Performing Arts

# 41276

[ADELAIDE] Norwood Town Hall. Monday, August 26, 1901. Grand Benefit Concert will be tendered by the Silver Star Vaudeville Co. to Mr. Harry Lane,

who is unable to follow his employment owing to an accident he met with at the Marryatville Tramsheds. Adelaide : Smith & Heap, printers, Bray Street (late Quiz Office), 1901. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed recto only; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; printed on very cheap …

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# 41279

[ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,

and for many years in the employment of Messrs A. Simpson and Son. Adelaide : A. H. Kruss, Pirie Street, 1903. Folding broadsheet, 295 x 450 mm (fully opened), 295 x 225 mm (folded), lithographically printed on [4] sides; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, headlined by Will Raymond, Alf Bushby, Miss Mary Lawler, Bert …

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# 41277

[ADELAIDE] Victoria Ramblers Football Club. Second Annual Concert in the Goodwood Institute, on Monday, July 8th [1901].

[Adelaide : A. & E. Lewis, printers, 1901]. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed on both sides; recto with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; verso with full-page advertisement for J. Henry & Co.; printed on very cheap paper but well preserved; quite possibly a unique survivor.

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# 41133

[LYALL, Harewood, attributed]

[WESTERNPORT; DANCE] Manuscript with instructions for dancing the One-Step, Spanish One-Step, Fox Trot, and Tango Waltz, 1915-20.

Manuscript in ink, 2 pp, single quarto sheet (250 x 200 mm); written in a scrawly though legible hand; old horizontal and vertical folds, in very good condition. Provenance: Found among papers associated with the family of John Mickle Lyall (1869-1925) of Harewood House, Koo-Wee-Rup, Westernport, south of Melbourne. John was the son of Westernport …

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# 41143

DRISLANE, Jack (words); MEYER, George W. (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] You taught me how to love you (now teach me to forget.)

Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1910]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 403. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with portrait of Australian vaudeville singer Miss Maud Bletsoe by Punchinello Co., Manly, inscribed by original owner ‘R. Thomas 1912’; [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a fine …

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# 41146

MILLS, A. J. (words); SCOTT, Bennett (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] She was a girl in white.

Cover: Artistically sung by England’s dainty song artist Miss Florence Cromer Challis. Also now being sung with great success by Miss Ida Berridge. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 160. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Miss Florence Cromer Challis by Talma (taken during her Australian tour in 1911), …

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# 41147

ARMSTRONG, Tom (words & music)

[SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.

Cover: Tome Armstrong’s very latest bewitching rag song. Also sung with great success by Les Warton at Rickards’ Tivoli Theatres. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 169. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian vaudeville star Tom Armstrong, [3] pp of music notation; a fine copy. Trove locates only the NLA …

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# 41144

LAWRENCE, Alf. J. and GODFREY, Fred (words & music)

[SHEET MUSIC] Have you got another girl at home like Mary.

Cover: The latest song craze. / Miss Cissie Curlette’s great success. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 269. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with inset portrait of English vaudeville singer Cissie Curette by Talma (taken during her 1909 Australian tour), inscribed by original …

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# 41156

[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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# 40952

COTTON, William, 1880-1958 (illustrator)

[ART DECO] Vanity Fair. April, 1934.

New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., April, 1934. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers featuring a superb front cover illustration of actress Katharine Hepburn by American artist William Cotton, 80 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; front cover lightly marked and with original 35-cents price sticker, spine chipped, contents in fine …

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# 40941

FIFE, Kirsty

Move under yr own power. Interviews with women and queers making DIY music

[Leeds] : Kirsty Fife, 2016. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. ‘Move Under Yr Own Power, a zine about women and queers making DIY music in the UK. The zine is 72pp, black and white riso printed, A5 with a rad centrefold illustration. It’s mainly interviews and an introduction. The zine comes with a link …

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# 40608

MILLIGAN, Spike (1918-2002)

A Book of Bits, or, A Bit of A Book. (With a Milliganesque inscription by the author)

London : Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s navy cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and spine ends; spine sunned); with a typically absurdist and manic inscription by Milligan, original Goon, written in black pen on the front free-endpaper: ‘I Spike Milligan being of sound mind body, legs …

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# 40200

BIG DAY OUT

Big Day Out magazine : collector’s edition. Volume two

[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slight corner wear), pp. 94, illustrated, a very good copy. Limited numbered edition of 4000 copies. The second year the quarto publication was issued. Collectable large format book published for the Big Day Out music festival (different to the free pocket size program issued free at …

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# 40097

WARD, Eric

[THEATRE] A book of make-up

London : Samuel French, Ltd., 1930. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (a little worn), pp. 98, illustrated with numerous colour plates, as well as b/w ‘before and after’ plates with tissue overlays; front endpaper with stamps of Sydney & Melbourne bookseller Will Andrade; scattered foxing, more pronounced on …

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# 40015

[COOPER, Margaret]

Book of words of songs sung by Miss Margaret Cooper on her Australian and New Zealand tour, 1912. Direction J. & A. Tait.

Melbourne : Atlas Press [for J. & A. Tait?], [1912]. Octavo (225 x 145 mm), original printed wrappers (upper wrapper with ownership inscription), stapled; 15 pp; scattered light foxing, a good copy. Margaret Cooper was one of the most popular English singers and entertainers of the Edwardian era. Her repertoire included songs from both the …

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# 39358

UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION

Mick Jagger as “Ned Kelly”

U.S.A. : United Artists Corporation, 1970. Cinema poster, printed on two sheets 133 x 103 cm / 67 x 103 cm, as issued, overall dimensions 200 x 103 cm, evidently one of 184 posters which were printed in this large format, with the printer’s unique serial number 70/184 stamped bottom right and on verso; unbacked, …

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