D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Correspondence about the copyright of gramophone recordings
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Correspondence between Fladgate and Co, Solicitor F.B. Cockburn and the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society Limited about the copyright on the gramophone recordings.
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Large Photographs of Iolanthe
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(1). Barbara Lilley as 'Phyllis' and Peter Lyon as 'Strephon'. Colour, mounted on board (400 x 500 mm). (2). John Ayldon as 'Earl Mountararat', Harold Sharples as 'Earl Tolloller', and James Conroy-Ward as 'Lord Chancellor'. Colour, mounted on board (400 x 500 mm). (3). John Ayldon as 'Earl Mo...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Cox-Ife, William - Correspondence
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William Cox-Ife was the Chorus Master and Assistant Musical Director of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. The file also includes newspaper cuttings about William Cox-Ife and correspondence with his family.
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Goffin, Peter - Correspondence
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Peter Goffin was a set and costume designer as well as a stage manager for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. In 1938 he re-designed costumes for The Yeomen of the Guard. The file includes correspondence about set designs, lighting and costumes.
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Goffin, Peter - Correspondence
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Peter Goffin was a set and costume designer as well as a stage manager for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. The file includes correspondence about injuries to Miss Osmond, Anne Sessions and Miss Shelley in 1962 and correspondence and newspaper articles about Peter Goffin’s death in 1974.
D'Oyly Carte Family Papers: Letters from Rupert to Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte
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Eight autograph letters from Rupert D'Oyly Carte to Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, who were divorced in 1941. Lady Dorothy subsequently married St. Yves de Verteuil and took up residence in the West Indies. (1). Coleton, 26 Nov 1940 (3 sheets, 'Savoy Hotel London' letterhead). Refers to London's bo...
The Friends of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company Income and Expenditutre and Trust Deed
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Income and Expenditure reports for the Friends of D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1982-2003; Trust Deed establishing the Friends of D’Oyly Carte Opera Company 3rd, 4th and 7th drafts, 1981.