Add MS 81527

John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1925–1929. Includes materials relating to Two gentlemen of Verona; The seagull; Dr Faustus; Gloriana, by Gwen John; L’école des cocottes, by Armont and Gerbidon; Hamlet (Royal Court, Rosencrantz); The constant nymph (New Theatre, October 1928, as understudy for Noël Coward as Lewis Dodd); Othello (Apollo Theatre, 1927, as Cassio); The great god Brown; The patriot (Majestic Theatre, as Grand Duke Alexander); Ghosts; Prejudice, by Mercedes de Acosta; Holding out the apple, by B. Wynne-Bower; The skull, by McOwen and Humphrey; Fortunato; The lady from Albuquerque; Red rust; Hunter’s moon; The lady with the lamp; Red Sunday; and the season at the Old Vic ― Romeo and Juliet (Romeo); The merchant of Venice (Antonio); Le malade imaginaire (Cléante); Richard II (Richard); A midsummer night’s dream (Oberon); Julius Caesar (Mark Antony); The Dark Lady of the Sonnets; and Macbeth (Macbeth).

'A. J. Gielgud Oct. 1925' in cursive script gilt-stamped in middle of front board, in different style to the that of Add, 81526; '2' gold-stamped on spine which along with the front board is completely detached.