Harry Job papers, ca. 1799-1993

MLMSS 8612/Boxes 1-5
MLMSS 8612/Box 6X

fonds

1799-1993, predominate 1920-1980

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Ephemera, Photographs, Objects, Clippings, Drawings

153427

1.19 metres of textual material (5 boxes and 1 outsize box)

Harry Job (1909-1996) magician, was born in Parkes. He developed an interest in magic when the family moved to Sydney in 1916. Between 1919-1924, Will Andrade established his magic and theatrical business in Sydney. By 1930s Job was an accomplished magician and manager of Andrade's Magic Department, and later took over the business and the name Will Andrade, following a fatal accident in 1939. In World War II, he entertained troops at camp concerts and in hospitals. He was with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Unit (BCOF) in Japan in 1948 and was the magician in ‘Myles of Smiles’ concert party that toured Japan at war’s end.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

BOX 1
Newscuttings relating to variety and performing arts in Australia, 1919, 1954-1995. Includes extracts from ‘San Francisco Times’ 1894 and ‘The Entr’Acte & Limelight’, 1894

Photographs, with some autographed by entertainers, ca. 1929-1970. Includes three photographs of Katherine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann in Shakespeare production at Tivoli Theatre during the Old Vic Australian tour, 1955

Printed publicity material, mainly variety theatre programs, handbills and playbills, ca. 1935-1992. Includes Tivoli souvenir theatre program

Directory of the Professional Variety Artists Club, ca. 1963-1964 with newsclippings and obituaries relating variety artists, ca. 1990-1992

Three dinner invitations and one menu, 1937-1959

Two certificates awarded to Harry Job for performance at the Katoomba New Year’s Eve Carnival, ca. 1936

Silhouette card of Harry Jobs, ca. 1941

BOX 2
Two stamp printing blocks and two proof sheets relating to ventriloquist device, no date

Framed photograph of variety theatre artists of British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Unit (BCOF) prior to departure on HMAS Kanimbla, 1948

Framed portrait of entertainer Tivoli Bill Sadler, stage door man and father of saddler twins and James Brunton-Gibb compere actor and elocutionist and husband of actress Ethel Lang, no date

Framed factory time sheet, no date

Typescript concert program of ‘Rise and Shine’, ca. 1944

Two posters, ca. 1935

Personal letters and correspondence, ca. 1947-1993

Typed playscripts of ‘Punch and Judy Show’, ‘Old Moore’s Almanac’, ‘Fortune and Men’s Eyes’, ca. 1969, manuscript playscript of ‘Fortunes Frolic’, ca. 1799-1810

BOXES 2-3
Typescript playscripts for ‘The Kelly Gang’ owned by Charles MacMahon, ca. 1905

BOX 3

Printed magazines, ‘People’, ‘PIX’, ‘Austin Magazine’ and ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly’, ca. 1933-1950

Two car manuals, ca. 1933-1950

Two theatrical posters and one Austin motor car poster, ca. 1970

Miniature appointment diaries and notebook, ca. 1920s, 1946-1948

Miniature motor car logbook, 1952-1976

Agency commissions logbook, 1946-1949

Manuscript playscript of ‘the Kelly Gang’ by Will Andrade, no date

Typescript playscript, ‘In Gay Seville’, Act II owned by John McCallum, no date

Novelty mirror ‘Will Andrade Plays and Makeup’, no date

Sketch of Harry Job by Fred Howard, 1952

Framed membership cards of the Actors and Announcers Equity Association of Australia, 1958

BOX 4
Photographs, newsclippings, printed theatre programs and periodicals relating to stage magic, variety theatre and performers, ca. 1938-1995

Business, personal and legal correspondence and agreements between William Charles Andrade, Hilda Champion Andrade and Harold William Job, 1910, 1925-1984

Theatre scrapbook of newscuttings and photographs, ca. 1956

BOXES 4-5
Two photograph albums with autographs of performers from the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Unit (BCOF), ca. 1948

BOX 5
Book of poetry collected by Lawrence Campbell, no date

Recipe scrapbook, ca. 1927

Two certificates of accreditation and registration awarded to Will Andrade’s Entertainment Agency by the Actors and Announcers Equity Association of Australia, ca. 1940-1958

Newscuttings, program and pre-embarkation instructions relating entertainers in the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Unit (BCOF) and H.M.A.S. Kanimbla, ca. 1948

Printed ephemera, letter and forms relating to enrollment in the Australian Military Forces, ca. 1944

Printed material including programs and playscripts mainly relating to variety theatre and stage magic from William Andrade’s shop, ca. 1902- 1975

Scrapbook of newscuttings relating to variety theatre compiled by Harry G. Thomas, ca. 1910-1915

Annotated playscript of Richard III arranged by Walter Bentley, ca. 1892-1912

Blueprint and negative posters of marionette working drawing, no date

BOX 6X
Three proof board designs for Will Andrade’s magic shop, no date

Framed photograph of Harry Job, no date

Framed Women’s Weekly article by Vicki Anderson about Will Andrade Theatrical supplies with illustration of shop counter, ca. 1946

Mounted copy of a photograph of clown William Evans (Billy Andros), ca. 1959

Program ‘The Fantasticks’ at Bondi Pavilion Theatre, ca. 1974

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