Beschreibung:

Theatrical autograph album for performances at the Theatre between December 1938 and May 1941, a total of 58 leaves, each with one or more autographs by actors (and singers) who appeared at the Theatre, all neatly signed to rectos only and with play title, month and year neatly written at foot, productions include 'The Importance of Being Earnest' from the start of the War in September 1939, starring and signed by John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Jack Hawkins and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies; 'She was too Young', December 1938, signed by Ann Todd, Edmund Gwenn, Marie Ney; 'Wild Oats', 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Nine Sharp', 'Banana Ridge', 'Robert's Wife', 'Running Riot', 'Lot's Wife', 'Glorious Morning', 'No. 17', 'Worth a Million', 'Room for Two', 'The Fleets Lit Up', 'The Flashing Stream', 'Runaway Love', 'Design for Living', 'The Corn is Green', 'Dear Octopus', 'The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company', 'The Chocolate Soldier', 'All Clear', 'Under your Hat', 'Full House', 'Chu Chin Chow', 'The Naughty Wife', 'Up and Doing', other autographs include Hermione Badelley, Robertson Hare, Ben Travers, Owen Nares, Stanley Lupino, Richard Tauber, Paul Robeson, Ivor Novello, Rex Harrison, Sybil Thorndike, Marie Tempest, Constance Cummings, Robert Donat, George Bernard Shaw, Irene Vanburgh, Ernest Thesiger, Phyllis Dare, Sarah Churchill, Stanley Holloway, etc., a total of over 200 autographs, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt, a little rubbed, oblong small folio (21 x 26 cm) (1)