Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1Excerpt from the Overture to Blossom Time in a copy of the piano-conductor score.
3.1Advertisement for records of music from White Horse Inn in The Play Pictorial, May 1931.
3.2Advertisement from the programme to the Coliseum production of White Horse Inn, 1931.
3.3Front cover of the vocal score of The Count of Luxembourg, published in 1911 by Chappell’s New York branch, 41 East 34th Street, at a price of $2.
3.4Lily Elsie as Sonia, wearing the ‘Merry Widow’ hat, from The Play Pictorial, vol. 10, no. 61 (Sep. 1907).
3.5Bertram Wallace as the Count and Lily Elsie dressed as the screened bride in a scene from Lehár’s The Count of Luxembourg, from the front cover of The Play Pictorial, vol. 18, no. 108 (Aug. 1911).
3.6Advertisement for Rayne shoes, The Play Pictorial, vol. 10, no. 61 (Sep. 1907).
3.7The Merry Widow, cartoon by T. E. Powers, 1908, published in The Evening American, 1909.
3.8Picture postcard of Phyllis Dare, who took the role of Gonda van der Loo in Leo Fall’s The Girl in the Train, Vaudeville Theatre, 1910. One of the ‘Celebrities of the Stage’ series by Raphael Tuck & Sons.
4.1Donald Brian (1877–1948) as Danilo, cover of The Theatre, vol. 8, no. 84 (Feb. 1908).
4.2Richard Tauber (1891–1948) in Lehár’s The Land of Smiles (Drury Lane, 1931).
4.3José Collins (1887–1958) in Straus’s The Last Waltz (Gaiety Theatre, 1922).
4.4Joseph Coyne (1867–1941) as Danilo in Lehár’s The Merry Widow (Daly’s Theatre, 1907).
5.1Box plan of Daly’s Theatre from the Play Pictorial, vol. 17, no. 103 (Mar. 1911). The pit (unreserved seating) is not shown but was behind the stalls.
6.2‘You Are My Heart’s Delight’, the hit song of The Land of Smiles.
7.1Venetian Scene in Casanova (Coliseum, 1932). The Play Pictorial, vol. 61, no. 364 (Dec. 1932), 20.
7.3Reiche’s 3000-watt cloud machine, containing two tiers of lenses and mirrors.
7.4Advertisement from the Coliseum White Horse Inn programme (1931).
8.1Cosmopolitan pleasures advertised at the Empire Theatre, home to the London premiere of Künneke’s Love’s Awakening in 1922 and Lehár’s The Three Graces in 1924.
8.2Advertisement for the Cosmopolitan Club in Rupert Street, The Stage Year Book (1914), xlix.
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