210 résultats
1921160171Los Angeles: California Theatre 1921. Archive of 41 vintage photographs of the elaborate stage sets and live performers which supported silent film screenings at the California Theatre in Los Angeles taken during the theatre's first three years in operation 1919-1921. 20 photographs with blindstamps crediting photographer Dick Stagg and 14 with blindstamps crediting photographer J.C. Milligan.<br /> <br /> Photographs housed in an album with typed labels on the versos of the adjacent pages identifying the film screening dates performers and musical numbers. <br /> <br /> The first two photographs in the archive feature a day shot and a striking night shot of the theatre's beautifully elaborate facade followed by a photograph of the "original installation" of the stage and grand staircase. The balance of the photographs however show theatre sets usually with performers present occasionally with the orchestra present and always without the audience present likely taken during rehearsals or after the completion of the set designs. <br /> <br /> The earliest dated photographs in the archive only two and a half weeks after the theatre's opening on December 24 1918 show two different sets for the screening of the 1918 film "Eye for an Eye." The last and latest photograph in the archive shows a parlor set with five costumed actors for the 1921 screening of the 1920 film "Billions." All in all 29 films are represented in the archive.<br /> <br /> Interestingly many of the screening dates of the films represented in the archive coincide with-or date earlier than-the currently believed premiere dates of the films some of which may have had their premiere at the California Theatre. <br /> <br /> Fred Miller opened the California Theatre at 810 S. Main Street in downtown Los Angeles on December 24 1918. The majestic Beaux-Arts cinema housed a capacity of 2000 and was designed by architect Alex B. Rosenthal who also designed the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara. In 1919 the theatre was bought by Goldwyn Pictures and in 1935 operated as Teatro California often showing Spanish language films until 1983 after which it operated as a grindhouse and pornographic theater. The theater closed in 1987 and was demolished in 1990.<br /> <br /> Photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall with some faint toning with one photograph with two vertical creases.<br /> <br /> Album: 13.75 x 10.25 inches. Very Good plus. California Theatre unknown
1969168709N.p.: N.p. 1969. Archive of 29 original photographs from The Living Theatre performances dating between 1959 and 1969 including 27 borderless photographs and eight double weight photographs. <br /> <br /> Four photographs with Gianfranco Mantegna photographer stamps on the versos six photographs with Horace Dimayo photographer stamps on the versos two with "L'Express/Manuel Bidermanas" photographer stamps on the versos and one with a "Photo Pic" stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> The archive includes:<br /> <br /> One borderless photograph from the January 13 1959 premiere performance of William Carlos Williams' "Many Loves" on The Living Theatre Playhouse's opening night.<br /> <br /> Three borderless photographs of the June 29 1966 performance of "Mysteries and Smaller Pieces" 1964 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris.<br /> <br /> Three borderless photographs from the September - October 1966 performances of Jean Genet's "The Maids" 1947 at the Berliner Festwochen including two double weight.<br /> <br /> Seven borderless photographs from the July 1968 performance of Bertolt Brecht's "Antigone" 1948 performed at the Avignon XXII Festival at the Cloître des Célestins.<br /> <br /> Two double weight borderless photographs of Julian Beck and Judith Malina being interviewed in 1968 at the Avignon XXII Festival at the Cloître des Carmes.<br /> <br /> Six borderless photographs from the October 1969 performance of "Mysteries and Smaller Pieces" 1964 at the Circo Medini in Milan.<br /> <br /> Two photographs from the October 1969 performance of "Paradise Now" 1968 at Teatro Alfieri in Turin.<br /> <br /> One borderless photograph of Julian Beck from Bernardo Bertolucci's segment "Agonia" from the 1969 compilation film "Love And Anger."<br /> <br /> Lastly four borderless photographs we have been unable to definitively identify including a photograph of a stage set a photograph of a performance of three actors a photograph of Jean-Jeacques Lebel and a photograph of a woman in profile possibly Living Theatre actress Mary Mary. The latter two photographs are likely from the 1968 Avignon performance of "Paradise Now."<br /> <br /> Founded in 1947 in New York by Julian Beck and Judith Malina The Living Theatre is the oldest active experimental theater group in the United States. In the fifties and sixties the company became an epicenter for revolutionary culture performing both original and repertory works. The company produced often radical stage productions and adaptations of works by artists and writers such as Bertold Brecht Gertrude Stein Jean Cocteau William Carlos Williams T.S. Eliot Pablo Picasso Luigi Pirandello and Federico García Lorca among others and laid the foundation for New York's robust underground art scene in the ensuing decades. <br /> <br /> The Living Theatre and its founders were the subject of the 1983 documentary "Signals Through the Flames" directed by Sheldon Rochlin.<br /> <br /> Photographs generally 7 x 5 inches to 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall five with light toning. All housed in a 9.75 x 12.17 inch Near Fine black folder with a "The Living Theatre" sticker on the front board. N.p. unknown
194880631New York: Chappell & Co. Inc 1948. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on title page: "For Joe Littau a merry Christmas and thanks for a beautiful job!" signed "Kurt Weill" undated but annotated in pencil presumably by Littau: "Xmas 1948." Quarto 30cm. Original buff wrappers printed in red on front cover; 274pp. Professional paper repairs at spine ends; expected tanning to exterior and text; still a superlative copy overall and quite uncommon. Housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box. <br /> <br /> A terrific association copy of this acclaimed late work by Weill for which he won the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1947. Street Scene is perhaps the apotheosis of Weill's socially-engaged musical theater a blend of operatic and theatrical elements with which he first experimented in his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht of the Thirties including Three Penny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Street Scene based on Elmer Rice's naturalistic working-class drama of the same name was especially noteworthy for including lyrics by the African-American poet Langston Hughes whom Weill sought out specifically to "lift the everyday language of the people into a simple unsophisticated poetry" quoted by Jane Vial Jaffe in her program notes to a 2008 production. This was Hughes' first experience writing for musical theater.<br /> <br /> Street Scene premiered at the Adelphi Theater in New York in January 1947 and met with critical success though its high production costs forced the production to close in April. The show has never been revived on Broadway but it has been staged regularly by operatic companies including revivals by the New York City Opera in 1959 1979 and 1990. <br /> <br /> Inscriptions by Weill are uncommon; it's an honor he appears to have bestowed only on very close friends and collaborators. In this case the presentation is to Joe Littau the well-known pit conductor who was at this time the Musical Director for Weill's 1948 musical "Love Life" which ran on Broadway from October 1948 to May 1949. Chappell & Co., Inc unknown
193062548Hollywood CA & New York NY; Oshkosh WI & Parkersburg WV: The Strand Theatre Smoot Theatre Lincoln Theatre & Warner Bros. 1930-1934. Oblong folio. 14.5 x 11.5 in. 100 pp unpaginated. two different papers many preserved in archival mylar sleeves. With 90 original silver gelatin photographs either mounted or loose and inserted into sleeves sized from 2 x 2 in. up to 8 x 10 in. most sized approx. 5 x 7 in. many w/ photographer’s imprints 71 pieces of mounted ephemera including promotional cards souvenir promotional items such as napkins studio advertising mimeograph typescript marketing scripts lobby cards newspaper clippings and more. All leaves bound w/ brass screw posts at gutter margin many preserved in archival mylar sleeves some leaves w/ chipping & tears at fore=-edges offset tears and or reside on versos of a few photos some scuffing old glue markings cropping to some leaves still a VG artifact preserved as album. This exceptional original Warner Bros. Studio marketing photo album/scrapbook chronicles the movie industry’s system of engaging the movie-going public during the Great Depression in a form of interactive promotional live theatre to immerse them in the cinematic experience. Featuring physical props displays special lighting costumed extras studio scripts featuring a myriad of promotions the Warner Bros. Studios theatre group was able to enhance and pull in far more movie-goers and set the foundation for their marketing system in the coming decades. By using their opulent and fabulous 1920’s era created movie palaces these images capture the pre-Code sexualized Mae West in slinky costumes emblazoned on radio station cars physical stand-up showroom displays restaurant menus post-Prohibition tavern beer coasters and even pulled in local officials such as Mayor George Oaks of Oshkosh WI. Also featured here are photos and flyers for the giveaway cars tie-ins with the Oshkosh State Teachers College football team and nearby department store window displays which significantly expanded the visual and immersive experience.Of particular interest is the included and very detailed 117 step campaign script for Mae West’s iconic “I’m No Angel†featuring the titillating star as Tira the circus beauty who manages to always be mistress of the situation whether in the cage with wild beasts her boudoir filled with admirers to be bedded or even charming and seducing the judge at the end of the film with only a wiggle. The pre-Code campaign encourages the Warner Bros. Studio theatre’s to include a “Try your figure†display panel where young women would measure themselves against the busty silhouette and those that matched closest to the scantily gowned West would receive free tickets. Another stunt was setting up a “Mae West Voice Test†using a dictaphone in the lobby with a “pretty girl attendant†set up in charge to ask potential women movie-goer attendees to utter “Come up and see me sometime†and free tickets were awarded for the best Mae West imitations. Other movies featured at the Strand in Oshkosh or the Smoot & Lincoln Theatre’s in Parkersburg WV depicted here with promotions souvenirs and photographs include: “The Sea Wolf†based on Jack London’s book and which starred Milton Sills Jane Keithley and Raymond Hacket released just 1 week after Sills’ death and features stunts with potential young movie-goers to bring their Rin Tin Tin like dogs as well as airplane stunts and lobby card; or elaborate window displays and automobile floats mocked up as dirigibles and costumed extras for Frank Capra’s “Dirigible†released in 1931 and starred Fay Wray Jack Holt Ralph Graves and Hobart Bosworth set against the drama of a competition by fixed-wing aircraft and dirigible airships to reach the South Pole. Other movies briefly archived in the group here feature “When Ladies Meet†released in 1933 starring Ann Harding Myrna Loy and Robert Montgomery or a couple mentions of the 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula. The 1933 Gold Diggers is featured in several photos which starred Joan Blondell Aline MacMahaon Monica Bannister Joan Barclay and Connie Blackwood as out-of-work Broadway chorus girls. Also appearing here in approximately one fourth of the photo album/scrapbook is a similar campaign as that for Mae West for the 1932 “Fireman Save my Child!†with the wildly popular comedian Joe E. Brown starring as Joe Grant inventor fireman and baseball player offered to play in the big leagues in the film but earning more money from his inventions Again the script advises engaging the local fire department to put on stunts include the supplied advertising on their fire engines and even encourages the use of a large animatronic mechanical head of Brown in a fireman’s hat in the lobby. The movie was actually a natural fit for Joe Brown who had launched his physical comedy during the 1893 Depression by making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him to collect and sell and later worked as circus acrobat and newsboy and was a lifelong baseball fan. From 1930-July 1934 the Hollywood studios were largely self-regulating their content with continued threats by outside groups to “clean†up their movies and somehow balance the puritanical group sensibilities against the ever growing demands by audiences for movies that were daring edgy naughty and even sexualized often depicting spousal abuse sexual bondage marital infidelity free love with stars such as Mae West Norma Shearer Kay Francis Dorothy Mackaill Nancy Carroll and Constance Bennett typically depicted half-clad or in bed. At the time the movie studios and theatre’s were attempting to recoup the massive investments in transitioning to sound films and market the new technology by cultivating a sophisticated campaign system often hiring Broadway writers directors and actors to travel around and oversee their promotions productions. See: John Farr How Movies Got Us Through the Great Depression Best Movies 2024; David P. Hayes Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry 2009; Mae West Reveals Herself as a Circus Queen in “I’m No Angel†at the Paramount New York Times Oct. 14 1933. The Strand Theatre, Smoot Theatre, Lincoln Theatre, & Warner Bros., unknown
1946181214Ranchi: The Catholic Press c.1946. A modern fighting force which could stand toe to toe with the Japs and slug it out to victory First edition found in eight institutional libraries only telling the story of Ramgarh's top secret Chinese-American Training Center the first training camp run by the US on foreign soil. Conceived by Stilwell following the retreat from Burma the centre drilled and equipped four crack Chinese divisions. These formed the core of Stilwell's hard-fought but successful advance through Burma in 1944. This extensively illustrated publication profiles Brigadier-General Frederick McCabe and other senior figures at the centre as well as its rigorous jungle warfare training regimen and exercises to familiarize Chinese troops with cutting-edge US weaponry. A section at the end describes visits by VIPs including Chiang Kai-Shek Mountbatten Lieutenant-General Sultan and Stilwell himself. Copies are held by the US Army War College US Army Center of Military History Marshall Center for Security Studies Wisconsin Veterans Museum Harvard University of Georgia Norwich University and SOAS. Quarto. Illustrations throughout; some text and decoration printed in brown. Notice from publisher tipped to first page. Original card wrappers front cover lettered in brown and black. With dust jacket. Loss and split at foot of spine odd mark internally; jacket flaps without price as issued losses at spine ends panels toned nicks and creasing at head where jacket oversized: a very good copy in like jacket. unknown
199236671Neuilly France: Gabrielle Ionesco C. -P. New. 1992. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW PRISTINE - Slight creasing else flawless. Text in French. 140 lots many illustrated in black and white or color. -- with a bonus offer-- . Gabrielle Ionesco, C. -P. paperback
199429377Cambridge MA: Harvard Radcliffe Summer Theatre. New. 1994. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer-- . Harvard Radcliffe Summer Theatre paperback
199529376New York: Playbill Incorporated. New. 1995. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer-- . Playbill Incorporated paperback
198989083The Penny Royal Theatre. New. 1989. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - 11 works catalogued and illustrated in color. Among the artists represented: L. & O. Tikhomirov A. Kurnakov and A. Vasiliev. -- with a bonus offer--; . The Penny Royal Theatre paperback
199231374Boston MA: The Publick Theatre Inc. New. 1992. Unbound. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Theater program -- with a bonus offer-- . The Publick Theatre, Inc. unknown
196758959Brussels Belgium: Theatre National Centre Rogier. As New. 1967. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. 74 pp. With 18 ills. 28 x 11 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Theatre National, Centre Rogier paperback
19085578Havana: Moises V. Codina 1908. Good plus. Seven broadsides each approximately 22 x 7.25 inches plus one double bill measuring about 22 x 15 inches. One broadside printed in red and black. Previously folded. Scattered shallow tears from edges not affecting text with some tape repairs on blank versos. A group of eight playbills spanning eight consecutive days in July 1908 that advertise performances and events at the Gran Teatro Payret in Havana. The theater was built by its namesake Jaoquin Payret in 1877 on a corner across from the Villanueva Railway Station now the Capitolio Nacional de la Habana and initially focused on opera and high-class performing arts to compete directly with other established theaters in the Cuban capital. The building had five floors and a capacity of 2300 but the upper balconies collapsed in 1882 after which the theater changed hands and began to showcase more varied popular offerings.<br /> <br /> These playbills publicize an array of performers including the ballet dancer Millas; a cabaret artist Eline Oreo; a magician and telepath Sidney Richards; Troupe Montrose a group of acrobats an Italian dance troupe Les Casettas; two clowns named Pito and Chocolate; and many others. Notably the programming also includes a heavy rotation of short and feature films such as La Electricidad Liquida 1907; El Inagarrables Pick Pocket 1908; Victima de la Ciencia 1907; En Chine: Voyage sur le Canal Impérial 1908; and Venganza del Dervich 1907. The playbill for Thursday July 16 with its headline and date in red proclaims the debut of Trouppe Merodia a seven-person group of acrobats and cyclists as well as the Cuban premiere of a film titled La Caza de Oso The Bear Hunt.<br /> <br /> The theater was closed by hurricane damage in 1926 but reopened as a cinema in 1935 and in the following years became known as the "Cathedral of Spanish Cinema." The building again fell into disuse and disrepair in the decades following the Cuban Revolution but was restored in 2008. A very interesting group that gives a great sense of day-to-day operations at one of Cuba's most important and historic theaters. Moises V. Codina unknown
1963156237New York: The Living Theatre 1963. Vintage script for the 1963 off-Broadway play. INSCRIBED on the title page by The Living Theatre co-founder-and production designer for the play-Julian Beck: "This is the mimeographed text which The Living Theatre used for its production of the world premiere of the play May 1963. It precedes all other publications of the play. / Julian Beck / NYC Feb 1985."<br /> <br /> The play premiered at The Living Theatre on May 13 1963. It was the recipient of three Obie Awards for Best Production Best Design and Best Direction. Jonas Mekas would film a 1963 performance of the play after it had closed released in 1964.<br /> <br /> A realistic and anti-authoritarian depiction of a US Marine Corps prison based on playwright Kenneth H. Brown's experience being held in a brig for 30 days while serving with the Third Marines at Camp Fuji in the 1950s.<br /> <br /> The Living Theatre revived the play to inaugurate its new permanent location on the Lower East Side in Manhattan on March 29 2007 directed by Judith Malina.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers front wrapper integral with the title page noting credits for playwright Kenneth H. Brown. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-2-45. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. The Living Theatre unknown
193558719New York:: Playbill Incorporated 1935-1981. publisher's printed wrappers. A collection of forth autographed Playbills autographed by multiple cast members including Helen Hayes Dorothy Kilgallen Ethel Merman in pencil Jessica Tandy Milo O'Shea and dozens of others. . 8vo. Playbill Incorporated, unknown
1967179842Dublin: 1967. With notes in the director's hand A collection of ephemera from The Living Theatre Company's Dublin performances of Frankenstein and The Antigone of Sophokles: a programme for each play six photographs of the staging for Frankenstein and a notecard with handwritten typesetting for the programme. Each programme is heavily annotated in different hands with corrections to the cast list of both plays. The title page of the programme for Frankenstein has several notes by the director Julian Beck. The experimental Living Theatre Company was founded in New York in 1947 by Beck and Judith Malina. They were the among the first in America to produce plays by European authors including Bertolt Brecht Jean Cocteau and T. S. Eliot and helped to originate the concept of off- and off-off-Broadway. Following tax disputes in the US the group spent much of the 1960s touring Europe. Frankenstein was first conceived for the 1965 Venice Biennale beginning with 30 minutes of silence. Beck planned for there to be no script stating "The action the words the effects will all be created by the company working together with the techniques we have developed amongst ourselves" Beck quoted in Tytell p. 208. The play was reworked several times before its staging in Dublin including a five hour performance in Cassis. The photographs show Beck's cubist set "A thirty-foot high iron grid of wooden platforms and steel piping the space was divided into fifteen connected cubicles on three levels" Tytell p. 210. Antigone first opened in Paris in 1967 with a script translated by Malina. Her version "was based on Brecht's version of the lofty translation the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin had done of Sophocles' play" Tytell p. 221. A review of the Dublin staging of Frankenstein was cautiously positive stating it was "epic total theatre and though I often felt bored during the long acts it finally sent me into a state of semi-hypnosis which I was reluctant to break" The Guardian. Together 8 items: 2 programmes octavo pp. 6 and pp. 4 with notecard 153 x 103 mm; 6 photographic prints 148 x 909 mm to 196 x 240 mm. Programmes in original red and white wrappers lettered in black white and red. Programmes a little rubbed and creased photos generally well preserved several overexposed two with damp stains: very good copies. John Tytell The Living Theatre: Art Exile and Outrage 1995; Robert Waterhouse "Frankenstein at the Dublin Theatre Festival" The Guardian 7 October 1967. unknown
193423906Chicago: Fold-A-Way Products 1934. Stiff card. Near fine. Large publisher printed folding portfolio 11 by 17 inches containing the toy theatre wings backdrops curtain and characters for three plays: Red Riding Hood 4 figures Cinderella 7 figures and Little Black Sambo 12 figures plus two entr'act figures Little Pavlova and Little Oleo and changes of clothing for Cinderella Sambo and the three Tigers. The three scripts are present as well as cardboard slats to move the figures about the stage. Light wear to the outer case a few reinforcements to the hinges of the theatre else this a near fine set with all of the character pieces in nice condition.<br /> <p>. Fold-A-Way Products unknown
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
1908167304N.p.: N.p. 1908. Vintage postcard photograph of the Unique Theatre an early nickelodeon theatre circa 1908.<br /> <br /> Although there were ironically multiple Unique Theatres during the nickelodeon era the theatre in the photograph on offer is likely the Unique of Ontario founded in 1908 at 8 Market Square in Hamilton. The Unique would go on to be renamed the Little Theatre in 1925 and the New Princess Theatre in 1927 before closing in 1932. <br /> <br /> 3.5 x 5.75 inches. Very Good plus in a white mat. N.p. unknown
193850026Signed: The Todd Press. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Softcover in black spine on blue wraps with gilt paste down plate - Mercury Theatre clean general shelf wear. First edition. SIGNED and inscribed by Orson Welles in ink on copyright page "For Sid With all good wishes. " Sid is Sidney Solow a fellow moviemaker 1910-1984 who won an Academy Award in 1965 for the design and development of the versatile Automatic 35mm Composite Color Printer via Consolidated Film Industries and a Medal of Commendation in 1978 for his outstanding service to the film industry. Book is clean and crisp; slight separation at very top of hinge. Illustrated throughout with small drawings. From the estate of Sidney Solow. Free of any markings not ex-library. ; 61 pages; Signed by Author . The Todd Press paperback
192762150Hollywood CA: Hollywood Bowl Assoc. 7046 Hollywood Blvd. 1927. 4to. 32 pp unpaginated. decorated title w/ tinted background borders 28 Xavier Cugat illustrated plates throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of caricature conductor by Cugat yapp fore-edges minor wear dustsoiling slight scuffing still VG copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and splendidly illustrated caricature rendering of the stars and performers at the Hollywood Bowl for the 1927 Season. Caricatured among the “Hollywood Bowlsheviks†are Alfred Hertz who inaugurated the first Hollywood Bowl season of music in 1922 Bruno Walter Vladimir Shavitch Cecil B. De Mille Louis B. Mayer Pola Negri Hestelle Heartt Dreyfuss Lloyd Wright Pierre Monteux Douglas Fairbank and Mary Pickford. De Bru 1900-1990 was a child prodigy taken to Cuba where he trained as a classical violinist played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana and after New York was hired as musician and caricaturist in Hollywood at the Bowl. He also put together a tango band in 1927 which performed at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador and later took up a long term residency at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for 15 years and one of the noted performers was Desi Arnaz. His famed caricature “Curtain of Stars†measuring 40 x 60 feet hunt at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Cugat’s brother Francis was a noted illustrator best remembered for his cover art of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Worldcat locates 1 copy Cal. Hist. Soc. Lib.; Paul Spitzzeri Striking a Chord: A Program for Summer Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl 19-23 July 1927 Homtesead Museum July 20 2020. Hollywood Bowl Assoc., 7046 Hollywood Blvd., paperback
1979162878Rome: Comune di Roma 1979. Vintage poster for an Italian staging of the 1974 groundbreaking American experimental theatre production. Staged in Rome at the Teatro Alberico circa 1979.<br /> <br /> Founded in 1947 in New York by Julian Beck and Judith Malina The Living Theatre is the oldest active experimental theater group in the United States. In the fifties and sixties the company became an epicenter for revolutionary culture performing both original and repertory works.<br /> <br /> "Seven Meditations" was largely written in response to the imprisonment of several members of the company under the Medici dictatorship in Brazil in 1971 drawing on their experiences of suppression and torture in the Brazilian prison system. The show addressed seven different types of actions relationships or statements governed by power including sexuality capitalism private property and law enforcement and attempted to begin a dialogue with audience members regarding ways to move forward from these dynamics. <br /> <br /> As with many of the group's performances "Seven Meditations" proved controversial and even courted obscenity charges largely due to a section of the show depicting a simulated torture scene-as shown in the poster on offer.<br /> <br /> 39 x 55 inches. Rolled. Very Good plus. Comune di Roma unknown
1973WALTER-FILM006850<p><em>N.Y.T.E. at the Fortune Theatre. No binding. Very Good. New York: N.Y.T.E. at the Fortune Theatre 1973. Vintage original 14 x 9" 35 x 22 cm. poster folded with a marginal note at top left in an unknown hand light stain in top left very good. </em></p><p>An exceedingly scarce mini-poster documenting a very early moment in Harvey Fierstein's career. He made his stage debut in Andy Warhol's <em>Pork</em> and appeared in two additional plays done at the La MaMa Theatre. He was all of nineteen years-old when this play made its debut.</p><p>Not in World Cat.</p> N.Y.T.E. at the Fortune Theatre
196056965Pasadena CA: n.p. ca. 1960. Folio. 14.5 x 20 in. Twelve original gouache paintings on thick artist’s board 10 of them either w/ typed or manuscript labels 1 entitled “Garden Party†written in manuscript at upper fore-edge 8 preserving their cloth fabric swatch samples some w/ designer’s notes trimmings etc. All are preserved in a gray linen clamshell case minor edgewear rubbing wear to corners still a well-preserved fine set of paintings. This nicely executed set of fashion designs were apparently created for a Civil War theatre production in Southern California around 1960 with characters named Florence Bagshot Mrs. Ludley Bagshot Agatha Mrs. W.D.P.S. and Mrs. Forbes. The designs primarily focused on the women characters including one of a nurse standing in costume in gray striped dress apron and cap with Confederate cavalry trooper in kepi astride his horse and hatless officer with sash standing in the background. Many of the designs reflect the colour palate of the early 1960’s with avocado green vivid blues solid brown earth tones and bright nearly neon orange gauze fabrics in the renderings and samples which would not have been common in those combinations during the Civil War era. Still most of the dress designs incorporate the hoop skirts of the period often with crinoline and/or crinoline cage hoop skirts and high collars with ties and ribbons at the neck and trim patterns typical of the period. The design for Florence Bagshot’s bedroom wear incorporates elements of Mid 20th-Century design and sensibilities rather than the more common chemise and sturdy cotton for the 1860’s. The Confederate Nurse design was painted on “Brownie Board Cold Pressed Duncan Vail Co. Los Angeles†which appears in California art supply advertising from about 1960-1963. We were unable to identify the production after an extensive search through contemporary theatre production trade magazines newspapers and other industry publications. n.p., hardcover
1902214563Japan. Meiji 35 1902. Striking black and white woodblock theatre poster depicting 18 dramatic scenes accompanied by a list of actors. Folded a few closed tears repaired on the reverse with archival washi red chop on reverse causing a little show-through at lower right. Overall very good. 45.5 x 71cm. Attractive black and white 1902 theatre poster advertising two performances on the 1 January 1902 of the Yamaguchi Theatre Group . The matinee performance starting at 9am was a patriotic play of five acts titled "Flag Fluttering Wind of Japan". The evening performance comprising six acts began at 5pm and appears to feature various kabuki plays under the title "Actors' Temperaments". <br> <br>The Yamaguchi Theatre Group was a part of the Shinpa 新派Theatre movement which incorporated both modern and traditional theatrical themes during Meiji period. This style and theme remains popular up till present day. Interestingly in this theatre group actors were all male playing both male and female roles. . unknown
1940182459Manila: 1940s. A graphic album showing fighting in the Philippines the Marshall Islands Papua New Guinea Guam the Solomon Islands and Palau. The compiler chose to include violent images displaying the brutality of the campaign. The album opens with portrait shots of individual Marines or groups along with photographs of American encampments and ships. The scenes then turn more distressing with images of dead locals including children lying on the beach or next to tanks. The photographs were taken across the Pacific theatre: one shows an American soldier holding a flame-thrower on Kwajalein Atoll another shows a beach landing at Luzon and a third shows a Marine posing next to a sign in Bougainville. Most were taken in the final years of the conflict including at Guadalcanal and Peleliu. There are also shots of the end of the war one showing a Japanese soldier surrendering with a white flag and another showing Japanese prisoners of war in a camp in Guam. The final photograph is the most famous "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" showing six Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. This photograph won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. The majority of the photographs are commercial with a few opening portrait shots of the unidentified compiler. Oblong folio 286 x 390 mm. With 55 gelatin silver photographs one lacking approximately 90 x 130 mm landscape or portrait corner-mounted with tape recto and verso on 7 leaves remainder blank. With 2 additional gelatin silver photographs loosely inserted. Contemporary brown sheep commercial album tied through punched holes with brown cord front board stamped with central armourial panel in blind gilt and black. Boards chipped at extremities especially front board bottom left corner rear board rubbed leaves nicked at fore edge photographs moderately toned and creased some slightly torn and abraded: a good example. hardcover
