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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 260 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.65 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's name inside cover. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Board covers, leather backstrip with gilt lettering and raised bands. Scuffed, small bits missing fro backstrip. Clear text. Some pen writing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1550grams, ISBN. …

Zustand: Poor. Covers and backstrip are worn and marked. Backstrip is detached but included. Covers and backstrip are worn and marked. Clean pages. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. in poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1700grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Poor. Covers and backstrip are worn and marked. Front and back covers have loose binding. Clean pages. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. in poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2000grams, ISBN.…

See the entries for Warner and Macqueen-Pope in the Oxford DNB. Such was the popularity of Warner's portrayal of George Dixon, that the Queen told him it had become part of 'the British way of life', and he was carried to his grave by six real officers from Paddington Green Police Station. LETTER: 1p, 4to. Folded twice. In good condition, lightly aged. Signature 'Jack.' and salutation to 'My dear Popie' in Warner's hand; the rest typed. Letterhead with his name. He is sending 'the long promised photos', delayed because he 'had to get some new prints of the "pipe" one. It is the character I play in the film, "Carve her name with Pride", with Virginia McKenna and Paul Schofield. / I look a bit scruffy but I think people get a bit fed up with "tidy" pictures, and anyway it is the character, and after all that is what matters.' He 'just got through the show' on the previous Saturday, before going 'home to bed with "flu". It was a very near thing and I have never felt more like chucking my hand in, but only because I could hardly think or see anybody. What we do for ART, eh? I'd like to meet this fellow Art one of these days.' In a postscript he states that his 'Indian doctor performed a miracle'. PHOTOGRAPH: 16 x 20.5 cm black and white print, with unobtrusive vertical crease. Inscribed 'To / A lifelong "FAN."' and 'With best wishes / Sincerely / Jack Warner / Sergt Dixon'. A smiling Warner, in the part of Police Sergeant George Dixon, stands in uniform with one hand on his desk. See image. …

See the recipient's entry in the Oxford DNB. Both letters signed 'Elsa'. ONE (7 December 1951): 1p, 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded three times. Thirty-eight lines of text. She received his letter while wishing to contact him, and wonders if this is a coincidence. 'And my wanting to write you grew out of an intense yearning to be in London again'. She asks after his family, and for information about what writing he has in hand: 'What, if anything, are you "in love with" on the London stage now?' She urges him to make 'a rip to these shores': 'hie yourself and your Stella [his wife] over here, so we can talk, and I'll appoint myself your guide in New York (as you did so thoughtfully in London), and you'll see our lovely Hudson River from my apartment here'. Having previously referred to her 'country home (in Margaretville, New York)', she adds, '(or, if you love the mountains as I do), we could go up to our home in the mountains, and listen to the silence there, and drink deeply of really pure air, and fill our souls with peace.' She ends with an enquiry after 'Swaff' and 'Mrs. Swaffer'. TWO (15 December [1947?]). 1p, 12mo. In good condition, folded twice. Begins: 'After six years I am now approaching the shore of England once more, and my heart beats faster in anticipation!' She will be in London in two days, and will be staying at the Dorchester. 'I'm eagerly looking forward to meeting you again!' After discussing telephone arrangements, and asking after his family, she ends: 'Perhaps you've heard that Stanley French has my play, "Tomorrow Is A Secret", under contract.?' (The Library of Congress gives the play's copyright date as 8 May 1947.) See image (Cunard Headed).…

Maschwitz wrote the lyrics to 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' and 'These Foolish Things', and was nominated for an oscar for co-writing the screenplay of 'Goodbye, Mr Chips'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Twenty-nine lines of text. In fair condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Maschwitz begins by congratulating him 'on a really enthralling book! Loved every page of it!' With reference to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, he explains that the previous day he 'had a talk with old Dennis Grayson who with Mrs Corey Wright is one of Tree's executors. He told me that they had recently opened a dusty old Pall Mall Safe Deposit box containing masses of records etc of His Majesty's Theatre - the "complete works" from 1897 to 1917 and there was so much of interest among them'. Included is an item relating to Claude Rains: 'a call boy's note book with C. Rains written inside it in a boyish hand'. Grayson 'wondered whether you would be interested in doing a book on the Theatre. Of course it wouldn't make anything as grand as Drury Lane but certainly something grander than Daly's'. He makes a few suggestions about topics MP might wish to include in the book, including the play 'Balalaika', with 'the cops coming for the backer on the opening night'. If MP is interested, 'Grayson who lives up North and comes to town occasionally, would be delighted to lunch you and tell you what he has. Let me know and I'll fix it'. MacQueen-Pope does not appear to have taken Grayson up on his offer, unless the letter dates from before the 1947 publication of 'Carriages at Eleven'. …

Berry was hugely popular during the Edwardian period and into the First World War. His greatest success was as 'Mr Meebles' in 'The Boy' (1917). See the recipient's entry in the Oxford DNB. Both letters signed 'W. H. Berry', and the second with long postscript on separate 12mo leaf signed 'W. H. B'. In fair condition, aged and worn. ONE: 30 December 1947. 4pp, 4to. 'This letter will be quite a "rat-tat from the past" (as Geo. Graves used to say), & its many a long year since I last saw you - & much has happened since "those were the days" & carriages were at 11. I have been thinking a lot lately of those days (& evenings) when I used to see you entering my tube train at Finsbury Park, both bound for Theatreland & our work therein - which we both loved.' He praises MP's 'recent writing on my favourite topic & my one & only period - the theatre in my time, say from 1890 onwards!' He is fulsome in praise of MP's work, adding 'My friend Wyatt shares these joys with me, & he tells me visited you recently? [.] Strange isnt it that Wyatt is the nephew of my old dresser Bartlett. Who was with me for years until he died?' He discusses his past ill health, adding 'I'm really in pretty good form, considering I'm 77 - in fact only 3 months short of 78.'' After the death of his beloved wife he has been fortunate enough to marry 'an old friend of ours of over 40 years & has lived here for the past 10 years [.] My wife passed away last January, & my dear & I were married at Canterbury on July 17'. He ends with enquiries after 'Jack Macqueen'. TWO: 6 March 1948. 2pp, 4to, and postscript of 2pp, 12mo. He is sorry that he has not been 'up to' responding to MP's two recent letters, and now thanks him 'for the Copy of that nice little mag "The Playgoer," which was, naturally, made more interesting by our article on "Gaiety Gals" - including pictures of Sylvia Storey & Jean Alwyn both in "Havana"! Also my old publicity "guvoner" [sic] H. C. G (Inky) Stevens has an article on "Show folk" which I enjoyed - as you may imagine. Of course I could not refrain from a little longing when I thought of Gaiety, "Havana" & "Show folk"! Ah me.' He has sent him a photograph of the Lowther Arcade, as he 'thought the sight of the dear old place might have revived a few delightful memories'. 'I was much amused about your story of Alphours & Tauber, & I hope that when you refer to my book for anything you want, you won't miss my anecdotes about (1) Geo Edwardes & Willie Ward at a "Cuts" rehearsal ("I must save time") & (2) Geo Edwardes greeting Alfred Lester who had called to protest about me having all the numbers to sing in "Havana"'. In a postscript he writes: 'I, like you, am so fond of, & wrapped up in the Theatre that I love to write about it - if I write any-thing, & I thought I'd struck a good idea (& a good title) when I wrote a book recently: - / "The Private life of a Theatre" / The first chapter was an account of a visit to a typical musical comedy with everything that happens from the entry of the orchestra to the final curtain, & then I say: - "now those few hours are all the general public know of the life of a theatre: but what about all those other 20 hours? Does nothing happen" etc etc / But Hutchinson's didn't like it, so its put away in Lavender with other mementos.'. …

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'. The earlier, 8pp, with a few emendations in pen; the later, 5pp, incorporating the emendations and with pencil addition. SEVENTEEN and EIGHTEEN. Two drafts of 'The London Coliseum'. The earlier, of 4pp, with an addition in pencil; the later, lacking p.3 of 4pp, incorporating the addition. NINETEEN. 'The Oxford Music Hall'. 4pp, with addition in pencil. TWENTY. 'His Majesty's Theatre.' Dated 21 November 1951. 4pp. TWENTY-ONE and TWENTY-TWO. Two sets of music lists. The first of 6pp, with the pages headed: 'Adelphi Music', 'Palace Theatre Music - in place of London Pavilion', 'Savoy Music', 'Daly's Music', 'Alhambra' and 'Music for Drury Lane'; the second, 3pp, with pencil emendations, the pages headed: 'Adelphi', 'Palace' and 'Adelphi' (followed by 'Palace'). TWENTY-THREE. Music list accompanying Item Four ('Music from the Theatre'), headed 'Tunes for 2nd Broadcast', with entries ticked in pencil. TWENTY-FOUR and TWENTY-FIVE. Two TLsS from Mary Treadgold, Talks Producer, General Overseas Service, to MP. Each on BBC (200 Oxford Street) letterhead. The first, 21 June 1951, 2pp, giving 'the Music List for Daly's; the second, 20 September 1951, 2pp, giving a long list of 'the music - with comments - for both the Coliseum and the Oxford. The programme for the Oxford is being broadcast fairly soon so it is really essential now that we get these two scripts recorded pretty quickly.' Checked in pencil with autograph notes by MP. TWENTY-SIX and TWENTY-SEVEN. Carbons of TNsS from MP to Treadgold, 26 June and 2 August 1951. Each 1p. The first with carbon copy of MP's signature. In the first he suggests that 'we use the Merry Widow as the signature tune rather than the Dollar Princess. The Widow was Daly's most outstanding play.' The second presents 'the Adelphi and Palace scripts. The Adelphi is a bit "talk-ey" but we cannot help it. The stories have the merit of being good ones.'.…