Ray, Ruby (Edwardian actress and dancer).

Autograph of the Edwardian Period Actress and Dancer Ruby Ray on a Real-Photo Postcard.

Rotary Photographic Series, [between 1898 and 1907]. - The Edwardian actress and dancer Ruby Ray's inscription and autograph boldly penned along the bottom quarter of her portrait on a real-photo postcard. The image depicts the beautiful actress in three quarter profile attired in a lacy white dress. Inscribed "Good Wishes - Ruby Ray". Very good.

The Edwardian period actress and dancer Ruby Ray was active from 1898 to 1907). Very good.

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Book number: 98987

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; DANCE; REAL-PHOTO POSTCARD; INSCRIBED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; PORTRAIT; RUBY RAY; ROTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES; SIGNED.

Ludlum, Robert; McKenna, Siobhan; Scourby, Alexander; Smith, Kent; Moore, Dick; O'Halloran, George.

Original Signed Program: Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw. (1956 Broadway Revival). Signed by Robert Ludlum and Siobhan Mckenna and Others.

New York, NY: Playbill Incorporated, 1956. 1956. New York, NY: Playbill Incorporated, 1956. 1956. Very good. SIGNED BY SEVERAL CAST MEMBERS INCLUDING ROBERT LUDLUM, AUTHOR OF THE BOURNE IDENTITY & OTHERS - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial wrappers featuring a portrait of Siobhan McKenna as Saint Joan on the front cover. The top of the left edge and bottom edge of the front cover are slightly darkened with minor foxing to the bottom edge. There are 2 tiny tears to the bottom edge of the rear cover. 20 pages, profusely illustrated with black & white advertising. Very good. This is the special "Actor's Fund Week" program for the revival of "Saint Joan". It is signed in blue ink on the front cover of "The Playbill for The Coronet Theatre" by six of the actors in the production and one unidentified person. The signatures are: "Good Luck Siobhan McKenna", "Thanks Bob Ludlum", "Dick Moore", "Kent Smith", "Alexander Scourby" and "George O'Halloran". The 1956 revival of Shaw's "Saint Joan" opened at the Phoenix Theatre and ran from September 11-October 21, 1956 and from November 27-December 9, 1956. It then moved to the Coronet Theatre for the "Actor's Fund Week", December 25, 1956- January 5, 1957. Though he did not sign the program it is interesting to note that Peter Falk played "an English soldier" in the production. The flyer soliciting contributions to The Actor's Fund is laid in. Very good .

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Book number: 99049

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: SAINT JOAN; GEORGE BERNARD SHAW; ROBERT LUDLUM; SIOBHAN MCKENNA; ALEXANDER SCOURBY; KENT SMITH; DICK MOORE; GEORGE O'HALLORAN; BROADWAY; CORONET THEATRE; BROADWAY REVIVAL; PLAY; DRAMA THEATRE; THEATER; ACTOR'S FUND; PLAYBILL; AUTOGRAPHS; SIGNATURE

Glaspell, Susan. (1876-1948). American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist and journalist.

Typed Letter Signed by Susan Glaspell Regarding the Premiere of Her Play "the Comic Artist".

Provincetown, MA: June 25, [1928]. [1928]. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide]. Approximately 268 typed words filling one side of a sheet of cream stock. Signed "Susan Glaspell" with a handwritten P.S. The edges of the sheet are slightly darkened. Folded 3 times for mailing. Together with the original mailing envelope. Very good.

A splendid letter to actor Morgan Farley who had just opened, playing the part of Karl Rolf, in "The Comic Artist", a play by Glaspell and her husband Norman Matson, at the Strand Theatre, London. "Norman and I were so happy to have your letter, and know you were to play Karl. We always thought of you for it, but you were very much occupied at the time, so we did not venture to hope for you. How we should love to have been in London last night and seen you and the play and the audience. / I'd love a line telling how things went. Yours is a first production of the play, so we've never seen it.."

Susan Glaspell was a most remarkable woman, whose work and reputation were almost lost for many years but who is now being reassessed as a pioneering feminist writer and America's first important modern female playwright. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, and is credited with discovering the work of Eugene O'Neill. She was a widely published and admired novelist and, though untrained, was hailed by Jacques Copeau as "a truly great actress". After George Cook died, she was romantically involved for eight years with the younger writer Norman Matson, credited as co-author of "The Comic Artist". She wrote many plays, including "Alison's House", for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. After her relationship with Norman Matson ended, she fell into depression and alcoholism and died of pneumonia in 1948.

A rare letter. Very good .

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Book number: 31214

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; STAGE; PLAY; AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT; SUSAN GLASPELL; FEMINIST; PULITZER PRIZE-WINNER; NOVELIST; ACTRESS; THE COMIC ARTIST; ACTOR; MORGAN FARLEY; NORMAN MATSON; TYPED LETTER SIGNED; TLS; T.L.S; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH.

Plautus, Titus Maccius; van Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius (editor).

M. Acci Plauti Comoediae Accedit Commentarius Ex Variorum Notis Ac Observationibus, Quarum Plurimae Nunc Primum Eduntur. Ex Museo Marci Zuerii Boxhornii.

Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Franciscum Hackium, 1645. 1645. Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Franciscum Hackium, 1645. 1645. Very good. - Octavo, 7-1/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in full period natural vellum with overlapping edges, titled in early ink manuscript on the spine. All page edges are speckled blue. The vellum covers are very slightly soiled. [20], 5-1136 & [48] pages, with a pictorial title page engraved by "C v. D.", decorative initials, and head & tailpieces. The engraving features a proscenium arch and stage on which Atlas, holding the celestial spheres, is confronted by Hercules bearing his sword and shield. The book label of "L. Marcel" is mounted on the front endpaper and there are previous owners' notes on the front and rear endpapers. There are also a very few markings in the text. An otherwise near fine attractive book. First edition, first printing of this variorum edition edited by Boxhorn. Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He is known to have had an influence on Shakespeare and Moliere. Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612-1653) was an important historical linguist who discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages. The text is in Latin. Very good .

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Book number: 99055

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: M. ACCI PLAUTI COMOEDIAE ACCEDIT COMMENTARIUS; TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS; MARCUS ZUERIUS BOXHORN; SHAKESPEARE; COMEDIES; COMEDYS; CLASSICAL THEATRE; THEATER; PLAYS; PLAYWRIGHT; LATIN; ROMAN; GREEK; LEIDEN; 17TH CENTURY; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; FRONTISPIECE; ENGR