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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 81306-81590

271. Add MS 81537

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John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1937. Material relating to Hamlet in New York (mostly photographs), and He was born gay (Queen’s, Gielgud directing, and as Mason). '11' gold-stamped on spine, the top half of which is missing; the front board is detached and the back board missing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 item

272. Add MS 81538

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John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1937–1938. Includes cuttings, programmes, and photographs relating to Richard II and The school for scandal (Queen’s, Gielgud playing Richard and Joseph Surface, respectively), and Spring meeting (Ambassadors, Gielgud directing). Both front and back bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937-1938
Extent:
1 item

273. Add MS 81539

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John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1938–1939. Includes programmes, photographs, and cuttings relating to Three sisters and The importance of being Earnest (Queen’s, Gielgud as Vershinin and John Worthing, respectively). Also includes the invitation and programme for a Royal Reception at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-1939
Extent:
1 item

274. Add MS 81540

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John Gielgud Archive. May 1939. Material relating to Hamlet, with Gielgud both directing and playing the lead role, at the Lyceum, in June 1939, and at the palace in Elsinore in Denmark in July. Includes numerous letters of appreciation for Gielgud’s performance both in London and Denmark.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939
Extent:
1 item

275. Add MS 81540-81577

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John Gielgud Archive. Albums of cuttings, programmes, handbills and other ephemera, and some letters relating to Gielgud’s career; 1939-1985. Compiled by Gielgud’s sister Eleanor, who worked in the box-office at the Globe Theatre in the 1930s and became Gielgud’s secretary in 1946. Although the collection of press cuttings is remarkably full, there is anecdotal evidence to the effect that she took a personal dislike to certain periodicals and refused to keep cuttings from their pages.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1985
Extent:
38 items

276. Add MS 81541

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John Gielgud Archive. 1939–1949. Cuttings, photographs, and programmes relating to The importance of being Earnest (Globe, September 1939); The beggars’ opera (Theatre Royal, Brighton, January 1940; Theatre Royal Haymarket, March 1940; Gielgud both directing and in the role of Macheath); King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1949
Extent:
1 item

277. Add MS 81542

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John Gielgud Archive. 1941. Cuttings, etc, relating to Dear Brutus (Globe, January 1941 and tour, Gielgud directing and as Will Dearth); and the film The Prime Minister (as Disraeli).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941
Extent:
1 item

278. Add MS 81543

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John Gielgud Archive. 1942–1943. Cuttings, etc., relating to Macbeth (touring production, January 1942); The importance of being Earnest (Phoenix, October 1942); and Love for love (tour and Phoenix, March/April 1943, as Valentine). All these plays Gielgud also directed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1943
Extent:
1 item

279. Add MS 81544

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John Gielgud Archive. 1944. Cuttings, etc., relating to The cradle song (Apollo, January 1944, as director); Crisis in heaven (tour and Lyric, Hammersmith, March/May 1944, as director); Love for love (Theatre Royal Haymarket, as Valentine and director).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944
Extent:
1 item

280. Add MS 81545

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John Gielgud Archive. 1944. Cuttings, etc., relating to The last of summer (Lyric, Hammersmith, as director); Hamlet; and, The circle (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, as Hamlet, and A. Champion-Chesney, respectively).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944
Extent:
1 item