Peggy McDonald photograph album of Sydney Tivoli Theatre Circuit performers

PXE 1820

fonds

Approximately 1930s-1950s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9665408

1 album (88 photographic prints) - 29 x 36 cm - gelatin silver, textual records

Peggy McDonald (nee Waddington) was a dancer and performer with Tivoli Theatre in the 1930s. She married Eddie McDonald, 1937. Eddie McDonald, who was Frank Neil's vaudeville company manager, was appointed general manager of Tivoli Theatre in New South Wales, 1940.

Tivoli Circuit Australia Pty Ltd was an Australian vaudeville entertainment circuit formed in May 1934. Frank Neil was managing director from 1935 until his death in 1940. The company produced a variety of entertainment including revue, opera, ballet, musical comedy and others.

References:
Library correspondence file
AustLit. 2011. "Tivoli Theatres". Accessed 23 December 2022. https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A109988
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 1940, 6 January. "Tivoli Theatre new appointments". Accessed 23 December 2022. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204008558

One bound volume with album cover in blue patterned fabric with small affixed cardboard advertisement with inscription, 'Frank Neil offers "The Blue Bloods of Variety". Tivoli, Joey Porter, Barry Breen and Wyler, Raynor Lehr and Little Willie. International celebrities from all over the world.'

Enclosed 5 documents including:
1. Letter to Eddie McDonald from Tivoli Circuit Australia Pty Ltd secretary relating to his resignation, 26 February 1941
2. Letter to Eddie McDonald from Theatre Managers' Association, New South Wales branch relating to his resignation, 22 May 1968
3. Australian Cinema Pioneers membership certificate, undated
4. Eddie McDonald's Australian Cinema Pioneers Society membership certificate, undated
5. Four practical medal test examiner's report forms from The Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing Australia and New Zealand Ballroom Branch, Latin American for Peggy McDonald, 7 July 1952, 2 February 1958, 19 April 1958, 21 June 1958

1. Facade of the Tivoli during run of Hello 1938! with theatre staff & passers-by in street
2. Audience inside theatre
3. Group in evening dress, interior of Mayfair Theatre
4. Cast outside dress circle doors, His Majesty’s Theatre
5. Panama Studio, Rotorua, The group on tour in New Zealand (with Maoris)
6. Eddie, standing, surrounded by women (chorus girls)
7. Theatre scene
8. Theatre scene
9. Chorus girls being fitted for shoes
10. Chorus girls being fitted for shoes, Peggy marked with 'x' in ink
11. Group photograph in front of snow scenery
12. Group photograph on veranda
13-16. Group photograph in snow with Eddie McDonald centre of photograph
17. ‘Oners/ Souths[ide?]’ (stage scene)
18. Group photograph with Eddie McDonald in back row
19. Group photograph in snow with Eddie McDonald
20. Group photograph
21-22. Chorus girls on stairs in Botanic Gardens(?)
23-24. 2 stage scenes
25. Chorus girls in costume at the zoo feeding a seal
26. Chorus girls in costume at the zoo with one astride an elephant's trunk
27. Chorus girls on stage with scenic backdrop of puppet soldier
28. Chorus girls in Grecian dress, with male & a female ballet soloists & shipwreck scene behind
29. Chorus girls in swimsuits
30. Chorus girls in top hats & short skirts or trousers
31. Chorus girls in cowgirl costume
32. Chorus girls at the barre in a studio
33. Peggy and another chorus dancer exercising at the barre
34. Peggy and other chorus dancers posing in a dance studio
35. Peggy & fellow chorus girl in top hats
36. Chorus line in fringed flapper dresses, with male partners in dress suits; facing them is imported English stage star Wyn Richards
37. Six chorus girls in black top hats and shorts, photograph by Asti Studios, 117 King St, Sydney
38. Six chorus girls seated and wearing individual costumes, photograph by Asti Studios, 117 King St, Sydney
39. Dancing couple with inscription "Sincerely Marion & Martinez Randall", photograph by Swiss Studio, Sydney
40. Chorus girls & man in top hat, photograph by Howard Harris Studios, Sydney
41. Chorus girls and male dancer performing splits, photograph by Howard Harris Studios, Sydney
42. Chorus girls in costume at the zoo
43. Chorus girls in costume in front of ostrich pen
44. Chorus girls feeding a baby rhinoceros
45. Chorus girls positioned behind a camera, while a man feeds a giraffe
46-51,55, 62-76. Large portraits of actresses, some autographed and inscribed to Peggy from Wyn Richmond, Freda, Beatrice Kay, Bonnie, Belle, Roma, Bobbie, Du Barry, Olwen, Merla & Rita, Austin Hurst, May Wrighton by various studios including, Monte Luke Studios Sydney, H&M Ashby Co., The Walker Studios, Crown Studio Auckland, Paramount Studio
52-54, 56-61. Large head & shoulder portraits of Peggy McDonald by various studios including, L'atelier Steele Studios, Auckland, NZ; Lupton, Sydney
77-78. Full body portrait of Peggy McDonald in streetscape
79. Two girls holding flower bouquets
80. Two girls dancing
81. Female seated on carpeted floor
82. Three female dancers
83-84. Portraits of two ladies
85-86. Group photograph
87-88. Hand-coloured portraits of a girl dancing, last image by Fred Barker

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Title devised by cataloguer

Various studio portraits are autographed and inscribed to Peggy McDonald

Date based on items found in album