Performing Arts
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# 31752
MORTON, Johnny; MASTODON MINSTRELS
Johnny Morton’s Mastodon Minstrel song book, containing all the favourite songs, & which have made the “Mastodon Minstrels” famous on their tour of the Australian Colonies.
Wellington : Printed at the “New Zealand Times” office, Lambton Quay, 1882. Duodecimo, original printed wrappers, lower wrapper with advertisement for the Company, pp 23, [1 contents]; very small hole with loss to lower wrapper, otherwise a very good copy. Bagnall, 3641. Formed in the United States by the entrepreneur J.H. Haverly (1837-1901), this legendary …
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![[CIRCUS HISTORY] Unzie, the Circassian youth, with W. E. Jackson, "The New Zealand Tom Thumb". Melbourne, October 1886.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/07/02092317/2021_DSFB_4275-300x300.jpg)
# 31420
STEWART & CO.
[CIRCUS HISTORY] Unzie, the Circassian youth, with W. E. Jackson, “The New Zealand Tom Thumb”. Melbourne, October 1886.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Stewart & Co., Photographers, Miniature & Portrait Painters, 217 & 219 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. In 1886, when this photograph was taken in Melbourne, Unzie – an albino man – was …
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# 31046
SHMITH, Athol (1914-1990)
The Pioneer
[1935]. Chloro-bromide print on heavy stock, 380 x 310 mm. Artist’s label verso: Athol L. Shmith, F.R.S.A., A.R.P.S., Modern Photography. The Warwick, / 75a Fitzroy Street / St. Kilda S2, / Melbourne. / Windsor 7141, with typed details Title: THE PIONEER / Process: CHLORO-BROMIDE. / Details: Studio Camera, S.S. Pan Film; Cooke Tele Lens, Vitava paper. …
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![Untitled. [Man playing a vibraphone]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/06/25121900/2021_DSFB_4122-300x300.jpg)
# 31045
SHMITH, Athol (1914-1990)
Untitled. [Man playing a vibraphone]
[Melbourne, circa 1935]. Chloro-bromide print on heavy stock, 380 x 305 mm. No label or inscription to verso. Condition: mild corner wear (top left corner with tiny tear), else fine. Note: Athol Shmith was himself an accomplished vibraphonist, and if not for his early success as a photographer would have pursued a career as a …
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![[SHEET MUSIC] Do not mingle : air as sung by Madame Malibran in the opera La Sonnambula / composed by Bellini.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/06/18103600/2021_DSFB_3901-300x300.jpg)
# 31089
BELLINI, Vincenzo (1801-1835) (composer); GROCOTT, James Turner (publisher)
[SHEET MUSIC] Do not mingle : air as sung by Madame Malibran in the opera La Sonnambula / composed by Bellini.
Sydney : Published at Grocott’s Music Saloon, George Street, [probably 1847]. Folio (340 mm), disbound from a nineteenth-century music album, original stitching with remnants of old paper spine, 7 pp of engraved music notation with decorative title and publisher’s imprint at head of first page; original owner’s manuscript pagination at top corners; paper browned, otherwise …
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![[SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY] Six studio portraits of actors in costume. Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, 1869-71.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/05/25114912/2021_DSFB_3363-300x300.jpg)
# 29755
CEARNS, W. G.
[SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY] Six studio portraits of actors in costume. Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, 1869-71.
Six albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm (mounts), versos with the highly decorative imprint of ‘W. G. Cearns, Photographer, Mostyn Street (one door from Market Square), Castlemaine‘; one of the backs also bears a caption in ink which identifies the actor on the front as ‘John Brown’; three of …
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![[GOLD RUSH] New Holborn Theatre Royal ... This Evening, Saturday June 8th ... The Antipodes! Or, The Ups and Downs of Life. By Tom Taylor, Esq.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/03/15125320/2021_DSFB_1512-300x300.jpg)
# 28380
TAYLOR, Tom (1817-1880)
[GOLD RUSH] New Holborn Theatre Royal … This Evening, Saturday June 8th … The Antipodes! Or, The Ups and Downs of Life. By Tom Taylor, Esq.
Author of “Still Waters Run Deep”, “Plot and Passion”, “The Ticket of Leave Man” &c. &c. The Extensive Scenery designed and painted by Mr. William Telbin, Mr. Telbin, Jun., Mr. H. P. Hall and Assistants. The Appointments by Mr. A. Lloyds. Costumes by Mr. S. May. The Music composed and arranged by Mr. G. Richardson …
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![[WORLD WAR ONE] Wattler's Theatre. Some where in ..... Grand Christmas Pantomime "Robinson Crusoe". Nightly 6 p.m. Produced by The Wattlers. Presented at popular prices. Officers: 2 francs. Other ranks: 50 cents. Programme 1d.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/03/19122819/2021_DSFB_1636-300x300.jpg)
# 30087
THE WATTLERS
[WORLD WAR ONE] Wattler’s Theatre. Some where in ….. Grand Christmas Pantomime “Robinson Crusoe”. Nightly 6 p.m. Produced by The Wattlers. Presented at popular prices. Officers: 2 francs. Other ranks: 50 cents. Programme 1d.
Hazebrouk : Imp. Stoven, [December, 1917]. Octavo bifolium (245 x 160 mm), lithograph printed on thickish green paper, centre pages with full cast for the evening’s entertainment, rear page with humorous notices such as ‘If you want anything done come to us [The Wattlers]. Our speciality is beershifting. We do this free providing you have …
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![[SHEET MUSIC] Oh gee! Say gee! You ought to see my gee gee from the Fiji isle! : song fox-trot](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/03/05124452/2021_DSFB_1321-300x300.jpg)
# 29593
VON TILZER, Albert (music); BROWN, Lew (words)
[SHEET MUSIC] Oh gee! Say gee! You ought to see my gee gee from the Fiji isle! : song fox-trot
/ written by Lew Brown ; composed by Albert Von Tilzer. Cover: Sung by Leyland Hodgson in Harry G. Musgrove’s Tivoli show, ‘All the winners’. Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [1920]. Folio (340 mm), disbound, illustrated wrappers with idealised depiction of an exotic dancer from the South Seas and vignette illustration of Leyland Hodgson; 5 pp, …
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# 29792
HUBBARD, Lucien (1888-1971) (producer, director & screenwriter); Jacqueline GADSDEN (aka Jane DALY) (1900-1986) (actor)
Original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenplay for the Technicolor film “The Mysterious Island” (1929), dated July 24, 1928 and credited to Lucien Hubbard; personal copy of leading actress Jacqueline Gadsden (Jane Daly).
Culver City, Calif. : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], July 24, 1928. Original yellow wrappers preserved (with some marginal loss) on later card covers (303 x 230 mm), front wrapper with typed title at centre ‘”The Mysterious Island” / Screen Play / by / Lucien Hubbard’; at top right is typed ‘Prod. No. 273’, and at lower right …
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# 29654
HIS MASTER'S VOICE.
The new His Master’s Voice electrical recordings : Australian edition. June, 1929.
Cover: “Goldberg’s,” 85 Glenferrie Road, Glenferrie. “His Master’s Voice” Specialists. [Sydney : Gramophone Company Ltd. (His Master’s Voice), 1929]. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled, 34 pp, a fine copy. Scarce. A single copy traced in Australian collections (SLV).
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# 29348
BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - )
East : elegy for the East End and its energetic waste
[Adelaide : s.n., 1978]. Octavo (260 mm), illustrated wrappers, staple bound, [46] pp; printed on cheap newsprint paper; light foxing at edges, but a very good copy. Rare theatre programme for the 1978 Australian tour of Steven Berkoff’s controversial play set in London’s East End, containing the complete playscript as well as an interview with …
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# 29028
DAVIES & CO.
Photographic portrait of the tragic actor G. V. Brooke. Melbourne, 1865-66.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount), 56 x 42 mm (oval format cartouche), verso with imprint of ‘Davies & Co., Photographers, 91 & 94 Bourke St. East, Branch Offices No. 5, Collins St. West, 3 doors from Elizabeth St., Melbourne’; the albumen print has a diagonal surface scratch in …
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![[MELBOURNE; VAUDEVILLE] Harry Rickards Programme. Part 1. For week commencing Saturday 27th May, 1905.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/01/18115100/2021_DSFB_0216-300x300.jpg)
# 28644
RICKARDS NEW OPERA HOUSE (MELBOURNE)
[MELBOURNE; VAUDEVILLE] Harry Rickards Programme. Part 1. For week commencing Saturday 27th May, 1905.
Cover: Rickards New Opera House, Melbourne. Open to the public, Saturday, 18th May, 1901. Melbourne : Printed by McCarron, Bird & Co. for the Publishers, Metropolitan Publishing Co. Prop. Ltd., 317 Collins Street, [1905]. Narrow quarto (270 x 105 mm), original pink wrappers printed in blue (detached and with horizontal fold), [8] pp, illustrated with …
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# 29544
WALKER, Simon; PRIMROSE, Sophie; TAME IMPALA
Tame Impala Lonerism Tour – Australia – 2012 – limited edition signed poster
Five colour screenprint, 640 x 450 mm (sheet) printed on 300 gsm ivory paper. Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the artists. Artwork by Simon Walker and Sophie Primrose. Hand printed by Dots Printhaus, 2012. New condition. Limited edition tour poster for hugely popular Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala, founded by Perth musician Kevin …
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# 28972
Photographer unknown.
Signed photograph of dancer Tamara Tchinarova, of the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. (Melbourne?), circa 1939.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 110 x 155 mm, inscribed in ink by the sitter at lower right ‘To Miss Scarlett. Best wishes, Tamara Tchinarova’; mild corner wear, unmounted (verso blank). ‘Tamara Tchinarova was born to Russian parents in Romanian territory and began her dance training in Paris with emigre ballerinas from the Imperial Russian Ballet. …