| Description | Scrapbook (put together by Edith Barling) includes:
Letters and Christmas cards to Barling (1936 - 1937);
Programmes and cast lists including for 'The Marvellous History Of Saint Bernard', 'The Edwardians', 'A Man's House', '1066 And All That' (1934), 'Crooked Cross', 'Misalliance', 'Pigs', 'The Third Alternative', 'Private Room', 'Jane And Genius', 'The Simpleton Of The Unexpected Isles', 'Escape Me Never', 'Hamlet, 'The Barretts Of Wimpole Street', 'Duet In Floodlight', '1066 And All That' (1935), 'Jane Eyre', 'On The Rocks', 'The Singing Kelpie', 'The Clandestine Marriage', 'Murder On The Second Floor', 'Anthony And Anna', 'Saint Joan', 'Storm In A Teacup', 'Three Sisters', 'The Apple Cart', 'The Emperor Of Make-Believe', 'Return To Sanity', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1936), 'The School For Scandal, 'And So To Bed', 'The Anatomist', 'Tom Thumb The Great', 'The Torch Bearers', 'Front Of House', 'Victoria, Queen And Empress', 'She Stoops To Conquer', 'Widowers' Houses', 'Bees On The Boat Deck', '1066 And All That' (1937) (and for '1066 And All That' 1945);
News cuttings, including for 'The Crooked Cross', modern dress 'Hamlet', 'The Composite Man', 'The Clandestine Marriage', '1066 And All That', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'The School For Scandal', 'Front Of House', 'Judgement Day', 'Sweet Sorrow';
Photographs, including for Curigwen Lewis and Stephen Murray in 'Murder On The Second Floor', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (by JW Debenham), '1066 And All That' (unsure of what date).
Box also includes:
Report on The Birmingham Repertory Theatre - it's present and future (November 1960) - a memo. prepared by Birmingham Repertory Theatre directors for use of the Joint Conference (members of Birmingham City Council, The Arts Council of Great Britain, and The Rep) as a help in formulating plans for a possible new building to replace the present theatre in Station Street and to give an indication of the present and future financial position. Includes financial budget for year 1961-1962 and the requirements for the new playhouse (including provision for archives 'a large room is essential for storing theatre archives, photographs, sets of scripts, music, accounts, theatre reference books etc').
Address and contact details book (1950s?) [has personal details so restrict access]. |