Strand Theatre (Auckland, N.Z.)

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1925 - 1927

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1925/1927

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: 1925: Mary Pickford as "Little Annie Rooney", released by United Artists De Luxe and King's, Herbert F Wood, supervisor. Programme for week commencing Friday 6th February [1925] De Luxe and King's, Herbert F Wood, supervisor. Programme for week commencing Friday 27th March [1925] De Luxe and King's, Herbert F Wood, supervisor. Programme for week commencing Friday 1 May [1925] Beaumont Smith presents "The adventures of Algy", a comedy-romance in 6 reels, with Claude Dampier [and] Bathie Stuart. Presented by the New Zealand Film Archive with music composed by Dorothy Buchanan, 1986. [Original release 1925] "Havoc"; tremendous drama of society woven into a realistic war background, [with] George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton, Margaret Livingstone, Walter McGrail, Edythe Chapman. A William Fox production [1925] The film superb, "Variety", a U.F.A. masterpiece starring Eurpoe's three greatest screen artists: Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti, Warwick Ward [1925]. Special Kerepehi Hall, tonight 1926: Movie stories, published weekly. "What price glory" featuring Victor McLaglen, Dolores Del Rio & Edmund Lowe. The story of the William Fox masterpiece. First National presents Sir John Martin Harvey in the twelve-reel screen masterpiece, "The only way", and also on stage, Frances Scully presents the Sunbeam Children from Sydney in "The wedding of Baby Kerr". Grand Opera House Wellington. 2-10 June [1926] (2 copies) The National & Lyric news. Coming: "When the door opened" by James Oliver Curwood. Vol. 11, no. 11, 21 January 1926. Adolph Zukor & Jesse Lasky present Cecil B De Mille's "Feet of Clay". The real story of the married flapper. A gorgeous ultra-modern love-drama. A Paramount picture. [Flyer. ca 1926?] The Majestic Continuous. Week commencing Friday May 7th [1926]. Cover design by Carlton Studio. The Strand Continuous. Week commencing Friday April 9th [1926] The Strand Continuous. Week commencing Friday May 21st [1926]. Cover design by Carlton Studio. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L Lasky present Florenz Ziegfeld's "Kid boots", starring Eddie Cantor with Clara Bow - Billie Dove - Lawrence Gray. A Frank Tuttle production [released 1926] Adolph Zukor and Jesse L Lasky present Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton in "We're in the navy now". An Edward Sutherland production. Chester Conklin and Tom Kennedy. A Paramount Picture [released 1926]. Kerepehi, Wed June 22nd [1927]. Pamphlet The Regent, the theatre beautiful. grand official opening, 10 December 1926, Wellington. Souvenir programme 1927: De Luxe and King's Theatres (Wellington) Programme, week commencing Friday 30th Dec[ember 1927]. Enough to make a cat laugh. "Charley's aunt" with Syd Chaplin. Released exclusively by Famous Lasky Film Service Limited (Paramount Pictures) [1925]. Special Kerepehi Hall, Wed 9th Feb [1927] "Wings", a Paramount Picture, with Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen. Directed by William Wellman. A Lucien Hubbard production. Kerepehi [1927 release date] Whakatane Films Ltd. Cming like a meteor to show the world that New Zealand CAN make a picture! "The Te Kooti trail". 1927. Richard Dix in "Shanghai bound", with Mary Brian. A Paramount Picture [release date 1927] "The garden of Allah", a Rex Ingram production starring Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovich. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer special production [release date 1927] Hayward's Town Hall Avondale. Personally guaranteed programme 11 and 13 June [1927] - includes the Marx brothers in "Monkey business" and "The rainbow trail" with George O'Brien (Flier). Quantity: 22 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlets and fliers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size.

Date: 1920 - 1924

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1920/1924

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: 1920s: New Zealand Film Archive. The films of James McDonald 1919-1923. (Pamphlet ca 1987). New Strand Theatre (Hamilton). “Dick Turpin's ride to New York" featuring Matheson Lang, etc. 1920s? William Fox presents "The Eleventh Hour", with Charles Jones and Shirley Mason, June Elvidge and Alan Hale. [pamphlet - cut and damaged] ca 1920s. Mahlon Hamilton and Lilian Rich in "Half a chance". 1920s? Queen's Theatre. "Lawful larceny" with Hope Hampton, Nita Naldi, Lew Cody, and Conrad Nagel. A Paramount Picture. Early 1920s? "Name the man!" starring Mae Busch, Creighton Hale, Hobart Bosworth, De Witt Jennings, Conrad Nagel, Patsy Ruth Miller, Aileen Pringle, Jack Murphy. Annette Kellerman, in "Neptune's daughter". 1920s. George Arliss in "The Silent Voice", with Ann Forrest and Edward Earle. 1920s? "The Vendetta". Early 1920s? 1920: His Majesty's Auckland . "The Better 'Ole", old England's Master Picture from the drama by Capt Bruce Bairnsfather. ca 1920. The Strand. Tom Moore in "Heartsease". 30 March 1920. Promotional flier Will Rogers in "Honest Hutch", one of the new Goldwyn pictures [1920] "Out of the Dust", with Russell Simpson, Dorcas Matthews, Pat Moore, Mickey Moore, Robert McKim, Jane Talent, Francis Powers, Bert Sprotte, Edward Jobson. With Buster Keaton in "The Scarecrow" (1920). "Poppies of Flanders" with Jameson Thomas. ca 1920. Strand Continuous. Norma Talmadge in "Poppy". 1 May 1920. 1921: "The Birth of New Zealand" (1921). Two promotional postcards / NZ Film Archive 1982, 1987. First National presents the famous Teddy Gerard in "The cave girl", released by Associated "First National" Pictures of Australasia Ltd. [ca 1921] Strand Continuous. Clara Kimball Young in "Eyes of Youth". 29 January 1921. "The four horsemen of the Apocalypse", the world's greatest picture. 1921 Queen's (Wellington). D W Griffith's "True Heart Susie" and "Wolves of the North", starring Eva Novak. Friday October 14, 1921. 1922: Empress Theatre, Willis Street (Wellington). 24 March 1922. William de Mille production "After the show". The "Film House" presents Thos H Ince's great production "The cup of life". King's Theatre, Friday March 31st [1922] Jesse L Lasky presents Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter in "Don't tell everything". A Paramount picture. The King's, commencing Friday May 26th [1922] Empress Theatre. William D Taylor's production "The furnace", with Agnes Ayres and Theodore Roberts. (1922?) Reginald Denny in "The Kentucky Derby" (1922), directed by King Baggott. "The silent voice" with George Arliss and Ann Forrest. (1922 release date). 1922-1923. Betty Balfour in "Mary find the gold", a Welsh-Pearson British production [1922] (Damaged) "Merry go round", with Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry. (1922 release). Artcraft Theatre 15-18 August [1922-1923] King's (Auckland). "Peck's Bad Boy" starring Jackie Coogan. 23 June 1922. Strand Continuous. Norma Talmadge in "The Sign on the Door". 20 April 1922. Strand Continuous. Hope Hampton in "Star Dust". 15 April 1922. "To have and to hold", with Betty Compson and Bert Lytell (1922 release). ca 1922-1923. "What's On?" Programmes - includes "Rent free" , "The Cup of Life", "Treasure of Heaven", "Riding with Death", "The Shiek". [1922]. Norma Talmadge in "The wonderful thing". King's Theatre, 14-20 July [1922] Strand Continuous. Norma Talmadge in "The Wonderful Thing". 1923: "Around the world in 18 days" [12-part serial, 1923]. - flyer for prize puzzle. ca 1923. "The Common law" starring Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, Elliott Dexter. Production Myron Selznick. (2 copies, 1923 and 1924 - King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Hamilton) "The eleventh hour", by Lincoln Carter, with Charles Jones and Shirley Mason. (1923 release). ca 1923-24. (piece cut out of back page. William Fox production, "If Winter Comes" (1923), a Harry Millarde Production. (Folded pamphlet, badly torn) "Lawful larceny", with Hope Hamilton, Nita Naldi, Lew Cody, Conrad Nagel. (1923 release). ca 1923-1924. King's (Wellington). Programme for Friday January 4th, starring "Rupert of Hentzau" and "The Untameable" starring Gladys Walton. (ca 1923-24) Adoplh Zukor presents a Herbert Brenon production "The Rustle of Silk", with Betty Compson and Conway Tearle.(1923 production) "The rustle of silk" and "Behind closed doors". Feb 29 [1923] "The silent partner", with Leatrice Joy. Queen's Theatre [1923] Carl Laemmle presents William Duncan in "The steel trail" [1923]. Pamphlet "Trifling women" and "The Tiger's claw" et al. Kings, Wellington's premier picture theatre, Friday October 26th [1923] Strand Continuous. Norma Talmadge in "The Voice from the Minaret". 19 October 1923. The Lyceum. Fritzi Brunette in "A Wife's Awakening". Saturday 28 July 1923. "A woman of Paris". Writtewn and directed by Charles Chaplin, featuring Edna Purviance. [1923]. Paramount Theatre Friday 30 May. (2 copies) 1924: Pola Negri in "The Cheat" (A Paramount Picture), with Jack Holt. Queen's Theatre 29 February 1924. Pola Negri in an Ernst Lubitsch production "Forbidden paradise" (1924). A Paramount Picture. "Name the man", with Mae Busch, Conrad Nagel, etc. (1924 release). ca 1924-25 Mary Pickford in "Rosita" (1923). Paramount Theatre, Courtenay Place. 2 May 1924. Queen's Theatre. "Salomy Jane" (A Paramount Picture). 22 February 1924. Queen's Theatre. "Singer Jim McKee" with William S Hart [1924 release]. ca 1924-25 "Sinners in heaven" with Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix [1924 release]. ca 1924-25. Quantity: 56 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlets and fliers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size.

Date: 1916 - 1919

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1916/1919

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: J C Williamson Ltd in conjunction with William Fox presents "A daughter of the gods", with Annette Kellermann; original music score by Robert Hood Bowers. Opera House Wellington, commencing 15 December 1917. Programme (2 copies) Adelphi Theatre (New York). Week of December 2, 1918 [Programme of films shown includes Wnter Hall in "Till I come back to you"] Goldwyn Pictures. Mae Marsh in "The glorious adventure". [1919?] Promotional flier Strand Continuous. Norma Talmadge in "The Safety Curtain". 12 April 1919. Strand Continuous. Norma Talmadge in "De Luxe Annie". 13 December 1919. Screened by permission of the N.Z. Government. "The battle of Arras", a war film that is unique, depicting the colossal German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. King's, Saturday next [1917?] Haywards Pictures, Napier. Empire Theatre Napier, with the Empire Supreme Orchestra, conductor Signor Truda. Programmes for 26 August, 21 September, and 7 October 1916. (ie 3 programmes) Grand Opera House Wellington. J C Williamson Ltd present D W Griffith's supreme triumph "Hearts of the world", commencing 11 January 1919. Programme (2 copies, 1 with blue cover, 1 with white cover) Grand Opera House Wellington. "The Spy system" with Dustin Farnum and Winnifred Kingston; and, "Babes in the Woods" with Little Frances Carpenter and Virginia Lee Corbin. 4 February 1918. Grand Opera House Wellington. "Tarzan of the Apes". 1919. Town Hall, Wellington. YMCA. "The Battle of the Sancre" and "The Advance of the Tanks". Official war pictures of the British Army in France. Evening Post Print 66910. 18-23 June [1917]. Queen's Theatre Auckland. Programme for Thursday-Saturday, 27-29 November [1913 or 1919]. "The silent master", featuring Robert Warwick. Promotional pamphlet [ca 1918] Paramount Theatre (Wellington). "Double crossed", starring Pauline Frederick. (1917 - dated from internet source) Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlets and fliers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size.

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1919-01

Description: Shows head and shoulders portrait of Norma Talmadge, below a picture of the outisde of the Strand Theatre. An issue of the "Strand Picture Mirror". Other Titles - The Strand Picture Mirror Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlet cover.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on folded pamphlet 225 x 145 mm.