Performing Arts
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![[AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] The Man from Snowy River. Hoyt's Barkly, St. Kilda [and] Kinema, Albert Park ... November 8, 9, 10 Three nights only ...](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_DSFB_0826-300x300.jpg)
# 38913
HOYT'S LTD.
[AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] The Man from Snowy River. Hoyt’s Barkly, St. Kilda [and] Kinema, Albert Park … November 8, 9, 10 Three nights only …
[Melbourne : Hoyt’s Ltd., 1920]. Advertising postcard, 89 x 143 mm; recto with an Australian-themed chromolithographic design featuring two magpies, verso printed in red with schedule of forthcoming screenings of The Man from Snowy River at Hoyt’s picture theatres in St. Kilda (The Barkly) and Albert Park (The Kinema) on 8-9-10 November, and at Essendon Theatre the following …
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# 38957
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP COMPANY
Circus animals : puzzle pictures for boys and girls
California : California Fig Syrup Co., [ca. 1900]. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers (featuring circus animals including a kangaroo), pp. 12, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Ephemeral item promoting California Fig Syrup a laxative of children. Each of the nine animals, including the kangaroo is described and pictured. In order to win a free bottle of fig syrup …
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# 38937
FURHAGEN, Lesa-Belle and Toby CRESSWELL
Big Day Out for dummies. Completely updated for Version .03 users
[Sydney] : Big Day Out, 2003. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 98, illustrated, creases, stains and handling marks, a good copy. Event guide for the second Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January – February 2003. It featured Australian and international acts including Foo …
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# 37961
CARLU, Jean; KRULL, Germaine; COCTEAU, Jean; LARA, René;
Théâtre Pigalle : ses éclairages, sa machinerie.
Montrouge : Draeger, [1929]. Quarto (290 x 200 mm), metal spiral binding, silvered boards, the upper board with 8 circular “windows” allowing glimpses of the stunning illustrated title leaf, a serigraph of a cubist-stye poster for the theatre designed by Jean Carlu, which is printed on black with six colours in pochoir; [24] leaves, with …
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# 38511
Rosy One
Cause we got style! European hip hop posing from the 80s and early 90s
Årsta [Sweden] : Document Press, 2011. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 144, photographically illustrated. ‘Posing is the art of self-expression. It comprises appearance, fashion, accessories and the art of arranging the body or face in a good pose. Cause we got Style is a collection of European hip hop pose photos from the 80s …
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# 38573
[THE BURLINGTON STUDIO]
Au revoir, Alfred Frith
[Melbourne : The Burlington Studio, 1922]. Gelatin silver print, 200 x 130 mm; photographic montage with 6 vignette shots of comedian Frith “in character” for his roles in A night out, Going up, You’re in love, High jinks, So long Letty, and Oh, lady! lady!, with a slightly larger head-and-shoulders portrait by Langham captioned ‘Au …
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# 37734
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to …
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# 36842
SZEKELY, Josef (1838-1901)
Studio portrait of Ilka Pálmay, Hungarian opera singer and actress. Vienna, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount), identifying caption beneath image in pencil in a 19th-century hand ‘Palmay’; recto and verso of the gilt-edged mount with imprint of the studio of Dr. Josef Székely, Vienna, and the wet stamp of the photography dealer S. Bloch, Vienna; print and mount are both …
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![[AUSTRALIAN JAZZ] Haydn J. Britton, aged 6 years & 3 months. Melbourne, circa 1920.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/02140436/2022_DSFB_5431.jpg)
# 36835
Photographer unknown. [BRITTON, Haydn John, 1914-2013]
[AUSTRALIAN JAZZ] Haydn J. Britton, aged 6 years & 3 months. Melbourne, circa 1920.
Carbon print photograph, 134 x 84 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso inscribed in ink ‘Haydn J. Britton, 6 years & 3 months’; no photographer’s imprint; a superb print with beautiful soft tones; the verso has some staining. A magnificent study of a Melbourne jazz legend in early childhood. The following is Ralph Powell’s tribute …
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# 36811
LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, English operatic soprano. London, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); recto with fully contemporary inscription in ink ‘Mdlle. Lemens [sic] Sherrington’, verso with imprint of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and mount are in excellent condition (corners of mount clipped). ‘Helen Lemmens-Sherrington (1834-1906) was an English concert and operatic soprano prominent from the …
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# 36864
HERBERTE, H. A.
A group of young men relaxing at Tocumwal in the New South Wales southern Riverina, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘H. A. Herberte, Photo., Tocumwal’; a few marks to the margins, but the image itself is hardly affected. These likely lads were probably part of a sporting team or church social group out for a picnic in the fresh air at …
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# 35828
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul
Puss in boots : J. C. Williamson’s Annual Pantomime Extravaganza
Australian Play Pictorials No. 8. [Written by J. Hickory Wood and Frank Dix ; music by Andrew MacCunn]. Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1912]. Quarto, wrappers illustrated by Ida Sherborne Rental Outhwaite (edge tears with loss to spine, old paper repairs), wrappers detached, pp. 64, handling wear, a good copy. Very rare theatre program …
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# 35737
CAVE, Nick
Stranger than kindness
Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 276, illustrated. New copy. Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, presented by …
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# 35476
[WALTERS, Norman Murray Carrington, 1901-1988]
Signed photograph of Australian escapologist and illusionist, Murray, dated 1944.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 139 x 89 mm, signed in ink across the lower section of the image ‘Best wishes, Murray, Escapologist, 1944’; verso addressed to a young fan in Grantham, Lincolnshire, with 2d stamp and postmark dated Manchester 13 April 1944; in excellent condition. ‘Norman Murray Carrington Walters (11 November 1901 – 22 January 1988), …
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![[CIRCUS HISTORY] Mr. Fred Lindsay](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/05/20105203/2022_DSFB_3040-300x300.jpg)
# 35471
WILLS (CARDIFF)
[CIRCUS HISTORY] Mr. Fred Lindsay
[Circa 1910]. Photolithographic postcard, 137 x 87 mm, printed caption beneath image; original signature in ink of ‘Fred Lindsay’ across the lower section of the image; verso with the imprint of the photographer and publisher ‘Wills, Photo., Cardiff’; in excellent condition. ‘Fred Lindsay’ was the stage name of Bendigo-born and Wesley College (Melbourne) educated stock whip …
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# 34946
ROYAL GRECIAN THEATRE (LONDON); CONQUEST, George Augustus (1837-1901)
Royal Grecian Theatre. Forget & forgive ; or, Love me, leave me not.
At head of title: On Monday, April the 8th, 1861, and during the week, the performances will commence with a New Drama, in 4 acts, by Mr. G. Conquest, partly founded on a tale by Pierce Egan, Esq., entitled … Whitechapel : Pownceby, Steam Printer, 43 Leman St., [1861]. Double-page playbill, 340 x 430 mm; lithograph …