"The Mission play, by John Steven McGroarty ... presented in the historic Mission Play House at San Gabriel"--P. [2]., Accompanied by ticket to Mission Play (Printed by Alles Printing Co. [Los Angeles]) for March, 1926, completed in ms., Advertising matter throughout., and Program.
The disproportionately large heads in wigs of, from left, Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, are displayed on top of Temple Bar. The arch contains reversed and burlesqued royal arms. In three niches below the arch stand headless statues of, from left, North as Avarice, Fox, shown as a fox, as Ambition, and Burke as Hypocrisy. The declaration signed by 'Justice' and pasted to the gate in the archway explains the reasons for elevating the three Whigs so highly, in a manner reminiscent of the execution of the Jacobite leaders in 1746. On the left are pasted two playbills. The upper one refers to the King's candidates in the Westminster election, the lower one to Fox as Cromwell, North as Boreas, and Burke as St. Omer, a 7th-century bishop who became blind in his old age. On the opposite side of the archway, an advertisement by 'Dr. Ax' is followed by a plea for votes from Cerberus whose three heads are named after North, Burke, and Fox
Description:
TItle from item., W.D. is the monogram: William Dent., and Mounted to 41 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd as the act directs by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Temple Bar (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Gateways, Wigs, Eyeglasses, Coats of arms, and Foxes
Actors include Mr Carleton, Mr Jones, Mr Cummins, Mr Wood, Mr Melvin, Mr Bennett, Mr Williams, Mr Carr, Mr Jarman, Mr Hope, Mr Elliott, Mrs Jarman, Miss Smith, Mrs Elliott, Mrs French, Miss De Camp, Mr Woodham, Mrs Cummins., Playbill for a performance in York Theatre Royal on Saturday Evening, August 3, 1805., Marriage Promise., Personation., Devil to pay., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from theatres in York, England]. [England], [1789-1805].
Publisher:
W. Storry, printer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and York.
Subject (Name):
Allingham, John Till, active 1799-1810., Kemble, Marie Thérèse, 1774-1838., and Coffey, Charles, -1745.
Caption title., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 104., and Dated in ms.
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]. Mounted on page 55.
Caption title., A playbill., Description based on an imperfect copy., From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]. Mounted on page 104., and Playbill is torn and a significant portion of the text is lost.
