including a visitors’ book kept by Mr. and Mrs. Sykes at their theatrical boarding house, Luton, 1930-1934, containing over 100 entries by Tommy Trinder, his wife, and others in the Hello Speed Co. with a note by Trinder “Sorry! I wasn’t working, just hanging about “Curse these wives”, George and Dora Batty, and others from Batty’s Royal Empire Circus, Mr. and Mrs. Elgar (earlier members of Ray Elgar’s family), Madame Melié and 10 Cecilian Girls, Kondo and Hanako (Japanese Novelty Entertainers), Stan Costello and members of his band, Tony Bonnetti, with signed photograph, members of the Chinese Bungalow Co. and other similar companies and acts, cloth-backed boards, narrow folio; early correspondence regarding bookings for Ray Elgar’s band in Hastings and St. Leonards, 10 autograph or typed letters and 5 Christmas cards from John Fisher; others from Jeffrey Atkins, Tim Barlow, Cardini, Betty Davenport, David De-Val, John Salisse, Harry Stanley, Presh Taylor, and others; other material including a Chung Ling Soo memorandum sheet with silhouette portrait; an illustrated programme for The Great Lafayette’s Carnival of Conjuring, 1911; signed photographs of Will Goldston and Cardini; photographs of Roland Spray, “England’s only known sightless magician” and his large scrapbook containing instructions, patter, and letters from Peter Warlock (5), Frank Staff (3), and others; a Blackpool Magic Convention programme signed by Tommy Cooper and others; publicity material for Voltaire, Cecil Boltz and others; many instruction sheets, and similar material (a quantity)
including a visitors’ book kept by Mr. and Mrs. Sykes at their theatrical boarding house, Luton, 1930-1934, containing over 100 entries by Tommy Trinder, his wife, and others in the Hello Speed Co. with a note by Trinder “Sorry! I wasn’t working, just hanging about “Curse these wives”, George and Dora Batty, and others from Batty’s Royal Empire Circus, Mr. and Mrs. Elgar (earlier members of Ray Elgar’s family), Madame Melié and 10 Cecilian Girls, Kondo and Hanako (Japanese Novelty Entertainers), Stan Costello and members of his band, Tony Bonnetti, with signed photograph, members of the Chinese Bungalow Co. and other similar companies and acts, cloth-backed boards, narrow folio; early correspondence regarding bookings for Ray Elgar’s band in Hastings and St. Leonards, 10 autograph or typed letters and 5 Christmas cards from John Fisher; others from Jeffrey Atkins, Tim Barlow, Cardini, Betty Davenport, David De-Val, John Salisse, Harry Stanley, Presh Taylor, and others; other material including a Chung Ling Soo memorandum sheet with silhouette portrait; an illustrated programme for The Great Lafayette’s Carnival of Conjuring, 1911; signed photographs of Will Goldston and Cardini; photographs of Roland Spray, “England’s only known sightless magician” and his large scrapbook containing instructions, patter, and letters from Peter Warlock (5), Frank Staff (3), and others; a Blackpool Magic Convention programme signed by Tommy Cooper and others; publicity material for Voltaire, Cecil Boltz and others; many instruction sheets, and similar material (a quantity)
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