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189021271New York 1890. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong 24mo. black cloth scrapbook with compiler's intials printed in gilt on cover. Contains ~171 leaves with pasted cut-outs of photos and illustrated portraits of stars about 65 in total with orginal typewritten in blue ribbon but top copy biographical information for each. About near fine overall. Light soil to rear board. First leaf detached but otherwise sound throughout and clean with just a bit of wrinkling near glued portraits. <br/><br/>A carefully assembled and impressively detailed set of photos and bios of contemporary American and British actors singers and athletes about 42 of whom are men and 23 women. A few of their names include: Mittens Willett Katie Putnam Mollie Thompson Maude Wilson Hattie Delaro Captain Jack Crawford De Wolf Hopper Frederick Barham Warde William P. Davidge Frank Daniels and Matthew Kilroy. The theatre performers worked in a variety of styles including vaudeville opera and burlesque. Toward the end of the book the focus shifts to athletes all of whom are men: many baseball players in the National League as well as runners rowers and a bicyclist. The scrapbook's biographies are quite detailed some spanning as long as six pages with information presumably gathered from newspapers; likely also the source of the stars' portraits. An absorbing record compiled by an engaged fan during the embryonic stages of celebrity-focused media in the US. hardcover books
WALTER-FILM200000aNo binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Los Angeles: Las Palmas Theatre 1961. Vintage original 22 x 14"" 56 x 36 cm. poster USA FINE. Gypsy Rose Lee who started out in Vaudeville as a child had a multifaceted career which included burlesque theater film and most notably writing. She was a true whirlwind of creative activity. This scarce poster is for a ten-day engagement in Los Angeles of her one-woman autobiographical show. unknown books
1800WRCAM32859London: Hughes 1800. Broadside 10 x 7 1/4 inches. Mounted onto a later sheet. Minor soiling. Very good. An engaging broadside for a theatre performance centered around a drama called "The Africans." The scenery for the play is taken from the work of the intrepid British explorer Mungo Park and features views of the African coast and interior "Omai's Cave" and warrior huts. The characters include Omai an African Chief evidently confusing him with the famed Omai from the South Seas warriors named Wahedooa Tongataboo Tiaiarboo and Kiahiargo and a Princess named Terapo. The bill promises an evening in which "the retributive hand of Providence will manifest its abhorrence of Vice; and Virtue and Constancy eventually triumphant." A pantomime called "Harlequin Traveller; or a Trip Round the World" would also be performed the whole evening culminating with a grand panoramic view of the Rock of Gibraltar. Hughes unknown books
187144951Boston 1871. 1st printing presumed ca 1870. Self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; a few small tears at edges and one central pin hole that runs through all four pages; overall very good. Single sheet folded once to form four pages. Engraved borderds and illustrations in text. Folded: 10-1/4" x 6-9/16" <br/><br/>A playbill for a production of "No Thoroughfare" at the Boston Theatre with Charles Fechter playing the role of Jules Obenreizer and Carlotta Leclercq in the role of Marquerite. The playbill has many local advertisements and some information about the theatre company in the years 1870 and 1871. Charles Fechter travelled from London to the United States in 1870 and enjoyed a very succesful career in Boston. Critics disaproved of his "Hamlet" also advertised on this playbill but were captivated by his refined style and Continental training Hornblow vol. 2 p. 214. unknown books
WALTER-FILM001001No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 20 x 14"" 51 x 36 cm window card poster USA. In the years immediately following Stonewall there were some off-Broadway plays which depicted the lives of LGBTQ people. This one apparently a bitchy comedy about a group of young men at a gay bath house had its initial run off-Broadway first at the Mercer Arts Center then when that center had to be closed due to structural problems in the building it then moved to the Players Theatre from which this poster emanates. It was moved a year later to a Broadway production and a successful national tour followed with the gay icon Casey Donovan in the cast. Unfolded with some minor creasing and very light stains at margins VERY GOOD. unknown books
185444955San Francisco: Herald Steam Presses 1854. 1st printing presumed ca 1854. Self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; creases where its been folded lower quarter has been excised imperfect copy. Single sheet folded once to make four pages verso blank Unfolded: 18-7/8" x 11-3/4" <br/><br/>A scarce only other known copy at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library playbill from the early days of theatre in San Francisco with numerous reviews of the play from other newspapers. The theatre was at this time leased by Catherine Sinclair the former wife of the famous actor Edwin Forrest. This performance included a young Edwin Booth a favorite friend of Sinclair in the role of "Luis a soldier of fortune". Sinclair had to give up the theatre around 1855 due to financial difficulties but continued to support Booth despite his drinking and gambling problems. The theatre had a short run but played an integral part in the careers of both Booth and Sinclair. Montgomery Street was cut through by Columbus Ave. in 1873 and the theatre closed though a small slice of it remained until the 1906 earthquake. [Herald Steam Presses] unknown books
2004132996Los Angeles: Pandemonium Theatre Company 2004. An archive of 10 original posters for productions staged by Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company from 1988 to 2004. The plays were performed in Southern California predominantly at The Court Theatre Falcon Theatre Theatre West The Raven Playhouse and Melrose Theatre. <br/><br/>The archive includes posters from 10 productions including "Fahrenheit 451" "The October Country" "Past Present & Future" "The Time of Going Away" and "Drunk and In Charge of a Bicycle." and his Irish play "Falling Upward!" "Falling Upward!" was one of Bradbury's favorite plays and especially as he advanced in age he was know to encourage its frequent production simply for the joy of being able to see it again. <br/><br/>Bradbury was an avid playwright and a familiar and enthusiastic presence in the Southern California theatre circuit near his home. In 1963 he and director Charles Rome Smith founded Pandemonium Theatre Company. The two friends would go on to work with the company together for the next four decades until Rome's death in 2004. This archive is a solid representation of the company's latter half before Smith's passing and Bradbury's hearing loss which would necessitate that he stop attending performances. <br/><br/>Posters approximately 11 x 17 inches. About Fine condition. Pandemonium Theatre Company unknown books
179819505Mauritius August 3 1798. Some slight loss from the seals; a little browned and soiled; in very good condition. 3 pages on a folded sheet plus integral address 12.5 x 8 inches approx. 480 words. Scandal and affairs of the heart from the remote outposts of American commerce. The American consul to the French colony in the Indian Ocean here writes back to New York "I have to inform you of having dispatched your Ship Huron Capt. Brown for Newport R. Island she left this Colony on 26 May for Bourbon to complete her chargement & sailed from thence about 15 days after for America ñ I must add the malconduct of your Capt. here has been very injurious to the Voyage by forming a connection with a bad woman who came passenger with him from Bordeaut sic ñ with the greatest difficulty he was made to sail without taking this person with him however the whole Island interfered against it & prevented her leaving the Colony because she was a favourite Actress & much wanted on the Stage however she is placed here at the expence of Capt. Brown who has placed funds in the hands of Mr. Roussell Manssell to be appropriated for her benefit and althoà Mr. Roussell is not ignorant that he has a family near Boston in the town of Marblehead he has become the confident & friend in this vile business. Capt. Brown on his arrival addressed himself to me & after finishing a part of his business because I declined the propositions made me respecting the Woman I explained to him with candour his Faults he after placed his property with Mr. Roussell who has engaged to pay her expences until Capt. B. returns to marry her. . . . This favourite woman in question was bound jointly with the other players in the sum of Ten Thousand dollars that she would tarry three years in the Colony in that Company of course these persons opposed her departure. Capt. Brown in order to effect it in my presence offered to destroy a bill of exchange of Ten Thousand dollars which was the amount of the passage money for the same persons. Since that transaction I have been kept in the dark for having found fault with Capt. BÃs conduct & threatening to put him in prison therefor - he did not choose to consult me thereafter." Lewis a Boston merchant had been appointed consul to Å’le de France by Adams and arrived in February 1798--but owing to the Quasi-War and the interruption of commerce betwen the United States and France arrived back in Boston with his family in June 1799. See the National Archives annotation to the summary memorial of Lewis to Thomas Jefferson March 20 1801. Captain Brown of the Huron is certainly Elias Brown; a notice in the Halifax N.C. Journal of October 15 1798 dated Newport September 15 reports the arrival of Brown and the Huron and news that he had prior to his adventures in love been boarded somewhere east of the Cape by the British frigate Garland on June 28--seven of his seamen were impressed and Brown was detained before escaping under cover of a squall. Brown further reports "that the national soldiers were all sent from the Isle de France but that the reports of it being declared independent are false." The first theatre troupe had been established in Port Louis in 1790 by a M. Laglaine though there was a hiatus after the smallpox epidemic of 1792 and one presumes the colonists were not likely to take kindly to seeing a keystone of their local entertainment whisked away by a Yankee merchant captain. For a glance at theatre in Mauritius and some sense of the upheavals on the island in 1798--though this affair does not seem to merit mention--see the 1840 memoir by Andre Maure Souvenirs d'un vieux colon de Maurice. Samuel Ward 1756-1832 the owner of the merchant brig Huron was a Revolutionary War veteran from a prominent Rhode Island family. Neat contemporary arithmetic problems in contemporary ink on the cover page. August 3, unknown books
10974Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Stunning large signed photograph of the American stage actress and singer boldly signed in fountain pen ink "Very sincerely yours Lillian Russell." Visible area measures 9 x 11.5 inches framed to approx 15 x 18 inches. Unexamined out of frame but in apparently fine condition unknown books
18761063Lincoln Ne 1876. About very good. Broadside 24.5 x 10 inches. Old fold lines. Some wear and soiling small loss near top left and lower right edges. Announcing the fourth appearance of the Lincoln Thespians on the evening of June 29 1876 performing Enoch Arden and a vaudeville play entitled The Loan of a Lover. The performance will benefit the library and reading room and feature a much improved acting troupe: "owing to their increased facilities and some valuable additions in the way of excellent amateur talent they will present to the citizens of Lincoln a better entertainment than ever before." Admission is fifty cents reservable at J.H. Harley's Drug Store. The bottom third of the sheet lists the actors for each play with their character roles. A striking broadside and unrecorded in OCLC. A rare and interesting piece of Western Americana. unknown books
1968138257N.p.: N.p. 1968. Collection of three single weight and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now" performed on July 24 at a Carmelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon France. <br/><br/>Three of the photographs with stamps of the Gamma photo agency or photographers on the verso two with holograph annotations regarding the production on the verso. <br/><br/>The program published by Walter Swennen contains the text of "Let Us Talk about Counterrevolution" from the play in both French and English. <br/><br/>After a dispute with the IRS led to the closing of their New York City theater in 1963 Julian Beck and Judith Malina moved The Living Theatre to Europe where they toured almost exclusively refining the group's vision of improvisational collaborative and participatory leftist theatre. In 1968 they debuted what would become their signature piece "Paradise Now" at the Avignon Festival where at the conclusion of the piece both performers and audience members took to the streets in a combination demonstration and parade that caused controversy among the residents of the town. <br/><br/>Program: 4.25 x 10.5 inches 30 pages saddle stapled in wrappers. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Photographs: Variously sized between 7.75 x 5.75 inches and 12 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
412724to. 1 page approximately 125 words. Folded as for mailing now matted with a typed transcription and title "Theatrical Letter of John T. Ford / Owner of Ford's Theater sic / Where President Abraham Lincoln Was Shot". Glazed and framed. A hastily written undated letter to an associate discussing the engagement of several actors and actresses and possible salaries and terms of service for them. Ford a native of Baltimore was an active manager of theatres on the east coast for 40 years controlling the Holliday Street Theatre in his home town 1854-1879 and theatres in Washington D.C. Alexandria Philadelphia and Richmond simultaneously and subsequently; "he also managed a great number of travelling as well as resident companies which included the greatest stars and actors of his generation" DAB. <br/><br/> unknown books
1920List330New York: Arnold Genthe 1920. Silver gelatin print 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches on larger mount. Signed by Genthe on the mount inscribed by Marlowe as Marlowe Sothern on the mount as follows: "To Jean: our little comrade on our walks in Beautiful Stockbridge. In remembrance also of 'Sun Yat Sen' and Choo-Chio Chow. September. 1940. Julia Marlowe Sothern. Very Good. An uncommon image of the actress feminist and suffrage advocate Julia Marlowe who adopted the name - though never legally - Julia Marlowe Sothern after working with the Shakespearean actor E.H. Sothern. Ill health led Marlowe to retire from the stage in 1924 and she was seldom seen in public. This photograph inscribed later in her life is an uncommon relic from her reclusive later years. We can find no record of a Jean or the names mentioned. <br /> <br /> Arnold Genthe who famously photographed the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 from the site of his destroyed studio moved to New York in 1911 where he became a portrait photographer. He most likely took this picture in his stint on the east coast. We find no other record of this specific portrait of Marlowe. Some silvering at margins otherwise excellent with some light normal tanning to mount. Arnold Genthe unknown books
1880List322Philadelphia: Studio of Joachim Gutekunst 1880. Mammoth albumen print on card mount with original gilt lettered mat 12 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches mat measuring 20 x 23 ½ inches. Very Good. Edwin Booth was a highly successful Shakespearean actor considered by some critics to be the greatest actor of his day. His career was complicated considerably by his relation to his brother John Wilkes Booth who Edwin would disown and refuse to mention following the assassination of President Lincoln Edwin rather poetically saved Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln from possible death on a Jersey City train platform several months prior to the assassination pulling him up from between the tracks after he had been knocked off the train by a crowd. Booth had connections to Philadelphia owning a theatre there in the 1860s and this photograph was probably taken sometime after he had resumed his touring career after his Booth Theater in New York City closed in 1974 and judging from his age our best guess is that this was taken in the 1880s. Joachim Gutekunst was a highly prolific and successful photographer who enjoyed a four-decade career in Philadelphia with studios in various locations. We find no other record of this mammoth albumen portrait. A generally bright and well preserved print that has survived admirably with one small closed tear to the photograph of about half an inch. Studio of Joachim Gutekunst unknown books
17820Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An interesting group of twelve large original photographs of actors actresses and others ca. 1920's from the Pasadena-based photographer Ervin Willard Spurr and including a signed self-portrait of Spurr. Among the subjects portrayed are radio executive Glen Rice and one of the country singers he promoted identified as Hubert; a man dressed in Arctic furs identified on the verso as John Herman Flyn two photographs and an actor identified as R. J. Maclean shown in two photographs dated 1926 as Richard III and Brutus. Varying sizes ranging from 11 x 14 inches Spurr's self-portrait to 16 x 19 inches. Some light toning soiling and edge wear; overall fine.<br>Ervin Willard Spurr was born in 1869 in New York and grew up in Iowa where he established his reputation as a photographer before moving his studio to Pasadena. He was noted for his technical accomplishments as a portrait photographer and photographed subjects including Albert Einstein and many actors of the day. A collection of his photographs of Native American actors is held at the Library of Congress. unknown books
191222619New York: Not Published 1912. Collection includes: A large souvenir program "Julia Marlowe's Benefit in Behalf of The Hopelessly Crippled French Soldiers" held at the Shubert Theatre May 26th 1916 with an inscription on the front cover signed by E.H. Sothern "Dear Harry Kauffman - The great thing is to perceive that most people are asses & that nearly everybody is wrong most of the time - "a soft answer turneth away wrath" But I declare that accidents are inevitable & excite the soul - what we must do is to rehearse everybody & everything all the time & keep our hair on - with love.sincerely E.H. Sothern" approx. 10" x 13" size one large sheet of heavy 'Normandy' watermark paper stock folded to make a cover over the smaller inner program for the event - according to the dedicatory text various artists gave their services - which included Miss Marlowe & E.H. Sothern & Company performing as well as Sir Herbert Tree Mrs. Lillie Langtry and others; the back of the inner program notes a E.H. Sothern appearance in "If I Were King" at the Shubert on the following evening; the cover with printed titles in dark blue simply side-tied with the remains of a red white and blue silk ribbon; with wear and soiling and old paper rub-hole at front margin about good overall; the inner program printed at the Arrow Press Inc. New York and very good; the team of and later husband & wife Edward Hugh Sothern 1859 - 1933 & Julia Marlowe 1866 - 1950 very well-known and popular as the premier Shakespearean interpreters in America at the time making Shakespeare accessible especially for a larger public; with an undated circa 1900 signed photograph of E.H. Sothern taken with two other handsomely dressed unidentified gentlemen strolling down a railroad station platform - Sothern signed in ink below his image; no studio or photographer noted photo approx. 6" x 8 1/4" mounted to an old gray card mount which has been trimmed away at bottom margin; photo with a tiny edge-tear at top otherwise very good as is the bold signature; with A large sepia-toned photograph inscribed and signed by E.H. Sothern taken while costumed in his role as MacBeth inscribed at top right "For Wm Kauffman with the regards of E.H. Sothern"; the photo signed in white ink bottom right 'Notman Boston' and is 10 1/4" x 13 1/4" approx. size; corners chipped closed tears with one through a letter of the inscription with old repairs on back; a few spots showing in the lighter area otherwise a good strong image of the actor in one of his most famous roles; with a very beautifully-taken head-and-shoulders portrait of Julia Marlowe Sothern in elaborate brocaded costume wearing headscarf inscribed below in black ink "To Mrs. Kauffman in remembrance of "Viola" and Julia Marlowe Sothern 1912"; image approx. 9 3/4" x 13" size; with the studio stamp of White N.Y. at right margin; some corner wear the 'Sothern' and a few other letters dimming in the inscription about very good overall and a striking image of the actress; with another White N.Y. large photograph this of both Julia & Edward Sothern in their costumed roles of Romeo & Juliet inscribed at the bottom margin "To Mr. Kauffman in remembrance of both of us! Julia Marlowe Sothern 1912" approx. 10" x 13"; top right corner chipped away little edgewear at bottom otherwise very good and sharply - taken; with a 6" x 9" approx. size photograph a copy of a famous earlier image by Arnold Genthe of Julia Marlowe Sothern as Juliet inscribed at lower margin "To Erwin Carl Kauffman son of our friend & coworker. Julia Marlowe Sothern May 1920." unevenly trimmed some wear and the inscription still very bold good condition; with an inscribed photograph "To my darlingest Mr. Kaufman & Mrs. Kaufman - May we meet again Katherine Alexander" Katherine Alexander 1898 - 1981 part-Cherokee American actress; the photograph pencil signed by the photographer illegible on the margin below dated 1923; approx. 8 3/4" x 13 3/4" including mount - image 6" x 10 1/4" approx. matte photo-paper; closed tears at edges soiling some crinkling into the top of the image about good condition; with an 8" x 10" portrait of Maude Adams Maude Ewing Kiskadden 1872 - 1953 American actress best known for her great success as the character Peter Pan with the studio stamp of Fernand de Gueldre Chicago on back; inscribed at lower margin "To Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman - with all good wishes from Maude Adams 1932" light wear & soil corner crease; in very good condition; with an inscribed portrait photo off Otis Skinner 1858 - 1942 American stage actor inscribed "To Fred Kaufman cordially yours Otis Skinner 1932" approx. 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" with the photographer's stamp on back of Irving - Allen - Fox Studio Denver; light wear and soil very good; with 3 additional 8" x 10" photographs of theatre stars of the past inscribed to the Kaufmanms as well names indecipherable; photographed by Standiford Studio Louisville Bachrach and Florence Vandamm; these all in good condition; an interesting group of signed early 20th century signed theatre material in overall good condition especially so for the personal inscriptions by these stars all to one family for good provenance. Photography. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback books
194522839Various ca. 1945-1960. Oblong string-bound folio album. 13 black paper leaves with 241 black and white snapshot photographs densely mounted both recto and verso. With an additional 130 black and white and 11 color photographs loose. 382 in all. Album leave have some waviness from adhesive. A few prints perished. Loose prints mildly curled worn. Entire contents housed in new archival box. Overall very good. <br/><br/>Large archive centered around an album of resettlement family life and theatre performances within Latvian Displaced Persons Camps in Germany following WWII — majority of views likely of the camp at Augsburg judging from signage and countryside terrains. The unnamed compiler appears to have been active in the Latvian National Theatre before the war and had a vital role in the performances staged within various DP Camps between 1945 and 1950 with at least Esslingen and Augsburg as named locations in notations to performance images. In his 2014 book DPs: EUROPE'S DISPLACED PERSONS: 1945–51 Mark Wyman writes of the desire to maintain national pride and customs in the camps: "Professor Alfreds Straumanis a former actor and director in Latvian DP theatre said that this desire was especially prominent in the extensive network of theatrical companies that spread through the Latvian camps. These had an immediate base to grow on since most the former Latvian National Theatre actors . were in the Meerbeck DP camp; in fact some fifteen of that organization's best professionals where joined by some twenty others who also had professional theater experience in Latvia." 163 Notable images include a series of the family living in a boxcar; many views of camp processing procedure; a ca. 1950 trip aboard the USS General R. L. Howze transport from Europe to The United States; dozens of theatre production photos; ancestral CDV's and pre-war family photos; several sketches depicting life in the camps; as well as theatre images of Latvia. The family appears to have settled in the U.S. Washington state following their 1950 passage and continued to perform in traditional Latvian theater even traveling to Bolivia for performances. Approximately 65 post-war family images are also among the more than 300 scarce primary views of Latvian DP Camp life and traditional Latvian theatre before and after World War II. unknown books
