Performing Arts
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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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![[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 …
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# 26480
LIBERACE, Wladziu Valentino (1919 - 1987)
Liberace. Australian National Tour 1973
Melbourne : Crawford Theatre Productions, 1973. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [24], illustrated. Includes a feature on Liberace’s guest star, fifteen year old Young Talent Time star and Liberace protégé Jamie Redfern. At the time Liberace was the highest paid actor in the world. Unrecorded in Australian libraries.
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![[SHEET MUSIC] Mother Waratah](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/03/10142603/2020_DSFB_1422-300x300.jpg)
# 25134
LITTLE, Marsh (composer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Mother Waratah
Cover: Sung by Queenie Paul / Composed by Marsh Little / Successfully introduced into Fullers’ brilliant Australian pantomime “The Bunyip”. Sydney : W. H. Paling & Co. Ltd.., [c.1916]. Folio, original illustrated covers featuring the striking red and green “Bunyip” from the stage production, and cartouche portraits of the play’s producer Nat Phillips, author Ella Airlie, …
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# 25591
CODY, S. F. (Samuel Franklin) (1867-1913)
The Klondyke Nugget / by S. F. Cody
Belfast [Ireland] : David Allen & Sons, [1898]. Chromolithographed poster, 435 x 720 mm (sight); matted for framing; in fine condition. A striking poster produced in Ireland around 1899 for S. F. Cody’s stage production The Klondyke Nugget. ‘The Klondyke Nugget was a gory melodrama, written by and starring the Wild West showman S. F. …
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# 24823
Signed promotional photograph for Australian vaudeville performer Rosie Rifle, a celebrated sharpshooter.
[Chicago, U.S.A. : Repro Celebrity, 1921]. Gelatin silver print, 250 x 200 mm; a photomontage of a shooting target with a head-and-shoulders portrait of Rosie Rifle as the bullseye, inscribed in ink in her own hand: ‘Yours truly, Rosie Rifle, Australia’s Rifle Expert’; verso inscribed in ink in another (fully contemporary) hand: ‘Rosie Rifle & …
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![[NEW GUINEA: EARLY FILM FOOTAGE] Papua and Kalabahai : Weird haunts of strange people. A FitzPatrick Travel Talk.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/02/11172458/2020_DSFB_0765-300x300.jpg)
# 24465
FITZPATRICK, James A.
[NEW GUINEA: EARLY FILM FOOTAGE] Papua and Kalabahai : Weird haunts of strange people. A FitzPatrick Travel Talk.
[Beverly Hills, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1933]. From the series Traveltalks : The Voice of the Globe. One reel of 16 mm film (possibly a copy print?) with approximately 8 mins 30 secs of footage, in an Eastman Kodak Company metal can, later (early 1970s) printed label to front of the secondhand and collectable 16 mm film …