D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Miscellaneous Photographs
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Photographs of: Dinner to welcome Richard Collet to New York (1936); D'Oyly Carte Cricket Team (1958); Portrait of A.W. Tuke (1960s); Set of prints of the film cast of Hamlet (1948). Two large colour photographs of Iolanthe and The Gondoliers in performance (Spring Tour 1991).
Kevin Chapple was Manager of the Savoy Theatre (1987-99). Various papers in his possession were bequeathed to the D'Oyly Carte archive in 2009 (following Chapple's death in 2007). Many of the papers relate to Bridget D'Oyly Carte and to her family, and presumably remained undisturbed at the Savoy...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: William Cox-Ife Bequest
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Papers belonging to William Cox-Ife, from the estate of his step-daughter Janet Forbes-Hunter. Cox-Ife joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as chorus master and assistant musical director in August 1950 and served in that capacity until he left the Company in 1961.
Papers relating to the contralto Bertha Lewis (1887-1931). Also includes an album of material about her brother, Second Lieutenant William Thomas Lewis (Essex Regiment) who was killed in action (1917).
Correspondence of Stella Alexander and her mother, Helen Beaumont
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Also includes some correspondence between John Alexander (Stella Alexander's husband) and Helen Beaumont, and papers relating to Helen Beaumont's estate.