Scrapbook, program and handbills relating to Stanley McKay's Pantomime Company, Harry Clay's Vaudeville Company and Sir Benjamin Fuller, ca. 1914-1927

MLMSS 8221

fonds

1914-1927

Textual Records, Clippings

152399

0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder) - printed

Pantomime and vaudeville were popular forms of entertainment in Australia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Stanley McKay (1879-1974), was one of Australia’s pioneering tent show and theatre operators, and one of the first 20th century showmen to tour pantomime around Australia and New Zealand. He had an artists leasing arrangement with theatrical entrepreneurs Sir Benjamin John Fuller (1875-1952) and John Fuller (1879-1959). Harry Clay (1865-1925), was a minstrel tenor and vaudeville revue entrepreneur, and provided employment opportunities for local performers throughout New South Wales and Queensland.

References:
HAT-History of Australian Theatre. http://www.hat-archive.com/ (accessed 27 January 2012)
Australian Variety Theatre Archive. http://ozvta.com/ (accessed 27 January 2012)
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/ (accessed 27 January 2012)

Presented to Dennis Wolanski Library of the Performing Arts, Sydney Opera House by Margaret Paine

Scrapbook of newscuttings and handbills relating to Stanley McKays Pantomine Company, 1914-1915, including handbill for ‘Old Mother Hubbard’ at the Grand Opera House Wellington, ca. 1916

Miscellaneous printed material including Harry Clay’s Vaudeville Company program for ‘Celebrity Vaudeville' season at the Tivoli Theatre, 7 February 1927, and Sir Benjamin Fuller’s political manifesto, no date

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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