Toole, John Lawrence, 1830-1906

Date: 1890-1899

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Gardner & Mcdonald (Firm); Moffat, Ann Margaret, active 1990-2010

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1890s

Description: Includes: Brough & Boucicault Comedy Company. "The bulletin" (Published by Gardner & McDonald, Theatrical Advertising and publishing agents, Lyric Chambers, High Street, Christchurch). Season 4-15 December 1895. "Fairy land; or the Riddle and the Key". [1890s?] Post Steam Print, Wellington. Bland Holt and his established organization of superior dramatic artists in "Master & man", by Henry Pettitt and George R Sims; with Mrs Bland Holt and Miss Edith Blande. Abbot's Opera House Auckland, 23 November 1891. Programme (L'Entr'acte). Mr Geo C Miln. Shakespeare's masterpiece "Hamlet". Opera House (Wellington), [June 1890]. Flier with cast list Robert Inman's Premier Dramatic Company, in "Held by the enemy". Opera House Wellington. 16 October 1897. Folded programme. Miss Jennie Lee and Mr J P Burnett ...[in] "Jo!" (Based on Dicken's "Bleak House"). Theatre Royal Wellington, ca 1890. Miss Jennie Lee and Mr J P Burnett, supported by their Melbourne company [in] "Grasshopper; or, The chances of the cards". Theatre Royal Wellington [ca 1890]. Evening Post steam print, Willis Street, Wellington. Macmahon & Leitch's Company. "Lights o' London". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1885 or 1891 or 1896]. Programme on flyer. "A Royal divorce". Souvenir of play, playwright and players, with Miss Ada Ferrar, Miss Lynda Raymond, Mr Julius Knight, Miss Elliott Page, etc. [1898]. (Together with extracted centre page from the Opera House Wellington programme, showing the cast list). "The sign of the cross". Souvenir, The Julius Knight Company. 1898. "Under the red robe". Souvenir (The Julius Knight Company). 1898. Mr J L Toole and his London Company, in "Chawles; or, A fool and his money". Evening post print, 1890. Mr J L Toole and his London Company, in "The don". Evening post Print, [1890]. Flyer. Readings by the Dunedin Shakespeare Club. "King John" and "As you like it". Choral Hall, Moray Place. 23 April 1891. Programme. Quantity: 15 booklets and flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress on flyers and programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: 1890-1896

By: Ellis, W A, active 1890s?

Reference: Eph-A-THEATRE-1889/1896

Description: "New Zealand Royal Jubilee Diary 1887" has been filled with pasted clippings up to the pages for the beginning of April. Clippings are notices, brief programmes and cast list arranged roughly in chronological order and are for the following productions: "The private secretary" starring Frank Thornton [1890?] George Darrell and Christine Darrell in "Potter of Texas". Opera House 6 January 1890. The great English comedian Mr Harry Saint Maur and Company. "Jim the penman". [Opera House Wellington, early April 1890](Clipping printed by Bock & Co Wellington) "The golden ladder" (with Walter Howe, Bland Holt, etc) [Opera House November 1889] Charles Warner and Miss Gracie Warner. "Hands across the sea". Opera House [November 1889] Charles Warner and Miss Gracie Warner. "Captain Swift". Opera House [January 1890] Charles Warner and Miss Gracie Warner. "It's never too late to mend". Opera House [January 1890] "Uncle Tom's cabin" with R D'Orsay Ogden, Miss Helen Fergus, Baby Ogden. Opera House [June 1889?] Mr Geo C Miln and Miss Kate Douglas. "Othello". Opera House [June 1890]. Mr Geo C Miln and Miss Kate Douglas. "Romeo and Juliet". Opera House [June 1890]. Royal American Midgets, General and Mrs Mite, the smallest couple in the world. Exchange Hall [Wellington, December 1890?] "East Lynne", with Helen Vivian and Arthur Vivian and company. [1889 or 1890] J L Toole in "Chawles; or, A fool and his money", to conclude with "Ici on parle francais". Opera House Wellington [November 1890] J L Toole in " The Don". Opera House Wellington [November 1890] J L Toole in "Paul Pry" and "The birthplace of Podgers". Opera House Wellington [November 1890] J L Toole in "Dot". Opera House Wellington [November 1890] J L Toole. "Dearer than life" and "The steeplechase". Opera House Wellington [November 1890] J L Toole. "Serious family" and "Off the line". Opera House Wellington [November 1890] Miss Janet Achurch in "In his power". [Wellington Opera House] 25-26 November [1890] Miss Janet Achurch in "The new Magdalen". [Wellington Opera House], 22 and 24 November [1890] Miss Janet Achurch in "Forget-me-not". [Wellington Opera House] 1-3 December [1890] Miss Janet Achurch in "Fedora". [Wellington Opera House], 4 December [1890] Miss Janet Achurch in "King Rene's daughter", "Barbara", and "Take back the heart". [Wellington Opera House], 5-6 December [1890] Miss Janet Achurch in "Camille". [Wellington Opera House], 8 December [1890] Miss Janet Achurch in "Lady of Lyons", "Barbara", and "Macbeth". [Wellington Opera House], 10 December [1890] Miss Janet Achurch. "East Lynne". [Wellington Opera House], 11 December 1890 Chas and Will Hugo, Miss Priscilla Verne, and company. "Off the line", "The mashers", "You don't say so", "Mad-crazy mad", etc. [1889?] Royal Dramatic Company. "Under the British flag" Opera House [Wellington, February 1891] Harvey Bros Minstrel and Burlesque Company (With Herr Carl Riedle, Miss Violet brandon, Cowan & Magee, Helen Gordon Cunard, Harry Cowan, Ella Siegfried, Vincent Magee). Opera House [December 1890] Edison's startling talking machine, the Phonograph, under the direction of Messrs MacMahon. Part 1; descriptive and explanatory lecture by Professor Douglas Archibald [location unspecified, ca March 1891] Prof Douglas Archibald. Part I. Descriptive and explanatory lectures illustrated by limelight views. Copy of the phonogram spoken in London, March 8 1890 by the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone ... [1891?] Prof Douglas Archibald. Part II. Loud records through the funnel [1891?] Mr Charles Santley. Opera House, 8 March 1890. Programme Rev Charles Clark, the inventor of lecture entertainments. "Thackeray (17th December); "Oliver Cromwell" (18th December); "Original Dickens lecture ... recital of "Christmas carol". Opera House [1890] Professor Anderson, the great wizard of the North, and Mdlle Blanche Anderson, the musical Espanita and illustrator of the occult science. Professor Anderson's floating lady. Opera House [February 1891] John F Sheridan. "Uncle Tom's cabin", and "Little black-eyed Susan". Opera House [February 1891] John F Sheridan. "Fun on the Bristol". Opera House [1891?] John F Sheridan. "Little black-eyed Susan". Opera House [1891?] "Jo", with Mr J P Burnett and Miss Jennie Lee [Wellington Opera House, April - May 1891] "The grasshopper", with Miss Jennie Lee, Barry Marschel etc. [April-May 1891?] "Sam; or the ticket-of-leave man", with Miss Jennie Lee, Mr J P Burnett, etc. [Wellington Opera House, June 1891] "Run wild", with Miss Jennie Lee. [Wellington Opera House, June 1891] "Jack in the box", with Miss Jennie Lee [Wellington Opera House, May 1891] "Jennie Lee as 'Jo'" [Poem from Vanity Fair, London] Dr Canaris' Combination (with assistant Miss Beaumont). Opera House [July 1891] Madam Patey's third concert. Theatre Royal [Wellington], 11 June 1891. Programme Williamson Garner & Musgrove's Royal Comic Opera Company. "La mascotte". Opera House [1890??] Mr Harry Saint Maur. "Mr Barnes, of New York"; "Grimaldi; or the life of an actress". With Harry Saint Maur and Florence Seymour. [Wellington, April 1890] Dobson-Kennedy Dramatic and Comedy Company. "Little Lord Fauntleroy [Wellington?, 19 August 1891] [Kennedy Company]. "The Shaughraun" [1891] [Kennedy Company]. "Pygmalion & Galatea" [1891] [Kennedy Company]. "Current cash" [September 1891] [Juvenile Opera Company]. "La mascotte" with Lily Everett. Opera House [4 September 1891] [Juvenile Opera Company]. "The mikado" (with Lily Everett, W Percy, H Quealy, etc. Opera House [1891] Horace Chester's humorous and musical entertainment. Exchange Hall wellington, commencing 19 October 1891. Programme Grand opening of Dr Lynden's most liberal gift entertainment in the world. A gift for everybody. [August 1891?] [Bland Holt Company]. "Master & man" (with Harry Plimmer, Walter Howe, Albert Norman, etc). [Wellington Opera House, 2 November 1891]. [Bland Holt Company]. "London day by day". [Wellington Opera House, 7 November 1891] [Bland Holt Company]. Henry Pettitt & Sydney Grundy's "Bells of Haslemere" [Wellington Opera House, 12 November 1891] [Bland Holt Company]. "The golden ladder" [Wellington Opera House, 18 November 1891] [Payne Family Bellringers - group photograph] [Payne Family Bellringers. Exchange Hall, 25 November 1891] Walter Bentley in "Hamlet". Opera House [Wellington, February 1892] Walter Bentley in "Money". Opera House [Wellington, February 1892] Walter Bentley in "Merchant of Venice" [Opera House Wellington, February 1892] Walter Bentley in "The bells; or, The murder of the Polish Jew"so "Cramond Brig", and "David Garrick". [1892] J C Williamson's [Juvenile Opera Company] in "Pirates of Penzance". Opera House [1892?] J J Kennedy Company. "The Shaughraun" [1892?] Lilliputian Opera Company. Planquette's masterpiece "Paul Jones". Opera House Stratford, 14th August 1896. At the back are two letters to Mr Ellis, one mentioning a lecture he was giving on the "Much travelled" - probably Mr W A Ellis who spoke in Stratford in about June 1896. Also contains a letter to Mr Ellis from George Darrell, probably in 1890. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound book, 200 x 130 mm. Provenance: Donated by David Carnegie, Wellington, in 2013. Previously purchased by him.

Date: 1890

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1890

Description: Includes: John Gourlay and George Walton, and their brilliant Musical Company. "Skipped by the light of the moon", by George R Sims. Opera House Wellington. [1890s?] (Royal footlights) Programme. Williamson Garner & Co. J L Toole, world-renowned comedian, in "Paul Pry". With John Billington, H Westland, G Shelton, C M Lowne, C E Wilson, F Arlton, John Gunn, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Irene Vanbrugh, Miss Effie Liston, Miss Lilley Post, Miss Cora Poole, Miss Alice Deorwyn. Opera House Wellington [1890]. Programme / flyer. Williamson Garner & Co. J L Toole, world-renowned comedian, in "The don", by Mr & Mrs Herman Merivale. Opera House Wellington. [1890]. Programme/ flyer. Williamson Garner & Co. J L Toole, world-renowned comedian, in "Chawles; or, A fool and his money", by Henry Byron. Opera House Wellington. Flier / programme. Williamson Garner & Co. J L Toole, world-renowned comedian, in "Dot", by Charles Dickens, and "Paul Pry!". Theatre Royal Christchurch. 17 October 1890. Programme. Williamson Garner & Co. J L Toole, world-renowned comedian, in "Serious family", and "Dot". Theatre Royal Christchurch. 24-25 October 1890. Programme. Williamson Garner & Musgrove. "Little Lord Fauntleroy". Produced by Henry Edwards. Magnificent scenery specially painted for this production by Mr Henry Edwards. Opera House Wellington. 26 April 1890. Flier / programme (2 copies) Quantity: 7 programmes / fliers. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto.

Date: 1890

Reference: Eph-A-ASSOCIATION-C-1890-01

Description: Small square menu has gold lettering on the cover, with the menu printed in red inside. The printers sequential number is at lower right of menu page: 17422 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on light card folded to 78 x 82 mm.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-1-007

Description: A head and shoulders frontal portrait of a bearded man, with wild hair and glasses, possibly actor John L Toole, or another actor in the plays being performing in Dunedin in October 1890 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 204 x 123 mm.

Date: 1880s - 1910s

From: Cox, Margaret Irene, 1887-1968: Portraits of theatrical personalities

Reference: PA1-q-240

Description: Photographs of actors, musicians and entertainers who performed in New Zealand circa 1870s to 1920s Other Titles - Portraits, theatricals, etc., Volume 8 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cloth covers, red leather spine and corners, entitled "Portraits, theatricals, etc., Volume 8"; 34 x 26 cm Finding Aids: Index in front of album. Index to entire collection on correspondence file TL6/1/46, with copy bound separately and filed on album shelves.

Date: 1880s - 1910s

From: Cox, Margaret Irene, 1887-1968: Portraits of theatrical personalities

Reference: PA1-q-239

Description: Photographs of actors, musicians and entertainers who performed in New Zealand circa the 1870s to 1920s Exhibited in 'Collect' exhibition on the role of collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, mounted in National Library Gallery, 15 December 2006. Other Titles - Portraits, theatricals, etc. Volume 7 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cloth covers, red leather spine and corners, entitled "Portraits, theatricals, etc., Volume 7"; 34 x 26 cm Finding Aids: Index in front of album. Index to entire collection on correspondence file TL6/1/46, with copy bound separately and filed on album shelves.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-1-006

Description: A man top left with short bristly red hair; two men below, one seated on the top of a huge barrel, the other standing on the ground looking up at him Subject identified from drawings on following pages, including E-315-q-1-010 which identifies John L Toole as the subject Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with watercolour in sketchbook, page size 204 x 123 mm.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-1-009/010

Description: Two views of English actor John L Toole playing in two different farces in Dunedin in October 1890. On the left-hand piece of paper [E-315-q-1-010] Mr Spriggins is brandishing a feather duster (from the play Ici on parle francais by T J Williams). On the right [E-315-q-1-009] Mr Tittums is opening a door and proclaiming 'It does make me so wild', (from the play The steeplechase by J M Morton). Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sheets of paper glued to sketchbook page, size 115 x 72 mm.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-1-008

Description: A head and shoulders portrait of a middle-aged man. Drawn in red crayon Identified from the drawings on the following page, naming John L Toole, acting in two farces in Dunedin in 1890 and from a photographic portrait of the actor Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon in sketchbook, page size 204 x 123 mm.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-1-011

Description: English actor John L Toole playing in a farce in Dunedin in October 1890. He stands, his hands on his hips, a feather duster in his left hand, a book or newspaper in his right, in the role of Mr Spriggins, in Ici on parle francais by T J Williams Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sketchbook page, page size 205 x 119 mm.