Autographs, Stage, Screen, & Sport, 1939-1951 - undated flye...

Hammer

£40

Autographs, Stage, Screen, & Sport, 1939-1951 - undated flyer for performance of Ivor Novello’s King’s Rhapsody signed by four leading cast members: Jack Buchanan (1891-197), Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), Olive Gilbert (1898-1981) & Vanessa Lee (1920-1992); autographs of various seaside bands 1949-1950; Harry Hanson’s Court Players, 1950/51 season with autographed half plate photograph; Arthur Brough’s Players (portraits cut out from programmes and pasted opposite signatures); Bubbles & Co. 1950; two North London non-league football teams 1939-40; Essex CCC team 1946; competent ink portrait of a spaniel signed Steve Stoyles (‘chief reporter, The Star, London EC4’), original moiré cloth album, oblong 4to, [1]

N.B. Jack Buchanan replaced Ivor Novello in the leading role of King’s Rhapsody on Novello’s death in 1951; Harry Hanson was for three decades the leading UK impresario of seaside entertainment and founded the Court Players in 1932, continuing into the 1960s; Arthur Brough (1905-1978) who with his wife founded his players in 1928, is better remembered today for having played Mr. Grainger in 'Are you Being Served?' for the BBC in the 1970s.