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PXD 1186/Box 1
Photograph of John Alden as King Lear / Norman Dewhurst.
Photograph of John Alden / Montgomgomery Dunn.
Photograph of John Alden as Shylock.
6 photographs of productions of A Winter's Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and The Merchant of Venice / Norman Dewhurst.

PXD 1186/Box 2
Design for King Lear storm scene, watercolour / Maurice L. Sullivan
John Alden as Shylock, pencil / John Baird
John Alden, 1953, watercolour and pencil / Pixie O'Harris
Caricature of John Alden, ink.
Sketches and designs for sets, costumes and make-up, watercolour, pencil & ink.
Album of costume designs, watercolour, with newscuttings, mainly pictorial.

PXE 1258/Box 1
Portrait photographs of John Alden

PXE 1258/Box 2
Portrait photographs of actors, many inscribed to John Alden.  Include John Meillon, James Workman, Max Oldaker,  Ron Shand, Alistair Roberts,  Neva Carr-Glynn, William Rees, Beth Dickson, Hal Rogers, Peter Summerton.

PXE 1258/Box 3
Two albums of photographs of Shakespearean productions.

PXE 1258/Box 4
Photographs of non-Shakespearean productions.

PXE 1258/Box 5
Photographs of Shakespearean and other productions.

PXE/1258/Box 6
Photographs of Shakespearean and other productions.

PXE 1258/Box 7
Three family photograph albums

PXE 1258/Box 8
Family photographs.

FM2/2057
47 negatives of Shakespearean productions.

R 1171
14 metal printing plates for The John Alden Company.

R 1172
Locks of hair:
1. Lock of hair in envelope inscribed "Geordies long curls / 'Sea View' / Howled lustily because I / cut them short. 10 years. / 12.1.17".
2. Lock of hair in paper bag inscribed "Mr Peter O'Shaunnessy / Comedy Theatre / 1 Beard 2 Side Flashes/  urgent / Aldens - side flashes / Lauries beard / Winters Tale".


Forms part of John Alden papers, 1926-1963, together with the records of John Alden Co. Ltd.; with newscuttings, ca. 1950-1955; scripts and minute books, 1951-1955 at MLMSS 4110.

John Alden as Shylock, 1952 / Victor Lloyd paintings at location number ML 891, is also part of this collection

Photographs, photograph album, drawings, printing plates and locks of hair relating to John Alden, ca. 1900-ca. 1960

BOX 53
166-181. [Cast of HMS Pinafore in costume, 1940 (including Miss Maudler)]

BOX 54
1-35. [Cast of HMS Pinafore in costume, 1940 (including Miss Maudler)]
36-68. [Cast of The Gondoliers in costume, Mar 1940 (Australian & New Zealand Theatres Ltd.)]
69-80. [Cast of The pirates of Penzance in costume and onstage (including Max Oldaker), Apr 1940 (Australian & New Zealand Theatres Ltd.)]
81-97. [Cast of The yeomen of the guard in costume, June 1940]
98-139. [Cast of Princess Ida in costume, July 1940]
140-151. [Chorus of The gondoliers in costume, 4 Nov 1941 (nos. 148-149 are Sorcerer)]

BOX 55
1-20. [Cast of Princess Ida in costume, 10 Dec 1941]
21. [Theatre worker, 10 Dec 1941]
22-25. [Christmas party, Theatre Royal, Dec 1941]
26-35. [Cast of Trial by jury in costume, Apr 1940 (Australian & New Zealand Theatres Ltd.)]
36-49. [Cast of The Mikado in costume on final night, 27 Jan 1942]
50-71. [Cast of Patience in costume (no. 56 is 2nd act of Pirates, no. 57 is Gondoliers ?)]
72-110. [Cast of Pinafore in costume (no. 107 Miss Maudler)]
111-112. [Pinafore chorus rehearsal]
113-116. [Cast of Mikado in costume]
117-149. [Cast of Pirates in costume]
150-164. [Cast of Sorcerer in costume]

BOX 56
1-25. [Cast of Sorcerer in costume]
26-69. [Cast of Yeomen of the guard in costume]
70. [Yeomen of the guard on stage]
71-73. [Some women of Trial by jury in costume]
74. [Chorus rehearsal (as per nos. 55/111-112)]
75. [Men in suits on stage]
76-86. [Miscellaneous women]
87-99. [Miscellaneous men]

Hood II : [JC Williamson-Australian & New Zealand Theatres productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, 1940-1942]

Many photonegatives in the collection were for theatre programs and publicity for JC Williamson and the Playbill programs of the Tivoli Circuit (never credited). Rees's montages for Borovansky Ballet were only briefly credited. About 20 of his images appear in: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / edited by Katharine Brisbane.  Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. 
A detailed Contents List is available at ON 192, Mitchell Library

"Candide", Borovansky Ballet (PXA 739/4462)

"Les Amants eternels", Borovansky Ballet (PXA 739/3572)

Martin Rubinstein & Tamara Tchinarova in "Scheherazade" (PXA 739/545)

Royce Rees collection of Sydney theatre photonegatives, 1946-1967

1. Emrys Jones as Tony Wendice in Dial M for murder
2-3. Pat Keating / Athol Shmith
4-7. Cecil Kellaway
8. Jack Kellaway
9. Lloyd Lamble
10. Norman Lee / C.J. Frazer
11. Mayne Lynton
12. Marcel Marceau
13. Ivan Menzies as The Duke in The Gondoliers
14. [Ms] Maughan
15. Tom Minogue "Dr Engel"
16. Carmel Millhouse
17. Fred Murray / Athol Shmith
19. Cliff Neate
20. [Ms] Nicolson
20-22. Charles Norman / Milton Greene Studio (Melbourne)
23-26. Max Oldaker / Athol Shmith Studio, Alec Murray
27-28. William O'Neal / C.J. Frazer
29. Keith Buckley (?)
30. Joy Parsons "Princess Margaret"
31-32. Gwen Plumb

Box 27: Portraits of performers

1. Harlequin, State Theatre, 1 Feb 1930
2. Capt. Kiddo Idea, State Theatre, 15 June 1929
3. Stan Idea, State Theatre, 3 Aug 1929
4. Orientale, State Theatre, 21 Mar 1930
5. Arabian nights, State Theatre, 29 Sep 1929
6. Glorifying the Australian girl, State Theatre, 19 Feb 1930
7. Civic, 26 Mar 1932 / G.K. Heimbrod
8. [Topless showgirls in "Latin Quarter"] / Harry Jay
9. [Topless showgirls in retouched photograph of "Follies Bergeres", 11 October 1942]
10. "Chez Paree" / Harry Jay
11. Dawn Anderson, Tivoli glamour girl
12. "Annie get your gun"
13. The Appeltons in "A night in Casa Blanca"
14. [Topless showgirls in a tribute to Olympic year in Rome scene in "Artists and models", 1960 ?]
15-16. Arthur Askey [and cast] in "The love racket" / Harry Jay
17. Borovansky Ballet "The black swan" / Hal Williamson
18-27. Borovansky Ballet "The sleeping princess" / Allan Studios
28. Winifred Atwell
29-30. "Avec pleasure" / Harry Jay
31-33. [French striptease artiste] Micheline Bernardini [no.31 inscribed, no.33 has typed note] / Louis Silvestre, Athol Shmith Ltd.
34. Dumarte & Denzer, dancing act, with Micheline Bernardini, French strip tease artiste opening in "All the best" / Harry Jay
35-36. [Jazz ballet and orchestra, variety or cinema act, 1920's] / G.K. Heimbrod
37. Borovansky Ballet "The sleeping princess" / Allan Studios
38-43. Aztec Services & Tivoli Circuit present "The black and white minstrel show" / Harry Jay, Willoughby Gullachsen, Auguste Photographics
44. Honor Blackman
45. Cole Porter's musical play "Can-can" presented by J.C. Williamson Theatres  / Allan Studios  
46-50. "Chez Paree" / Harry Jay
51. Chinese Classical Theatre [performer, 1956]
52. [Billboard advertisement on a trailer for Ronald Colman in "The unholy garden" at the Regent]
53. Pat Craig, Tivoli ballet
54. [Edith Crocker in bear and motorcycle circus act (Cirque d'Hiver)]
55. [Marion Davies (?), skater in "Ice follie 1950"]
56. [Earle & Fontaine, dancers in "Rio Rita"]
57. [Marquee of Grauman's Chinese Theatre (?) with advertising for Marlene Dietrich in "Shanghai Express"]
58-59. ["The diamond horseshoe"] / Harry Jay
60-61. "Ecstasy on ice" / Harry Jay
62. Edna Emmett / Noel Rubie
63. "Fade out, fade in" / Royce A. Rees
64. "Femmes et furs" / Harry Jay
65. "Five Cleveres", [acrobats]
66. Jeanne Francis and Jerry Gray [dancers]
67. Flying De Pauls and The Three Stooges
68. "Frosty follies" / Hary Jay
69. "Pleasures of Paris" / Harry Jay
70-74. "Funfiesta" / Harry Jay
75. "Gay Rosalinda"
76. Jim Gerald
77. "The girl friend", 1942 / S.J. Hood
78-80. "The golden days' revue" [celebrating 60 years of variety, (1961 ?)] / Harry Jay
81. JCW Gilbert & Sullivan operas, 1949-1950 [Gondoliers] / Hal Williamson
82. June Grabham, Tivoli glamor girl opening in ... "Chez Paree", Empire Theatre, 8 Nov / Harry Jay
83. JCW "Grab me a gondola" featuring Sheila Bradley, Guido Lorraine and Tikki Taylor / Phil Ward Studios
84. Diana Grafton, acrobatic skaterina in Switzerland ice show, His Majesty's Theatre / Athol Shmith Studio
85. "Alegrias de Espana"
86. "Follow the girls" / Hal Williamson
87. [Skater] Pat Gregory in an ice follies / W.C. Hopper
88-89. "Gypsy revels", 22 June 1929
90-91. Fox Movietone film "Happy days"
92. Yoshie Hara from the Toho Dancing Troupe
93. A. Hartt, Tivoli glamour girl
94. [Apache dancers], Katherine Dunham and partner / Harry Jay
95. Sybil Bowan in "Stardusters"
96. "Broadway", a Laemmle super production
97. Margaret Brown
98. [Evie Hayes in] "Call me madam" / Allan Studios
99-101. "Can-can" / Allan Studios
102. Carsory Brothers (acrobats)
103. Brenda Charles / "Truth" and "Sportsman" Limited
104. [Tivoli showgirls advertise "Funfiesta" with a Luna Park distorting mirror] / Harry Jay
105. [Bobby Limb and dancers] / Harry Jay
106. [Evie Hayes in "Annie get your gun" with her "family"]
107. Babs McKinnon
108. "The black and white minstrel show" / Harry Jay
109. [Chimpanzee act] in "Peep show"
110. Sally [showgirl]
111. Johnny O'Connor [and unidentiifed female singer] / Harry Jay
112. [Daryl Stewart, female singer and dancers in same show as Johnny O'Connor (no.111)] / Harry Jay
113-114. "Olympic follies" / Harry Jay
115. [Apache dance in an ice skating show]
116. [Scene from "The desert song"]
117. [Scene from "Annie get your gun"]
118. [The Delltones]
119. "Olympic follies" / Harry Jay
120. [Truck with advertising for film "The outsider" at the Regent Theatre]
121. John Paramor who plays a copper with a difference in "Pandora's Cross" [Paris Theatre] / Branco Gaica
122-150. ["Pandora's Cross" with Robyn Nevin (nos.122,127,128), Steve J. Spears (nos.124, 131), Neil Redfern (nos.123), John Gaden (no.124), Jon Paramor (nos.121,123-125), Julie McGregor (nos.125-126), Brian Thomson (no.134), Arthur Dignam (no.133), Geraldine Turner (no.130) (see program in the Ephemera collection under "Paris House")] / Branco Gaica 
151-153. "Pardon my French" / Harry Jay
154-157. "The Kiwis" / Hal Williamson
158. Krista and Kristel [high-wire performers, Theatre Royal, 1949] / Harry Jay
159. [Topless showgirls in] "Latin Quarter" / Harry Jay
160. "Spice and ice" / Harry Jay
161. "Starry nights" / Harry Jay
162. Beryl Lawes, Tivoli glamour girl
163. [Bobby Limb, on saxophone, and his jazz band] / Harry Jay
164-165. [Showgirl Margarie Lou] / Athol Shmith
166. [Krista and Kristel] / Harry Jay
167-168. Will Mahoney / Henry Delorval Green, C.J. Frazer
169. [Chorus line from Paramount's British production "Man of Mayfair"]
170. [Marquee advertising "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" starring Fredric March]
171. Charlie, Candy and Enoch, Marquis chimps as seen in the T.V. series "The Hathaways"
172. "Pardon my French" / Harry Jay
173-174. "Paris by night"
175. "Peep show" / Harry Jay
176. Kay Pierce
177. [Kay Johnson and Lillian Roth in the MGM-De Mille's film "Madam Satan"]
178-180. "Olympic follies" / Harry Jay
181. Joyce Smith, Tivoli ballet
182-185. "South Pacific" / Hal Williamson
186. Blower cure [on a trumpet] / Penny Singleton
187. Penny Singleton
188-189. "Spice and ice" / Harry Jay
190-192. Moscow State Circus
193. [Chorus girls in] Tommy Steele show / Harry Jay
194. Harry Richman in United Artists-Harry Schenek film "Puttin' on the Ritz"
195. Massive Twins [athletic act] / Boris Bakcly
196. Jessie Matthews in "Larger than life" / Harry Jay
197. [Skaters] McKinnon Sisters
198. [Gladys Moncrieff]
199-200. Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye in "Starry nights" / Harry Jay
201. Paul Newton and Dorothi Neal [semi-nude "art and beauty" act]
202. David Whitfield introducing "New faces of 1960" / Harry Jay
203-204. JCW "Follow the girls" / Hal Williamson
205. Don Nicol and Lois Green in "Follow the girls" / Hal Williamson
206. George and Joy Nichols, [impressionists]
207. [Unidentified New Zealand theatre with entrance decorated for the Ramon Novarro film "Son of India"]
208. Irving Berlin [musical scene of "Wilson House" with shooting contest featuring "Frank Butler", possibly "Annie get your gun" (?)] / Pitler-Jepperen Studios, Melb.
209. Italie [Italian showgirl] / Pascuttini Pietro
210. "Nats in the belfry" / Harry Jay
211. Danny Kaye
212. Pat Keating / Athol Shmith
213. Sylvia Kellaway
214. JCW "Kiss me Kate" / Allan Studios
215-216. Kay Pierce [unpatterned bra] and Beryl Lawes, Tivoli glamour girls, 16 Apr 1945
217-219. [Tivoli glamour girls at the beach]
220. "Pleasures of Paris" / Harry Jay
221-226. [Evie Hayes, Earl Covert and others in "Annie get your gun"] / Hal Williamson
227. Armand Perren's "Hot ice" / Hal Williamson
228. Jenny Howard
229-231. Armand Perren's "Ice follie" / Harry Jay
232. "Make it a party" / Athol Shmith
233-234. "Latin Quarter" / Harry Jay
235. [Max Oldaker dressed in country gentleman riding outfit, "Desert song" ?]
236. "Can-can" / Allan Studios
237-238. Wally Prictor of The Kiwis dressed as a woman / Broothorn Studios
239. Marion Nixon in RKO Pathe film "Sweepstakes"
240. [Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye] / Crago Studios
241. R.E. Joyner, Adelaide (?) [Three chorus girls in a dressing room]
242. Rosita and Alexander in "Peep show" / Harry Jay
243. Marquis Chimps [from "The Hathaways" television program]
244. Anita Martell / John Lee
245. Phyllis Robins / Houston Rogers
246. Romayne, the sunkissed Venus / Fotocenter Philippines
247. "Rolling Rollos" [European roller-skating act]
248. Vicki Ross [contortionist] / Harry Jay
249. "Son of a sheik", Capitol Theatre / C.J. Frazer
250. Elsa Stenning / Athol Shmith
251. Liv Wilse / Harry Jay
252. Rae Watts, Tivoli glamour girl
253. Paul Walton, Michael O'Rourke and puppet "Lady Burpingham Buss-Bottom" /  Bloom
254. "Tropical holiday" / Hary Jay
255-256. Trio gypsys / Prevel & Nogrady
257. Eleanore Treiber in "Can-can" / Murray Norman
258-259. "Tommy Trinder Show" / Harry Jay
260. [Russian set for] "The tempest", Capitol Theatre / Nash-Boothby Studios
261. "Take a bow" / Harry Jay
262-263. Ruby Lacey, Tivoli showgirl & wartime pin-up
264-265. "West side story" / Gordon F. De'Lisle
266. Penny Singleton
267-268. Irene Bordoni in "Paris", a First National Vitaphone picture
269. "Les sylphides" / Harry Jay
270. The Swiss stars / Studio Jacques Verrier
271. [Chorus line], Tommy Steele Show / Harry Jay
272. "Spice and ice" / Harry Jay
273. Gloria Williams, Tivoli glamour girl
274. "Zip goes a million" / Harry Jay
275. ["Mo", Roy Rene]
276. Ruby Lacey, Tivoli glamour girl & wartime pin-up
277. Shirley Bassey
278. Margarie [Marjorie ?] Lou / Basil Shackleton
279. Dorothy and Toto / Antoine
280. [Poster advertising 2UE "Hits and highlights" show, Sydney Tivoli]
281-283. [Asian chorus girls]
284-286. "The music man" / Gordon F. De'Lisle
287. [Topless showgirls in Follies Bergeres, 11 Oct 1942 (see no.9)]
288. [Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon]
289. [House & Daking haberdashery shop window, Hamilton (?), New Zealand] / G. Cartwright
290. [Royal family in evening dress enters a London theatre to see the musical "Here, there & everywhere" starring Tommy Trinder]
291. [King George and Queen Elizabeth speak with Tommy Trinder]
292. [Daryl Stewart] / John Hearder
293-295. [Sabrina] / Harry Jay
296. [Painters paint the advertising and marquee banners for a show] / F.W. Young
297. [Couple in early talkie film]
298. [Chorus line of Asian women on a large stage, (London Palladium ?)]
299. [Drawing of a group in a box watching the orchestra at an Art deco nightclub]
300. [Program design for Pilar de Oro and Alfredo Gil]
301. [Don Nicol portrait]
302-303. [The music man] / Gordon F. De'Lisle
304. Golden idea, State Theatre, 2 Nov 1929 [jazz orchestra and ballet act]
305. [String and brass jazz orchestra onstage in Chinese production] / Nash-Boothby Studios
306-308. [Unidentified productions, 1920's]
309-316. [Capitol Theatre style jazz ballet and orchestra productions played as part of a film program, 1920's] / G.K. Heimbrod
317-361. [Unidentified shows, mainly Tivoli glamour revues] / Rimis (London), Harry Jay, John Tudehope, E.B. Studios, Athol Shmith Studio, Colin Ballantyne, Russell Roberts, Robert Walker
362. Ivan Ive [photograph of onstage fitting and rehearsal for] Pix [magazine]
363. "This is the army" / Athol Shmith
364-365. "Make it a party" / Athol Shmith
366-389. [Individual women performers and showgirls] / Milton Ingerson, Jim Sherlock, Bloom (Chicago), Helmut Newton, Allan Studios, Perfect Photo Reproduction Co., Rimis, S.J. Hood, John Tudehope, Dayne (Sydney), Harry Jay
390. American lovely of the Broadway show Bob Barrie's "Stardusters / John E. Reed (Hollywood)
391-397. [Ice skating shows and skaters] / Harry Jay, P.H. Saunders, William Udell
398-401. [Ballet and ballet dancers, incl. Tamara Tchinarova] / Helmut Newton, Harry Jay, Laurence Le Guay
402. [Ballet from "Olympic Follies"] / Harry Jay
403-405 [Acrobats and jugglers] / Lake Bryndwr Fotos, Harry Jay
406. [Record store window advertising "Broadway" show on Columbia recordings, ca. 1930] / Bobson & Boyer
407. "Pardon my French" / Harry Jay
408. "Olympic follies" / Harry Jay
409. [Women performers reading Wireless Weekly and photographed in the mirror, ca. 1940] / Nanette Kuehn

ARTIST ENTRIES:
Author/Artist  : Allan Studios
Antoine (photographer)
Athol Shmith Studio 
Auguste Photographics Ltd.
Bakcly, Boris
Ballantyne, Colin
Bloom (photographer)
Bobson & Boyer (photographers)
Broothorn Studios
Cartwright, G.
Crago Studios
Dayne (photographer)
De'Lisle, Gordon F.
E. B. Studios
Fotocenter Philippines
Frazer, C. J.
Gaica, Branco
Green, Henry Delorval
Gullachsen, Willoughby
Heimbrod, G. K.
Hood, Sam, 1872-1953
Hopper, W. C.
Ive, Ivan
Jay, Harry 
John Hearder Pty. Ltd.
John Lee Pty. Ltd.
Kuehn, Nanette
Nash-Boothby Studios
Newton, Helmut
Noel Rubie Pty Ltd.
Norman, Murray
Perfect Photograph Reproduction Co.
Phil Ward Studios
Pietro, Pascuttini
Prevel & Nogrady (photographers)
Reed, John E.
Rees, Royce A.
Rimis Ltd.
Roberts, Russell
Rogers, Houston
Saunders, P. H.
Shackleton, Basil
Sherlock, Jim
Silvestre, Louis
"Truth" and "Sportsman" Limited
Tudehope, John
Udell, William
Walker, David
Williamson, Hal
Young, F. W.

Tivoli Theatre shows and artists

Series 01: Tivoli Theatre shows and artists : collection of photographs, ca. 1928-1965

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]

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Photographs, photograph album, drawings, printing plates and locks of hair relating to John Alden, ca. 1900-ca. 1960

Hood II : [JC Williamson-Australian & New Zealand Theatres productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, 1940-1942]

Royce Rees collection of Sydney theatre photonegatives, 1946-1967

Box 27: Portraits of performers

Series 01: Tivoli Theatre shows and artists : collection of photographs, ca. 1928-1965

Hood Collection part II : [Theatrical, Live theatre]