GIELGUD
(Sir John, 1904-2000, Actor)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Kenneth",
blessing him for his wire, "You can imagine the rock my friends have been to me and how incapable I am of expressing my gratitude", he goes on to say how the Mc Carthy critiques gave him that pleasure, and that they are safe at home, "When I come back to London next month do come and have a word and collect them", 1 side cro. 8vo, on Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool headed paper, 29th October, n.y., together with a FIRST EDITION copy of 'John Gielgud's Hamlet' by Rosamond Gilder, original black cloth boards, dw very edge worn, repaired with tape
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
29665
£175
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GIELGUD
(Sir John, b.1904, British Actor)
Programme for Gordon Daviot's 'Richard of Bordeaux', signed on the picture on the front,
the cast includes Ben Webster and Donald Wolfit, many good advertisements including fashion stores, motor cars, and all-night parking for 6d, 12 pages 8vo., with 2 pictures from the production, New Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, London, 10th March
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
14319
£45
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GIELGUD
(Sir John, 1904-2000, Actor)
Typed Letter Signed to Mr Staples,
sending his "contribution for the tribute to be made to Ita Cope, and no doubt some of the other members of the committee may like to give something ... I will gladly present the cheque to Miss Cope if I can be at the Annual General Meeting ... and make a little tribute to Harcourt WILLIAMS..." (1880-1957, Actor), if he is able to attend but he has "been asked to direct a new play, and if rehearsals have started then I may not be able to get away ...", 1 side oblong 4to., John Gielgud headed paper, 16 Cowley Street, 12th February
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
4212
£50
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GIELGUD
(Sir John, 1904-2000, British Actor), Adele DIXON (Adèle, 1908-1992, British Actress) and Edward CHAPMAN (1901-1977, Actor chiefly remembered for his comic foil to Norman Wisdom)
Small collection of Signatures from some of the members of the cast of ‘The Good Companions’
on card, 5” x 3”, His Majesty’s Theatre,
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
42694
£60
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“AFTER SHAKESPEARE’S WEALTH OF LANGUAGE IT IS STRANGE TO BE PLAYING SUCH VERY ECONOMICAL PROSE”
GIELGUD
(Sir John, 1904-2000, British Actor)
Early Autograph Letter Signed to G. E. Westbury
ttelling him that “the version we are playing is a translation of M. Komisarjevsky’s own - taken from the acting script of the Russian - he tells me the accepted version here is done from the published script, issued, as often happens abroad, on the morning of the first production. This one has various additions and alterations made by the author during rehearsals - including the passages you noticed in the last act, and with the asides and soliloquies rearranged, much I think to the play’s advantage. You may be right as to the reading of the passage in Actio being unnecessary - myself I think the jarring effect is partly because the other asides (‘he’s mine’, in Act III, for instance) are omitted - these were of course far more usual and accepted in 1900 than they are today - and plartly, as you say, because it serves to force the point. However I have now understressed the emphasis and I believe it is better. The other sections you noted in that act are exactly meant as you interpret them - and I am greatly relieved to hear thy carry with this meaning, as the producer directed us to give them with that suggestion, and I was doubtful whether I was able to give the impression he wanted with so few actual lines to speak. After Shakespeare’s wealth of language it is strange to be playing such very economical prose, (though non the less fascinating by contrast)...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 31 Avenue Close, NW8, postmarked 17th May
Item Date:
1936
Stock No:
43192
£225
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