Valantyne Napier papers, ca. 1912-1989

MLMSS 8199

fonds

ca. 1912-1989

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

152338

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)

Valantyne Napier is the Australian born daughter of Hector Napier and Dorothy Yvonne Cartledge, whose act of Napier & Yvonne, The Spider & The Butterfly worked the Tivoli and Fuller circuits between 1909 and 1929.

Valantyne worked in Vaudeville, Variety, and Revue in Australia and internationally, in a single act of Valantyne Napier, and a double act of Vyne & Valantyne with Ted Weeks. Valantyne regularly performed as The Human Spider and this act translated into revues, variety, and pantomimes as Little Miss Muffet.

Valantyne married Jeffrey Jones, resident stage manager of the Opera House, Cheltenham. In 1961 Valantyne and Jeffrey sold their English home and relocated to Australia.

Reference:
Compiled from the collection
Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America, Volume 1 / Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly : Routledge, 2004

Originally donated to the Dennis Wolanski Library of the Performing Arts, Sydney Opera House, by Valantyne Napier, and later transferred to the State Library of New South Wales.

Typescript copy of manuscript by Valantyne Napier, 'The Corruption of "Vaudeville" in Australia', ca. 1989

Photocopies of newspaper clippings relating to Napier & Yvonne, and Valantyne Napier; copies of 'Napier's Guide to Popular Theatre Before TV'; and publicity stills and photographs of Napier & Yvonne, and Valantyne Napier, ca. 1912-1925

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