Railway Institute, Devonshire Street, Sydney. The Railway & Tramway Musical Society … in Lionel Monckton’s comic opera “A Country Girl” (By arrangement with Messrs. J. C. Williamson Ltd.). Monday 22nd

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Sydney : Carter s Builder Printing Works, [1913]. Narrow quarto (280 x 110 mm), self-wrappers (featuring advertisements for Anthony Horderns men s and women s fashion and Fine Art Gallery); [16] pp, with numerous illustrated advertisements and photographic illustrations including portraits of stars Miss Mabel Batchelor and Reg Riemenschneider, musical director Leo Grouse and Railway Tramway Musical Society Secretary R. E. Bedwell; centre pages with full cast list; front wrapper with contemporary newspaper review of this production of A Country Girl affixed to top edge; lower wrapper with an old tape repair and loss at upper margin (no loss of text), top corners a little dog-eared, staples rusted, but internally clean and sound. Rare programme for a pre-World War One Sydney amateur theatre production. The Railway Tramway Musical Society was established in 1894, and continued to entertain Sydney audiences with its light fare mostly musical comedies up until 1930. No other example traced.

• Binding: Hardcover

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