The lady with a lamp : a play / by Reginald Berkeley
Reginald Berkeley (1881 - 1936)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 3224782
Summary
Bibliographic description
Acting edition. 106, [106] p. ; 16cm. Extensive pencil text marking and annotation, with stage directions, list of cast members, set drawings, etc. News cutting review affixed to pastedown and endpaper. Various loose inserts: (front opening) brown envelope, inscribed: W.G. Farrell 2/- | Photographs "Lady of lamp" production May 1939", containing 4 half-tone 12 x 16cm photos from production; with programme of play, Durham House Players, St. margaret's Hall, Durham, 5-6th May, 1939; (p.46) autograph letter signed from W.N. Illingworth to W.G. Farrell, congratulating him on play, Durham, May 7, 1939; autograph letter signed fro John J. Maddison [lighting] to Farrell, thanking hime for learning experience; sheaf of manuscript notes on stage furniture movements; (p.89) sheaf of manuscript notes on "lighting plot"; (at rear) sheaf of drawings on stage layout. Pencil manuscript timings inscribed on rear pastedown. Provenance: from collection of books boxed in Ruth Pennyman's sitting room. Producer's copy of W.G. Farrell [i.e. William ("Bill") G. Farrell (1895-1971), founding resident warden of the Spennymoor Settlement]. Binding: twentieth-century quarter dark blue calf, with blue cloth on boards; gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Reginald Berkeley (1881 - 1936)