Walter Hartley papers, including papers of the Paulton family, ca. 1852-1993

MLMSS 8486/Boxes 1-9
MLMSS 8486/Box 10X
GR 324-GR 325

fonds

ca. 1852-1993

Textual Records, Manuscript Notated Music, Notated Music, Graphic Materials, Musical Sound Recordings, Clippings, Drawings, Photographs, Moving Images

152257

Music - (manuscript and printed scores)
2.20 metres of textual material (8 boxes and 1 outsize box) and 2 gramophone records

Walter Hartley was the grandson of Harry (Henry) Paulton (1842-1917). Harry Paulton was a well-known comic actor and playwright who appeared under the J.C. Williamson management in Australia in the 1890s.

Harry's children included Agnes, Harry, and Edward - who himself was an author and playwright.

Walter Hartley performed as an actor, as well as writing and performing radio plays, and writing theatre reviews.

Reference:
Compiled from the collection

BOX 1
Folder 1
Clippings from and copies of picture show and film magazines, showing film stars, 1921-1933

Folder 2
Notes and newspaper clippings on radio programs, war, performances, actors, cartoons, Royal history, etc., 1936-1976

Folder 3
Newspaper clippings of radio pictures or radiograms received in Australia, 1937-1940

Folder 4
Newspaper clippings about the opening of the Elizabethan Theatre Trust's first performance in Newtown, 1957; theatre programs and newspaper clippings mainly concerning Norman Lindsay, 1956-1984

Folder 5
Newspaper clippings including short stories, brochures, supplement showing aerial views of Sydney, etc., 1907-1984

BOX 2
Folders 1-3
Invitations, tourist brochures, newspaper clippings, theatre magazines and programs, etc., 1922-1991

Folder 4
Publication 'Good Old Gaiety' by John Hollingshead, newspaper clippings and memories of the Gaiety Theatre, 1903-1972

Folder 5
Album of newspaper clippings, inscribed to "Miss M. A. Paulton (Aggie) with best wishes for a Happy New Year, January 1896 ...", 1896-1900

BOX 3
Folder 1
Programs, mainly from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, for 'Princess Christian's Homes of Rest for Disabled Soldiers', 'Dickens Centenary Celebration', 'Ellen Terry Jubilee Commemoration', 'Money', 'Coronation Gala Performance by Command of The King', 1900-1912

Folder 2
Manuscripts by W. J. Paulton, 1900-1913

Folder 3
Program, brochures, newspaper clippings relating to a pageant held at Vaucluse House on the occasion f the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932-1982

Folder 4
Programs and newspaper clippings relating to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and the Old Vic, 1948-1955

Folder 5
Programs, newspaper clippings, The Cat magazine, copies of obituaries for Harry Paulton, 1894-1993

BOX 4
Folder 1
Programs, newspaper clippings, postcard, 1911-1989

Folder 2
Correspondence, fliers, and articles about Percy Aldridge Grainger and Mrs (Amy E.) Chalk, 1934-1987

Folder 3
Newspaper clippings and associated papers, some articles written by Walter Hartley, ca. 1964-1990

Folder 4
Manuscript and typescript scripts for 'Aladdin: a radio pantomime', and 'Harbour Lights' by Walter Hartley, ca. 1940-1945

Folder 5-6
Inspector Zone or 'Firezoned' manuscript and typescript scripts, newspaper clippings of radio programming guides, ca. 1940-1949

BOX 5
Published plays by Edward Paulton: Philippa Gets There; and The Stone Lady, ca. 1926

Turn to the Right / Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard, 1926

Merely Mary Ann / adapted by Israel Zangwell, 1921

Ali Baba / I. R. O'Neill, ca. 1852

Billeted / F. Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Harwood, 1917

All-of-a-sudden Peggy / Ernest Denny, 1910

Folder 1
Manuscript and typescript scripts for radio 'Down Our Street', 'Name the Place', and 'An English Bantam', ca. 1940-1949

Folder 2
Manuscript and typescript scripts for radio 'A& R', 'Winn's Christmas Matinee', 'Tales of a Tailor', 'Sally in our Alley', 'Electricity', 'The Travelling Tinker', 'Author, Author', and 'Trolley-bus Tunes', ca. 1940-1949

Folder 3
Typescript radio play script for 'In a Curio Shop'; annotated typescript play 'The Baby: a little comedy by Harry & Edward Paulton'; scripts for 'The Valley of the Apes' and 'The Black Monk'; and script for 'Stella' by Harry Poulton, ca. 1910-1949

BOX 6
Folders 1-2
Newspaper clipping, postcard, program, calendar, black and white photographs of Paulton family members, actors, stage sets, race horses, etc., ca. 1892-1980

Folders 3-4
Papers, newspaper clippings, typescript and manuscript radio scripts for 'The Muggins Family' (or the Mugginses), 1937-1939

Folder 5
Newspaper clippings with short stories, scripts for radio plays, ca. 1903-1949

BOX 7
Folder 1
Manuscript and typescript plays, advertisements, and assorted papers, ca. 1939-1940

Folder 2
Typescript radio plays, ca. 1940-1949

Folder 3
Cards and correspondence, newspaper clippings, the Australasian Stage Annual (1905), 1903-1985

Folder 4
Scripts of theatre and radio plays, newspaper clippings, copies of playbills, letters, etc., ca. 1900-1983

Folder 5
Program for the 'Black Crook', starring Harry Paulton, from the Alhambra Theatre, London, 1873

Folder 6
Published, some clipped from newspapers, and manuscript music for piano with song lyrics, ca. 1912-1931

BOX 8
Published music for piano with song lyrics, some by Harry Paulton, 1895-1904

Extracts from the Saturday Evening Post, 1925-1927

Painted caricature 'To Glugs ... best ... Walter Hartley ...', 9 May 1973

BOX 9
Small box of cut film strips and loupe; and envelope containing small roll of film - 'This little bit of film is all that remains of an old silent movie "The Call of the Road" ... and the man is Victor McGlaglen [McLaglen]. It was his first acting part, and in later years he went on to Hollywood and made many movies, including 'The Informer' in which he won an Academy Award'

BOX 10X
Illuminated address to 'Mr. Harry (Papa) Paulton' from the Paulton-Stanly Comedy Company, including autographs and a photograph of Paulton, 1898

Gramophone records: GR 324 -GR 325
GR 324: 'Fifinette, Intermezzo', and 'The Policeman's Holiday', played by The Black Diamonds Band
GR 325: 'Afghanistan - Fox-trot', and 'Russian Rag - Fox-trot', played by the Regal Dance Orchestra

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Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
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