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1-5. John Larsen, Richard Wordsworth, John Adams, Don McManus, Martin Lawrence and others in The Mikado [scenes], 1963
6. Portrait of Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, 1949-1950 / Hal Williamson
7-17. John Larsen, Helen Landis, Don McManus and others in The Pirates of Penzance, 1963 / Allan Studios
18. [Scene], Ruddigore, [1956-1957 ?] / Allan Studios
19-21. [Scenes], Trial by jury, [1963] / Allan Studios
22. [Fay Compton in Victoria Regina, 1938]

Box 33: Gilbert & Sullivan operas ; Victoria Regina

Theatrical production: "Ruddigore", [n.d.]

205-225. [Men's costumes, Patience]
226. [Women's costume for "Pirates of Penzance" ?]
227-240. ["Iolanthe"]
241-242. [Woman in "Yeomen of the guard" costume]
243-245. [Gilbert & Sullivan Society production of "Ruddigore", Conservatorium, 5 Oct 1949]

Hood II : [J.C. Williamson productions of "Patience", "Iolanthe" and "Yeomen of the guard", Theatre Royal, Apr-July 1940; Gilbert & Sullivan Society production of "Ruddigore", Conservatorium, 5 Oct 1949]]

BOROVANSKY BALLET
1. Elaine Fifield
2-3. Kathleen Gorham / [no. 2 by] Hal Williamson
4. Peggy Sager
5. Tamara Tchinarova [in can-can costume]
6. Serge Bousloff
7. Martin Rubinstein / Hal Williamson
8. Edouard Borovansky
9. Edouard Borovansky in "La Boutique fantasque" / Hal Williamson
10. [Scene from] "Gay Rosalinda"
11-13. "Swan Lake", 1958 & 1960 / [nos. 11-12 by Allan Studios, no.13 by Hal Williamson] 
14. [Scene from] "Los Tres diablos", 1954-55 / Hal Wiliamson
BALLET PORTRAITS
15. Robert Helpmann / James Robins
16-17. Diana Greentree
OVERSEAS BALLET COMPANIES
18. Svetlana Beriosova as Swanilda in "Coppelia", Royal Ballet, 1958 / Houston Rogers
19. Philip Chatfield in "Swan Lake" [costume], Act 111 / Houston Rogers
20. Michael Somes in "Swan Lake" [costume], Act III / copied by Allan Studios
21-23. Rowena Jackson [no. 22 with Bryan Ashbridge]
24. Maya Plisetskaya (?), Bolshoi Ballet, Theatre Royal, June-July 1970
25. [Nude scene], Nederlands Dans Theater
26-27. Royal Winnipeg Ballet [scenes, including "Strike up the band"]
CIRCUS
28. [Tightrope balancing act]
29. [Elephant rampant and trainer] / William A. Gamble
CONCERT ARTISTS
30. Bartok Quartet of Budapest
31-32. Victor Borge
33. Richard Crooks
34. Richard Cross
35. Isador Goodman
36. Hephzibah Menuhin
37. Yehudi Menuhin
38-39. Benno Moiseiwitsch
40-42. Birgit Nilsson, [1st concert in the SOH Concert Hall under Mackerras, 29 Sept 1973] [colour tranparencies]
43. David Oistrakh
44-45. Jan Peerce as The Duke in "Rigoletto" and Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor" / copied by Allan Studios
46-47. Alec Templeton
48. John Charles Thomas' farewell matinee, Sydney Town Hall, Saturday, 5 July 1947 / Sam Hood
49. John Charles Thomas [portrait]
FOLK COMPANIES
50. Bayanihan Philippine Dance Co.
51. Frantisek Krachovil in "The Playing cards", Black Theatre of Prague
52-53. Chinese Classical Theatre Co. [no.52 published in "Entertaining Australia", p.285]
54-57. Georgian State Dance Company, 1963
58-61. Luisillo & his Spanish Dance Theatre, 1957-1958 / [no. 58 by Phil Ward Studios;  no. 61 by Gyenes]
MUSICALS
62-65. Madge Elliott & Cyril Ritchard [no. 62 engagement portrait with Elliott  in a Matita (?) dress], ca. 1935 / Dorothy Wilding;  nos. 63-64 "Shadow play", 1946 / Sam Hood;  no. 65 Ritchard in "The Pleasure of his company", 1959-1960]
66-71. Evie Hayes, Hayes Gordon, Billy Kershaw and Elizabeth (Betty) Gaye in "Annie get your gun" / [nos. 70-71 by Ritten-Jeppesen Studios]
72-73. Evie Hayes in "Call me Madam", [1954]
74-75. Camelot, starring Jacquelyn McKeever, Sat 17 Oct 1964
76-81. Tikki Taylor, Jill Perryman and Bill Newman in "Can-can", 1958 / Hal Williamson, David Jukes, Allan Studios
82. Eileen Kelly in "Ruddigore"
83. Richard Walker in "The Gondoliers", 1949-1950 Season
84. [Arrival of the Duke and Duchess scene], "The Gondoliers", 1956-1957 Season
85-86. Helen Landis and John Adams in "The Gondoliers", 1962-1963 / Phil Ward Studios
87-88. Helen Roberts as Josephine in "H.M.S. Pinafore"
89. Eric Thornton, June Johnstone, Jane Martin and Violet Hunt in "The Pirates  of Penzance", 1962-1963 (?)
90-92. John McManus, John Larsen and Martin Lawrence in "The Pirates of Penzance" / Allan Studios
93. Richard Walker in "The Mikado"
94. Helen Landis in "The Mikado", 1962-1963 (?)
95. [Three little maids], "The Mikado", 1962-1963
96. Richard Walker as Wilfrd Shadbolt in "The Yeoman of the guard", D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.
97. John Dean as Colonel Fairfax in "The Yeomen of the guard"
98. Max Oldaker / Hal Williamson
99. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert / W. Hilbert

J.C. Williamson photographs : ballet, circus, concert artists, folk companies, musicals

1. [Vicleffo Scamuzzi, Olga Poletti, Brandisio Vannucci dressed for "La Traviata", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera Co., 1928]
2. [Principals (incl. Rosita Silvestri and Arturo Tamburini) of "Norma" in costume, Fuller-Gonsalez Opera Co., 1928]
3-4. [Fuller-Gonsalez (?) conductor and principals of "Faust"]
5-6. [American women's jazz band "Ingenues" and the "trackless train" to advertise MGM films]
7-8. [Gus Bluett, three men and 11 women on the deck of a ship]
9. [Woman on piano accompanies two men singing (Gus Bluett ?)]
10-13. [Theatrical party in swimwear recorded at a Sydney beach]
14. [American women's jazz band "Ingenues" on stage]
15. [Ingenues at Central Station]
16. [Sam Hood and four other photographers take Madge Elliott, Cyril Ritchard and Aileen Britton on the set of "Shadow play", 4 June 1946]
17. [Adelaide Boys' Band on stage, Sydney]
18. [Gladys Moncrieff with her Pekingese and Pomeranian dogs on her birthday, 13 April 1937]
19. [Farewell to Bobby and Betty at Town Hall (Frank Hatherlie), February 1937]
20-21. Clyde Hood farewelling Mr Ted, Mrs Leone Henkel and their daughter Jewel on their return to America, 1932
22. Dennis Hoey, star of "Uncivilised', photographed with Misses Winifred Lawson and C.Lavaretti of the J.C. Williamson "Princess Ida" company and the python which attacked Mr L. Cracknell at Maroubra [held by Aboriginal man in body paint and grass lap-lap] 
23. Gladys Moncrieff rehearsal at the [Theatre] Royal [in] "A southern maid", February 1937
24-25. [Model, painted gold, in loincloth and drawing a bow, Tivoli Theatre act (Reference: Tivoli / Frank Van Straten. South Melb. : Lothian, 2003), also  known as "Gilded Statue" dancer, State Theatre (see Home & away - 7716)]
26-27. [Group of English men with a bulldog mascot sing to a ukelele, 30 June 1937 (no.27 is F.Davis ?)]
28. [Man in knitted lace dress drag]
29. [Group of jockeys and film actors around George Nathan, a Tattersalls bookie to advertise the film "Odds On" featuring Phyllis Gibbs and Arthur Tauchert, 1928]
30. [Unloading a stage set at night, Capitol Theatre]
31. [Singer Lawrence Tibbett catches a 20lb. bonita or horse mackeral off Sydney Heads]
32. [Mr & Mrs Lawrence Tibbett on the deck of a ship]
33-34. [Lawrence Tibbett signs autiographs and leaves theatre with his wife]
35. [Portrait of Sir Malcolm Sargent]
36-37. [Madge Elliott and Cyril Ritchard in dress rehearsal of "The gay divorcee" at the Theatre Royal, 1932-1936 (?) (no.37 does not look like Ritchard)]
38. Madge Aubrey and Leo Franklin
39. [Arrival of] Lloyd Hughes, 1937 (NCY 37/558)
40-41. [Cecil Mason arrives by ship]
42-44. Victor Jory
45. [Gladys Moncrieff in the Seneschal racing car, owned by Harold S. Darke, Advertising Manager, Holeproof Hosiery, decorated for Poppy Day (Remembrance Day), ca.1930]
46-47. [Argentine and ballroom tango dancers]
48. [Women performers try on expensive shoes]
49-50. [Mo (Roy Rene) and Stiffy on the beach with children and with other comedians]
51. [Max Oldaker in "The gondoliers"]
52-54. [Elizabethan and Royal Navy] scenes at the gala night of "O Kay for sound", J.C. Williamson production
55. [Boys and men in black body paint take liquid from a barrel, Sydney University ?]
56. [Queue outside and inside Nicholson's music shop for Lawrence Tibbett concerts]
57. [Turner Twins, acrobats]
58. [Musical comedy star Dorothy Brunton reads a Sun comic to a young boy, January 1925 (DG ON4/7402)]
59. [Seamstresses sewing for a theatrical production]
60-62. The equivalent of "swing it" in Spanish is seen here in the dance performed by Joan Woodbury;  the scene is from RKO Radio's "There goes my girl" in which Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern are co-starred
63-65. [Peter Dawson performs at the State Theatre (NCY48/62-64)]
66. [Premier and Mrs Stevens arrive at a formal evening function with guard of honour from S.T.D. Schnapper Island]
BALLET
67-71. [Anton Dolin of the Russian ballet conducts a class for local female dancers;  Arnold Haskell and Frances Scully present, centre; probably the Royal Academy of Dance Studio, Sydney, November 1938]
72-80. [Unidentified ballerina in a long tutu]
81-86. [Unidentified ballet performance]
87-88. [Ballerina Anna Pavlova arrives, Central Station (no. 87 is the arrival 16 Apr 1926 with John Tait holding overcoat and Michael Pianowsky above her left shoulder;  in no. 88 Pavlova wears different clothes)]
89-93. [Backstage and in the dressing room with women of the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, Theatre Royal (no. 90 probably Tatiana Riabouchinska, right)]
94. [Backstage formal dinner for] Russian Ballet, New Year's Eve [incl. Mr Tait, Lelia Roussova and Arnold Haskell]
95. [Ballerina Queenie Royal in a long tutu]
96. [Ballerina Audrae Swayn in a short tutu]
97. [Ballet "Le Beau Danube"]
98. [Threee women in ballet class]
99. [Ballerina in handkerchief hem costume]
100-103. [Dancing Petruchka]
104. [Ballerina adjusts stockings with other ballerinas relected in mirror]
CHORUS GIRLS
105. [Wedding cake tableau]
106-108. [Chorus girls in "Rhonrad" wheels roll across Bondi Beach]
109-111. [Chorus girls in opening night of "Hollywood Hotel" revue, Theatre Royal, 23 September 1938 (includes NCY 41/444, 449, 450)] 
112. [Chorus girls take a break from rehearsal and read the paper while sitting on a heater, J.C. Williamson, 1936 (NCY 59/329)]
113. [Women in evening gowns sing at a concert in a large house]
114. ["Gypsy" chorus girls on the platform of a stage railway carriage]
115. Grace Bros. Ball, 1936;  American set [of chorus girls in satin sailor suits with battleship]
116-121. [Chorus girls pose in costume, no. 119 probably a double act]
122. [Chorus line in swimsuits rehearses on stage]
123-124. [June Roberts, American dancer, poses on the beach while the other members of "The O'Brien Girl" company swim on a picnic organised by Dr Bohrsmann, Reef Beach, Oct 1923 (see Notes field for further information)]
125-127. [Chorus girls at the beach]
128. [Ingenues women's band with parcels and hand luggage, Central Station]
129. [Chorus girls]
130-131. [Chorus girls and commissionaires, New Haymarket Theatre]
132. [Chorus in vamp style dresses with stage curtains and large evening purse backdrop]
133. [Dressed in streetclothes (see also no.48 for same women)]
134. [Chorus line dancing]
135-136. [Chorus girls visit a winery]
137-138. [Chorus girls with male comic, Alfred Frith]
139. [Chorus girls with ship's captain]
140. [Chorus girls in swimsuits]
141. [Women in 18th century dress]
142. [Chorus girls on the roof]
143. [Chorus line doing the can-can], Montague Show, 27 December 1937
144. [Young chorus girls sit on wooden steps]
145. [Grace Bros. girls]
146. [Chorus line of "ballerinas" in frames painted by "artists"]
147-149. [Marcus Showgirls on board ship, July 1937]
150. [Chorus girls rehearse songs around the piano]
151. [Chorus girls dressed as drummers, 1938]
152. [JCW chorus girls wait to go on stage]
153. [Chorus girl demonstrates a step (see no. 144)]
154-156. [Girls in Spanish flamenco dresses, Sydney Showground]
CHILDREN IN BALLET SCHOOLS, EISTEDDFODS, PANTOMIMES, ETC.
157. [Dancers in the Eisteddfod, Railway Institue, December 1937]
158. [Gus Bluett and child performers]
159. [Italian group in fancy or theatrical dress with banner and flag]
160. [Girl in Bacchic costume with banner advertising Hardy's Tintara Wines]
161. [Members of a Maori choir before the concert]
162. [Patriotic concert during World War II]
163-187. [Child performers]
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
188-191. [Ruddigore]
192-196. [The Mikado]
197-203. [The Pirates of Penzance, including Max Oldaker]
204-206. [HMS Pinafore, including Max Oldaker and Cyril Ritchard]
207-208. [Trial by jury]
209-212. [The Yeomen of the Guard]
213-216. [Patience]
PLAYS
217. Leo Franklin and Madge Aubrey in dress rehearsal for "The gay divorcee" (see no.38)]
218-220. [Noel Coward's "Family album", and another play set in the 19th century (Bettina Welch and Madge Elliott in "Family album", nos.218-219)]
221-223. [Rehearsing a murder mystery ca.1940]
224. [Two men in hammocks]
225. [Dining room scene: three suited men and one in cloth cap look at items in a suitcase ?]
226-237. ["Let's face it for Australia" Camp Roosevelt Recreation Center "Big camp show" by 2nd Infantry Regiment;  wartime show featuring Don Nicol and Rex Dawe (among many others) ?]
238. [Miss Peggy Pride]
CONSERVATORIUM
239-266. [Carmen, 1941]
267-276. [Mozart opera ?]
277-288. [Performance in medieval dress]
289-290. [Performance with "Indian" dancers"]
291. [Gypsy (?) dancers]
MISCELLANEOUS
292. [Woman in Ziegfield style costume of ostrich feathers, pearls and satin]
293. [Helen Twelvetrees with her son Jack Woody]
294-295. [Alfred Frith arrives at Central Station]
296. [Group dressed as aviators, Sydney Town Hall]
297. [Man in leather trench coat smoking while leaning against a wall]
298. [Acrobatic act]
299. [Member of the Ingenue Band and the driver of the MGM trackless train]
300-302. [Women violinist, pianist and dancer, Wentworth Hotel]
303-306. [Ingenues Band goes to watch Stanford Baseball Team at the Showground ?]
307. [Ingenues Band at Central Station]
308. [Two men, one with violin case and white tie]
309. [Two cowboys skylark with musical instruments backstage]
310. [Comic couple rehearse]
311-313. [Irene Purcell, star of The Women, and Zane Grey, 1939]
314. [Jim Gerald and woman running in swimsuits]
315-317. [Crowning of beauty queens, one at the Victory Ball September 1941, Wentworth Hotel (?), the other at Sydney Town Hall]
318. [Performers in "wheelbarrow race" pose]
319. [Irene Purcell (?), star of The Women, in the wings in a negligee]
320-321. [Female performers ?]
322. [Woman in turban with diamante Harbour Bridge pin]
323. [Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, conductor Lucien Wurmser third from right, Michael Pianowsky right, James Stuart MacDonald (the tall man), sculptor Sir Bertram Mackennal and next to him probably his wife Lady Agnes (far left) at the Macquarie Galleries, Bligh Street, Sydney, 19 April 1926, where Mackennal opened, on behalf of Pavlova, an exhibition of water colours by artist Blamire Young]
324. [Performer Violet Carlson nursing a cat]
325. [Nurses and ship's steward have a toast at the bar]
326. [Well-dressed man in suit and hat, Hyde Park]
327-329. [Cocktail party]
330-331. [Theatrical or fancy dress group, Sydney Showground ?]
332. [Caucasians dressed as Maoris, Sydney Town Hall]
333. [Church conference in hall with a gallery]
334. [Group of women (models ?) in evening gowns]
335. [Group dressed as Spanish dancers]
336. [Sydney University float]
337. [Clowns with people wearing large papier-mache carnival figures]
338. [Well-dressed couple]
339. [Audience in evening dress at a private screening in a (Movietone ?) theatrette]
340. [Woman and two men in "Tale of two cities", "Scarlet Pimpernel" or similar]
341. [Man singing from music to string and saxophone combination]
342-343. [Asian people in traditional dress]
344. [Pyramus, Thisbe and "The Wall" in "A midsummer night's dream"]
345-346. [Painting a backdrop and making props]
347. [Party group onstage at a theatre]
348. [Group in theatre foyer]
349. [Group onstage in 18th century style court dress, Tivoli ?]
350. ["Hillbillies", 1938]
351. [Cowboys on stage, orchestra pit with band in party hats and streamers thrown onstage]
352-353. [Performers ? (no.353 see also no.9 same people)]
354-359. [Dressing room and foyer of Theatre Royal with actresses as Africans and actors as Caucasians in pith helmets and tropical clothes, 1920's (one of the "women" is drag)]
360. [Stylish group on the deck of a ship]
361. [Tango and eighteenth century couple at a fancy dress ball, 1920's]
362. [Chorus girls as "pirates", Farmer's Dept. Store]
362a. [Woman in eighteenth century style dress, Century Theatre stairs]
363. ["Anastasia", "Harpo" and "Gandhi" at a fancy dress party in a theatre foyer or large house]
364-365. [Acrobats]
366. [Group singing "Clowns in clover" around a piano in a theatre foyer, 1920's]
367. [Caucasians dressed as Chinese group]
368. [Stylish group]
369. [Group in evening dress having drinks]
370. [Tango or Spanish couple in a marquee, 1920's]
371. [Cowboy]
372. [Ball, 1920's]
373. [Revellers help a bemused man, with bottles in a bag, to get up off the road]
374. [Choir of young men rehearse in Haymarket Theatre circle ?]
375-379. [Women in dressing rooms (no. 377 is Theatre Royal)]
380. [Debutante ball with sedan chair and "ancient Greeks or Romans"]
381. [Couple in a marquee]
382. ["Dream of Persia" at 1920's fancy dress ball, ?]
383. [Musical comedy in modern dress (but note women's short hooped skirts), 1920's]
384. ["Cowboys and Indians" on deck of ship]
385. [Stylish group with two Asian men outside theatre]
386. [Actress or singer in negligee style dress in a theatre]
387. [Pantomime dame and jester on a flagpole flying the Union Jack (Yeomen of the guard ?)]
388. [Fancy dress group including "executioner, centurion, Zorro, W.C. Fields" at Police Barracks, Surry Hills]
389-390. ["Crossing the Line" group in their fancy dress]
391. ["Gaslight" group, including a Sherlock Holmes ?]
392. [Comic act "Mrs Mop & Bucket" (DG ON4/7717)]
393. [Dance couple]
394. [Asian man]
THEATRE BUILDINGS AND AUDIENCES
395-396. [Exterior, Empire Theatre illuminated for the opening of "Sunny", 1927 (no. 395 is DG ON4/7498)]
397. [Viceregal night at "Sunny", Empire Theatre, 1927;  the Stonehavens present ?]
398-398a. [Auditorium of St. James Theatre as a live theatre, (capacity audience and empty)]
399. [Audience and auditorium, theatre with dress circle and gallery held up by columns (not Theatre Royal)]]
400. [French programme for brass band in capacity house, Sydney Town Hall]
401. [Lawrence Tibbett (?) recital with piano accompaniment, Sydney Town Hall]
402. [Exterior, Minerva Theatre, marquee announcing Mollison & Basquette in "Idiot's delight", May 1939 (NCY30/538)]
403. [Mickey Mouse films shown to a capacity house in a town hall]
404. [Capacity house, with William Szarka in the aisle, Drummoyne Kismet]
ALBUMS
405-466. [Marcus Showgirls in Sydney for "Hollywood Hotel", Harry Howard's revue (including an Afro-American dance group), Theatre Royal]
467-482. [The Gondoliers]
483-489. [HMS Pinafore]
490-545. [The Mikado]
490a-510a. [Iolanthe]
546-570. [The Pirates of Penzance]
571-591. [Princess Ida]
592-652. [Trial by jury]

1. Principals, "La Traviata", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera, 1928

2. Principals, "Norma", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera, 1928

3. Principals, "Faust", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera, 1928

Hood Collection part II : [Theatrical, Live theatre]

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Box 33: Gilbert & Sullivan operas ; Victoria Regina

Theatrical production: "Ruddigore", [n.d.]

Hood II : [J.C. Williamson productions of "Patience", "Iolanthe" and "Yeomen of the guard", Theatre Royal, Apr-July 1940; Gilbert & Sullivan Society production of "Ruddigore", Conservatorium, 5 Oct 19...

J.C. Williamson photographs : ballet, circus, concert artists, folk companies, musicals

Hood Collection part II : [Theatrical, Live theatre]