Printed 'Property Plot' for a production of Ralph Lumley's 'Throrough-Bred' by 'Mr. J. L. Toole's Company', with stage manager's 'Call' sheet for 'Thoroughbred' by 'Mr. Edward A. Coventry & Mr. John R. Collins' Company'.

Publication details: 
Neither item with date or place. [First item: London: Toole's Theatre, 1893.]
£180.00
SKU: 12019

The production to which the first item relates was Toole's last before being forced by gout to retire from the London stage. Both items in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper; the first with short closed tear at head. Both printed on one side only. Item One: 33 x 21 cm. Headed 'Mr. J. L. Toole's Company. | THOROUGH-BRED. | PROPERTY PLOT.' Listing, under 'Stage' and 'Hand', all the props needed for the three acts, the last (and shortest) entry reading '[ACT III.] HAND. | Field glasses, cases. Race cards for all. Letter (WILHELMINA). Set of bones (TOSH). Coins (all). 2 tambourines. Banjo (BLENKINSOPP). Letter (JENNINGS.)' At foot of page: 'Properties in Italics brought by Mr. TOOLE.' Item Two: Headed 'Mr. EDWARD A. COVENTRY & Mr. JOHN R. COLLINS' | COMPANY. | "THOROUGHBRED" | CALL'. At foot: 'Stage Manager.' Dimensions: 260 x 210 cm. A form, not completed, with lines for: Date; To receive Scenery; Scenes; Properties; Gas or Electric; Limes; Supers; Band; Company; Understudies.