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Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xv, 492pp. Illustrations, tables, chart endpapers. Very good/very good. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Revised edition, boldly signed and inscribed by the author on half-title page verso "To one of my favorite / Teachers, Miss Elsa Schuetze / With fond regards / James Drury / 20 Sept 70.".…

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJames Westbrook Drury lives with his wife, Danny, in Lawrence, Kansas. Jim was a professor of political science at Kansas University for over forty years. Jim and Danny have traveled extensively and lived for short per.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Please note: This copy lacking its covers. First and last pages loose but present. Features: Canada in the Great War (Part 2) - The stirring record of 'the men behind the guns' - and of our wemen, too - photo illustrated article; The Crushing Horde - fiction from the north; Doctor to the Poor Fish - a free clinic for ailing aquarium pets; Canadian Sprinter Percy Williams (Peerless Percy) - Winner of the 100 and 200 metre Olympic sprints; Down Three Steps (short story); She Lika da Jazz (short story); Did They 'Get' Bulldog Kelly? - a tale of the North West Mounted; Prosperity's Leap From the Bush - The successful Canadian pulp and paper industry - photo-illustrated article; The Winking Satyr (short story); Our Population Problem (Part 4) - a suggestion that our need for people be solved by transplanting British industries; A Little Way Ahead (part 6); Beautiful one-page colour ad for Waterman's pens features waterfall and rainbow; Daily Newspapers Under Fire; Gorgeous one-page colour-illustrated ad for Quaker Puffed Rice features boy and girl at table; Nice one-page colour ad for Canadian National Steamships features their cruises to the Caribbean; Lovely one-page colour ad for Wahl-Eversharp Gold Seal Pens; Teaching Etiquette to Children; Crossword on page 78 has been completed; Jacobean Embroidery. A worthy reference copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's Magazine, October 15 1928, Vol. XLI No. 20, Canada in the Great War, Percy Williams, Fastest Human, Peerless Percy, Canada in the Great War (Part 2) - The stirring record of 'the men behind the guns' - and of our wemen, too - photo illustrated. Illustrated by Amick, Robert; HAllam, J.S.; Valentine, A.C.; Jefferys,C.W.; Taylor, H. Weston; Gloyne Summers, Dudley (illustrator).…

For information on Macqueen-Pope, see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is from his papers. Unsigned carbon copy of typed letter, with '(W. Macqueen-Pope)' typed below space for signature. 2pp, 4to. Sixty-one lines of text. Text clear and complete, on lightly aged and creased paper, with slight water stain to one edge and damage to top left-hand corner from paperclip. The letter begins: 'My Dear John, / Re the toys which made Xmas long ago. One would want a picture of the men standing shoulder to shoulder down Ludgate Hill, in the gutter, selling the penny toys. These they carried on trays, with a support round their necks. The toys were of all sorts - a list -'. A list of thirty-two lines follows, beginning: 'Little men taking off their tall hats when a string was pulled. / Little tortoises in boxes with glass tops, which waggled their legs when moved.' Ends with: 'Little bits of metal like aeroplane propellors [sic] which rose in the air when pushed up a screwed rod. / Watchmen's rattles - yellow and red. / Bulls eye lanterns.' The recipient has followed each entry on the list with a tiny tick in ink. Macqueen-Pope continues with twenty-three lines listing 'toys which have almost if not quite vanished - b[u]t which cost more than a penny - some as much as sixpence'. These include: 'Tin palm tress [sic] bearing cocoanuts and a nigger smwarmed [sic] up it, caught a cocoa nut in a try on his head and came down.' and 'The Wheel of Life - a circular tin affair looking like a round saucepan with no handle. It had slots in the side. Into the bottom went a spike. You put rolls of paper - with illustrations inside, facing inwards, you twirled it round, looked through the slots and the pictures moved. This was the origin of the cinema.' Also 'Slap bangs, which went off with a satisfying bang when dropped. Scared old men and made cyclists think they had a puncture.' Postscript: 'White mice and pigs made of sugar. Tiger nuts - locusts. Everlasting stick'.…

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. His entry in the Oxford DNB describes how, in the 1950s, he was 'in demand as a lecturer on the theatrical subjects he loved, and he appeared often in the same capacity on radio and on television. Ironically he regarded these two forms of public entertainment, and television in particular, as representing a serious threat to the survival of theatre, about which he cared passionately'. The present item relates to the theatre with which he was most closely connected, serving for more than two decades (1935-1956) as press agent there, and even acting as its Air Raid Warden during the Second World War. His book on the place had appeared in 1945. 4pp, 4to. On four leaves of discoloured and heavily-creased cartridge paper. At top left of first page: '2nd Broadcast'. Title: 'Theatre Songs and Stories / by / W. Macqueen-Pope / No. 2. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. / Signature Tune 'Ma Belle'. Traces the history of music at the theatre, from its foundation in 1663, with reference to Nell Gwynne and Pepys, Garrick's 'Heart of Oak' and Arne's 'Rule Britannia', to Ivor Novello, whose 'recent tragic death saddened the whole country'. MP, who would produce a biography of his friend Novello at the end of 1951, adds, in the final paragraph: 'And indeed, Ivor Novello's life who wrote and composed that song did indeed belong to us. He dedicated it to the public and to the Theatre - and he loved and revered no Theatre more than Drury Lane, for which he did such yeoman service. He has gone, but Drury Lane goes on - musically, too. "Oklahoma" broke every record it ever made, and "Carousel" still runs gaily after a whole year of service.'.…

The material collected here is perhaps unique: it is not clear whether any material relating to Macqueen-Pope's BBC broadcasts has survived elsewhere. It is hard to overestimate the significance of 'Popie' to the history of the London stage. Other items from among his papers offered seperately attest to the regard in which he was held by both actors and those behind the scenes, as the foremost chronicler of a cherished era that was quickly passing into oblivion. His entry in the Oxford DNB describes how, in the 1950s, he was 'in demand as a lecturer on the theatrical subjects he loved, and he appeared often in the same capacity on radio and on television. Ironically he regarded these two forms of public entertainment, and television in particular, as representing a serious threat to the survival of theatre, about which he cared passionately'. A total of twenty-seven items; comprising 15 BBC radio scripts by MP, with an additional five earlier drafts of some of them, together with two TLsS to MP from Mary Treadgold of the BBC Overseas Service, two carbons of notes from MP to Treadgold, and three typed music lists by MP for the particular broadcasts. Fifteen of the items (Five and Seven to Twenty), comprising eleven scripts and earlier drafts of four of them, are from a series of 'Theatre Songs and Stories by W. Macqueen-Pope', broadcast on the BBC Overseas Service in 1951. (The other scripts would appear to have been broadcast on the same channel at the same time.) Apart from Item Six, which is worn and chipped but with text complete, the material is in good overall condition, with the inevitable slight aging and wear, and with slight rust-staining from paperclips. All items in 4to except for Five and Six, which are foolscap 8vo, and a total of 131pp. Items Thirteen and Eighteen incomplete; the other twenty-five items complete. ONE and TWO: Two drafts of 'Half a Century of Musical Comedy / Script and Narration by W. Macqueen-Pope', both headed 'Broadcast'. Both 16pp. Undated, but from 1951, as states that 1894 was '57 years ago'. The second, a black ink carbon, incorporates the typed emendations in the first, a blue-ink carbon. THREE. 'Bring Back Harlequin'. Dated 27 December 1951 and headed 'Broadcast'. 7pp, with pencil emendations. FOUR: 'Music From the Theatre by W. Macqueen-Pope.' Headed 'Broadcast'. 4pp. FIVE. 'Theatre Songs and Stories by W. Macqueen-Pope', concerning 'The Gaiety Theatre, London'. In top right-hand corner of first page: '(Rough specimen of Broadcast).' 5pp, foolscap 8vo. SIX. '1 Memories of Olympia by W. Macqueen-Pope.' 4pp, foolscap 8vo. (Items Seven to Twenty are all headed 'Theatre Songs and Stories by W. Macqueen-Pope.' with 'Broadcast' at top left of first page.) SEVEN and EIGHT. Two drafts of 'No. 2. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane'. Both headed '2nd Broadcast'. The earlier, 4pp; the later, also 4pp, with 'Broadcast' at head of first page by MP in pencil, and carrying a couple of pencil emendations. Both drafts refer to the recent death of Ivor Novello, the first describing him as 'an immortal' whose 'music will be played so long as there remains a British audience to listen to it'. NINE and TEN. Two drafts of 'The Adelphi Theatre'. The earlier, 8pp, with additional leaf carrying typed note headed 'Broadcast Inset after 'Nymph Errant'; the later, 5pp, abridged and rewritten, but incorporating the 'Inset'. (Regarding 'The Quaker Girl' MP writes: 'A wonderful show for the wonderful nights of a wonderful period. That first night on 5th November 1910 was a triumph for all concerning and sitting in the stalls with his bride and applauding as enthusiastically as anyone was a young politician named Winston Churchill.') ELEVEN. 'The Alhambra. Leicester Square.' 4pp. Pencil emendation. TWELVE and THIRTEEN. 'Daly's Theatre'. 4pp; with first page only of later draft, with minor pencil emendations. FOURTEEN. 'The Holborn Empire'. Dated 21 November 1951. 5pp. FIFTEEN and SIXTEEN. Two drafts of 'The Palace Theatre'. Th.…