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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 60 pages. illustrated. Francis Reid "Stage Lighting - 4: Effects" / Leila S Mackinlay "Pick Yourself Up" / Raymond Langford Jones "Another Time, Another Place" / Duncan Rand "Festival Organisers.Adjudicate Yourself !" (SL#19).

Both items in good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. ONE: ALS of 11 September [1891]. 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. With stamped envelope addressed to 'Mrs. Wead | Buckingham | Old Shoreham | Sussex', with postmark supplying year. She thanks her for 'the kind invitation Cyril brought me to stay with you on our return from Switzerland', but cannot accept, 'as I may at any time be called for rehearsals after next week & the intervening few days I really must spend at home. I so rarely am able to have any time to see after everything at home that this is an opportunity I must not lose!' TWO: ALS of 9 September [no year]. 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. She complains of 'this dreadful heat', adding 'I need not tell you it is as of course you have heard, but really the correct place in London is the Theatre where the Sun does not penetrate'. She continues with references to 'the atmosphere of our homes' and 'electric light'. She thanks her for 'the flowers (which I am sorry to say would not revive [.] altho' I plunged them into water immediately [.] The children said the palm (?) was for my dressing room, but it looks so nice in my changing room that I must keep it there!'.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 386 pages. Illustrated. Stephen Spender "Politics And Literature In 1933" / Hugh Walpole "Some Books I Have Enjoyed In 1933" / Osbert Burdett "Of Good Fruit - And Other Books" / Edwin Muir "Three Important Books" / Mary Butts "Magic Of Person And Place" / Francis Watson "Biographies And Some Shorter Works" / The Political Outlook In 1933 / Patrick Donner "From The Conservative Angle" / Seaborne Davies "The Liberal Party During 1933" / Oliver Baldwin "What Labour Has Achieved" Collin Brooks "The Economic Implications Of 1933" / Vernon Bartlett "Peace Round The Corner" / C P Snow "Science Of The Year" / Norman Marshall "The Theatre In 1933" / Some Stage Sets Of 1933 - illustrated / Oswell Blakeston "The Cinema In 1933" / Basil Maine "Music In England" / Frank Rutter "Art Criticism Of The Year" / Rev. R Birch Hoyle " (SL#273).…

Etat : Very good. - 25 words penned in blue ink & filling a cream colored 8-3/4 inch high by 5-3/4 inch wide sheet of "The Stenton / Philadelphia" letterhead with the address & a device in blue at the top. Signed "Francis Wilson". The corners of the letterhead are lightly soiled & creased. Folded twice for mailing. Very good. Wilson writes to a Mr. Rupp telling him that Rupp has written too late. "With the double performance to-day and tomorrow my time is mortgaged and my opportunity lost. Another time, thank you."Francis Wilson [1854-1935] was an American stage actor, born in Philadelphia, who was the founding president of Actors Equity [1913-1920]. After several years playing in comedy and comic opera and making a great success in "Erminie" [1886], Wilson made his first appearance as a star in "The Oolah". He formed his own theatre company in 1899. He was also an author, writing several plays, a memoir of Joseph Jefferson, an autobiography, and "John Wilkes Booth, Fact and Fiction of Lincoln's Assassination" [1929], which he wrote with information from his close friend Edwin Booth.…

Seven pages, octavo. Disbound, and with the four leaves detached from one another and neatly laid down on a paper mount. Very good. From (according to the title-page) the edition in 'LONDON. Printed for EDW. NICKSON. Januar. 24. 1643.' Republished as a supplement to the 'British Stage'. Only two copies on COPAC, at Bristol and in the British Library.…

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 4to. Sixty lines of text. Aged and worn, but entirely legible. Signed 'H. F. Maltby' and addressed to 'My dear Pope'. Most of the letter concerns the tomb of 'Maggoty' Johnson: 'I first met that interesting old gentleman over forty years ago, when I was playing at the Theatre Royal Macclesfield with the late Mrs Bandman-Palmer. It was my landlady who advised me to visit the tomb as one of the objects of interest in the place. The tomb was then covered by a large stone on which was engraved all particulars of his death, [.] It then burst out into a very lengthy epitaph in doggerel'. He gives a facetious couplet from this, with the carved response of 'the local vicar'. 'I visited the grave again some twenty years later: but, alas! the iconoclasts, the vandals had been there with their cursed pocket knives and had carved their damned initials all over it - God rot hem! - and both stones were well night illegible.' He mentions a production of 'Madame Butterfly' at the Duke of York's, 'where it was put on as an afterpiece to Jeromes flop "Miss Hobbs" and kept that running for months and months after its alloted span, Jerome drawing his fees all the time, though the audiences were careful not to get to the theatre till "Miss Hobbs" had finished. The cast of "Butterfly" was the same as "Hobbs" - Evelyn Millward, Allen Aynesworth, Herbert Wareing, Cosmo Stuart (Gordon Lennox) it was there Pucchini (can't spell his name) saw it and decided [to] "operize" it. Also, didn't "Charley's Aunt" enjoy most of it's very long run at The Globe Theatre? It was where I saw it. I think it moved there from the Royalty.'.…

Pas de couverture. Etat : Bon. Authentic photo signed in person in Cannes in 1981. Size : 17.5x12.5 cm. Condition : signed in a dark part, please see scans. Provenance : Georges Flour collection. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Etat : Good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling both sides of an 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/8 inch wide sheet of lined Colonnade Hotel letterhead. Signed "Francis Wilson". The top edge of the letterhead is darkened, chipped & creased and the bottom right corner is lightly creased. There are several tiny pinholes to the left edge. Folded twice for mailing. Good. A humorous letter, full of personality, penned by Wilson to Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb who was then working in his father's architectural firm, Levi Newcomb & Son in Boston. Wilson appears to address his correspondent as "Mr. Newcomb Planner" and writes: "We are ready for the window plan when you are but don't let that interfere with your work or your digestion. I send you something bracing with which to drink my health. I send it direct to N. Scituate [a town in Massachusetts] -- as it is designed to be used there only." He then refers to a "Song", possibly "Two Maidens" by Newcomb, who was also a poet and composer. The song was published in the year of this letter, 1890.Francis Wilson [1854-1935] was an American stage actor, born in Philadelphia, who was the founding president of Actors Equity [1913-1920]. After several years playing in comedy and comic opera and making a great success in "Erminie" [1886], Wilson made his first appearance as a star in "The Oolah". He formed his own theatre company in 1899. He was also an author, writing several plays, a memoir of Joseph Jefferson, an autobiography, and "John Wilkes Booth, Fact and Fiction of Lincoln's Assassination" [1929], which he wrote with information from his close friend Edwin Booth.…

Oblong 5½'' x 7''. Mid 1930's scrap and autograph book with lovely colour illustrations, one sheet of three indecipherable signatures. Member of the P.B.F.A. SCRAPBOOK (Victorian Cuttings).

The eight items are in good condition, with light signs of age and wear. Maude's six letters (all signed 'Cyril Maude') total 8pp., and his wife's two (both signed 'Winifred Emery') total 3pp. In the typed letter the recipient is named as 'Mrs. Whitley, | 78 Alexandra Rd., | St. John's Wood, | N.W.' All eight items deal with interviews conducted by her with the couple. On 20 December Maude writes, 'as I told you I fear there will be nothing in particular for me to tell you, as it is very necessary for me to avoid telling anyone anything just yet awhile. However as much as I can tell you I will & of course as in 7 months my wife & I will be outcasts from our dear old theatre we shall naturally be glad that the public shall be reminded of the work done by us there on the day it reopens'. Only Maude's typed letter (from the Playhouse, Northumberland Avenue) carries the year. In a typed letter of 26 June 1907 (the only one dated in full) Maude writes: 'I am sure you will be glad to hear that the play went splendidly, and with the exception of the Morning Post and the Daily Mail we were well received by the Press'. The Haymarket letterhead is headed, in black and red: 'Mr. Cyril Maude's Company | Beauty and the Barge | and | That Brute Simmons | Direct from the New Theatre and the Haymarket Theatre, London | By arrangement with Mr. Frederick Harrison', and carries a printed list in the margin of dates and 23 provincial venues, from Sheffield to Oxford. …