Actor with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who appeared in many of their productions including The Mikado See publicity photographs in Theatrical Album 11 (PA1-q-243, No. 536, 537).
Manning, Bernard, 1888-1961
Bryant, Keith, fl 1930s :J C Williamson Ltd. Gilbert & Sullivan opera season. Souvenir ...
Date: 1931
From: [Ephemera and theatre programmes for performances of opera and light musicals in New Zealand 1930-1935].
By: Art in Australia Ltd; Bryant, Keith, active 1930s; Green Press (Sydney, N.S.W.); Hartland & Hyde (Firm)
Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1931-01
Description: Costume sketches showing each performer in one or more roles. Performers include Ivan Menzies, Leo Darnton, Marie Bremner, Evelyn Gardiner, Maisie Ramsay, Mary Hotham, Gregory Stroud, John Ralston, Bernard Manning, Andrew Maccunn, and Clifford Cowley. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs each sheet 264 x 191 mm.
Harcourt, Peter :Photographs of theatre companies and personalities
Date: [ca 1932-1937]
By: Russell Roberts Ltd; Heimbrod, George K, active 1930s; Cohn, Alfred A, active 1930s; S P Andrew Ltd; Collett, R E, active 1923-1945; Lafayette Ltd; Reprograph Studio; Lornquist, H, active 1920s; Buttermere, (Mr?), active 1920s
Reference: PAColl-0366
Description: Photographs of stage actors and actresses, some in costume, many of them autographed and addressed to Harry or Mr Carson (possibly the same person). On two no names are given but they have been identified as probably Cyril Ritchard (man in tuxedo with cigarette) and Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott (couple dancing). Also included are three group photographs. Two were taken in the lobby of His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland, one of the cast of Roberta which had been brought over from Australia (Cyril Ritchard probably seventh from left in the group of men to the left and Madge Elliott in the middle of the second row of women) and the other, the cast of the George Wallace Show (George Wallace in the middle of the front row). The third one was taken outside and includes a man from the Roberta photograph (first on the left of the second row) who may be a tour manager. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mostly autographed photographic prints
Theatrical album 11
Date: 1880s - 1910s
From: Cox, Margaret Irene, 1887-1968: Portraits of theatrical personalities
Reference: PA1-q-243
Description: Photographs of actors, musicians and entertainers who performed in New Zealand circa the 1870s to 1920s. Not all images are identified, including two possible images of Ellen Terry? and Eleonora Duse?. Photographs numbered 523, 524, 526, 528 and 529 (all women) are not identified). 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 11 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cloth covers, red leather spine and corners, entitled "Portraits, theatricals, etc.; Volume 11"; 34 x 25 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.