Ephemera (2)

More ...

So what is in this packet ...

Another 'also starring' contract for Dora. Playing -- oh, for heaven's sake! -- Cora Crumpington in a film called Up the Front. Sounds like the acme of sophistication ...

Heaps of papers and things about Hello, Dolly, including a box office summary from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for one January week ... 

I wonder how they got the odd pence at the end ...

Now, what's this? West Ham football team at the theatre ... sigh, at a pound a head ..

I have no idea how this, much older, one came into the files ..  the latter day career of the well-known D O'Oyly Carte tenor ...

There are a few letters in here dealing with projects which never eventuated ....

Dear, dear Stan Lebowsky! Adorable man, grand musician ... he left us (Ian and I) a wee buddah in his will ... where is it?

Here is a letter from an interesting wee bundle. Willis Hall, Oscar Lewenstein ...  Now, imagine if THIS had come to pass!

Ah, theatre history, and the grand folk (and the odd bastard, of which more in my next) which people it ...