205 x 250 mm; verso with wet stamp of The Herald & Weekly Times Ltd. Melbourne, Australia; a superb print with great detail, in fine condition. A wonderful, candid shot of Hollywood superstar Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) – by this time in her career a sexagenarian sex symbol – seated …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street. This evening, ... It is Never Too Late To Mend! By Charles Reade, Esq.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/11/06145038/2020_DSFB_7853-300x300.jpg)
# 28310
ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE (LONDON); [READE, Charles 1814-1884]
[GOLD RUSH] Royal Princess’s Theatre, Oxford Street. This evening, … It is Never Too Late To Mend! By Charles Reade, Esq.
London : s.n., [1865]. Programme, small octavo (178 x 120 mm), [4] pp; embossed decorative borders, front with lithographed view of the Royal Princess’s Theatre, centre pages with full cast list and detailed ‘Programme of Scenery’; Act III, which is titled ‘Life in Australia’ and is set on the goldfields, includes the scenes ‘Log Hut …
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# 28270
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of five official programmes for Grand Open-Air Concerts at the M.C.G. organised by the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1902-03.
Melbourne : Syd. Day [for the Melbourne Cricket Club], 1902-03. Five individual programmes for Monday-evening concerts on 22 & 29 December 1902, and 5 January, 2 February and 30 March 1903. Narrow quarto (290 x 150 mm), single-sheet flyers printed on both sides (versos with advertisements for Robert Hurst shoes); each example has some marginal …
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# 28435
DAILY MIRROR (U.K.)
Jackson and McLaren, world’s champion Australian wood-cutters.
[London, U.K. : Daily Mirror, 1909 or 1910]. Two gelatin silver print photographs, 205 x 150 mm and 150 x 205 mm, respectively; versos with wet stamp of of the London Daily Mirror, and an identical caption label which reads: ‘Fine Fellers. Jackson and McLaren, world’s champion wood-cutters, felling trees on Lord Salisbury’s estate at …
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![Railway Institute, Devonshire Street, Sydney. The Railway & Tramway Musical Society ... in Lionel Monckton's comic opera "A Country Girl" (By arrangement with Messrs. J. C. Williamson Ltd.). Monday 22nd [to] Saturday 27th September, 1913.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/11/13103607/2020_DSFB_8006-300x300.jpg)
# 28486
RAILWAY & TRAMWAY MUSICAL SOCIETY (SYDNEY)
Railway Institute, Devonshire Street, Sydney. The Railway & Tramway Musical Society … in Lionel Monckton’s comic opera “A Country Girl” (By arrangement with Messrs. J. C. Williamson Ltd.). Monday 22nd [to] Saturday 27th September, 1913.
Sydney : Carter’s Builder Printing Works, [1913]. Narrow quarto (280 x 110 mm), self-wrappers (featuring advertisements for Anthony Horderns’ men’s and women’s fashion and Fine Art Gallery); [16] pp, with numerous illustrated advertisements and photographic illustrations including portraits of stars Miss Mabel Batchelor and Reg Riemenschneider, musical director Leo Grouse and Railway & Tramway Musical …
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# 28271
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of four official programmes for Grand Open-Air Concerts at the M.C.G. organised by the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1903-04.
Melbourne : Syd. Day [for the Melbourne Cricket Club], 1903-04. Four individual programmes for Monday-evening concerts on 16 November & 7 December 1903, and 11 January and 1 February 1904. Narrow quarto (290 x 150 mm), single-sheet flyers printed on both sides (versos with advertisements for Robert Hurst shoes); each example has some marginal loss, …
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# 28130
MOORE, John Hammond
The young Errol : Flynn before Hollywood
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1975. First edition. Octavo, lettered wrappers (paperback), light rubbing to edges, short crease, spine faded, pp. [vi]; 154; 16 pp. black and white photographic plates. The first edition of Moore’s revealing insight into Flynn’s early years, prior to his fame, derived from first hand sources in New Guinea and Australia. …
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# 27892
[BOWERY, Leigh]. VIOLETTE, Robert
Leigh Bowery
London : Violette Editions, 1998. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 240, extensively illustrated. Photography by Nick Knight and Annie Leibovitz. Introduction by Hilton Als. Afterword by Boy George. A very good copy of the first monograph on Melbourne-born conceptual performance artist Leigh Bowery. Very scarce. ‘Any appraisal of Leigh as a performer tends to involve words …
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![[KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/09/28121141/2020_DSFB_6995-300x300.jpg)
# 27925
[KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.
Adelaide : Adelaide Festival of Arts Executive Committee, 1960. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), colour pictorial wrappers (some light staining to lower wrapper), staple bound; inside wrappers with colour advertisements, pp 71 [1], photographic illustrations, mostly b/w but including a double-page of colour plates of Louis Kahan’s costume designs for Rigoletto, a full-page colour plate …
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# 27508
LECOCQ, Charles (1832-1918); [THEATRE ROYAL, ADELAIDE]
Lecocq’s opera bouffe in 3 acts of “La Fille de Madame Angot”, as performed by The Soldene Opera Company, under the management of Mr. C. A. Chizzola.
At head of title: The opera libretto. Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser Office, King Wm. Street, 1878. Small octavo (175 x 120 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, pp 40; contains the complete libretto for this work; a fine copy. Rare programme produced for the series of concerts given at Adelaide’s Theatre Royal in …
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![[MAGIC] The Great Levante, the world famed Australian illusionist and his all star variety company. Opera House, Buxton ... Programme.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/08/21132635/2020_DSFB_5992-300x300.jpg)
# 27252
COLE, Lesley G. (Les LEVANTE) (1892-1978)
[MAGIC] The Great Levante, the world famed Australian illusionist and his all star variety company. Opera House, Buxton … Programme.
Buxton, UK : Buxton Opera House, [late 1930s]. Octavo bifolium, 210 x 130 mm, [4] pp, with portrait of the magician to front, centre pages with programme for the nightly entertainment at the Buxton Opera House for a short season (“Whit-Monday and a week”) during Levante’s first tour of England, featuring The Austral Trio among …
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# 27417
EISLER, Helen; HILLIS, Crusader; LONGMORE, Pat (Festival Co-Directors)
The Melbourne International Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival 1992
Jan 31 – Feb 15 National Theatre – St Kilda 1992. Melbourne : the Festival, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated in black and white. Loosely enclosed, sheet of highlights. The second year the Festival was held. Still an annual event it is now known as the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. A single example …
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# 26813
COLE, William Washington (1847-1915)
South Sea Savages, or Maori War Dancers. The List including a Troupe of Genuine South-Sea Savages tattooed from head to foot, and faithfully giving The Great Maori War Dances.
[Advertised and illustrated on] A double-sided poster for W. W. Cole’s World-Famous, Five-Continent New Mammoth Circus, appearing at Binghamton, New York on Monday, April 24, 1882 (the location and date are wet stamped at foot of the verso). Buffalo, NY : The Courier Company Show Printing House [for W. W. Cole], [1882]. Lithograph printed in black …
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# 26665
HORNE, H. E.; TREHARNE, Herbert F.; HELLEMANN, Christian
Ode for Australia’s 150th Anniversary. (Presentation copy for Francis Crosslé)
/ words by H.E. Horne ; music by Herbert F. Treharne and Christian Hellemann. Cover: “Schools’ concert, Town Hall, Sydney, 8th, 9th & 10th March, 1938”. Royal octavo (240 x 180 mm), original printed wrappers, staple bound, a presentation copy inscribed on the upper wrapper by the author H. E. Horne and composer Herbert F. …
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![[SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE] ... Stephen Black and his South African Players in A Backveld Boer ...](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/06/23134904/2020_DSFB_4464-300x300.jpg)
# 26521
STANDARD THEATRE (JOHANNESBURG]
[SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE] … Stephen Black and his South African Players in A Backveld Boer …
[Johannesburg] : African Theatres, Ltd. [1929]. Promotional card for A Backveld Boer‘s season at the Standard Theatre, Johannesburg, commencing Saturday 23 March [1929]; lithographed in black on blue card, 123 x 203 mm, printed both sides, illustrated with a portrait of Stephen Black and line-drawn illustration of the protagonist; superb condition. This rare flyer bills …