Princess Theatre (Whanganui, N.Z.)

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1880s

Description: Includes: Harry Power's Popular Company. "Our girls". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] John L Hall's Byronic Comedy Company. "Our girls". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] John L Hall's Byronic Comedy Company. "Our girls". Friday and Saturday "Our Dad". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] Hall's Comedy Combination. "Our girls". Wednesday and Thursday Nov 1st and 2nd ; "Old soldiers!". Theatre Royal Wellington [Oct 1882?] Hall's Byronic Comedy Company. "Rip van Winkle". Theatre Royal Wellington. (28/7/1882?) Flyer / programme Hall's Comedy combination. "Old soldiers". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1-2/11/1882] Hall's Comedy Combination. "The Guv'nor". [Nov 1882]; and on Monday 6th November 1882, "The factory girl!". New & elaborate scenery by Mr Williams. Stage furniture from Farmer's Furniture Warehouse, Cuba-Street. Hall's Comedy Combination. Grand complimentary benefit to Mrs J L Hall. "Factory girls!", after which ... "Aladdin". Theatre Royal Wellington. [6/11/1882]. Flyer / programme. Hall's Comedy Combination. "Imprudence", Theatre Royal Wellington [21/10/1882]. Flyer /programme. Hawera Town Hall. Amateur entertainment Friday June 9, 1882. Proceeds to go to the funds of the Hawera Recreation & Improvement Club. Flyer / programme Hawera Town Hall. "Who is who? or, All in a fog"; and "Area Belle". 21 February 1882. (Flyer / programme) Louise Pomeroy as Countess Armande Chandoce, in "Led astray". Theatre Royal Wellington [1884]. Flyer / programme. Masonic Dramatic Club. Annual Masonic enteertainment in aid of the building fund Freemasons' Hall. "Our domestics", "Tweedleton's tail coat". Theatre Royal Auckland. 14 August 1884. Programme. Printer Cecil Gardner & Co, High Street Auckland (Colour) Millis & Hart's 4th popular entertainment, including "Put to the proof!", by F W Millis. Athenaeum Hall [1885] (With Fred W Millis, ventriloquist, Mrs E A Hart, Miss Louise Hart, Miss K Russell, Mr Seaton, Mr A Ward). Printed at the Evening Post Office. Programme / flier Mr Polk and Mrs Julia Polk. "The American". New scenery by Mr N Thornton (Engraved portraits of Mr and Mrs Polk). Programme. Princess Theatre Wanganui. Amateur dramatic entertainment in aid of the Wanganui School Ground Improvement Fund. "The chimney corner" by H T Craven. (with Henry Collier, J Gibbs, Mr S H Drew, Mr Culpan, Mr Greenwood, Mr Beckett, Mr Norman, Mr Russell, Mr Holland, Mrs Henry Russell, Miss Broad). Friday 30 June [1882?] Princess Theatre Wanganui. For the benefit of the funds of the Juvenile Temple, I.O.C.T. "Blue beard!" or, Feminine curiosity & the power of gold, performed by 60 members of the Juvenile Temple. With "The Rose and Thorn". [1880s?] Princess Theatre Wanganui. Complimentary benefit to Harry Power. "Loan of a lover"; grand musical interlude; and, "Lottery ticket". (With Madamoiselle Lolo de Glorian, and Miss Lena Wyatt) 11 September 1882. Flyer / programme Princess Theatre Wanganui. "Tom Cobb, or Fortune's toy", and "The Area Belle". Wednesday 6 September 1882. (Flyer / programme) (2 copies) Princess Theatre Wanganui. "Everybody's friend", and "Found in a four-wheeler". 1 November 1887. In colour, printed by MacCurdy. (Flyer / programme). Grattan Riggs in "Peep O'Day". Theatre Royal Wellington. Whit Monday 14 June [1886]. Programme/flier. (PR-03-0058) Mr George Rignold, assisted by Miss Kate Bishop, Mrs George Rignold. "In the ranks". Theatre Royal Wellington 1886. (Flyer / programme) Mr George Rignold, assisted by Miss Kate Bishop, Mrs George Rignold. "Faust". Theatre Royal Wellington. 31 July 1886. (Flyer / programme) The Thespian Club. "Only a halfpenny", "Meg's diversion". Theatre Royal Wellington. 17 February 1885. Flyer/programme. The Thespian Club. "Twenty minutes with a tiger", "Delicate ground". Theatre Royal Wellington. 26 November 1884. Flyer / programme. Town Hall Hawera. Amateur dramatic entertainment. "Meg's diversion", and "Should this meet the eye". 26 June 1882, in aid of the funds for the Hawera Drill Hall. (Flyer/programme) Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. Entertainment. "Perfection; or The Lady of Munster"; and "The Boots at The Swan". 15 February [1882]. (Programme) Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Cut off with a shilling", and "A rough diamond". Thursday 17 August 1882. Programme. Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Ticket of leave man". Scenery painted by Messrs Pownall & Clark. Wanganui, 15 September 1882. Programme. Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Pygmalion & Galatea!", "Urgent private affairs". Wanganui, 6 July 1883. Programme. Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Jocrisse, the juggler", and "The conspiracy". Firday 30th March 1883. A D Willis, printer. Programme. Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. "Time tries all". Princess's Theatre. Wednesday Sept 21, 1881. (Flyer / programme) Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. Princess's Theatre. "The Rendezvous" and "Good for Evil". Friday December 23, 1881. (Flyer / programme) Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. "Miller of Derwentwater". Princess Theatre Wanganui, 15 June 1882. (Flyer / programme) Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. "Sink or swim". Princess Theatre Wanganui. 28 July 1882. (Flyer / programme) Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. Rules 1880. (2 cards) (Donor E Mason 1996). Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "Partners for life" Theatre Royal Wellington. 28 September 1882. (Flyer / programme) Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "The chimney corner", "Slasher and Crasher". Theatre Royal Wellington. 7 September 1883. Programme. Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "The Guv'nor". Theatre Royal Wellington 18 August 1886, and 21 September 1886. Two card advertisements (One orange, one yellow). Ye Yuletide Mummers. "Tom Cobb; or, Fortune's toy". Theatre Royal Wellington. 4 August 1887. Programme printed by Bock and Cousins. Quantity: 38 programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress on flyers and programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: Oct 1882

From: New Theatre : Records

Reference: 77-244-6/24

Description: Broadsheet advertising the drama `Milky white' and the burlesque `Black eyed See-u-san', staged at the Princess Theatre, Wanganui on 19 Oct 1882 in aid of the Library Building Fund. Includes opinions of the Press. Printed by Wanganui Chronicle Print Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1882

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1882

Description: Includes: Miss Maggie Moore and Mr J C Williamson in "Kerry" and "Dear Joe". [Monday and Tuesday 13 & 14?] March 1882, at the Theatre Royal. Miss Maggie Moore and Mr J C Williamson in "The snowball" and "The Chinese question". [Wednesday 15th] March 1882 at the Theatre Royal. The Lorgnette and Footlights advertiser. "Our girls!" and "A bilious attack" at the Theatre Royal, Wellington. October [1882?] Princess Theatre Wanganui. In aid of the library building fund. "The Milky way" and "Black-eyed See-u-san; or, the Little Bill that was taken up". Thursday 19th October 1882 (flyer) Princess Theatre, Wanganui. Wanganui Private Entertainment Club [for the] Wanganui Volunteer Fire Brigade Building Fund. "Time tries all" and "Poor Pillycoddy" (flyer). 15 November 1882. Athenaeum Hall (Willis Street, Wellington). Grand complimentary and farewell benefit to Mr and Mrs John L Hall. "The manager in a fix", "Hamlet and the ink!", "Prison scene from King John", the great will scene in "The American cousin", scenes from "Ye wandering minstrel". 1 December 1882. (Flyer) Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 6 items.. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto.

Date: 1883

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1883

Description: Includes: Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "The Porter's Knot" ... to conclude with ... "Caught by the ears!".. Princess Theatre Wanganui. 24 April 1883. Benefit to Mr Joseph Gibbs. Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "Married in haste". [1883?] Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "[A hundred thousand pounds]" ... "The Area Belle!". Theatre Royal Wellington. 17 May 1883. Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "Married in haste". Private performance at Princess Theatre Tory Street. 9 March 1883. Quantity: 4 programmes. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto.

Date: 1880 - 1889

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1880s

Description: Includes programmes for: 1880s (exact year unknown): Wanganui Musical and Dramatic Association. "The sorcerer", by Gilbert and Sullivan. Picturesque scenery by Mr T H Battle. Oddfellows' Hall, 29-31 March [1881 or 1887 or 1892]. Flier / programme (photocopy only) (original at MS Papers 1454 Burnett papers) Williamson's Royal Opera Company. "Pirates of Penzance", by Gilbert & Sullivan. Picturesque scenery by Mr George Gordon. Musical director Signor Giorza. [1880s?]. Programme / flier. Williamson's Royal Opera Company. "Patience, or Bunthorne's bride"; and a Grand Miscellaneous concert. Theatre Royal [Wellington? 1880s?] Programme / flier. Gisborne Amateur Operatic Society. "Iolanthe". Theatre Royal Gisborne, 27-30 [--, 18--?]. Flier / programme. Allan Cockburn's bulletin. Stanley & Darbyshire's Juvenile Opera Bouffe Company in "The grand duchess of Gerolstein", with Amy Childs as the duchess. Theatre Royal Wellington. Programme. [1880s?] 1880: Lyster's Royal Italian and English Opera, in a Grand Opera Season, commencing 9 February 1880. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Announcement and list of operas to be sung. 1882: Tambour Major Opera Company. "La fille du Tambour Major", adapted to the English stage by H D Farnie. Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] Simonsen's English and Comic Opera Company. "Boccaccio", by Von Suppe. Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882]. Programme. Tambour Major Opera Company. "Patience, or Bunthorne's bride". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] Programme. 1883: Simonsen's Royal English Comic Opera Company. "The grand duchess", by Offenbach. [January 1883?]. Programme. Simonsen's English and Comic Opera Company. "Girofle-Girofla". Theatre Royal, Wellington [February 1883]. Flier / programme. Professor Cailliau's Operatic Society. "The barber of Seville". Abbott's Opera House, for one week only, commencing Monday July 30th 1883. Programme / flier. 1884: A T Dunning's London Comic Opera Company. "Boccaccio". Theatre Royal Wellington. 20 August [1884]. Flier / programme. A T Dunning's London Comic Opera Company. "La fille de Madame Angot". Theatre Royal Wellington. 18 August [1884]. Flier / programme. A T Dunning's London Comic Opera Company. "Manola". Theatre Royal Wellington. 1884. Programme. A T Dunning's London Comic Opera Company. "Rip van Winkle". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1884]. Programme. Dunning's London Comic Opera Company. "Rip van Winkle". Theatre Royal Christchurch, April 1884. Programme (The Thespian) Dunning's London Comic Opera Company. "Boccaccio". Theatre Royal Christchurch, April 1884. Programme (The Thespian) Williamson Garner & Musgrove's Royal Comic Opera Company. "La mascotte". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1884]. Programme (Royal footlights) Williamson Garner & Musgrove's Royal Comic Opera Company. "Patience, or Bunthorne's bride". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1884]. Programme (Royal footlights) Williamson Garner & Musgrove's Royal Comic Opera Company. "Olivette; or, Wife or no wife". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1884]. Programme (Royal footlights) Williamson Garner & Musgrove's Royal Comic Opera Company. "Les cloches de Corneville; or The bells of Normandy". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1884]. Programme (Royal footlights) 1886: Christchurch Amateur Operatic Society. "Madame Favart", by Jacques Offenbach. Theatre Royal Christchurch, 28-30 1886. Programme (3 versions: 2 copies of white version, one copy each of red and white, and red and blue versions) "Patience, or Bunthorne's bride", by Gilbert & Sullivan. Conductor Mr Hautrie West. Leader of Orchestra Mr A Hill. St Peter's Schoolroom, Ghuznee Street. Vice-Regal command night, 25 May 1886. Programme / flier. (Three versions: blue silk (2 copies); Cream silk (1 copy)' Cream paper (2 copies)) "Patience, or Bunthorne's bride", by Gilbert & Sullivan. Conductor Mr Hautrie West. St Peter's Schoolroom Ghuznee Street. [1886]. Programme / flier on orange paper. 1887: Messrs Williamson, Garner & Musgrove's Royal Comic Opera Company. "Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri". First performance in Wellington. Programme [1887 - the Fisk Jubilee Singers, mentioned in the programme are known to have toured New Zealand in 1887. 1888: Princess Theatre Dunedin. Commencing Monday 13th February 1888 and following nights, Grand production of Planquette's masterpiece, "Les cloches de Corneville; or, The chimes of Normandy" by the Pinafore Opera Company. Fergusson & Mitchell lith [1888]. Programme Wellington Amateur Operatic Society. "Mikado". Wellington, 6 December [1888]. Programme. Wellington Amateur Operatic Society in "Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri". Theatre Royal Wellington, 16-21 July 1888. Programme (The Thespian) "Fun on the Bristol". Princess Theatre Wanganui [1888?]. Programme / flier (The Bulletin for the Mohawk Minstrel season) 1889: Wellington Amateur Operatic Society in "The pirates of Penzance", by Gilbert & Sullivan. Opera House Wellington, 20-26 June 1889. Programme (The Thespian). Nellie Stewart appears as the leading lady in the Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company productions. Quantity: 30 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on paper.. Physical Description: Letterpress on fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm.

Date: 1881 - 1889

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

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1880s-03

Description: Arrangement of text with varied lettering and plain border. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, red on cream paper, 190 x 140 mm.