• Title
  Minnie Tittell Brune [as Kundry in the T. Hilhouse Taylor dramatic adaptation of the opera "Parsifal"] / R.A. Ruddle, Valley Studios, Brisbane [1905-1908]
• Creator
  R. A. (Roland Arthur) Ruddle
• Call number
  P1/256
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  [1905-1908]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  439979
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : a128749
  
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint on panel - image 20.5 x 10.5 cm. , on mount 27.5 (length trimmed) x 19.7 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  "J.C. Williamson ... decided to bring the Australian public the story [of Parsifal] if not the music. In a rare display of faith in an Australian author, he commissioned T. Hilhouse Taylor, a Sydney clergyman, to make the opera into a play." (Reference: Entertaining Australia / K. Brisbane, ed., p.148)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  Transferred from P1/Brune, Minnie Tittell (BM), December 2009
  Digital order no:a128749
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  Photographer's stamp at lower right
  ... American actress of great talent opened in 'L'Aiglon' & stayed many years also as Peter Pan &c &c. -- top verso of mount
  "Minnie Tittell Brune" -- signature along lower edge of photograph
• Date note
  Dated from the adaptation of Parsifal and Tittell Brune's tour dates
• Name
  Tittell Brune, Minnie
  J.C. Williamson (Firm)
  Parsifal (theatrical production)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  interiors
  actors
  
• Exhibited in
  A Magnificent spectacle : theatre posters of J.C. Williamson's, 1905-1914 - State Library of New South Wales (12 April, 2004 - 24 April, 2005)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1656190

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