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Poster

1930 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Great Britain (printed)

Letterpress printed poster or playbill in red and blue print on cream paper advertising the Variety programme at the Bristol Hippodrome for the week beginning Monday 26 May 1930. Programme featuring Will Hay and Company: ‘What’s in a Name?’ [comedy sketch]; B.B.C Star Tommy Handley (with a company of comedians): Disorderley Room”; Johnson & Graham: 2 Black Dots [dance]; Marie Hyman [Australian music/comedy]; Andy Andrews [comedy]; Evelyn Hardy [cornettist]; British Movietone News [picture]; Macari Brothers [piano accordionists] and Bernt and Partner [art and skill].


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Advertising
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Letterpress on paper
Printing Ink
Paper
Letterpress Printing
Brief description
Poster advertising the Variety programme at the Bristol Hippodrome for the week beginning Monday 26 May 1930. Programme featuring Will Hay and Company. Letterpress. Gift of Rae Hammond.
Physical description
Letterpress printed poster or playbill in red and blue print on cream paper advertising the Variety programme at the Bristol Hippodrome for the week beginning Monday 26 May 1930. Programme featuring Will Hay and Company: ‘What’s in a Name?’ [comedy sketch]; B.B.C Star Tommy Handley (with a company of comedians): Disorderley Room”; Johnson & Graham: 2 Black Dots [dance]; Marie Hyman [Australian music/comedy]; Andy Andrews [comedy]; Evelyn Hardy [cornettist]; British Movietone News [picture]; Macari Brothers [piano accordionists] and Bernt and Partner [art and skill].
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 25.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
ms ink addition written top right
Credit line
Given by Rae Hammond
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.116-1988

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Record createdMay 24, 2007
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O135352/poster-unknown/
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