Theatre programmes for shows and performances toured throughout New Zealand by J C Williamson in 1907

Includes:

Madame Albani, with supporting artists Miss Mildred Woods (contralto), William Green (tenor), Haydn Wood (violin), and Miss Myrtle Meggy (piano), directed by Theodore Flint. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, Concerts, 4-5 September 1907. Programme

Madame Albani. Farewell concert. Garrison Hall Dunedin, 3 October 1907. Programme

Blanche Arral Concert Company. Series of grand operatic recitals with Signor Torzillo and Herr Paans. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, commencing 7 January 1907. Programme

Blanche Arral, prima donna of four continents under the direction of Harold Bassett (Paris and New York). With Herr Paans and Signor Torzillo. Princess Theatre Dunedin, 5 and 7 June 1907. Programme

Harcourt Beatty supported by May Congdon, James Lindsay and Meynell & Gunn's Famous Dramatic Company. "The midnight wedding", by Walter Howard. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, [30 March - 13 April] 1907. Programme

The Besses o' The Barn Band. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 25 March 1907. Programme

The Royal Besses o' The Barn Band, under conductor Alexander Owen. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 24 June 1907. Programme

Andrew Black (singer), with Leopold Premyslav (violin). Princess Theatre Dunedin, 6 and 8 June 1907. Programme

Brough Flemming Comedy Company under the direction of Herbert Flemming. "Dr Wake's patient", by W Gayer Mackay and Robert Ord; [and] "The walls of Jericho", by Alfred Sutro. Theatre Royal Christchurch, from 7 March 1907. Programme

Brough Flemming Comedy Company. "Dr Wake's patient". Opera House Wellington [1907]. Programme

Brough-Flemming Comedy Company. "The village priest", adapted by Sydney Grundy; [and] What would a gentleman do?", by Gilbert Dayle. Princess Theatre Dunedin, 4 March 1907. Programme

Gertie Campion benefit (with performers Abel Rowe, Madoleine Webb, Gertrude Spooner, Ivy Alison, Mr O E Farrow, Mrs Abel Rowe, Hamilton Hodges, Gertie Campion, Laura and Charles Rollo, A Fogerty, G Bagnall, Madame Cecilia Staunton, John Fuller, Lawrence Abrahams, Master Fred Byron, Wilfred Manning, Miss Kitty Campion, conductor Mr Sam Jackson). His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 17 January 1907. Programme

Dunedin Operatic Society. "The Geisha". Princess Theatre Dunedin, 20 May 1907. Programme

Fuller's Minstrel & Vaudeville Company (With Little Eileen M'Leod (serio and dance), Mr Andy Roberts (comic singer), Miss Amy Blackie (ballad singer), Mr Arthur Taucher (comic singer), the Lewis Sisters (song & dance), Frank Crowther's Orchestra, Lesso & Roberts (comedy ambidexterologists), Miss Lucy Lavinia (singer), the Warwick Bioscope, the Four Rosebuds (Addie, Kitty, Eva and Rosie in song & dance), Miss Rubie Illingworth (singer), Miss Beattie MacDonald (“coon songs”), Sam Wilson (songs and gags), Fred H Graham (NZ comedian), Miss Nellie Dent (comedian), Mr A L Cropp (basso singer), Slade Murray (comic vocalist), Miss May Wallace (serio and dance), Mr Larry Herz (singer), Mr Harry Linden (comic singer), Miss Lorraine Tansley (contralto), Ruby Maxwell & Lucy Roberts (song & dance), Dick Shaw & Will Gilbert (comedians), Miss Lilian Loftus (singer), Miss Ida Berridge (singer), Herz Brothers Trio (singers), the Bicknells (sketch artists and lightning dancers), Rex (human marvel & conundrum), the Warwick Bioscope, Joe Woodward (song & dance), Annie Cavendar (serio and dance), Rhoda Dendron (barefoot dancer), Melbourne Meistersingers (H G James, F J Golding, E W Gollmick, A H Vickerman), Tom Armstrong & Priscilla Verne (comedy actors), Miss Pearl Livingstone (comedienne dancer), Lieut McDonald (sharpshooter), Nelly & Rose May (dancing soubrettes), the Ahlbergs (acrobats), La Petite Laurie (equilibrist), Victor the Great and Mdlle Clothilda (mystifiers), George Mackie (comedian), Harry and Nellie Quealy (comedians)). Opera House Auckland. Programmes for 18 January, 8 February, 22 February, 29 March and 19 April 1907.

Fullers Vaudeville Company (With Nellie and May Rose, Joe Verne and Alf Verne (comedians), Mr Val Newton (baritone), Mr Bert Sharp (comedian), Sid Stewart, Amy Sterling and Tilly Dunbar (comedy actors), Tom Armstrong & Priscilla Verne (comedy actors), Ruport Christie (boy soprano), Prof Klaer and Miss Amy Klaer (trainers of monkeys, dogs and cats), Amy Sterling and Tilly Dunbar (Dutch yodellers), the Rextons (jugglers), film of boxers Bill Squires (Australia) and Tommy Burns (America); Miss Maie Marlowe (soubrette singer); Dunbar & Blake (trampoline), Myra Hammon & Alice Wyatt (singers?), Alex, Ted and Madge Stagpoole (comedy actors), Salt-Bush Bill (whip king), Post Mason (American singer), Harry Salmon & Ida Chester (comedy actors), Ted Stagpoole (indiarubber comedian), Barnard & Barnard (rifle shooters). Princess Theatre Dunedin, 25 October and 22 November 1907. Two programmes

Fuller's [Vaudeville Company] (With Victor the Great (voice thrower), Harry and Nellie Quealy (musical sketch), Val Newton (singer), Pearl Livingstone (singer?), the Ahlbergs (acrobats), Nelly and May Rose (dancing soubrettes), the Warwick Bioscope; Miss Lucy Lavinia (singer), Shaw & Gilbert (patter and singing), Stewart, Bain & McKenzie (clog dance and hornpipe), Merton & Manton (comedians), Doris Baker (singer dancer), Sam Keenan (comedy singer), May & Stella Lewis (song & dance), Phoebe Lewis (serio and dancer), Bonita (shooter), Ivy Goodwill (serio and dancer), Cleopatra (snake charmer), Bob Lloyd (vocal comedian), Sheldon (comedian), Professor Klaer and Miss Amy Klaer (animal tamers), Dolly Keldie and Lindy Davis (acrobatic song & dance), Myra Hammon and Alice Wyatt (Sandow girls), Alf Verne (vocalist), Dunbar & Blake), Master Norman Mudford (boy vocalist), Dalbeanie (equilibrist), Post Mason (American baritone), Mr Ern Delavale (singer), Tom Armstrong and Priscilla Verne (actors), Ethel and Elin Maynard (song & dance), Clarence Tisdale (American tenor), Bob Bell (comedy singer), Mr A L Cropp (singer), Frank Crowther and Orchestra, Biograph of the "HMS Dreadnought", Mr Carlton Cooper (ventriloquist), Percy Denton (impersonator), Raleigh & May (performers on the silver thread), Maude Florence (character singer), Violet Dunville (ballad singer), Zemphy (lightning blindfold artist), Harry Linden (comic vocalist), Amy Stirling and Tilly Dunbar (yodelling), the Valdenes (trick cyclists & jugglers), Ida Berridge (comedienne singer), Maud Florence (clog dance), Morris & Wilson (Australian acrobat comedians), Mr Arthur George (baritone), Charles Stewart & Rene Lorraine (banjo and mandoline and soprano), Keldie & Davis (serios and dancers). Opera House Auckland. Programmes for 3 May, 17 May, 28 June, 8 July, 23 August, 20 September, 25 October, 1 November 1907.

Mr Maitland Gard'ner's annual concert (with the Dunedin Ladies' Vocal Association, The Madrigal Company and the Orpheus Glee Club, Mr George Gurr, Miss Helen Gard'ner, Miss Ina Gow, Mr Arthur Harrison). Cantata "The sleeping beauty". His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 31 October 1907. Programme

Edwin Geach's Human Hearts Company. "Human hearts", by Hal Read. Princess Theatre Dunedin, 18 July 1907. Programme

Edwin Geach's Human Hearts Company. "Human hearts", by Hal Read. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 7 June 1907. Programme (2 copies)

Allan Hamilton's Dramatic Company. "Home sweet home", by Frank Lindo. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 1907. Programme.

Charles Holloway Dramatic Company, including Miss Beatrice Holloway. "The coal king". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 1-5 April 1907. Programme

Julius Knight and J C Williamson's New English Dramatic Company. "Robin Hood". His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 12 August 1907. Programme

Julius Knight and J C Williamson's New English Dramatic Company. "Robin Hood". Opera House Wellington, 29 May 1907. Programme (with preview of programme for "Raffles")

Julius Knight and J C Williamson's New English Dramatic Company. "Brigadier Gerard" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [and] "Monsieur Beaucaire". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland [1907]. Programme

Julius Knight and J C Williamson's New English Dramatic Company. "Robin Hood", and "Raffles". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland [1907]. Programme

Julius Knight and J C Williamson's New English Dramatic Company. "Brigadier Gerard" and "Raffles". Country tour 1907. Folded pink programme

Julius Knight and J C Williamson's New English Dramatic Company. "Robin Hood" and "Raffles". His Majesty's Theatre Chirstchurch, 1907. Programme

Alida Loman concerts, under the direction of Benno Scherek. Alido Loman the famous lyric soprano from Amsterdam. Third concert. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 10 October 1907. Programme.

Jessie Maclachlan, the Queen of Scottish song, assisted by Douglas Young (tenor), John M'Linden (cellist) and Robert Buchanan (pianist). His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 2 August 1907. Programme (2 copies, one with white cover, one with pale blue cover)

Jesse Maclachlan Concert Company under the direction of Frederic Shipman. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland 1907. Season of 4 nights. Programme

Andrew Mack Company, under the direction of J C Williamson. "Tom Moore" by Theodore Burt Sayre. Opera House Wellington, from 30 March 1907. Programme

The celebrated Irish comedian Andrew Mack, under the direction of Mr J C Williamson. "Tom Moore" and "The Way to Kenmare". His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 18 June 1907. Programme

Andrew Mack and his own complete company of players under the direction of Mr J C Williamson. "Tom Moore" and "The way to Kenmare". Country tour 1907. Folded programme

Andrew Mack and his own complete company of players under the direction of Mr J C Williamson. "Tom Moore" and "The way to Kenmare". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 3 June 1907. Programme.

Andrew Mack and his own complete company of players under the direction of Mr J C Williamson. "Tom Moore" and "Jack Shannon" by Ramsey Morris. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 6 May 1907. Programme

Macmahon's Dramatic Company. "The price of sin", by E Hill Mitchelson; [and] "The yellow peril" or "Kwang Shao Sheng", by Albert Newcomb. Dunedin, 18-22 February 1907.

Meynell, Gunn and Varna's New English Comedy Company under the direction of Allan Hamilton. "Wig and gown", [and] "The little stranger". His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 1 January 1907. Programme

Meynell, Gunn and Varna's New English Comedy Company under the direction of Allan Hamilton. "Wig and gown", by F R Sidney; [and] "The little stranger", by Michael Morton. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 18 January 1907. Programme

Meynell, Gunn and Varna's New English Comedy Company under the direction of Allan Hamilton. "Wig and gown", by F R Sidney; [and] "The little stranger", by Michael Morton. Country tour 1907. Programme

Meynell, Gunn and Varna's New English Comedy Company under the direction of Allan Hamilton. "Turned up", by Mark Melford. Country tour. Programme

Meynell and Gunn's Fatal Wedding Company, with Harcourt Beatty. "The midnight wedding", by Walter Howard. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 29 April - 2 May 1907. Programme

Meynell and Gunn's Maud Hildyard Company, direction Allan Hamilton. "A great awakening", by Maud Hildyard and Russell Vaun. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 19 September 1907. Programme

Meynell and Gunn's Maud Hildyard Company, direction Allan Hamilton. "A warning to women", by C Watson-Mill. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 19 September 1907. Programme

Meynell and Gunn's Maud Hildyard Company, direction Allan Hamilton. "A beautiful fiend", by George N Wybrow and Frank M Thorne; [and] "The great awakening", by Maud Hildyard and Russell Vaun. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 21 November 1907. Programme

Mr George Musgrove's Royal Grand Opera. "Carmen". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 23 July 1907. Programme

Mr George Musgrove's Royal Grand Opera. "Faust". Opera House Wellington, 31 August 1907. Programme

Mr George Musgrove's Royal Grand Opera Company. "Romeo and Juliet". His Majesty's Theatre Christchurch, 11 September 1907. Programme

Mr George Musgrove's Royal Grand Opera Company. "Tannhauser". His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 26 September 1907. Programme

Marie Narelle concerts. The world-famed artists Marie Narelle assisted by Chester Fentress (tenor) and Constance Brandon-Usher (pianist). His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 14 January 1907. Programme

Marie Narelle's two farewell concerts. Princess Theatre Dunedin, 11-12 February 1907. Programme

New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships 1907. With boxers B Tracey, J Montague, E Saunderson, A Tresize, R Mayze, A J Blewden, J McDermot, J Gilmour, J Lloyd, H Sandow. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 30-31 August 1907. Programme

Otago Boxing Association. Don Paterson versus J F Morris; Albert Parker versus Charlie Griffin. (With photos of Charlie Griffin, Tim Hegarty and Albert Parker). Princess Theatre Dunedin, 16 and 21 January 1907. Programme

The Players' Club under the direction of Miss Newman Potts. Grand production of Arthur Law's satirical comedy "A country mouse", in aid of the Society for the Promotion of Health of Women and Children. Princess Theatre Dunedin, 18-19 September 1907. Programme

Mr Harry Rickards' Vaudeville Company. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 4 June [1907]. Programme

Mr Harry Rickards' Vaudeville Company. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland [1907]. Programme

St Clair Comedy Coy. "Toby comes home", by Cosmo Hamilton; and "Jane", comedy by Harry Nicholls and W Lestocq. Dramatic performance in aid of the Hocken Collection Fund. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 15 May 1907. Programme

J C Williamson's Mother Goose Company. "Mother Goose" [pantomime]. Country tour 1907. Folded programme

J C Williamson's Mother Goose Company. "Mother Goose" [pantomime]. Opera House Wellington 1907. Programme

J C Williamson's Mother Goose Company. "Mother Goose" [pantomime]. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 2 September 1907. Programme (2 copies, one with green cover, one with blue cover)

J C Williamson's Mother Goose Company. "Mother Goose" [pantomime]. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 12 October 1907. Programme

J C Williamson's Mother Goose Company. "Mother Goose" [pantomime]. [...] Theatre, Christchurch, 29 October 1907. Programme

Mr J C Williamson's New Dramatic Company. "The squaw man", by E Milton Royle; and "The Virginian", by Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle. [Hamilton], 1907. Folded green programme

Mr J C Williamson's New Dramatic Company. "The squaw man", by E Milton Royle; and "The Virginian", by Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle. Country tour. Folded white programme

Mr J C Williamson's New Dramatic Company. "The squaw man", by E Milton Royle. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 18 February 1907. Programme

J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The cingalee", by James J Tanner; music by Lionel Monckton. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 31 January 1907; and announcing "A country girl", by J T Tanner and Lionel Monckton. Programme

J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The orchid", by James J Tanner, music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton; [and] "The cingalee", by Tanner and Monckton. His Majesty's Theatre Christchurch, 19 February 1907. Programme

J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The orchid", by James J Tanner, and Lionel Monckton. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 25 January 1907. Programme

J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The cingalee", by James J Tanner and Lionel Monckton; and "The orchid", by James J Tanner, Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. Country tour. Programme.

J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The orchid", by James J Tanner, Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton; [and] "The cingalee", by James J Tanner and Lionel Monckton. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 7 March 2007. Programme

Willoughby and Ward London Comedy Company including Miss Grace Palotta. "Mr Hopkinson", by R C Carton. Princess Theatre Dunedin, 7 October 1907; [and] "The new clown", by H M Paull. 11-12 October 1907. Programme

Willoughby and Ward London Comedy Company including Miss Grace Palotta. "Mr Hopkinson", by R C Carton. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 4 November 1907. Programme

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Quantity: 82 programmes.

Physical Description: Printed programmes, approximately 220 mm.

Provenance: Some programmes donated by Mr M J Mitchell in 1990.

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