New items from The Michael Diamond Collection Gallery

Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, Dalys Theatre

Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, at Daly's Theatre, London. Yvonne was a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Percy Greenbank, and music by Jean Gilbert and Vernon Duke (Dukelsky). It was adapted by Greenbank from an Austrian musical of the same name. Ivy Tresmand played the title role.
1926

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Scene from Tom Jones, comic opera by Edward German

Scene from Tom Jones, a comic opera by Edward German, based on the 18th century novel by Henry Fielding, with a libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander Thompson, and lyrics by Charles Taylor. With Charles Hayden Coffin as Tom, and Ruth Vincent as Sophia.
circa 1907

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18th, 1900s, 1907, Alexander, Century, Charles, Coffin, Comic, Courtneidge, Edward, English, Entertainment, Fielding, German, Hayden, Henry, Jones, Libretto, Lyrics, Music, Musical, Opera, Postcard, Production, Promotional, Robert, Ruth, Scene, Sophia, Stage, Taylor, Theatre, Thompson, Tom, Uk, Vincent

Teddy Tail, Duke of Yorks Theatre, London

Teddy Tail, a children's fantastic musical play by Charles Folkard, music by Frederic Norton, based on the Teddy Tail comic strip in the Daily Mail newspaper, at the Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London. The Cow jumps the Moon, to the dreadful distress, of the beautiful dutiful Penny Princess.
circa 1910s

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