Js Battye Library of West Australian History Ephemera – Collection Listing
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JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY EPHEMERA – COLLECTION LISTING FESTIVAL OF PERTH PROGRAMMES (FROM 200O KNOWN AS PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL) Date Venue Title & Author Director Producer 1953 January 2 - March 14 University of W.A. Various Adult Education Board Grounds January 3 - 17 The Sunken Garden Dark of the Moon David Lopian David Lopian by Henry Richardson & William Berney January 15 Somerville Auditorium An Evening of Ballet and Adult Education Board W.G.James, Director of Dance Music January 17 Somerville Auditorium Open Air Concert of the Festival of Perth 1953 Conductor - Beethoven Festival Joseph Post January 20-23 - Somerville Auditorium King Richard III Michael Langham January 27 - February 7 by Wm. Shakespeare January 24 Somerville Auditorium Beethoven Festival W.G.James Director of Music February 18 - 28 The Sunken Garden Twelfth Night Jeana Tweedie by Wm. Shakespeare March 3 –14 Somerville Auditorium Born Yesterday David Lopian by Garson Kanin March 12 The Sunken Garden Psyche - based on Fairy Tale Frank Ponton - Meta Russcher, Director by Louis Couperus Stage Director of Music March 20 – 21 The Repertory Club The Brookhampton Bellringers & The Ukrainian Choir & Dancing Group PR 10960 © Copyright LISWA 2001 1 JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY PRIVATE ARCHIVES – COLLECTION LISTING March 25 The Repertory Theatre The Picture of Dorian Gray Sydney Davis by Oscar Wilde Undated His Majesty's Theatre When We are Married Frank Ponton - Michael Langham by J.B.Priestley Stage Director 1954.00 December 30 - March 20 Various Various Flyer January The Sunken Garden Peer Gynt Adult Education Board David Lopian by Henrik Ibsen January 7 - 31 Art Gallery of W.A. Contemporary Australian Art January 23 The Sunken Garden The Tudor Players Adult Education Board & W.A.Chamber Music Society January - February Somerville Auditorium Pygmalion Adult Education Board & The John Casson by Bernard Shaw Company of Four February Somerville Auditorium Blossom Time Edgar Nottage Des Banwell Adapted by Sydney Box Musical Director February The Sunken Garden Antigone The University & the Jeana Tweedie by Sophocles Graduates' Dramatic Societies February 24 - Flyer Winthrop Hall 4th Somerville Concert Rudolf Pekarek March Somerville Auditorium Ring Round the Moon The Company of Four Coralie Condon by Jean Anouilh 1954 Undated Not stated Vienna Boys Choir Festival of Perth 1954 Conductor - Australian Tour with 4 Robert Kuhbacher Programmes PR10960/1953-69/ © Copyright LISWA 2001 2 JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY EPHEMERA – COLLECTION LISTING 1955.00 January- Pamphlet Various January The Sunken Garden The Lady's Not for Burning Adult Education Board Nita Pannell by Christopher Fry January 14 Winthrop Hall A Concert of Opera Stars Adult Education Board January 15 Somerville Auditorium 3rd Open Air Concert Adult Education Board ABC & WA Symphony Orchestra February Somerville Auditorium Mary of Scotland Adult Education Board Coralie Condon by Maxwell Anderson March The Sunken Garden Psyche Frank Russcher - Shabelewski by Meta Russcher Musical Direction Undated Somerville Auditorium Les Sylphides Madame Kira Bousloff Plus N/Paper Cuttings & re "Psyche" and Amahl and the Night Joanne Priest "Amahl and the Night Visitors - Opera Visitors" by Gian-Carlo Menotti 1956.00 December 30 - March 17 Various Various Festival Calendar Pamphlet Various Theatre & Films etc January 7 Somerville Auditorium 1st Open Air Concert ABC & WA Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series January 9 - 12 Capitol Theatre The Classical Theatre of Garnet H Carroll- Flyer - Programme - China John G.H.Carroll & Booklet of artists J.C.Williamson Theatres PR 10960 © Copyright LISWA 2001 3 JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY PRIVATE ARCHIVES – COLLECTION LISTING January 11 Somerville Auditorium 2nd Open Air Concert ABC & WA Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series January 12 Government House Ballroom Pianoforte Recital Adult Education Board Festival of Perth Committe by Irene Kohler January 14 Somerville Auditorium 3rd Open Air Concert ABC & WA Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series January 17 - 28 Somerville Auditorium Medea - adapted from Frank S. Tait, Elizabethan Theatre Euripides' "Medea" J. Nevin Tait & J.C.Williamson Theatres by Robinson Jeffers January 22 Supreme Court Gardens Commemorative Concert - Australian Broadcasting Occasion of Official Commission Letter from City of Perth and Opening Jubilee Orchestral Souvenir Programme Shell January The Sunken Garden The Prodigious Snob Adult Education Board & The Nita Pannell by Moliere - Adapted National Theatre by Miles Malleson February 18 Winthrop Hall Special Mozart Concert Music Council of W.A. Colleen Clifford February Somerville Auditorium The Philadelphia Story The Company of Four - The Sydney Davis Plus N/Paper Cutting re by Philip Barry National Theatre "The Philadelphia Story" and Wedding Photo H.Zinner/R.Downie March 3 - 18 Supreme Court Gardens 1st Festival Open-Air Art Sponsored by Organised by Laurence Exhibition The Sunday Times Thomas, Director W.A.Art Gallery PR10960/1953-69/ © Copyright LISWA 2001 4 JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY EPHEMERA – COLLECTION LISTING March 9 - 17 The Royal King's Park Tennis Water Follies of 1956 Aztec Services P/L Sam Snyder Letter from M.Drillien Club 2 Flyers & Programme Undated Special Festival Concert Stephanie James - Colleen Clifford University String Orch.; Musical Director The Moongana Singers; "Bastien and Bastienne" 1957.00 December 20,21,23 Winthrop Hall Handel's "Messiah" Frank Callaway - ABC & WA.Symphony Conductor Orchestra 1957 Pamphlet Program Various Various January - March Music Festival of Perth Publicity WA.Govt. Tourist Bureau Prelim. announcment Drama Committee December - February Various Various WA.Govt. Tourist Bureau Small Programme List February 26 - March 9 Various Letter to Perth Music 2 Typed pages of Progs. Lovers; Progs.; Special Announcement 10 Pages book lists - Various Publishers/ Dewey Nos. January The Sunken Garden Cyrano De Bergerac Adult Education Board Frank Baden-Powell Plus N/Paper Cutting by Edmond Rostand January The Sunken Garden Much Ado About Nothing Adult Education Board Jeana Tweedie Plus N/Paper Cuttings re by Wm. Shakespeare Dramatic Societies of the "Mary of Scotland" & University "Much Ado About Nothing" & E.Angus January Somerville Auditorium Mungo's Mansion Adult Education Board Sol Sainken by Walter Macken TheNational Theatre PR 10960 © Copyright LISWA 2001 5 JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY PRIVATE ARCHIVES – COLLECTION LISTING January Somerville Auditorium Festival of French Films Under patronage of Marcel Pagnol Monsieur R. Loubere, Consul for France January 12 Somerville Auditorium 1st Open Air Concert ABC & WA.Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series January 16 Somerville Auditorium 2nd Open Air Concert ABC & WA.Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series February Somerville Auditorium Antigone Adult Education Board Robin Lovejoy Plus N/Paper Cutting by Jean Anouilh The National Theatre (Aust Eliz.Theatre Trust) February Somerville Auditorium Star Dancers of India Adult Education Board By arrangement with Louise Lightfoot February 25 Perth Art Gallery Festival of Australian Arts - Adult Education Board The West Australian Programme list February - March Perth Art Gallery Festival of Australian Arts Adult Education Board Festival of Perth C'tee & Words of songs/ poems associated Bodies 1957 Concert Season Flyer of Celebrity Artists 1958.00 December 20 - March 21 Various Pamphlet Music/Drama 1958 Festival Pamphlet Celebrity Artists Dec 1957 - Jan 1958 W.A.Art Gallery Australian Aboriginal Art - Catalogue Arnhem Land Paintings & Carved Human Figures January 1958 The Sunken Garden Ondine Adult Education Board Katharine Brisbane by Jean Giraudoux University Dramatic Soc January The Sunken Garden Macbeth Adult Education Board Peter Summerton by Wm. Shakespeare The National Theatre PR10960/1953-69/ © Copyright LISWA 2001 6 JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY EPHEMERA – COLLECTION LISTING January 11 Somerville Auditorium 1st Open Air Concert ABC & WA.Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series January 15 Somerville Auditorium 2nd Open Air Concert ABC & WA. Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series January 16 Govt.House Ballroom Recital Adult Education Board Stephen Dornan by Florence Taylor Festival of Perth Cmtee Accompanist January 18 Somerville Auditorium 3rd Open Air Concert ABC & WA.Symphony Somerville Subscription Orchestra Series January - February Somerville Auditorium And So To Bed Stephen Dornan Peter Summerton by J.B.Fagan Musical Director February Somerville Auditorium Songs Commercial Travellers'Choir O.G.Campbell Egan - W.A.Ballet Coy Conductor Ballet- Kira Bousloff Minuit Place Pigalle Gilbert & Sullivan Soc. Opera - Trial by Jury J.C.Williamson Ltd February 11 The Sunken Garden Paolo and Francesca Adult Education Jean Rule Plus N/Paper Cutting & by Stephen Phillips Patch Theatre Photos of Sunken Gdn February 21 - March 1 Zoological Gardens Festival of Perth Fair/ Catalogue of Exhibitors/ Festival of W.A.Paintings Artists March 7 Winthrop Hall Serenade Concert Adult Education Board Stephen Dornan - The Tudor Players Festival of Perth Cmttee Conductor The Moongana Singers March 23 Zoological Gardens The Pied Piper of Hamelin Doris Dival - Edgar Nottage - by G.Rathbone Stage Director Conductor PR 10960 © Copyright LISWA 2001 7 JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY PRIVATE