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1 Title:   Paris and London music hall costume designs  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Shanks, Alec  
  Dates:   1930-1939  
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The collection consists of four original watercolor sketches of costumes designed for the Paris music hall. Two of the sketches are by Ladislaus Czettel (one featuring two women holding a wreath, the other featuring a man holding a crook covered in flowers) and two are by Alec Shanks (entitled Violets and Orchidees, both for the Prince of Wales Theatre).
  
  Identifier:   ms3341  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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2 Title:   Theatre Royal, Covent Garden broadsides  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Theatre Royal, Covent Garden  
  Dates:   1816 September 13-1821 January 29  
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The collection consists of 92 broadsides advertising plays presented at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden from September 13, 1816 to January 29, 1821. The broadsides feature the names of many famous performers of the day including Charles Kemble, William Charles Macready (making his "first appearance in London" in the play "Distressed Mother," on the second theatre broadside in this group, dated September 16, 1816), Charles Mayne Young, William Farren, Joseph Grimaldi, Eliza O'Neill, and Catherine "Kitty" Stephens among others. Among some of the advertised plays are Mrs. Centilivre's Comedy "The Wonder," a new musical play "Guy Mannering," "Othello," (the parts of Othello and Desdemona being being played by Young and O'Neill), "Romeo and Juliet," (with J.P. Warde and Sallie Booth in the title roles), "As You Like It," "Henri Quatre, or Paris in the Olden Time," "Comedy of Errors," King Richard III," a new tragedy "Virginius; or The Liberation of Rome," "Coriolanus," "Wallace, a Tragedy in Five Acts," (its performance, with Macready in the leading role), "Harlequin and Friar Bacon," (a new comic pantomime, with parts played by both Joseph Grimaldi and his son), etc.
  
  Identifier:   ms4188  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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3 Title:   Seymour Hicks papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hicks, Seymour, Sir, 1871-1949  
  Dates:   1815-1948  
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The collection consists of papers of Sir Seymour Hicks from 1815-1948. The collection includes loose correspondence (1856-1948), invitations, autographs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain photographs of various British actors and actresses and correspondence. The collection includes material on such well known individuals as David Lloyd George, the Earl of Westmoreland, Lord Cromer, who was Lord Chamberlain, Gerald DuMaurier, Maude Adams, George M. Cohan, and Consuelo Marlborough.
  
  Identifier:   ms971  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4 Title:   Arthur W. McDonald collection of theatre engravings and playbills  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   McDonald, Arthur W.  
  Dates:   1767-1915  
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The collection consists of 18th and 19th Century British theatre playbills and engravings that document the Yorkshire theatre circuit and non-Yorkshire theatre. Of note are playbills and engravings related to the Kemble family, Elizabeth Inchbald, and productions at Drury Lane and Covent Gardens.
  
  Identifier:   ms3762  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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