Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler, 1751-1816

Date: November 1981-December 1981, February 1982-March 1982

From: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): Photographs of productions

By: Davis, Brian, active 1980

Reference: PAColl-7704-17

Description: Photographs of the Downstage Theatre productions of 'The Biograph Girl' (November-December 1981), 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' (February 1982), 'Bonzobonanza' (February 1982), and 'The Rivals' (March 1982). Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 b&w original photographic print(s) contact sheets.

Date: 1955

Reference: Eph-A-WELLINGTON-REPERTORY-1955

Description: Includes: "The burning glass". by Charles Morgan. Produced by Patric Carey. Grand Opera House, 28 March - 2 April 1955. Programme (2 copies) "Charley's aunt", by Brandon Thomas. Produced by Elsie Lloyd. Grand Opera House. 9-16 July 1955. Programme (2 copies) "Colombe", by Jean Anouilh (version by Denis Cannan). Produced by Lynda Hastings. Concert Chamber 23-26 February 1955. Programme. (2 copies) "The cure for love", by Walter Greenwood. Produced by Davina Whitehouse. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 7-10 September 1955. Programme (2 copies) "Dream girl", by Elmer Rice. Produced by Cedric E Gardiner. [Grand Opera House, August 1955]. Programme (2 copies) "Jack and the beanstalk"; Repertory's Christmas pantomime 1955. Directed by Cedric Gardiner; musical director Fanny McDonald. Grand Opera House. 3-17 December 1955. Programme (2 copies) "The rivals", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Produced by Ralph Hogg. Grand Opera House Wellington. 14-21 May 1955. Programme (2 copies). "The white carnation", by R C Sherriff. Directed by Ernest le Grove. Grand Opera House. 8-15 October 1955. Programme (2 copies). "The young and fair", by J Richard Nash. Produced by Francis M Renner. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 20-23 April 1955. Programme (2 copies). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: 1979

Reference: Eph-A-MERCURY-1979

Description: Includes: Announcement of 2nd subscription ticket offer, January-July 1979 3rd subscription season flier and ticket, 1979 "Abigail's party", devised by Mike Leigh. Directed by Noreen Craven, designed by Chris Booth. Mercury 2 [July 1979?]. Programme (2 copies) "Cinderella", a traditional pantomime by Roger Hall. Directed by Ian Mullins; set designer Arthur Thompson. Mercury Theatre 5 January - 10 February 1979. Programme (2 copies) "The club", by David Williamson. Directed by Howard Rubie. Mercury Theatre, 10 August 1979. Programme "Don Juan comes back from the war", by Odon von Horvath, translated by Christopher Hampton. Directed by George Pensotti. Mercury 2 Theatre 13 August 1979. Programme "Henry IV, part one", by William Shakespeare, preceded by a prologue devised from "Richard II". Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 1979. Programme "Home", by David Storey. Directed by Chris Sheil. With Alma Woods. Mercury Theatre, 26 November 1979. Programme "Just between ourselves", by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by George Pensotti. Mercury Theatre, 30 May 1979. Programme "Man Friday", by Adrian Mitchell. Directed by Paul Robinson. Mercury Theatre, 4 June 1979. Programme "The naval officer", by Brian McNeill. Directed by Ian Mullins. World premiere, Mercury Theatre, 4 July 1979. Programme "Old King Cole", by Ken Campbell. Directed by Robert Alderton and Margaret Barron. Mercury Theatre 7 May 1979. Programme "Privates on parade", by Peter Nichols. Directed by Robert Alderton. Mercury Theatre, 23 November 1979. Programme "Same time next year", by Bernard Slade. Directed by Mary Amoore. Mercury Theatre, 25 April 1979. Programme (2 copies) "The school for scandal", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 19 October 1979. Programme (2 copies) "Something's afoot", by James McDonald, David Vos and Robert Gerlach. Directed by Chris Sheil. Mercury Theatre, 14 February 1979. Programme "Spider's web", by Agatha Christie. Directed by Chris Sheil. Mercury Theatre, 14 September 1979. Programme "Staircase", by Charles Dyer. Directed by Karl Bradley. Mercury 2, 24 October 1979. Programme "State of the play", by Roger Hall. Directed by Anne Flannery. Mercury 2, 30 April 1979. Programme "Writer's cramp", by John Byrne. Directed by Stephen Dee. Mercury 2, 1979. Programme Quantity: 20 programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to octavo.

Date: 1936 - 1999

By: Whitehouse, Jocelyn A, active 1950-2000

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-VUDC-1900s

Description: Includes productions of the Victoria University College Drama Club and the VUWSA Drama Club. Includes: 1936: "Hay fever", by Noel Coward. Directed by Mr Ashley-Jones. College Gymnasium, 12-13 March 1936. Typescript flier / programme (2 copies) ca 1939: "Stage door", by Edna Ferber. Produced by Marie McWilliams. Typescript flier / programme One act play evening: "E and O.E.; a farce in one act", by E Crawshaw Williams, produced by Guy C Bliss; "An evening at the Rodways'; a low comedy in one spasm:, written and produced by Ronald L Meek' "The royal inn", by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, produced by J D Freeman". [ca 1939]. Programme. Three one-act plays: "Flickering light", by Ethel Madeley, produced by H M Williamson; "Where's that bomb?" by Roger Gullan and Buckley Roberts, produced by A B Gordon; "Danger", by Richard Hughes, produced by Miss June Cummins. [ca 1939]. Typescript programme / flier. 1940: "Harvest in the north", by James Lansdale Hodson, produced by A Donald Priestley. 14-16 March 1940. Typescript programme / flier. ca 1947?: V U C Drama Club presents "Mr Bolfry", by James Brodie [i.e. Bridie]. Produced by Pix Hurrell. Programme / flier 1950: "Coriolanus", by William Shakespeare, produced by Patricia Evison. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 21-25 March 1950. Programme (2 copies) 1951: "The typewriter", by Jean Cocteau. University Little Theatre, 26-28 April 1951. Flier announcement. Three one-act plays: "The corridors of the soul", by Evreinov [?], produced by Klaus Neuberg; "The dark lady of the sonnets", by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Elizabeth Oliver; "Lord Byron's love letter", by Tennessee Williams, produced by Robin King. Typescript flier / programme. 1952: "The rivals", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Produced by Ralph Hogg. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 18-22 March 1952. Programme (2 copies) 1953: "The circle", by Somerset Maugham. produced by Harold Baigent. Scenery constructed in the CAS workshop and painted by John Holmwood. North Island tour 1953. A Community Arts Service. Programme 1957: "I am a camera", by John van Druten. Produced by Ann Flannery. 7 August 1957. Typescript flier / programme (2 copies one with date in ink) 1960s: "The last half-crown; V.U.W. Drama Club's Christmas revue. Producer Roger Hall [1960s - ca 1967?]. Programme (2 copies) 1963: 1963 Inter University Drama Festival. Allen Hall, 19- and 21 August [1963]. Judge Patric Carey (Canterbury University "The respectable prostitute; Auckland University "The public eye"; Massey University "Electra"; Contemporary Arts Society "The sandbox"; Victoria University "Crawling Arnold"; Lincoln College "The eccentric"; Otago University "The rattle"). Programme (photocopy only) "Lysistrata", by Aristophanes, traslated by Dudley Fitts. produced by Owen Leeming. Victoria University Memorial Theatre, 22 June - 3 July 1963. Programme (2 copies) 1967: "Twelfth night", by William Shakespeare, produced by William Austin. 14-21 April 1967. Programme. 1972: Shakespeare is alive and well and living in "The winter's tale", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Anthony Taylor. May/June 1972. Programme (2 copies) ca 1977-1979: "Doctor Faustus", by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Jeremy Jay; and "Everyman", directed by Judith Dale. [ca 1977-1979?]. Typescript programme 1979: "The marriage of Figaro", by Beaumarchais, directed by Adrian Kiernander. Victoria University of Wellington Drama Studies. Drama House, 7-14 Juiy [1979] Flier only. 1983: One act plays: "The stationary 6th form poetry trip", by Rachel McAlpine; "The pen of my aunt", by Gordon Daviot; "The end of the picnic", by David Compton; "The man who turned into a dog", by Dragun. Also "The ruffian on the stairs", by Joe Orton; "The man who turned into a dog", by Dragun. 16-18 August [1983] (2 different fliers) 1984: "Setting the table", by Renee. Drama House, 93 Kelburn Parade, 11-16 September [1984]. Flyer 1985: "Twelfth night, or what you will", by William Shakespeare. Director David Copeland. With new and beautiful scenery and effects by Mr Richard Till. Majestic Theatre, 6-16 February 1985. Flier only (2 copies) 1986: Victoria University Drama Studies production directed by John Downie. "Everyman", a contemporary version of the medieval play. Drama Studio, 93 Kelburn Parade, 30 April - 3 May [1986] "Whose life is it anyway?", by Brian Clark. VUW Union Hall, 6-13 September [1986]. Flyer only 1987: VUW Drama Studies presents "Promptings of the Devil"; scenes of temptation from Elizabethan drama [Marlowe, Webster, Shakespeare, Middleton]. Drama House Studio, 30 September - 3 October [1987]. Flyer 1988: Much ado about nothing; Summer Shakespeare Trust 1989. Auditions. 2-day audition/workshop for 1989 Victoria University Summer Shakespeare. Dance Room, University Recreation Centre, 8-9 October [1988]. Flyer 1990s?: Cocktail: wine, beer, vodka and ... blood. VUW Drama Department's composition class present the premiere of four original plays: "In", "Terrace", "Loaf" and "The red death". Studio 77, 77 Fairlie Tce, Wednesday 11th- Friday 13th [1990s?]. Green flyer only 1991: Victoria University Drama Club & Summer City present "A midsummer night's dream", by William Shakespeare, with original music composed by Ivan Patterson. Director David O'Donnell; asst director Jeremy Scrivener. [1991]. Programme 1992: Summer Shakespeare. "Richard III". Directed by David O'Donnell. The Dell, 1992. Programme (2 copies) 1995: "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare (Summer Shakepeare). Directed by Gabrielle Bishop. [February 1995]. Programme and two tickets (inside) 1996: Summer Shakespeare "As you like it" in Civic Square, Summer 1996. Programme VUWSA Drama Club. "A fish with 2 tales"; two plays: "To be a fish you must get wet", by Eliot Pryor and Virginia Fenton; "Eyepie", by Virginia Fenton. Directors Melinda Collie and Judy Dale. Bats Theatre, 3-9 March [1996]. Programme "Tall stories and short yarns"; 75th anniversary production. Circa Studio 5-14 September; Dionysus Ball, Boatshed 6 September; Archives alive - launching of Drama Club archives 14 September [1996]. Flier 1997: VUW Theatre and Film Department presents Bertolt Brecht's "The resistable rise of Arturo Ui", directed by Vanessa Byrnes. Studio 77, 16-19 April 1997. Programme. Quantity: 31 theatre programmes and fliers.. Physical Description: Offset print or typescript on programmes, sizes below 320 mm.

Date: 1982 - 1983

Reference: Eph-D-DOWNSTAGE-1982/1983

Description: Includes posters for: 1982: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The rivals". Downstage Theatre, from March 19th [1982] (3 copies) "Sherlock Holmes and the curse of the Sign of Four". Downstage Theatre, from 27 August 1982 (2 copies) 1983: "Cabaret the musical"; book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John van Druten; stories by Christopher Isherwood; music by John Kander; lyrics by Fred Ebb. Downstage Theatre in association with the New Zealand Ballet, June / July. [Poster designed by] Peter Hollis (4 copies) "Hot water"; a farce by Roger Hall. Downstage Theatre, 29 January - 5 March 1983 [Banner poster](2 copies) "Triple treat!!!" Downstage Christmas / holiday show 1983, by John Banas, Gerald Bryan, Tim Bridgewater (3 copies) Quantity: 5 colour art print(s) on posters (and some duplicates). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on posters, sizes varying around 700 x 450 mm.

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-A-COURT-1980

Description: Includes programmes or fliers for: "Bedroom farce", by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Bryan Aitken. Court Theatre, 3 May 1980. Programme "Blood of the lamb", by Bruce Mason; directed by Elric Hooper. Court Theatre Studio, 22 March 1980. Programme (2 copies) "Death of a salesman", by Arthur Miller; directed by Elric Hooper. Court Theatre, 12 July 1980. Programme "A night at the races", by Mervyn Thompson and Yvonne Edwards; directed by Mervyn Thompson; musical director Philip Norman. Court Theatre, 12 June 1980. Programme "Prisoners of Mother England", by Roger Hall; directed by Bryan Aitken. Court Theatre, 22 November 1980. Programme "The rivals", by Richard Sheridan; directed by Elric Hooper. Court Theatre, 16 August 1980. Programme (2 copies) "Terra nova", by Ted Tally; directed by Elric Hooper. Court Theatre, 18 October 1980. Programme "Zastrozzi", by George F Walker; directed by Bryan Aitken. Court Theatre 20 September 1980. Programme Newsletter / invitation to Court Theatre Christmas party, 6 December 1980 Quantity: 1 folder(s) theatre programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on programmes and fliers, sizes around 210 mm. Provenance: One programme donated by Roger Flury, Wellington, in 2013.

From: [Theatre programmes for drama productions in Great Britain. 1700s]

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-GB-1790-01

Description: Handbill for a theatrical performance which featured "The school for scandal" followed by a "favourite comic song, by Mr Robertson", and then the final performance for the season, of a "grand Pantomimic Ballet-d'Action" - "The death of Captain Cook", directed by Mr Bonville with scenery painted by Mr Stanton; music composed by Gretry. The synopsis of Parts 1, 2 and 3 are given, part 3 being Cook's funeral. Captain Cook was to be played by Mr Paulet and other actors were Mr Pero, Mr W Taylor, Mr King, Mr and Mrs Bonville, Mr Holland and Mr James. The action of "The death of Captain Cook" included: Modes and manners of the Islanders making love, Emai's choice, a view of the altar, procession and marriage ceremony, dance of the natives, a war glee; reception of Cook by the islanders and their King, dance of natives, manner of going to war, and grand battle; and later a re-enactment of the procession and funeral rites. The same cast members took part in "School for scandal', with the addition of Mr Sidney, Mr & Mrs O'Brien, Mr Peters, Mr Earl, Mr Spencer, Mrs Paulet and Mrs King. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on paper, cropped to 280 x 153 mm.

Date: 1982

Reference: Eph-A-DOWNSTAGE-1982

Description: Includes: Application for membership 1982. "Accidental death of an anarchist", by Dario Fo. Produced by Phillip Mann. 5 February 1982. Programme (2 copies) "Duet for one" by Tom Kempinsky, with Heather Lindsay and Peter Vere-Jones. Directed by Dulcie Smart. At the Depot for Downstage Theatre, 6-29 May [1982]. Promotional flier only. "Full Marx!", by John Banas, Gerald Bryan and John Callen. "Hot water", by Roger Hall. Promotional pamphlet [1982]. (2 copies) "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare. Directed by Anthony Taylor. Hannah Playhouse, 12 June 1982. Programme (2 copies) "Hot water"; a farce by Roger Hall. Directed by John Banas; designer Dave Taylor. Hannah Playhouse, from 29 January 1983. Programme "A life in the theatre", "Full Marx", and "Hot water". Promotional pamphlet (2 copies) "A life in the theatre", by David Mamet. Produced by Euan Upston. Hannah Playhouse, 15 October 1982. Programme. "Pawn to Queen Two", by Judy Callingham. Directed by Euan Upston. Hannah Playhouse, 23 July 1982. Programme (2 copies) and promotional card (2 copies) "Piaf", by Pam Gems. Directed by Phillip Mann. Hannah Playhouse, 30 April 1982. Programme (2 copies) and promotional card (2 copies). Playhouse 82; 6 plays for the price of 4. A six play season from February to September. Promotional brochure (2 copies) "The rivals", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Directed by Anthony Taylor. Hannah Playhouse, 19 March 1982. Programme (2 copies) and promotional card (2 copies) "Sherlock Holmes and the curse of the Sign of Four", by Dennis Rosa, based on the novel by Athur Conan Doyle. Directed by Anthony Taylor. Hannah Playhouse, 27 August 1982. Programme (2 copies) and promotional pamphlet (2 copies) and flier (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets sizes varying below 250 mm. Provenance: Most programmes donated by Downstage Theatre.

Date: 1972

Reference: Eph-A-WELLINGTON-REPERTORY-1972

Description: Includes: "The miracle worker", by William Gibson. Directed by Bryan Aitken. Repertory Theatre Centre, 19-29 April 1972. Programme. "The rivals", by R B Sheridan. Adapted by David Tinkham. Repertory Theatre Centre, 16-26 August 1972. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: 1960 - 2012

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-KAT-1960/2012

Description: Includes: 1960s: "Conversations with a golliwog", by Alexander Guyan; and, "The end of the golden weather", by Bruce Mason. Khandallah Town Hall. 7-10 April [1960s - pre-decimal currency]. Card only 1963: "J.B.", by Archibald MacLeish. Produced by Pauline Mclean. University Little Theatre Wellington. 13-17 August 1963. Programme. (2 copies) 1964: "The life of Galileo", by Bertolt Brecht. Produced by Pauline McLean. Victoria Memorial Theatre. 25-30 May 1964. Programme (2 copies) 1965: "Ondine", by Jean Giraudoux. Produced by Pauline McLean. University Memorial Theatre Wellington. 21-26 June 1965. Programme (2 copies) 1972: Three one-act plays: "The twelve-pound look" by Sir James Barrie, produced by Gay Robertson; "A separate peace", by Tom Stoppard, produced by Margaret Robertson; "The Rose and Crown", by J B Priestley, produced by Dorigen Dyson-Rowley. Cashmere Community Centre. 19 July 1972. [Poster] Cabaret evening. Cashmere Community Centre. 2 December 1972. Invitation card. 1978? "Arms and the man", by George Bernard Shaw. Khandallah Town Hall. 27-29 April, 4-6 May [1978?] Flyer only. 1983: Membership list, Khandallah Arts Theatre Inc, February 1983. Flier. "Ring round the moon", by Jean Anouilh. Cashmere Avenue School Community Hall. 28-30 April, 4-7 May [1983]. Flier. "Caucasian chalk circle", by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Pauline Wetton. Khandallah Town Hall. 10-12, 16-19 November [1983]. Flier (2 copies) 1984: An Elizabethan evening; a frolic through Shakespeare ... Cashmere Avenue School Community Hall. 21-23 June [1984]. Flyer (2 copies) "Pinocchio", by Brian Way. Directed by Sharon Major. Cashmere Avenue School Community Hall. 9-10, 16-17 August [1984]. Flier only. 1985: An evening in Hollywood. Cashmere Avenue School Community HAll. 23 November [1985]. Flier / invitation 1986: "The hobbit"; a play with music. Director Sharon Major; musical director Bruce Carpenter. Adapted from JRR Tolkien by David Rogers, Ruth Perry, Allan Jay Friedman. Cashmere Ave School Community Hall, 6-16 August 1986. Flyer 1988: "Trudi and the minstrel", by Alan Cullen. Directed by Sharon Major. Cashmere Avenue School Community Hall. 11-20 August 1988. Flier. 1991: "The storytellers", by Brian Way; directed by Mary Collie-Holmes. 7-16 November 1991. Flyer 1993: "The school for scandal", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Directed by Vesta Gormack. Cashmere Avenue School Community Hall. 12-21 August 1993. Programme (2 copies) 1995: "An ideal husband", by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Mary Collie-Holmes. Cashmere Avenue School Community Hall. 27-30 April [1995?]. Flier only. 2000: "The dragon who burnt her boats", writeen and produced by Mary Collie-Holmes and James Middleton. Khandallah Park. Summer City 2000, Feb 16-20, 23-25. Flier / programme. "Travels with my aunt", by Giles Havergal, from the novel by Graham Greene. Directed by Kathi George and Mark Da Vanzo. Cochran Hall, Cashmere Avenue School, 9-18 October 2008. Flier only 2011: "The ugly duckland strikes back", written by Carl Nixon. Directed by Mary Collie-Holmes and Michelle Soper. Khandallah Park, 5-13 February 2011. Flier only 2012: "The constant wife", by W Somerset Maugham; directed by Ewen Coleman. Cochran Hall Cashmere Avenue School, 19-28 April 2012 Quantity: 22 programmes and flyers. Physical Description: Photolithographs or typescripts, size below 350 mm.

Date: 1934 - 1939

Reference: Eph-A-THESPIANS-1930s

Description: Includes programmes for: 1934: "The high road", by Frederick Lonsdale. Produced by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 6-7 April 1934. Programme (2 copies). "Ambrose Applejohn's adventure", by Walter Hackett. Director Victor S Lloyd. 27-29 September 1934. Programme. "Rope", a de Quinceyish essay in the macabre - a play in 3 acts by Patrick Hamilton. Wellington Town Hall Concert Chamber, 19-21 December 1934. Programme (2 copies) 1935: "Afterwards", by Walter Hackett. Produced by Victor S Lloyd. Wellington Town Hall Concert Chamber, 13-16 November 1935. Programme "Hobson's choice", by Harold Brighouse. Directed by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 15-17 August 1935. Programme (photograph of E R Render? as Hobson on cover) (2 copies) "Third time lucky", by Arnold Ridley. Produced by Victor S Lloyd. Concert Chamber Wellington Town Hall, 2-4 May 1935. Programme (2 copies) Receipt for 10 shillings and sixpence membership subscription for 1935 to Miss J Weeber 1936: "The sport of kings", by Ian Hay; and, "Clay", by Eric Bradwell. Both plays produced by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 16-18 April 1936. Programme (2 copies). "Laburnum grove", by J B Priestley. Directed by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 18-20 June 1936. Programme (2 copies). "Lover's leap", by Philip Johnson. Produced by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 13-15 August 1936. Programme (2 copies). "Call it a day", by Dodie Smith (C L Anthony). Directed by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 5-7 November 1936. Programme (2 copies). 1937: "And so to bed", by J B Fagan. Produced by D G Edwards. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 21-24 April 1937. Programme (2 copies). "No. 17", by J Jefferson Farjeon. Directed by Evan Harrowell. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 9-12 June 1937. Programme (2 copies). "Family affairs", by Gertrude Jennings. Produced by Elsie Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 4-7 August 1937. Programme (2 copies). "The two Mrs Carrolls', by Martin Vale. Produced by Elsie Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 10-13 November 1937. Programme (2 copies). 1938: "The school for scandal", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Produced by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 16-18 June 1938. Programme (2 copies) "Aren't men beasts!", by Vernon Sylvaine.Produced by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 4-6 August 1938. Programme (2 copies). "Love from a stranger", adapted from a story by Agatha Christie by Frank Vosper. Produced by Victor S Lloyd. Town Hall Concert Chamber 19-22 November 1938. Programme. 1939: "Someone at the door", by Dorothy and Campbell Christie. Directed by Victor S Lloyd. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 18-21 March 1939. Programme (2 copies). "Short story", by Robert Morley. Produced by Elsie Lloyd. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 3-6 June 1939. Programme (2 copies). "The flashing stream", by Charles Morgan. Produced by Miles F E Wright. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 5-8 August 1939. Programme (2 copies) and promotional pamphlet. "Private lives", by Noel Coward. Produced by Myles F E Wright. Concert Chamber. 18-21 November 1939. Programme (2 copies). "Thesarabian nights"; a folly committed in fifteen frolics. Devised and directed by Russell Reid; ballet by Joan Raine. Little Theatre, 30 June - 1 July 1939. Programme Quantity: 23 theatre programmes and other ephemera. Physical Description: Letterpress in programmes, sizes below 250 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Mrs Shirley Megget in 2006, and Mrs Alice Megget in 2008; some from the collection of Raymond Hedges 2002.

Date: 1700-1940

From: The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s]

Reference: BOOKPLATES-Graham-Miscellaneous-1

Description: Includes bookplates made for: Barnton John Biddulph, by C Helard 1904 Arthur Bond Sir Oswald Walter Brierly (bookplate by John Leighton, 1891) Willam Bromley of Abberley Worcestershire Gilbert Burnet Lord Bishop of Salisbury Henryson Caird Franciscus Praepositus Cann. Regg. in Polling. 1744 Barbara Constance John Gregory Crace Sir Arthur John Evans 1851-1941 Dr Med A Ewert Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 Colonel G R Gayre David Lloyd George Robert Gourlay Willam Court Gully Baron Hawke Robert Hoblyn 1710-1756 Giles Stephen Holland, Earl of Ilchester Oliver Wendell Holmes Frederick Locker-Lampson (Poet) 1873 Richard Southcote Mansergh Edmund McClure James Birtley McNair The Mitchells - Nithsdale Arthur Harold Moginie Camden Morrisby Charles Morse Benito Mussolini A C Brisbane Neill John Cole Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, Glamorganshire, by John Leighton 1878 John Cole Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, Glamorganshire (plus design drawing for same, by John Leighton, F.S.A.) John Clare Ridgway 1871 Arthur Francis Rowe Herbert Edward Ryle 1903 Francis Henry Salvin Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816 Leonard James Shrubsall Arthur Sparrow 1895 Stephen Spaulding in memoriam 1907-1925 (University of Michigan) Edmund Stevens John A Stewart William Stuart Stirling-Crawfurd Sir Ronald Storrs Captain George S C Swinton George Nugent Ross Wetherall George Lea Wilton Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman (by J Forbes Nixon) Also includes a group of plates featuring the portrait of the person commissioning them, or in whose memory they were made: Emma M Stallman Althouse / C F Gibson 1925 Emil Bund memorial collection 1941, Carnegie Library Pittsburgh George Clulow, by R Hope 1896 Timothy Cole collection, Vassar College Library / T Cole Timothy Cole Timothy Cole Alphaeus T Coleano / Evans 1935 John G Curtis Library, Columbia University Department of Physiology Silas Wright Dunning bequest, University of Michigan general Library Napoleon J Gilbert J Cardoso Goncalves [Spain] Stuart Tubbs Henshaw, his book Percy J Marks Alberto Ortigao de Oliveira (by F Valenca) The Edward Waldo Pendleton Library / W H W Bicknell 1926 John A Penton Edwin David Sanborn, librarian. Library of Dartmouth College [1878] L Clark Seelye fund (Smith College Library) Alison Stone David Richard Tomson (St Newts) M E Wadsworth collection, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Robert Mark Wenley, professor of philosophy 1896-1929, gift of his children to the University of Michigan / W H W Bicknell 1938 Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Engravings, etchings

Date: 26 Oct 1938

From: Braithwaite, Warwick 1896-1971 : Papers

By: Bell, W H, active 1938; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler, 1751-1816

Reference: fMS-Papers-5136-63

Description: Act 3 Place of composition - Gordon's Bay C.P., South Africa Quantity: 1 folder(s) 151 pages. Physical Description: Holograph (?)

Date: 1894 - 1902

By: Graphic (London, England); Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921; Hemy, Charles Napier, 1841-1917; Castaigne, A, active 1900; Lucas, John Seymour, 1849-1923; Huthsteiner, Rudolf, 1855-; Hofmann, H, active 1800s; Ludlow, Henry Stephen, 1861?-; Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912; Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (Sir), 1836-1912; Dicksee, Margaret Isobel, active 1880-1890s; Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918; Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1881; Draper, Herbert James, 1864-1920; Leighton, Edmund Blair, 1853-1922; Craig, Frank, 1874-1918; Herkomer, Hubert von (Sir), 1849-1914; Lavrut, Louise, 1874-; Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920; Laugee, Desire Francois, 1823-1896; Wilson, Thomas Walter, 1851-; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723-1792; Jordaens, Jacob, 1593-1678; Cooke, Arthur Claude, 1867-; Johnston, Harry Hamilton (Sir), 1858-1927; Manly, Eleanor E, active 1890s?; Pollard, James, 1792-1867; Helleu, Paul Cesar, 1859-1927; Haenen, F de, active 1890s; Giles, Geoffrey Douglas, 1857-; Thiele, Reinhold, active 1890s; Townsend, Frederick Henry, 1868-1920; Bundy, Edgar, 1862-1922; Waud, C Leighton, active 1890s; Morland, George, 1763-1804; Shepperson, Claude Alin, 1867-1921; Brangwyn, Frank, 1867-1956; Sauber, Robert, 1868-; Boyd, Alexander Stuart, 1854-1930; Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925?; Landseer, Edwin Henry (Sir), 1802-1873; Velasquez, Diego, 1599-1660; Cleaver, Reginald, active 1890-1930; Hatherell, William, active 1870-1890; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department. Wellington Social and Literary Club

Reference: C-124-003/056

Description: Includes: G D Leslie "A type of female beauty"; C Napier Hemy "The home moorings"; A Castaigne "Seen through Parisian spectacles - the English as they are portrayed on the music-hall stage"; Seymour Lucas "The Right Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton M. P., Secretary of State for India"; R Huthsteiner "The late Right Hon. John Bright M.P."; H Hofmann "The sermon on the Mount"; Hal Ludlow "The fencing girl"; F D Millet "A love letter"; L Alma-Tadema "An earthly paradise"; Margaret Isobel Dicksee "Sheridan at the Lindleys"; W F Yeames "Cordelia"; Riddle & Couchman, lith "Lord Salisbury, the new Prime Minister"; Sydney P Hall "Mr Gladstone reading the lessons in Hawarden Parish Church"; Herbert J Draper "The lament for Icarus"; E Blair-Leighton "Elaine"; Frank Craig "Royal Henley - the scene on the river between the races"; Professor Herkomer "HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G."; Louise Lavrut "Gitaine"; ["Fighting the Germans on ruined walls"]; Hugh Thomson "An Irish horse fair"; D Laugee "Victor Hugo"; L Alma-Tadema "Celebrities of the day - L Alma-Tadema - drawn from life"; T Blake Wirzman "Celebrities of the day - Sir Julius Benedict - drawn from life"; T Walter Wilson "Celebrities of the day - Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps, G.C.S.I. - drawn from life"; Philip R Presants "HRH The Duke of Cornwall and York" / Christchurch Press Company 1901; Sir Joshua Reynolds "Lady Elizabeth Foster, afterwards Duchess of Devonshire"; Jordaens "Portrait of a family in a garden"; [M McClinkiche?] "The late Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S."; Roberts "Celebrities of the day - Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate"; Arthur C Cooke "The fortune teller"; Sir Harry Johnston "The Okapi (Ocapia Johnstoni) - the new animal discovered in Central Africa"; Eleanor E Manly "Will you dance with me?"; James Pollard "The Mail coach in a flood"; P Helleu "Studies of girl life"; F de Haene "For Queen and country - the soldiers of the great city" (2 different scenes); G D Giles "The ambuscade at Koorn Spruit - a critical moment"; Reinhold Thiele "Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., Commander-in-Chief of the British Army"; F de Haenen "South Africa - Christmas 1899"; F H Townsend "The crowning of Queen Alexandra by the Archbishop of York, at Westminster Abbey, August 9th, 1902"; Edgar Bundy "The sponging house"; C Leighton Waud "The poor girl didn't know, you know"; C A Shepperson "Love me, love my dog"; George Morland "Shooting pieces; facsimiles of old prints"; Phil May "Notes by a globe-trotter in Picardy"; John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney "Home for the holidays"; Frank Brangwyn "The last of her"; R Sauber "Fair sport"; A S Boyd "The annual ball at Auchtertaverty - a love story with a sequel"; Captain P H Fawcett "The story of a conger - a tale without words"; Sir Edwin Landseer "Highland dogs"; Velasquez "Portrait of Don Antonio Pimentel, Count of Benavente"; Mono "Mary, Queen of England"; Reginald Cleaver "Sketches at the carnival at Nice"; W Hatherell "Their gracious Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra". Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Stamp of Wellington Social and Literary Club, Post and Telegraph] Quantity: 54 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (some coloured). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998. Previously owned by the Wellington Social and Literary Club of New Zealand Post and Telegraph. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection -.

Date: Aug 1936; rewritten 21 Jun 1938

From: Braithwaite, Warwick 1896-1971 : Papers

By: Bell, W H, active 1938; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler, 1751-1816

Reference: fMS-Papers-5136-61

Description: Act 1 Quantity: 1 folder(s) 115 pages. Physical Description: Holograph (?)

Date: 1st version finished 1937; final revision 12 Nov 1938

From: Braithwaite, Warwick 1896-1971 : Papers

By: Bell, W H, active 1938; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler, 1751-1816

Reference: fMS-Papers-5136-62

Description: Act 2 Quantity: 1 folder(s) 100 pages + 13 pages. Physical Description: Holograph (?)

Date: March 1982

From: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): Photographs of productions

By: Davis, Brian, active 1980

Reference: PAColl-7704-17-1-02

Description: Richard McGrath as Captain Jack Absolute, and Lloyd Scott as his servant Fag, in a scene from The Rivals by Richard Sheridan, Downstage Theatre, Wellington. Photographed by Brian Davis in March 1982. Production was directed by Antony Taylor, and sets designed by Raymond Boyce. Opened at Downstage Theatre 19 March 1982. Inscriptions: Verso - D/stage opened 19/3/1982. The Rivals. Directed by A Taylor. Designer Richard Boyce. Richard McGrath as Jack Absolute. Lloyd Scott as Fag. Photography by B Davis. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 38.3 x 30.2 cm