js battye library of west australian history ephemera – collection listing pr 10960 1 festival of perth

128 Pages·2001·0.52 MB·English

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 ARCHIVES – COLLECTION LISTING

1959.00
January 2 - February 28 Various Various Films & Stage
Booking Leaflet
January 10 - 17 Somerville Auditorium A.B.C.Orchestral Season
Booking Leaflet
January The Sunken Garden The Winter's Tale Adult Education Board Peter Mann
by Wm. Shakespeare Graduate Dramatic Soc
January Somerville Auditorium Pagliacci - Stefan Haag
by Leoncavallo
Dalgerie Stefan Haag
by James Penberthy
January 19 - 31 The Sunken Garden The Misanthrope Adult Education Board Stefan Haag
by Moliere The National Theatre
January 10 - 17 Somerville Auditorium Beethoven Festival of A.B.C. & W.A. Sir Bernard Heinze
Three Concerts Symphony Orchestra` Conductor
January Somerville Auditorium International Film Festival
Othello
January 2 - 8 Sergei Yutkevich
Race For Life
January 12 - 13 Christian-Jaque
The Virtuous Isidore
January 15 - 16 Jean Boyer
Porte Des Lilas
February 19 - 26 Rene Clair

February 9 - 21 Perth Art Gallery Festival of Australian Festival of Perth Committee
Arts
February Somerville Auditorium Picnic Festival of Perth C'tee Peter Summerton
by William Inge The National Theatre
February Playhouse Dance Duo Festival of Perth C'tee
Ballet Dancers

PR10960/1953-69/ © Copyright LISWA 2001 8
JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
EPHEMERA – COLLECTION LISTING

1960.00
January Various Various
Festival of Perth Leaflet
January The Sunken Garden Lysistrata Festival of Perth C'tee Jeana Tweedie
by Aristophanes University & Graduate
Dramatic Societies
January The Sunken Garden The Beaux' Stratagem Festival of Perth C'tee Nita Pannell
by George Farquhar The National Theatre
January 7 & 9 Winthrop Hall The Australian Boys' Festival of Perth C'tee
Choir Vincent J.Kelly, D.M.S.V.
in Two Concerts
January 16,21,23 Somerville Auditorium W.A.Symphony A.B.C. & Festival of Rudolf Pekarek -
Souvenir Programme Orchestra Perth Committee Conductor
in Three Concerts
January 24 Supreme Court Gardens Combined Brass Bands Festival of Perth C'tee
Concert W.A.Band Assoc (Inc.)
January 27 & 30 Winthrop Hall Solo Recitals Festival of Perth C'tee
Souvenir Programme
January - February Somerville Auditorium International Film Festival Festival of Perth C'tee
Windsor Theatre
February 3 Invitation letter to
Official Opening of
February 9 - 21 Perth Art Gallery Feb 9
Typed Sheet Festival of Australian Arts
February The Sunken Garden A Midsummer Night's Festival of Perth C'tee Frieda & Seddon Vincent
Dream Goldfields Repertory Club
by Wm.Shakespeare (Inc.)
PR 10960 © Copyright LISWA 2001 9
JS BATTYE LIBRARY OF WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
PRIVATE ARCHIVES – COLLECTION LISTING

February Somerville Auditorium Intimate Opera Season Festival of Perth C'tee, Donald Munro
La Serva Padrona A.B.C. & Australian
by Pergolesi Elizabethan Theatre
The Telephone
by Gian-Carlo Menotti
Susanna's Secret
by Wolf-Ferrari
February 3 - 16 Skinner Galleries Henri Bastin Exhibition Festival of Perth C'tee
Museum of Modern Art
of Australia

February 18 - 27 Skinner Galleries Ernabella Mission Festival of Perth C'tee
Exhibition of Handicrafts
Typed sheet History of the Mission
February 20 Somerville Auditorium Final Festival Concert A.B.C. & Festival of Perth John Farnsworth Hall -
Committee Conductor

1961.00
Ninth Festival Leaflet Various Various
January 1 Cathedral Church of Saint Service of Evening Prayer -
George, Perth Programme
January The Sunken Garden The Miser Festival of Perth C'tee
by Moliere Aust. Eliz. Theatre Trust
Raymond Westwell
January 17 - 25 W.A.Art Gallery Two Exhibitions - Festival of Perth C'tee
Royal Monuments in W.A.Art Gallery
Westminster Abbey &
Qantas 40th Anniversary
Poster Competition
PR10960/1953-69/ © Copyright LISWA 2001 10