Dyer, Ralph, active 1947-1991

Date: [Sep 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-027

Description: Group at Government House, Wellington, for investiture of Kiwi Concert Party producer Terry Vaughan with the MBE. In the front row are, from left: Morris Double, Ralph Dyer, Noel Habgood, Tony Rex, Lady Freyberg, His Excellency Sir Bernard Freyberg, Captain Terry Vaughan, Wally Prictor, Wally Barton, Thomas Kirk-Burnnand (former menber of party) and Lionel Leary (touring manager). Photograph taken September 1950 by a New Zealand Free Lance staff photographer. (Source: "New Zealand Free Lance", 27/9/50) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 148 x 215 mm

Date: 1944

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1944].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-02

Description: Programme for a variety concert produced by Rex Sayers, with performers Maurice Tansley, David Reid, Henry Howlett, Rex Sayers, Dug Morison, Ossie Cheesman, Ralph Dyer, Arthur Hanna, Bob Bowman, Allan Matthews and band members John MacKenzie, Harold Toomer, Bob Ofsoski, Burns Dephoff, Bob Bowman, Ossie Cheesman. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Folded pamphlet 202 x 112 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Material from the same provenance is housed at PA1-o-1521..

Date: 1943

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1943

Description: Includes: The National Patriotic Fund Board of New Zealand presents The Kiwi Concert Party, New Zealand Entertainment Unit, 2nd N.Z.E.F. in Kiwi Revue no. 8. Manager for the New Zealand tour, W A Jameson. [Printed by] the T.P.R. Ptg Co. Ltd. 33 Wigan Street, Wellington. [Programme. 1943?] "Off parade". The Army Revue, sponsored by A.E.W.S. Palmerston North Opera House, 20 and 22 November 1943. Produced by W J Mountjoy, assisted by Sgt Briton Chadwick. Orchestra leader Lieut G Chrisp. Programme (With Sgt B Chadwick, Pte Phyl Haycock, Lieut H Rees-Thomas, Pte L Drury, Pte June Stagpoole, Corporal N Butler, Pte Kitty O'Connor, Cpl T Kennedy, Cpl J Allen, Pte L Drury,, Cpl J Marcells, etc) ca 1943? The Kiwi Concert Party (Pacific) presents 'Pacific Roundabout' (With Maurice Tansley, David Reid, Henry Howlett, Rex Sayers, Dug Morison, Ossie Cheesman, Ralph Dyer, Arthur Hanna, Bob Bowman, Allan Matthews and musicians John MacKenzie, Harold Toomer, Bob Ofsoski, Burns Dephoff). ca 1943. Programme. The favourite and time-honoured Punch and Judy. Special for Kiddies' Matinees only!! Public Hall Taita, Wednesday May 12th [1943?]. [Verso] George Tollerton "Big Variety Show" with Lou Cottam (comic), Nellie Kolle (male impersonator), Joan Reed (dancer), "Royston" (ventriloquist), Olga Kay (comedienne), Jack Carleton (maestro of melody). Flier [1943?] Victory Club Revue. [Produced and directed by Marjorie Bisset. Regent Theatre Pahiatua. 1943]. Script Quantity: 4 theatre programmes. Physical Description: Programmes, various sizes under 250 mm. Provenance: One item purchased from Quilters Bookshop, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 1939-1945

By: Dyer, Ralph, active 1947-1991

Reference: PA1-f-162

Description: Also pasted into album are newspaper clippings and souvenir programmes: "Over to you", "The road show", "Take it easy, soldier" and "Pacific roundabout" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

By: Dyer, Ralph, active 1947-1991

Reference: MS-Papers-5582

Description: Newspaper clippings on the Kiwi Concert Party and on Ralph Dyer's career; includes two concert programmes Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr R Dyer, 1991

Date: [1942-1945]

From: Dyer, Ralph :Album of photographs relating to the Kiwi Concert Party in World War II

Reference: PA1-f-162-31-3

Description: Kiwi concert party actor, Ralph Dyer, applying makeup in his dressing room. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1942 and 1945. Ralph Dyer was one of the actors in the Kiwi Concert Party who also played female roles. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 7.6 x 6.8 cm

Date: [1942-1945]

From: Dyer, Ralph :Album of photographs relating to the Kiwi Concert Party in World War II

Reference: PA1-f-162-04-1

Description: Ralph Dyer, female impersonator with the Kiwi Concert Party, Second World War. He is portrayed in his role as a fashionable young woman of the 1940s. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1942 and 1945. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20 x 14 cm

Date: 1950

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1950].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1950-02-5

Description: Eight head and shoulder portraits. Signed portraits include: Ernie Fish, Morris Double, Stan Wineera, John Reidy. Unsigned portraits are: Ralph Dyer, Taffy Owen, Tony Rex, Roy McDougal. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of programme.. Physical Description: Photolithograph with autographs, 245 x 185 mm.

Date: 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/205/07-G

Description: Female impersonator Ralph Dyer with two boys at Kiwi Concert Party concert for children from hospitals and other places photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1942-1945

From: Dyer, Ralph :Album of photographs relating to the Kiwi Concert Party in World War II

Reference: PA1-f-162-02-2

Description: Members of the Kiwi Concert Party of the Official Entertinment Unit of the New Zealand Expeditiuonary Force in the Pacific. They are Rex Sayers, Maurice Tansley, Ralph Dyer, Henry Burns, and Harry Davidson. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1942 and 1945 Source of descriptive information - album inscriptions and Library client Quantity: 1. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca1943]

From: Dyer, Ralph :Album of photographs relating to the Kiwi Concert Party in World War II

Reference: PA1-f-162-10-3

Description: View of soldiers seated for a meal in an officers mess on a troopship in the Pacific Ocean, World War Two. Kiwi Concert Party member, Ralph Dyer, is waiting on the soldiers. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1943. Inscriptions: Recto - centre - Between Islands. Officers mess. Ralph as waiter. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12 x 6.4 cm, on album page

Date: 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/205/06-G

Description: Female impersonator Ralph Dyer with two boys at Kiwi Concert Party concert for children from hospitals and other places photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches