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Three children [Pauline MacDonald, unidentified, and Mary Hordern] dressed in costume for 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:
Three children [Pauline MacDonald, unidentified, and Mary Hordern] dressed in costume for 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 x 7.7 cm
Inscription:
Album inscribed: "Best wishes for Xmas / from Ernest Watt" on first leaf and signed "Cazneaux" on verso of first leaf.
Subject:
charity events
stage costumes
MacDonald, Pauline Fraser, 1913-1992.
Hordern, Mary Bingham, 1912-1965.
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
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:
43437
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