percy anderson stage designer painter (2 Ergebnisse)

2pp, 12mo; and 1p, 8vo. On a bifolium, with the 8vo page written lengthwise across the central pages. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Signed 'Percy Anderson.' According to a pencil note Broadhurst was Beerbohm Tree's 'press agent'. He has received Broadhurst's letter late the same night, and begins by informing him that he cannot go to Covent Garden the following day as he will be with a sitter. He continues: 'As I implied to you in my last letter it seems almost impossible for me to give you details of the costumes to be worn in "Joan of Arc." | Period Charles XII of France ( he reigned from 1403 to 1461.) The dresses are of necessity tremendously fantastic & in designing them I have endeavoured to make them historically correct. Therefore what else can I say about them?' Were the dresses 'fanciful' it would be easy for Anderson to describe them, but 'as it is they must be rather on conventional lines'. He concludes: 'I hate to appear discourteous & if I cld. be of any use to you or to Mr. Eyles I wld. but I think you will readily understand the difficulty'.

Total of 7pp, 12mo. All in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Each folded once. All signed 'Percy Anderson'. ONE: 12 March 1912. Begins: 'Your properties are quite splendid.' He thanks Clarkson and his assistant for the trouble they have taken 'over the "M[?]"'. Ends: 'I thought everything as good as it cd be I refer to yr work of course'. TWO: 31 December [1912]. He thanks him for his 'delightful' card, and for 'yr. good wishes & for the tickets you so kindly send me for The Miracle. It was most thoughtful of you.' He ends in the hope that 1913 will be a crowning success you for [sic] & that you will have a very happy time'. THREE: 19 January [no year]. He is seeing 'Mr. Simmons' at 11 am the following day, and will 'look in' on Clarkson afterwards. He thanks him 'for all the good work' on 'The Country Girl', adding: 'I want you to put all yr "guts" please into the "Ulysses" wigs'. FOUR: 10 September [no year]. 'It is too kind of you to send me those lovely figs. There's nothing I like better, & I am most grateful.' FOUR: 31 December [1912]. The recipient William Clarkson was the owner of Clarkson's Wigs, Wellington Street, London. James Morton, in his 'Gangland Soho' (2012), alleges that Clarkson (who has a blue plaque to his name at 41-43 Wardour Street) was not only a repeated insurance fraudster, but a notorious homosexual blackmailer, after whom the public lavatory in Dansey Place was named 'Clarkson's Cottage'. RE Anderson & G & S: "The artist and costume designer Percy Anderson (1851-1928) was based in London where he exhibited watercolours at the New Water Colour Society in 1886. He designed costumes for the original productions of the last four Gilbert and Sullivan operas at the Savoy Theatre - The Yeomen of the Guard (1888), The Gondoliers (1889), Utopia, Limited (1893), and The Grand Duke (1896), and for several D'Oyly Carte revivals including that for Utopia, Limited considered by Rupert D'Oyly Carte in 1926 and but never realised. Given Gilbert's exacting attitude to his productions it is an accolade to Anderson that he worked with Gilbert on so many, including Gilbert and Edward German's Fallen Fairies (1909), when Gilbert said Anderson: 'surpassed himself'".