[Ephemera, pamphlets and fliers concerning opera and light musicals, collected by Charles Cabot. 1930s]

Includes:

1930:

J C Williamson Films presents Humphrey Bishop and his Musical Comedy Company in conjunction with Nancy Carroll, Gwen Weston, Maurice Barling, Mlle Desire, Walter Kingsley, Denis Sheard, Thelma Trott, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland. Grand Opera House, 21 November [1930]. Promotional pamphlet with photographs

Humphrey Bishop, well known London entrepreneur, and his Musical Comedy Company in conjunction with Nancy Carroll, with Richard Arlen in "Dangerous paradise". Grand Opera House, Friday 1 November [1930]. Promotional pamphlet with photographs

1932:

Williamson-Imperial Grand Opera Company. (With Lina Paliughi, Cesarina Valobra, Bruna Castagna, Molly de Gunst, Pedro Mirassou, Apollo Granforte, Primo Montanari, Albino Marone, Maestro Emilio Rossi, Maestro Wando Aldrovandi, Joseph Post, Carlo Alfieri, Michele Fiore, Franco Izal, Ilio Del Chiaro, Frank Rigo). Grand Opera House Wellington season of 17 nights 29 October - 17 November 1932. Promotional pamphlet with photographs

1934:

J C Williamson Ltd present their supreme comic opera attractions: "The Dubarry" and "Waltzes from Vienna", with Sylvia Welling (With Ivy Kirby, Jean Gibson, Jean Duncan, John Dudley, Cecil Kellaway, Leslie Holland, Richard Parry, Douglas Herald, Lou Vernon). Grand Opera House Wellington, grand gala performance, 19 September 1934. Promotional pamphlet with photographs

1935:

J C Williamson Ltd present Madge Elliott and Cyril Ritchard in ... "Roberta". Second production "Our Miss Gibbs"; third production "High jinks" (With Diana Du Cane, Marie Le Varre, Frank Leighton, Ethel Morrison, Leo Franklyn, Leslie Crane). Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 26 October 1935. Promotional pamphlet with photographs

"White horse inn", a gorgeous panorama of colour, melody and movement ... based on Erik Charell's original Berlin production and staged by J C Williamson Ltd, by arrangement with Sir Oswald Stoll. Promotional pamphlet and flyer (2 copies)

1936:

J C Williamson Ltd present their specially organised and incomparable Gilbert & Sullivan Comic Opera Company. "The gondoliers". "The pirates of Penzance", "The yeomen of the guard", "Iolanthe", "The mikado", "Patience", HMS Pinafore". (With Ivan Menzies, Gregory Stroud, Godfrey Stirling, Eileen Kelly, Bernard Manning, Helen Langton, Winifred Lawson, Evelyn Gardiner, Richard Watson). Grand Opera House Wellington commencing 11 April [1936]. Promotional pamphlet with photographs

1938:

J C Williamson Theatres Ltd presents their New Royal Comic Opera Company in the unparalleled stage triumph "Balalaika"; a play with music (with Violet Carlson, George Hancock, Diana Ducane, Don Nicol). Attracting all Wellington to the New Opera House [September 1938]. Promotional pamphlet with photographs of main performers

J C Williamson Ltd presents "Victoria Regina" by Laurence Housman; play produced by Peter Dearing. (With Fay Compton, Bruno Barnabe, Peter Dearing, Stafford Hilliard, Michael Wilding, Jack McNaughton, Ann Codrington, Hayley Bell, Mary Charles, Yvette Anning). Grand Opera House Wellington, 5 March [1938]. Promotional pamphlet with photographs

J C Williamson Ltd present their New Musical Comedy Company featuring George Gee, Valerie Hay, Donald Burr, Billie Worth, Percy Le Fre [in] "Over she goes", "Nice goings on", "Swing along" (Also with William O'Neal, John Dobbie, Lois Green, Tommy Jay, Enid Hollins). Opera House Wellington, 15 January 1938. Promotional pamphlet

All pamphlets except the first (printed by Tolan Print) were printed by Wright & Jaques.

Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset prints, up to 330 mm.