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Comprises annotated scrapbook belonging to William Orr containing newscuttings and programmes of theatre productions in Britain he was involved in either as an actor, stage manager or stage director. Includes productions at the Repertory Theatre Rutherglen; Playhouse, Newcastle; Theatre Royal, Bristol; Criterion Theatre; Mercury Theatre; Grand Theatre, Swansea, Spa Theatre, Whitby; Glasgow Citizens' Theatre; and performances by the Pilgrim Players. Scrapbook also contains 12 photographs (some signed) of William Orr, performers and theatre sets, 1944-1949. 

Also contains 6 loose pages from a photograph album containing 32 photographs mainly of William Orr from the age of 14, along with Eric Duckworth and other friends in Britain as well as Australia, and includes a photograph of Katharine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann cutting a cake on the occasion of Phillip Street Theatre's 1st birthday, ca. 1929-1970s. 

In addition there are 32 loose photographs of William Orr, performers including Sybil Thorndike (signed), and various unidentified people and cats, ca. 1950s-1980s.

[Scrapbook and photographs relating to William Orr, founder of Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney, ca. 1929-1980s]

Comprises 53 photographs, chiefly black & white, of revues, theatre productions and performers at the Phillip Street Theatre and Phillip Theatre, wearing costumes designed by Peter Hurst.

1-4. Unidentified production, possibly Happy Returns, Phillip Street Theatre, 1 May 1955 / John Hearder
5-8. Alice in Wonderland, Phillip Street Theatre, 14 December 1956 / John Hearder
9-15. A Ride on a Broomstick, Phillip Street Theatre, 26 December 1959 / John Hearder
15-31. Mistress Money, Phillip Street Theatre, 27 May 1960 / John Hearder
32-47. Various actresses including Dawn Lake, Sheila Bradley, Bettina Walsh, Lyle O’Hara, June Salter and other unidentified women, ca. 1961 / ACP and John Hearder
48. At it Again, Phillip Theatre, April 1962 / John Hearder
49. A Wish is a Dream, Phillip Theatre, 26 December 1962 / ACP
50-51. Santa’s Christmas Party, Phillip Theatre, 27 December 1962 / ACP
52. Unidentified production / John Hearder
53. Woman in dress designed by Peter Hurst, ca. 1955-1965 / Smiling Snaps

Series 2: Photographs of theatre productions featuring costumes designed by Peter Hurst, 1955-1965 / by ACP and John Hearder

PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS
1-90. [Mason family album, (including photographs J.N., Norbert Keck and Theo Mason, also Doris Fitton in the early years of her marriage), ca. 1900-1930]
91-103. [Doris Fitton, her son and mother] / photographers incl. Langham (Melb.), Montgomery Dunn, Pix and John Hearder
104-105. [Mary Edwards painting Doris Fitton's portrait, 1953 (portrait held at ML 1147) (negative of no.104 held Mitchell Pictures)]
106. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, with Molly Brown and Haydee Seldon, congratulate Doris Fitton after her performance in Mourning becomes Electra, July-Aug 1948 (published in: Not without heat & dust, p.71) / Sydney Morning Herald
107. [Actress (Waters ?) from the Turret Theatre Company]

ACTORS AND PERFORMANCES
108. Mrs Alan Trevor [Trevar ?] / Montgomery Dunn
109-110. Peter Leslie (a barrister)
111. Charles Walmsley, Shakespearian boy, later worked at Qantas and was dramatic critic for their magazine / Richard McKinney
112. Doris Fitton as her ancestress Mary Fitton in Dark lady of the sonnets, Sydney Repertory Co., [ca. 1924-5] (published in: Not without heat & dust, p.27)
113. Fitton and Clive Coppard [Cappard ?] in The Marquise, 1934 / Nanette Kuehn
114. Marion Johns, Bonnie (?) and Peter Leslie in Picnic, May 1956
115. Ed (?) in A Question of fact, June 1956
116. Carl Levitt and Marcella Burgoyne in Dylan, 1966
117-134. [Unidentified plays]
135-136. Clive Coppard [Cappard ?], Fitton and Arthur Hayles or Nayles in The Marquise (?), 1934
137. The Life of the insects with Robert Roberts and unidentified actor, 1941 (published in: Not without heat & dust, p.51)
138. Fitton as Gertrude in Hamlet, Oct-Nov 1943 and signed "To dear Tug, love and best wishes from Doris."
139-142. Elaine Foster, Ivor Bromley-Smith and Bruce Beeby in Mourning becomes Electra, Dec 1945 / Richard McKinney, Harry Jay
143-144. Fitton, Jean Robertson and John Carlton in the Schiller play Maria Stuart, Nov 1946 (no.143 published in: Not without heat & dust, p.60) / Noel Rubie P/L
145. Fitton as Antigone, Feb 1947 / Noel Rubie P/L
146. Pamela Bromley, John Faassen and John Cameron in Volpone, 1947 / Noel Rubie P/L
147-148. Fitton and Bruce Beeby in Mourning becomes Electra, Feb 1948 / Noel Rubie P/L
149. Fitton and unidentified woman beside the Mourning becomes Electra poster, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Apr 1948 (similar in: Not without heat & dust, p.58)
150. Illuminated Princess Theatre with advertising for the Independent Theatre production of The Little foxes, 1948 / Greegan Studios
151. Fitton in The Little foxes, 1948 / Greegan Studios
152. Diana Perryman (sister of Jill) in Salome, 1949 / Guildford Studios
153. Diana Perryman and Diana Davidson in Dark of the moon, 1950 / Hal Williamson
154-157. Ellen Morgan, Edward Howell, Harold Hinton and Shirley May Donald in Anna Lucasta, Mar-May 1951 (no. 157 published in: Not without heat & dust, p.95) / John Hearder
158. Fitton in Daphne Laureola, Nov 1951 (published in: Not without heat & dust, p.97) / Noel Rubie P/L
159-162. Fitton, Dorothy Whiteley, Frank Thring and Benita Harvey in Black chiffon, Melbourne, 1952 / Harry Jay
163-164. Barbara Wyndon, Noelanne [i.e. Noelann] Gandon, Ethel Gabriel, Doris Fitton, Tony Standen, Louis Wishart, Richard Miekle [i.e. Meikle] in the Anouilh play Colombe, Feb 1953
165. Margaret Roberts (The Apple cart), Aug 1953 / Montgomery Dunn
166. Dennis Carroll and Jane Williams in The Innocents, Jan 1954 (published in : Not without heat & dust, p.101) / Montgomery Dunn
167. Jon Ewing, Robert Laris and Jan Coghlan in Under the sycamore tree, Jan 1955 / Montgomery Dunn
168-169. Ruth Cacknell, Diana Perryman, Brian Barry, Kevin Brennan and Norman Bushman in The Love of four colonels, May 1955
170. Lyndall Barbour in The Rose tattoo, Feb 1956 (published in: Not without heat & dust, p.109) / Montgomery Dunn
171. Marion Johns in Picnic, May 1956 / John Hearder
172. Olive Walter in Camino real, May 1957 / Montgomery Dunn
173-175. Sophie Krantz, Mary Hosking and Donald Kennedy in Member of the wedding, Jan 1958 / Allan Keen
176-183. Ronald (Ron) Frazer, Betina Welch, Connie Hobbs, Letty Craydon and Kevin Brennan in Cat on a hot tin roof, Feb-Mar & Apr 1958 / Gene Lett, Montgomery Dunn
184. Valda Bagnall, Frank Taylor, Fitton and Paul Kathner discuss the production of Under Milk Wood, 1958 (published in: Not without heat & dust, p.110) / Gene Lett
185. Fitton directing Career, 1959
186-188. Fitton, Yvonne McLean (stage manager), Van Radcliffe (mechanist), Gwen (?), Dan Pascoe and and Diana Davidson rehearse Career, 1959
189. [Portrait of unidentified boy]
190. [Watercolour of the set for Career]

MISCELLANEOUS
191-203. [Aerial photographs of the Cronulla peninsula and Kurnell, ca. 1950]
204-225. [World War II photographs: Papua-New Guinea (incl. Nadzab, Yuat River, NGF, beach at Papa, Bulibum nr Lae and Rouna Falls), Philippines]

Dame Doris Fitton : personal photographs, part I, ca. 1900-1980

BOX 1

Nos 1-21
As Elizabeth I in "Tudor thorns", 1947
Dot Mendoza (d.1986), Spencer Teakle and Austin in "On Monday next", by Philip King, 1949
Austin, William Rees, John Tait, Neva Carr-Glynn in "Clutterbuck", Hobart
Austin, Marjorie Holt and David Nettheim in Banvard Productions, Hobart
Signed portrait of John Hubbard, American star and full cast of "Mary had a little", Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne, 1951 / Harry Jay
Audition, Tivoli Theatre, Sydney
Austin, Terry O'Neil, Avril Angers, Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne
Paris by Night, Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, 1962 / Royce Rees
Fifi Banvard (1901-1962) and Spencer Teakle (1916-1999) onstage, Hobart
Austin portrait by, and with, the photographer John Hearder, 1952-
Jack Ansett, E.T. Horton, Austin and Bernard Berry (?), Commodore Restaurant, Goulburn Street, Sydney
Austin, John Lee, Mary Parker, Walter Pym, Collins Hilton and June Lansell in "White sheep of the family", 1953

Nos 22-45
Portraits, 1953-1954 / John Hearder
Swimsuit portraits, Melbourne 1952 / Herald Sun
Paul Bacon, David Ng, Austin and others in Singapore, 1951- / John Penrose
Signed portrait of "Roberty Bob" [Robert Burns] as Stewpot in "South Pacific" / Harry Jay
Entertaining the troops, Korea, 1952-
Twenty-first birthday party, 1952
"Ah, wilderness", Hobart
"Cinderella", New Zealand, with The Great Levante
Meteor jet, Korea, 1952
Austin, Charles Norman, Charles Camaleri [Camilleri ?], Nora Burnett, Laurel Mather and Don Cameron, Korea concert party tour, 1952 / Norman L. Danvers
Snow White, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Wedding of Dorothea Dunstan and John Reid, St. Canice's Church, Elizabeth Bay, 8 December, 1951
Portraits of Nellie Lamport

BOX 2

Nos 46-58
Maree Austin, Lucky Grills, Maggie Martin and dancers, Roosevelt Nightclub, ca. 1947-

Nos 59-69
Renee Guerin, Erik Reiman, Rosina Raisbeck, Austin, Norman Yemm and cast of "The  Sound of music", Tivoli Theatre, 1963 / Lawrence Rhodes, Adelaide
Portrait, 195- / Peter J. Theofore, Sydney
Portraits, London, 1965 / Archie Parnell
Retiring as conductor of "Sing Australia" choir, Port Macquarie, 2006
Austin at home, 1989

BOX 3

Nos 70-81
Portraits, 1966 / Charles M. Rafshoon, New York
Portrait, 1955 / John Hearder
Portraits of Marcia O'Brien
Austin in La Traviata, Metropolitan Opera National Company, 1965-1966
The Whit/Lo Singers and portraits of Arthur Whittemore, conductor and Jack Lowe, musical director
Portraits, 197- (with printed curriculum vitae)
Teaching ballet school, Pine Bush, New York, 1975

Nos 82-90
Kathleen Gorham, ballet dancer and friend of Austin in rehearsal, Les Sylphides, Carnaval, Coppellia, Gay Rosalinda and with Robert Domie, Martin Rubinstein / photographers Ivon Murdoch, Pix, Green & Hahn, Hal Williamson and unidentified

Maree Austin photographs, ca. 1947-1970, 1989, 2006

Photographs include:
Copy photoprint of drawing of John McDouall Stuart, explorer and surveyor, undated

A 'whim', a horse-drawn winch formerly used in mining to lift ore or water, demonstrated at the North Kaipara Agricultural Association Show, Paparoa, New Zealand. The whim was made by Mr Frances Week of Warkworth, New Zealand. Photograph taken by T.W. Collins, 1962

Photographs of Pitcairn Island, undated

Unidentified portraits, taken by photographer John Hearder, undated

Photograph of John Morley, undated. On reverse of photograph 'The Right Hon. John Morley, M.P., P.C., LL.D., was born at Blackburn, Lancashire, on the 24th of December, 1838.  He was the second son of the late Jonathan Morley, Esq., a surgeon residing in that town.  The boy's education was commenced at Cheltenham College, where he remained some years, the future parentally forecast for him being a very different one from that his destinies have shaped out, as not infrequently happens.  From school he went in due course to Oxford, where he was scholar of Lincoln College.  Here he graduated in 1859, the year of his majority; but it was not until 1873 that he took out his M.A. degree, simultaneously with being called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn.'

Photograph of John Beverley Peden, barrister and professor of law, January 1930

Photograph of possibly Dr Currey's son, undated

Forms part of the papers of Charles Herbert Currey, ca. 1914-1970 at MLMSS 2219

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[Scrapbook and photographs relating to William Orr, founder of Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney, ca. 1929-1980s]

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Series 2: Photographs of theatre productions featuring costumes designed by Peter Hurst, 1955-1965 / by ACP and John Hearder

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Dame Doris Fitton : personal photographs, part I, ca. 1900-1980

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Maree Austin photographs, ca. 1947-1970, 1989, 2006

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Photographs from the Dr. Charles Herbert Currey papers, ca. 1914-1970

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