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Date: 1873

Reference: Eph-D-DRAMA-1873-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Cast of "An ugly customer" include: Mr Shepherd, Mr Griffiths, Mr Carey, Mr C J Rae. The middle entertainment is "Tricks on the bar, and Feats on the trapeze", by the Gymnasium troupe, consisting of Messrs Moore, Fiven, Wastney, McMullin, Maxted, W. Tait. Cast of "Stolen" includes: Mr Griffiths, Mr Shepherd, Mr C J Rae, Mr Stevenson, and Mr Fiven. Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Samuel Johnson, Printer "Marlborough Express" Office, Alfred-street, Blenheim. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, black on blue, 584 x 230 mm. Provenance: Originally part of the Webster Collection.

Date: 1906

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-E-VARIETY-1906-01

Description: Arrangement of text. "The Pioneer Entertainers" is white on a black panel. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Woodblock, black on white paper, 1005 x 383 mm.

Date: 1893

From: [Theatre programmes for opera performances in New Zealand. 1890s].

By: J J Miller Printing Company

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1893-01-cover

Description: The back and front cover spread of what is actually a programme for "Carmen up to data" in Christchurch in 1893, shows scenes from the show "Forty thieves", which had played the previous year at the Princess Theatre Melbourne. The illustrations mainly feature a beautiful dancing girl. In one scene she pours oil into a jar containing a person. In another she dances, watched by an admirer in a tree. "Carmen up to data" was a musical burlesque, a spoof of Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen". It premiered at the Gaiety Theatre London, on 4 October 1890, and toured internationally reaching Australia by 1892. This cover has been overprinted for use in the New Zealand season. Extended Title - Superprinted on top of programme for, Princess Theatre, Melbourne. Grand Xmas pantomime, "Forty thieves", 1892-3. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Designed & lithographed by J J Miller, Melbourne Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and lithograph, on cover 258 x 238 mm (unfolded).

Date: 1907 - 1908

By: McNaughton, David, active 1954-1963

Reference: Eph-E-CINEMA-1907-01

Description: Arrangement of text in red and navy blue, with varying sizes of type. The musical director was Wilson Wright, the Italian tenor was Stevoni Caelli, and the operator was Dennis Murphy. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief print, 1026 x 382 mm. Provenance: Donated by D McNaughton, of Karori, in

Date: 1893

By: Thorp, Nigel, active 1978-2018

Reference: Eph-D-VARIETY-1893-01

Description: Arrangement of typographic elements, in the Victorian style. May have been large-size print of column of newspaper - see pencil at bottom: "5 inches D.C. / 2 insertions". Extended Title - La Mascotte... The Mikado...The Gondoliers...The Pirates of Penzance...An Adamless Eden, or Woman's franchise...The Princess of Trebizonde...The Little Duke. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed at the News Office, Palmerston Street, Westport. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 742 x 290 mm.

Date: 1884

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, 1800s].

By: Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1884-01

Description: Arrangement of text with ornate lettering and border. Performers include: Miss C Kempthorne, Miss M Fairburn (piano), Mr Milligan Hogg, Miss Corbett, Mr Withers, Miss A. O'Neil, Dr Cobbett, Mr Severn, Mr Bryant, Mrs Ruck, Mr J Fairburn, Miss M. Wylde Browne, Miss E White, Master Edgecumbe, Masters Waymouth and Flood, Miss E Flood, Mr A Walker, Mr A Harrington, Miss J Wylde Browne, Miss F Clayton, Miss Ida Kissling, Mr Tor Dawson, Miss M White, Mr Reece Thomas, Miss Hilda Ruck, Mr A Sealey, Mr Dewes. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on cream paper, 224 x 141 mm.

Date: 1873

Reference: Eph-E-VARIETY-1873-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Other Titles - Poster Extended Title - The performance will commence with the romantic melodrama in two acts, entitled "The Charcoal Burner!!" ... Part Second, Comic songs and delineations by Messrs Geo Bromley, Maskell and Griffiths ... "Willikind and hys Dinah!!" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, blue on white 910 x 305 mm.