• Title
  Barry Humphries at home and performing in Melbourne
• Call number
  ON 388/Box 077/Item 330
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1965
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9628926
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  13 negatives - 6 x 6 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Photographs of Barry Humphries taken for an article published in the October 16, 1965 edition of Pix magazine.
  
  The majority of the photographs show Humphries performing in his one person show 'Excuse I : Another nice night's entertainment' at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne.
  
  In addition to Dame Edna Everage, Humphries is shown performing in character as an 'avant-garde crafty type' Neil Singleton, a 'beer-guzzling surfer' and a public relations person, working for Robert Menzies and Arthur Calwell, per the description the characters in the Pix Magazine article.
  
  Humphries in also shown, dressed in character as Dame Edna Everage and posing outside a Melbourne mixed grocery store at 850 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn
  
  Humphries is photographed with his family, in the living room of his home in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. Humphries is posed with his wife, Rosalind, his children, Tessa and Emily, and the family's nurse, Dominque Pessotti.
  
  References:
  Pix. Associated Newspapers Ltd., (16 October, 1965) p. 3, pp. 52-53.
  
  Austage : Australian Live Performance Database, entry for 'Excuse I : Another Nice Night's Entertainment' event identifier 81154, accessed 14/02/2023.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: May be copied for reference and publication
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Pix. Associated Newspapers Ltd., (16 October, 1965), p. 3; pp. 52-53.
• Description source
  
  Title devised by cataloguer.
• Variant title
  
  Former title: Shop, [1965?] / photographs by Jack Lawrence
• General note
  
  Photographs taken for a Pix magazine article, published 16 October, 1965 p. 3, pp. 52-53.
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  65-393
• Contributing Creator
  
  Gordon Allingham is attributed as a photographer in Pix, 16 October 1965, p. 3.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attribution to Jack Lawrence based on volunteer's notes taken from annotations left on glassine envelopes with the negatives.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Allingham, Gordon, -2000
  Lawrence, Jack
  
• Subject
  Humphries, Barry, 1934-
  Humphries, Barry, 1934- --Photographs.
  Comedy Theatre (Melbourne, Vic.)
  Pix (Sydney, N.S.W.). Photographs
  
• Place
  Hawthorn (Vic.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE18921804

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