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Gladys Cooper [Dame Gladys Constance Cooper] (1888-1971), English actress, over seven decades a star of stage and screen; DennisBiblio.com

Gladys Cooper star of stage and screen. Gelatin silver print of Foulsham & Banfield photograph of Gladys Cooper in the play ‘My Lady’s Dress’ with a second photograph of her embracing Dennis Eadie in the same production.

réf. 25384Label on reverse dates the solo photograph to 27 February 1914 with the stamp of Foulsham & Banfield 49 Old Bond Street W. London. The photograph of Cooper & Eadie without date or place but from the same production. Edward Knobloch’s play ‘My Lady’s Dress’ ‘in which’ as one newspaper wrote at the time ‘the heroine’s dream takes her to the foreign and London scenes surrounding the manufacture of a costly gown’ premiered at the Royalty Theatre in London in 1914 and was revived several times through the 1920s. Although neither of these photographs is among the five Foulsham & Banfield portraits of Cooper in the National Portrait Gallery collection the second one Cooper and Eadie embracing is present among the seven unattributed scenes from the 1914 production in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection ‘Given to the Gabrielle Enthoven Collection by L.E. Berman’. Both of the present items are black and white gelatin silver prints. Dimensions are approximate. ONE: Cooper seated on a chair in front of a window and beside a table hands clasped in her lap looking mournfully at the viewer in dotted smock worn over plaid dress with lace collar and crocheted Welsh-style shawl. HEIGHT: 30.5 cm. WIDTH: 21 cm. In fair condition lightly aged with slight wear and chipping at edges and one very small closed tear at head beside ‘5/-’ which appears to be part of the print. Written in pencil on reverse: ‘Miss Cooper as Annette / Act I. Sc 3.’ Also label with ink note: ‘My Lady’s Dress / Royalty / Feb 27 1914’ and the stamp of Foulsham & Banfield 49 New Bond Street. TWO: The Victoria and Albert description reads as follows: ‘Photographic print of Act III Scene 3 of a production of My Lady's Dress at the Royalty Theatre 23rd April 1914. The photograph features a full length image of Miss Cooper as Anne and Mr Eadie as John they are standing together embracing and are gazing towards one another.’ He wears a dressing gown and she is in a rather splendid Pre-Raphaelite-style dress. Height: 26.5 cm. Width: 20.5 cm. Adhering to the reverse are the remains of a grey paper mount and no details are given. In good condition lightly aged. See Image. Label on reverse dates the solo photograph to 27 February 1914, with the stamp of Foulsham & Banfield, 49 Old Bond Street, W. [L unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni100,00 £GB≈ 119,93 €

Tyrone Power I [William Grattan Tyrone Power] (1797-1841), celebrated Irish actor, great-grandfather of the eponymous film starBiblio.com

Tyrone Power I celebrated Irish actor. Seven items: two drafts of Typed Article on him for 'Everybody's' magazine by theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope with page proof of the same and related correspondence and other items.

réf. 24587Seven items all dating from 1950. ‘Everybody’s’ magazine 114 Fleet Street London. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry and that of Power in the Oxford DNB. The seven items are in good condition lightly aged and worn. ONE: Typed article titled ‘The Other Tyrone Power / by / W. Macqueen-Pope.’ Undated. 11pp 4to paginated 1-9 with two-page ‘Inset’. With a few minor autograph emendations. Begins: ‘At the present moment Mr Tyrone Power “in person” is appearing at the London Coliseum in a play called “Mr Roberts”. . The fact is that there was another Tyrone Power who was a very celebrated actor indeed in his time.’ TWO: Another copy of Item One but without any autograph emendations. THREE: Page proof of MP’s article stamped ‘19 AUG 1950 / EVERYBODY’S’. 1p folio with small square of paper with additional text attached at foot and proof of a cartoon titled ‘Ferrier’s Searchlight critical of Noel Coward’s play ‘Ace of Clubs’. FOUR: TLS to MP from Sidney Gordon Features Editor. 1p small 4to. He informs him that the editor ‘Mr Poke’ Greville Poke 1912-2000 who also has an Oxford DNB entry ‘would very much like to go ahead with it. / It would certainly tie-up with “Mister Roberts” and perhaps you would send the MS in to us as soon possible’. FIVE: Carbon of TL from MP to ‘Mr. Gordon’ 28 July 1950. He is enclosing the article with suggestions for illustrations including photos of the film star by Angus McBean. SIX: Typed acknowledgement of receipt of article ‘The other Tyrone Power’. On printed envelope addressed to ‘Macqueen Pope Esquire. / 359 Strand / W.C.2.’ 1p 12mo. SEVEN: Carbon of Typed Letter from MP to‘Mrs Guthrie’. 3 October 1950. 1p 4to. He is especially grateful to her for her informative letter as he would ‘like to put this actor who has been so neglected into some sort of proper recognition and remembrance’. He discusses the colour of Power’s hair before concluding ‘I know Mr Tyrone Guthrie but never knew of his connection with Power.’ Postscript: ‘Besides my work in the Theatre and at Drury Lane I am a theatre historian with a fair amount of books to my credit.’ Seven items, all dating from 1950. [‘Everybody’s’, magazine, 114 Fleet Street, London.] unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni120,00 £GB≈ 143,92 €

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