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Friday, October 31, 2025

Unidentified Musical Ephemera: A bit of Baltimore?

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  I had a great deal of fun, recently, winkling out the identity of an old playbill from Iowa, so when I saw this one, dated but no venue or...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

'Mister Dickens'. Godly qualms.

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  BURNETT, Henry  (b Alverstoke 12 November 1811; d Titchfield, Hants 7 February 1893) BURNETT, Mrs  [née DICKENS, Frances Elizabeth] (b Por...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Grab Me a Gondola ... or ten!

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  This week, a treat, such as doesn't come my musical-theatre way very often in these wearisomely trendy and over-amplified days ... My ...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Unidentified Theatre Ephemera: a voyage of discovery in Iowa

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  What do you do when you find a delicious piece of C19th theatrical ephemera without a place, a date ... One such turned up on my desk this...
Friday, October 10, 2025

A torrent of Temples ... Glasgow to Hobart, via Boston.

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Set on a track today by a photo .. only to discover that I'd been 'there', years ago, for another member of the family! Rose Tem...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

1870s London theatre: a gaggle of girls ...

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  E-bay, alas, once a fertile source of C19th theatrical material, has so overgrown its once manageable proportions, that it is not half the...
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