Performing Arts

# 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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# 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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# 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 …

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# 24557

SUTTONS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)

[MELBOURNE] What would you like in the way of music? You will find it in this list of music and musical instruments.

[Cover title]. Melbourne : Suttons Pty. Ltd., 290-292 Bourke St., [c. 1930]. Duodecimo (140 x 83 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [14] pp, with photogravure and line-drawn illustrations throughout; a fine copy. An exquisite little trade catalogue for player pianos (pianolas), upright and grand pianos, organs, phonographs (record players), phonograph records and accessories, player-rolls and …

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# 24416

WILLETTS, George (1841-1909)

Portrait of young pianist Miss Ada Willetts, taken by her father, professional photographer George Willetts. Ballarat, circa 1890.

Albumen print, carte de visite format, 110 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Willetts, Photo., Ballarat’; verso with the decorative back mark of ‘Willetts Photographic Temple of Light, Bridge Street, Ballarat’, and with an identifying caption in pencil in contemporaneous hand: ‘Miss Ada Willetts’; the strong albumen print has some mottling in the …

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# 23599

STEVENS, Vernon T. (words & music); GORMAN, Frank W., Rev. (performer)

[SHEET MUSIC] Back to home sweet home

/ Words & music by Vernon T. Stevens. Cover: Sung by Rev. Frank W. Gorman (The Singing Parson) at Fuller’s Vaudeville Theatres. Melbourne : L.F. Collin Pty. Ltd., [c.1920]. Series: Collin’s popular sixpenny edition. Folio, front cover with photographic portrait of Frank Gorman and original owner’s name ‘Vera Bangs’ (light foxing and edge tears), 3 …

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# 22921

Photographer unknown.

Shop interior of W. Davies, musical instrument maker and repairer, Rundle Street, Adelaide, 1920s.

Silver gelatin print photograph, 120 x 180 mm, unmounted; verso with pencilled inscription ‘Inside W. Davies music shop Rundle St. 1920s; in fine condition with crisp detail. A fascinating glimpse into the cluttered retail showroom of W. Davies, who evidently also ran his School of Music in the same building. There is a vast array of …

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# 22350

[WILLIAMSON & MUSGROVE?]

[THEATRE] An illustrated souvenir of Wilson Barrett in Australia.

Reprinted from “The Tatler”. At head of title: Under the direction of Williamson and Musgrove. Melbourne ; Sydney ; Adelaide ; Brisbane : George Robertson & Co., [1897]. Large quarto (300 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers (paper split at tail of spine), staple bound, 15 pp, with many sepia tone photographic illustrations by Talma Studios …

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# 21642

WESLEY CENTRAL MISSION (MELBOURNE)

[MELBOURNE] Wesley Church Hall, Lonsdale St. : Entertainment by the members of the Princess Mary Club in aid of the Tally Ho Boys’ Farm. May 23rd, 1929.

Miss Suzanne Abbott, Hon. Sec. and Treas. [Melbourne : Wesley Central Mission], 1929. Single sheet, 220 x 136 mm, lithographed printed on both sides in orange and brown ink on thickish textured paper; verso with programme of music and dance pieces, including performers’ names; in fine condition. The Princess Mary Club, housed in a grand …

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# 18659

[BALIEFF, Nikita]

Théatre Fémina : Spectacles de la Chauve-Souris de Nikita Balieff, Saison 1923.

Paris : Théatre Fémina Editeur, 1923. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [28] pp, text by Joseph Kessel, with black-and-white photographic illustrations plus 6 colour plates of set designs by Nikolai Remisoff and Sergei Soudeïkine; a superb copy. Programme for the 1923 Paris season of impresario Nikita Balieff’s touring theatre revue La Chauve-Souris (The …

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# 18524

SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY; [MURPHY, Graeme]

Sydney Dance Company : Melbourne debut season, 1980

Woolloomooloo, N.S.W : Sydney Dance Company, 1980. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [24] pp, photographic illustrations in b/w and colour; a very good copy. An important programme from the Company’s early period under Graeme Murphy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (Deakin University Library).

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# 17793

[BRAYTON, Lily, 1876-1953]; Photographer unknown

Signed photographic portrait of the actress Lily Brayton, wife of Australian actor Oscar Asche.

[London? : photographer unknown, circa 1905]. Hand coloured silver gelatin print, 135 x 83 mm, bearing Lily Brayton’s full signature in ink, captioned in the negative ‘Lily Brayton’ and ‘Sole copyright’ (photographer’s imprint not visible); laid down on an early twentieth century album page with the collector’s manuscript label mounted below, ‘Lily Brayton (Mrs. Oscar …

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# 17921

FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence (b. 1919)

Unfair arguments with existence. (Signed by Ferlinghetti)

New York : New Directions, 1963. Sixth printing. Trade paperback, octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, inscribed on the half-title in pen ‘For [Toronto book collector] Arthur Winter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’; 85 pp; with an illustrated double title page, and 1 photographic illustration; a fine inscribed copy. Born March 24 1919, Ferlinghetti was one of the most significant …

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# 16715

[SWEDISH UNDERGOUND] Huvudbladet

Stockholm : Huvudbladet, 1971-1972. Issues 1 – 4 (all published). Folio newspaper, photo montage and comic strip illustrations (some colour), the first issue with large format (390 x 550 mm) insert photographic poster by Hans Esselius of Jimi Hendrix with printed lyrics of Pass it on (Straight Ahead); all issues in fine condition. Rare complete …

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