Plays Collection (page 4)

The Song to the Moon - Kay Nielsen
The Song to the Moon - The Art of Kay Nielsen. Date: 1913

Anton Lang, actor, in his pottery workshop
Anton Lang (1875-1938), German actor, in his pottery workshop. He worked as a potter, and performed as an actor in the Oberammergau Passion Plays, playing the role of Jesus Christ in 1900

YOUNG GIANTESS PLAYS
Travellers in the German countryside suddenly find that they have become the playthings of a young giantess

SPINNING STREET DOG
While its master plays the organ, a dog works a spinning wheel, to the admiration of passers-by in the streets of Paris Date: circa 1816

Title page of First Folio of Shakespeares Plays
The Title page of First Folio of William Shakespeares Plays, published in London by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount (Blunt) in 1623

The Vic-Wells Season & Dance, Waterloo, London, with portraits and signatures of creative staff, actors and actresses, including Tyrone Guthrie, Athene Seyler, Charles Laughton, Flora Robson

Athens, Greece - Relief sculptures - Theatre of Dionysus. Alterations carried out in the third century AD by the archon Phaedrus included the re-use of earlier Hadrianic reliefs (pictured here)

Androcles and the Lion by Shaw
The play Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw at the St Jamess Theatre, London. The emperor places his foot on the lions head while Androcles keeps the beast quiet

Fantasy Austrian New Year Maypole - A glamorous young lady enjoys toying with her formerly-dressed suitors, all in miniature form and flying around her on champagne bottles

The Play's the Thing
Painting of a handsome couple attending the theatre. Artist: Dudley Hardy. Date: circa 1900

Two young siblings playing with a beautiful toy pram
Two young Talbot Rice children (brother and sister, David Arthur and Cecil Penelope) playing with a beautiful toy pram on the lawns at Oddington House, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Date: 1932

Title Characters
A series of illustrations showing title characters from various operas, films and plays, including Daphnis Et Chloe, Hernani, Judith and Holofernes, Samson and Delilah, Abelard and Heloise, Manon

Hippolyte Lucas, French writer and critic
Hippolyte Lucas (1807-1878), French writer and critic. He wrote mainly plays and opera libretti. Date: circa 1860s

Eugene Scribe, French author
Eugene Scribe (1791-1861), French author, dramatist and opera librettist. Date: circa 1850s

Dressing Table Reflection
A painting which shows a young, red haired woman, checking her reflection at a dressing table mirror as she plays with her red necklace. Date: circa 1916

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret playing in a sandpit
Princesses Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-) and Margaret (1930-2002), daughters of the Duke and Duchess of York playing in a sandpit at St

Madge Kendal, English actress, who appeared in several of Pinero's early plays Date: circa 1905

Irene Vanbrugh in Pinero's play The Gay Lord Quex
Irene Vanbrugh as the manicurist Sophy Fullgarney in Pinero's play The Gay Lord Quex Date: circa 1900s

Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress
Mrs Patrick Campbell at the time of her success in Pinero's play The Second Mrs Tanqueray Date: circa 1900s

Matilda Charlotte Wood, English actress and theatre manager
Matilda Charlotte Wood, English actress (known as Mrs John Wood). She managed the Court Theatre (Sloane Square, London) between 1883 and 1891, including several productions of Pinero's plays

Marie Lohr as Georgina Tidman in Pinero's Dandy Dick
Marie Lohr as Georgina Tidman in Pinero's farce, Dandy Dick Date: circa 1900s

Marie Lohr as Josepha in Preserving Mr Panmure
Marie Lohr as Josepha in Pinero's farce, Preserving Mr Panmure Date: circa 1900s

Sir John Hare in Pinero's play, The Gay Lord Quex
Sir John Hare, actor, in the title role in Pinero's play, The Gay Lord Quex Date: circa 1900

Irene Vanbrugh as heroine in Pinero's Trelawny of the Wells
Irene Vanbrugh as the heroine, Rose Trelawny, in Pinero's play, Trelawny of the Wells Date: circa 1900s

Gerald du Maurier in Trelawny of the Wells
Gerald Du Maurier early in his career in the role of Ferdinand Gadd in Pinero's play, Trelawny of the Wells Date: circa 1900

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero in role of Sir Anthony Absolute
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, playwright, seen here as an actor in the role of Sir Anthony Absolute in Sheridan's play, The Rivals Date: circa 1900

Owen Nares, English stage and film actor - he played the shell-shocked hero in Pinero's musical fable, The Enchanted Cottage Date: circa 1900

Sir George Alexander and Irene Vanbrugh in play scene
Actors Sir George Alexander and Irene Vanbrugh in the letters scene from Pinero's play, His House in Order Date: 1906

G A Redford new censor and Examiner of Plays'. Studio portrait, in formal jacket and tie. G A Redford was formal Examiner of Plays, responsible for censorship for the Lord Chamberlain

Performance of Romeo and Juliet, Colombo, Ceylon
Depictions of a performance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by the Singhalese in Colombo, Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka)

Musical Comedy Out of the Bottle
Scenes from the musical comedy Out of the Bottle at the Hippodrome, including actors Clifford Mollison (1897-1986) and Arthur Riscoe (1896-1954) swigging from their hot water bottles. Date: 1932

Scene from The Merchant of Venice
Ernest Milton (1890-1974) as Shylock and Lydia Sherwood (1906-1989) as Jessica, in a production of The Merchant of Venice at the St James's Theatre. Date: 1932

Vile Bodies
A stage adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies at the Vaudeville Theatre. Date: 1932

Ivor Novello in I Lived With You
Ivor Novello (1893-1951) wrote and starred in this stage production of I Lived With You, which was later made into a film

The Miracle at the Lyceum Theatre
Scenes from Max Reinhardt's production of The Miracle at the Lyceum Theatre, a story told entirely in mime. Inset is Lady Diana Duff Cooper (1892-1986) as the Madonna. Date: 1932

Production of Othello
Actor Ernest Milton (1890-1974) played the title role in this production of Othello at the St James's Theatre. Also pictured are Nicholas Hannen (1881-1972) as Cassio and Henry Oscar (1891-1969)

Scene from See Naples And Die
The cast of See Naples And Die, a play by Elmer Rice (1892-1967) staged at the Little Theatre. Date: 1932

Grand Hotel Scene
A scene from the play Grand Hotel being performed at the Adelphi Theatre. The production ran from September 1931 to January 1932 and was noted for its special effects. Date: 1931

Louise Hampton in Late Night Final
British actress Louise Hampton (1881-1954) in a publicity photograph for the play Late Night Final at the Phoenix Theatre. Date: 1931

Cedric Hardwicke in Role
A portrait of the actor Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) playing the role of Edward Moulton-Barrett in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street'

Ivy Tresmand and Gene Gerrard
Ivy Tresmand (1898-1980) and Gene Gerrard (1892-1971), appearing in a production of the musical comedy Katja the Dancer at the Gaiety Theatre in London's West End. Date: 1925

Horace Hodges in Lightnin
Actor Horace Hodges (1863-1951) performing in the play Lightnin at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1925

John Barrymore and Fay Compton
Actors John Barrymore (1882-1942) and Fay Compton (1894-1978) in their roles as Hamlet and Ophelia for a production soon to open at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Date: 1925

Dorothy Seacombe (1906-1994) was a British actress who went on to have a film career. Here she is appearing in a stage production of Just Married at the Comedy Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Louis Esson
A portrait oil painting of Scottish born, Australian poet and playwright, Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson, who wrote plays such as The Time is Not Yet Ripe (1912) and The Drovers (1922)

Theatre goes rural
With many London theatres closed, this production of On Approval was rehearsed in a barn in Buckinghamshire, then toured the provinces. Date: 1940

Jany Holt at the Marigny Theatre
Jany Holt (1909-2005), born Ruxandra Vladescu Olt, was a Romanian actress who worked extensively in French cinema. At the time of publication she was appearing in the play Box B at the Marigny

Fred Terry and his daughter Phillida Terson
Fred Terry (1863-1933) was an English actor and theatrical manager. Here he is seen with his daughter Phyllis Neilson-Terry (1892-1977) who was then performing under the name of Phillida Terson

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