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Martin Rubinstein & Victoria Forest, Sydney, ca. 1940

Many photonegatives in the collection were for theatre programs and publicity for JC Williamson and the Playbill programs of the Tivoli Circuit (never credited). Rees's montages for Borovansky Ballet were only briefly credited. About 20 of his images appear in: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / edited by Katharine Brisbane.  Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. 
A detailed Contents List is available at ON 192, Mitchell Library

Royce Rees collection of Sydney theatre photonegatives, 1946-1967

BOROVANSKY BALLET
1. Elaine Fifield
2-3. Kathleen Gorham / [no. 2 by] Hal Williamson
4. Peggy Sager
5. Tamara Tchinarova [in can-can costume]
6. Serge Bousloff
7. Martin Rubinstein / Hal Williamson
8. Edouard Borovansky
9. Edouard Borovansky in "La Boutique fantasque" / Hal Williamson
10. [Scene from] "Gay Rosalinda"
11-13. "Swan Lake", 1958 & 1960 / [nos. 11-12 by Allan Studios, no.13 by Hal Williamson] 
14. [Scene from] "Los Tres diablos", 1954-55 / Hal Wiliamson
BALLET PORTRAITS
15. Robert Helpmann / James Robins
16-17. Diana Greentree
OVERSEAS BALLET COMPANIES
18. Svetlana Beriosova as Swanilda in "Coppelia", Royal Ballet, 1958 / Houston Rogers
19. Philip Chatfield in "Swan Lake" [costume], Act 111 / Houston Rogers
20. Michael Somes in "Swan Lake" [costume], Act III / copied by Allan Studios
21-23. Rowena Jackson [no. 22 with Bryan Ashbridge]
24. Maya Plisetskaya (?), Bolshoi Ballet, Theatre Royal, June-July 1970
25. [Nude scene], Nederlands Dans Theater
26-27. Royal Winnipeg Ballet [scenes, including "Strike up the band"]
CIRCUS
28. [Tightrope balancing act]
29. [Elephant rampant and trainer] / William A. Gamble
CONCERT ARTISTS
30. Bartok Quartet of Budapest
31-32. Victor Borge
33. Richard Crooks
34. Richard Cross
35. Isador Goodman
36. Hephzibah Menuhin
37. Yehudi Menuhin
38-39. Benno Moiseiwitsch
40-42. Birgit Nilsson, [1st concert in the SOH Concert Hall under Mackerras, 29 Sept 1973] [colour tranparencies]
43. David Oistrakh
44-45. Jan Peerce as The Duke in "Rigoletto" and Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor" / copied by Allan Studios
46-47. Alec Templeton
48. John Charles Thomas' farewell matinee, Sydney Town Hall, Saturday, 5 July 1947 / Sam Hood
49. John Charles Thomas [portrait]
FOLK COMPANIES
50. Bayanihan Philippine Dance Co.
51. Frantisek Krachovil in "The Playing cards", Black Theatre of Prague
52-53. Chinese Classical Theatre Co. [no.52 published in "Entertaining Australia", p.285]
54-57. Georgian State Dance Company, 1963
58-61. Luisillo & his Spanish Dance Theatre, 1957-1958 / [no. 58 by Phil Ward Studios;  no. 61 by Gyenes]
MUSICALS
62-65. Madge Elliott & Cyril Ritchard [no. 62 engagement portrait with Elliott  in a Matita (?) dress], ca. 1935 / Dorothy Wilding;  nos. 63-64 "Shadow play", 1946 / Sam Hood;  no. 65 Ritchard in "The Pleasure of his company", 1959-1960]
66-71. Evie Hayes, Hayes Gordon, Billy Kershaw and Elizabeth (Betty) Gaye in "Annie get your gun" / [nos. 70-71 by Ritten-Jeppesen Studios]
72-73. Evie Hayes in "Call me Madam", [1954]
74-75. Camelot, starring Jacquelyn McKeever, Sat 17 Oct 1964
76-81. Tikki Taylor, Jill Perryman and Bill Newman in "Can-can", 1958 / Hal Williamson, David Jukes, Allan Studios
82. Eileen Kelly in "Ruddigore"
83. Richard Walker in "The Gondoliers", 1949-1950 Season
84. [Arrival of the Duke and Duchess scene], "The Gondoliers", 1956-1957 Season
85-86. Helen Landis and John Adams in "The Gondoliers", 1962-1963 / Phil Ward Studios
87-88. Helen Roberts as Josephine in "H.M.S. Pinafore"
89. Eric Thornton, June Johnstone, Jane Martin and Violet Hunt in "The Pirates  of Penzance", 1962-1963 (?)
90-92. John McManus, John Larsen and Martin Lawrence in "The Pirates of Penzance" / Allan Studios
93. Richard Walker in "The Mikado"
94. Helen Landis in "The Mikado", 1962-1963 (?)
95. [Three little maids], "The Mikado", 1962-1963
96. Richard Walker as Wilfrd Shadbolt in "The Yeoman of the guard", D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.
97. John Dean as Colonel Fairfax in "The Yeomen of the guard"
98. Max Oldaker / Hal Williamson
99. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert / W. Hilbert

J.C. Williamson photographs : ballet, circus, concert artists, folk companies, musicals

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

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Martin Rubinstein & Victoria Forest, Sydney, ca. 1940

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Royce Rees collection of Sydney theatre photonegatives, 1946-1967

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

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