Barrett Gallery

Cartoon, Wilson Barrett, preparing to play Hamlet

Wilson Barrett (William Henry Barrett; 1846-1904), actor, theatre manager and playwright -- More Study! Seen here preparing to play Hamlet, to the consernation of Henry Irving, who thinks he'd better get back from his American tour.
1884

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Cartoon, Wilson Barrett and G R Sims, Called Back

Cartoon, Called Back. Wilson Barrett (left), actor, manager and playwright - Glad to have you back, Mr Sims. George Robert Sims (right), English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist, had just recovered from one of his frequent illnesses from over-indulging.
1885

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Bubbly by John Hastings Turner with music by Philip Braham

Flyer for another production of Bubbly by John Hastings Turner with music by Philip Braham. The image is the same as the previous tour with a lady pierrot clown sitting on a large bubble holding a clay pipe, but many of the names of the cast members written in the bubbles are different in this flyer. The additional names are Doris Nowland, Bibi Delabere, Biddy Hay, Kathlene Martyn, R. Barrett-Lennard and Len Norton.The skits include the story of a young man who falls in love with the wrong woman, enacted in different theatrical styles. Touring to Opera House Dudley, Christmas week, 1918? Flyer produced by David Allen and Sons. Date: 1918

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