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Mrs Charles Jaques as a Sultana in the matinee 'In a Persian Garden', held at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, 7 July 1922, in aid of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children / Harold Cazneaux

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Title:

Mrs Charles Jaques as a Sultana in the matinee 'In a Persian Garden', held at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, 7 July 1922, in aid of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children / Harold Cazneaux

Creator:

Cazneaux, Harold, 1878-1953.

Date:

1922

Format:

1 photoprint : b & w ; 10.8 x 7 cm

Inscription:

Album inscribed: "Best wishes for Xmas / from Ernest Watt" on first leaf and signed "Cazneaux" on verso of first leaf. This image annotated in pencil, In Leslie Walford's hand, 'Auntie Vera'.

Subject:

charity events
stage costumes
Jaques, Carla Vera Kortlang, 1891-1976.

Series:

Leslie Walford papers: In a Persian Garden album

Description:

One of 33 small photographs tipped into a hand-made album enclosed in a paper wrapper: 27.5 x 18 cm. The album is a record of the matinee 'In a Persian Garden', held at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, 7 July 1922, in aid of the Children's Hospital. The costumes for the matinee were design by George Lambert. [ref: The Home 1 September 1922 pp.2, 6,16-19, 38, 74]
The Sydney Morning Herald Herald reported on 8 July 1922 that the production was a series of tableaux vivants, based on verses from the 'Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam, with "forescore names on the programme in connection with the cast".

Provenance:

Leslie Walford estate

Published in:

Photograph published on page 19 of 'The Home' 1 September 1922 with the caption: A Sultana: Mrs. Charles Jaques.

Source:

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; Walford/P/3

Rights:

You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact Museums of History NSW to request permission.

Material Type:

Picture

Record number:

43417