New York: June 3, 1955. The Original Maggie the Cat. Bel Geddes played Maggie in the original production... Read More about Portrait photograph of Barbara Bel Geddes as "Maggie" in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
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[New York]: March 17, 1964. Fine portrait of the Italian-born production and costume designer Beni Montresor (1904-2001) who moved to New York in 1960, and designed sets for the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, and several Broadway shows. He was also a noted illustrator of children's books. Read More about Portrait photograph of Beni Montresor
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New York: October 29, 1958. Burgess Meredith's production in 1958 marked a comeback for one of America's greatest comedians. Mostel, whose career had been stalled by his McArthur-era blacklisting, made a triumphant return to the stage as Bloom. Read More about Portrait photograph of Zero Mostel as Leopold Bloom in "Ulysses in Nightown"
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New York: October 29, 1958. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Burgess Meredith's production in 1958 marked a comeback for one of America's greatest comedians. Mostel, whose career had been stalled by his McArthur-era blacklisting, made a triumphant return to the stage..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Zero Mostel as Leopold Bloom in "Ulysses in Nightown"
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New York: December 9, 1932. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Paul Muni
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New York: December 9, 1932. Slightly darker print (from the same negative) than that published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Paul Muni
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Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph James, in Chesnut-Street, 1789. First separate edition. PERNICIOUS THEATRE. Compiled by the Quaker lawyer and grammarian Lindley Murray (1745-1826), and first published as an appendix to his "The Power of Religion on the Mind" (1787). Read More about Extracts from the writings of divers eminent authors, of different religious denominations; and...
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New York: September 5, 1933. Read More about Portrait photograph of Carlotta O'Neill
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New York: June 17, 1939. Variant of the portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Fine image of the great actor in the year of his starring role as 'Heathcliff' in WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Read More about Portrait photograph of Laurence Olivier
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New York: 24 May, 1930. 'An Oustanding Role of Rare Charm…'. A letter mentioning Hempel's most famous operatic roles reading in part: "An outstanding role of rare charm is the Marschallin -- Princess von Werdenberg -- in "Rosenkavalier" - I created the role in Europe and in America … the..... Read More about Autograph letter signed "Frieda Hempel" to "Seymour Halpern" in response to...
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n.p. [London]: n.d. [c.1880]. Phrenologist Put Their Heads Together: "We expect Mrs. H Siddons" Nahum Capen, the American apostle of phrenology, while visiting in London, receives this invitation from Andrew Combe, brother of George Combe, the English apostle: "I called to request your company on friday evening at seven o'clock..... Read More about Autograph Note signed ("Andw Combe") to NAHUM CAPEN, at the Waterloo Hotel
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North Shields: Printed by T. Appleby, 1810. SHAKESPEARE. Read More about Theatre, North Shields. Mrs. Dalton, Most respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of North...
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[London]: The "Merchants Cheap Press" [1857]. PRINTED ON SILK. Charles Dance was a prolific nineteenth-century playwright whose popularity has accredited him with being the founder of a new order of burlesque. Nevertheless, OCLC does not locate any copies of the Old English Gentleman. Read More about Broadside advertising "Old English Gentleman for the Benefit of Miss C. Nickinson under the...
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Providence, R.I: Providence Press Company, ca. 1850. Evidently Romance of a Poor Young Man was an adaptation of an Octave Feuillet play, originally writen in French. Read More about Broadside advertising Women of the Day and Lester Wallack's Romance of a Poor Young Man. Two...
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New York: Nov. 21, 1938. PERFORMANCE FOR REFUGEES. With 1 pageinsert for this special performance for refugee relief organizations including Jewish Joint Distribution Committeee, German Jewish Children's Aid, etc. Read More about Program for Walter Huston in Knickerbocker Holiday
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on Damon Runyon stationary, nd. Reading in part: "You will never know how happy it made us to hear from you...we spent our honeymoon in California..." With a note in Patrice's hand above. Read More about ALS. To Aurora
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Comapny, [1915]. First American edition. Read More about The History of the Harlequinade
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Philadelphia: 1823. An attractive broadside advertisement for a production of Much Ado about Nothing at the New Theatre in Philadelphia, starring the English-born actor Henry John Wallack (1790-1870, brother of the actor James William Wallack), who had a long and successful theatrical career in America beginning in 1819. For this..... Read More about New Theatre ... Tuesday Evening, January 21, 1823, Will be presented, (by particular desire)...
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![Item #308364 Autograph Letter Signed ("S. Siddons,") to "The Hon. Miss [Sophia] Upton", declining...](/pictures/thumb/308364.jpg?v=1656542319)
np: Thursday, no year. The great actress Sarah Siddons writes a humourous letter to one of her confidants to decline an invitation, and also to report a scare of scarlet fever at her daughter's school. In part: "'Time Time' Oh that one could but make Time as the people make..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("S. Siddons,") to "The Hon. Miss [Sophia] Upton",...
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Kinderhoek, St. James, New York: September 13, 1957. "I am more than happy to give you permission to use the quote from my letter to Clifton Fadiman in the promotion of his delightful book...." Read More about Typed letter signed ("Cornelia Otis Skinner") to a Miss Salinger
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed by the author to Dante di Pagliani on the half-title and signed by Pgliani on the next page. He was the ciffeur to the stars. Read More about Madame Sarah
Price: $500
Dartmouth [UK]: Oct. 9 [circa 1930]. A short and somewaht melodramtic letter fom the English actor best know for his titular role as Grumpy, a retired barrister turned sleuth, that Maude made famous on the stage, and eventually the big screen. Reading in part: "…I don't know you well enough..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Cyril Maude" To "Mr. Halpern "Seymour Halpern" in...
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London and New York: John Tallis & Co, November, 1850-June, 1851. First edition. Read More about Tallis’s Dramatic Magazine and General Theatrical & Musical Review
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Denmark House Kew: Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1893. According to her 1936 obituary in the New York Times, Kathleen Lucille Foote (1868-1936), was once a famous American and European stage actress. Her fall from grace, after three marriages and the squandering of several small fortunes, found her on the streets of..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Kathleen Lucille Foote") to Editor of The "Lady"...
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New York: August 30, 1930. A letter from the American songwriter best known for co-writing the pop standard "Poor Butterfly." Reading in part: "Success in anyone's life is generally the result of a certian amount of talent or aptitude for a chosen work, plus an enormous amount of application, and..... Read More about Typed letter signed "John Golden" to "Mr. Halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in reply...
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