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Title
Hood Collection part II, Box 053 nos. 166-181; Box 054, nos. 001-151; Box 055, nos. 001-164; Box 056, nos. 001-099 : J. C. Williamson Australian and New Zealand Theatres productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas
Call number
ON 204/Box 53/nos. 166-181
ON 204/Box 54/nos. 1-151
ON 204/Box 55/nos. 1-164
ON 204/Box 56/nos. 1-99
Level of description
file
Date

1940-1942
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
401953
Physical Description
430 negatives - film - 8 x 11 cm
Scope and Content
BOX 53

166-181. Cast of HMS Pinafore in costume (including Miss Maudler), 1940

BOX 54

1-35. Cast of HMS Pinafore in costume (including Miss Maudler), 1940
36-68. Cast of The Gondoliers in costume (Australian and New Zealand Theatres Ltd), March 1940
69-80. Cast of The Pirates of Penzance in costume and onstage (including Max Oldaker) Australian and New Zealand Theatres Ltd), April 1940
81-97. Cast of The Yeomen of the Guard in costume, June 1940
98-139. Cast of Princess Ida in costume, July 1940
140-147. Chorus of The Gondoliers in costume, 4 November 1941
148-149. Cast of The Sorcerer in costume, probably 1941
150-151. Chorus of The Gondoliers in costume, 4 November 1941

BOX 55

1-20. Cast of Princess Ida in costume, 10 December 1941
21. Theatre worker, 10 December 1941
22-25. Christmas party, Theatre Royal, December 1941
26-35. Cast of Trial by Jury in costume (Australian and New Zealand Theatres Ltd), April 1940
36-49. Cast of The Mikado in costume on final night, 27 January 1942
50-71. Cast of Patience in costume (no. 56 is second act of Pirates, no. 57 is Gondoliers?)
72-110. Cast of HMS Pinafore in costume (no. 107 is Miss Maudler)
111-112. HMS Pinafore chorus rehearsal
113-116. Cast of The Mikado in costume
117-149. Cast of Pirates of Penzance in costume
150-164. Cast of The Sorcerer in costume

BOX 56

1-25. Cast of The Sorcerer in costume
26-69. Cast of Yeomen of the Guard in costume
70. Yeomen of the Guard on stage
71-73. Some women of Trial by Jury in costume
74. HMS Pinafore chorus rehearsal
75. Men in suits on stage
76-86. Miscellaneous women [cast in costume]
87-99. Miscellaneous men [cast in costume]
Access Conditions

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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Titles, dates and contents lists in this series based on the Hood register with additional notes by Ted Hood, unless indicated by square brackets
General note

References: Entertaining Australia: an illustrated history, edited by Katherine Brisbane, Currency Press, Sydney, 1991 , pp. 246-247, 255 (Q790.20994/5); Sydney Morning Herald, March 1940; The Home, 1 July 1937, pp. 33-35
Alphanumeric designations

Original Hood box unnumbered (quarter plate)
Name
Australian and New Zealand Theatres Ltd
Fullard, John
Gardiner, Evelyn
Gondoliers (operetta)
H.M.S. Pinafore (operetta)
J.C. Williamson (Firm)
Maudler, Miss
Menzies, Ivan
Mikado (operetta)
Oldaker, Max, 1907-1972
Patience (operetta)
Pirates of Penzance (operetta)
Princess Ida (operetta)
Sorcerer (operetta)
Stroud, Gregory
Trial by jury (operetta)
Watson, Richard
Yeomen of the Guard (operetta)
Subject
Adult Females
Adult Males
Topic
interiors
chorus boys
chorus girls
Christmas parties
firefighters
operettas
portraits
singers
stages (theatres)
theatrical costumes
Place
Theatre Royal (Castlereagh Street., Sydney, N.S.W.)
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