| Description | Scrapbook of theatrical material made from a blank travel accounts book from the Seaman's Office, printed by Suttley & Silverlock Ltd. Some pages contain non theatrical newspaper cuttings, including a series of cuttings titled 'Science From an Easy Chair', some travel cuttings including 'Panama Canal: A Marvel of Engineering', book reviews, and profiles of contemporary figures and events. Some cuttings are not pasted into the book. Cuttings are from the Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Westminster Gazette and the Daily News.
Featured individuals include: F.E. Smith, Weedon Grossmith; Henrik Ibsen; Gordon Craig; George Graves; Max Reinhardt; Edmund Tearle; Maud Hobson; Maggie Brennan, W.S. Penley, Charles Mortimer; Adrienne Augarde; Granville Barker; Henry Ainley; George Bernard-Shaw; Arthur Bourchier; Hillaire Belloc; John Masefield; Robert Bridges; Johnston Forbes Robertson; Mrs. D'Oyly Carte, J.A. Cave, H.G. Pelissier; St. John Hankin, W.T. Stead, David Lloyd George, Sir Edward Grey, Viscount Milner, G.W.E. Russell, Lord Strathcoma, Sir W.H. Lever, Noel Buxton, Mrs. Despard, Alexander Ure, Lord Avebury, Alfred Russell Wallace, Bennet Burleigh, Viscount Wolseley, Pierpont Morgan, Alfred Lyttelton, George Wyndham, Arthur Henry Stanton; Robert Cameron; Patrick Ford; David Livingstone.
Also includes a series of articles titled 'The Church and the Stage', a set of arcticles about Robert Falcon Scott's fatal expedition to the South Pole, and several retrospectives of 1912. |