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ENTERTAINMENT EPHEMERA & MEMORABILIA
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1875 (June 30) Queen’s Theatre of Varieties printed Programme
“Grand Reception American Team” Attractively printed on a silk like
material with fine embroidered boarder. The Queen’s Theatre, Dublin,
located in Pearse Street was originally built in 1829 as the Adelphi
Theatre. This building was demolished in 1844 and rebuilt as the Queens
Royal Theatre. Framed 17.25 x 12.45in. (43.82 x 31.62cm)
€150-€200 (£125-£167 approx)
479
John Gielgud signed
letters, photographs
and programmes
collection
An excellent collection
relating to actor,
director, and producer
Sir John Gielgud one of
the few entertainers to
have won an Oscar,
Emmy, Grammy, and
Tony Award. Collected
by an Irish fan and
contained in an album.
Including 11 signed letters, 4 autographed photographs, autographed
programmes, newspaper cuttings etc. Also with signed photographs of
Emlyn Williams, Dame Sybil Thorndike and a signed letter from Dame
Flora Robson sent from the Shelbourne Hotel Dublin.
€150-€250 (£125-£208 approx)
480
Collection of printed editions of
plays including A Day by the Sea
signed by John Gielgud A Day by
the Sea by N.C. Hunter, English
Theatre Guild, London 1954 pp.
77, with signatures of John
Gielgud and Irene Worth.
Separate Tables by Terence
Rattigan, Hamish Hamilton,
London 1955 pp. 119, with
signatures of Eric Portman and
Margaret Leighton. Other plays
with signatures include Edith
Evans, Graham Greene etc. (12
items)
€100-€150 (£83-£125 approx)
481
Collection of signed theatre programmes including Margaret Leighton,
Eric Portman, Peggy Ashcroft etc.
An interesting collection of theatre programmes for plays, mostly from
the 1950s, including Venice Preserv’d, Separate Tables, Much Ado about
Nothing, The Potting Shed, Uncle Vanya, The Tempest etc. Signatures
include Pamela Brown, John Gielgud, Eric Portman, Margaret Leighton,
Peggy Ashcroft etc. (36 items)
€100-€150 (£83-£125 approx)
482
1950s-60s: Dolmen Press
designed and printed posters
Collection of four Dolmen Press
designed and printed posters for
St. James’s Gate Musical Society
productions at St. Francis
Xavier’s Hall, Sherrard Street,
and the RDS Dublin including
‘The Passion’ March 1959 and
January 1975, ‘Requiem
Orpheus’ 8 November 1958 and
Concert Hall Fund poster
December 1960. (4 items)
€250-€350 (£208-£292 approx)
483
1970s: RTÉ Pat Billings ‘That’s Entertainment’ Radio Programme
archive
An archive of radio Scripts, correspondence, clippings and reel to reel
tapes compiled by Pat Billings in the 1970s during his work in RTÉ on
Morgan O’ Driscoll’s That’s Entertainment Radio Programme during the
1970s. A large number of files comprising radio scripts for the
programme and other documents as well as reel to reel tapes with radio
clips of The Glass Menagerie, The Untouchables, Guards of Stone,
Outland etc. An interesting
collection
€200-€250 (£167-£208 approx)
484
1986 (17 May) Self Aid
programmes and poster
Poster for Self Aid held at the
RDS in 1986, framed, and 6
programmes for the same event
which included U2 and the last
performance by The Boomtown
Rats 24 x 17in. (60.96 x
43.18cm)
€80-€120 (£67-£100 approx)
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