John McCallum and his Courtiers Company
Photo courtesy of Fryer Library
from Theatre Magazine (June 1918)
For details see full image
1. COURTIERS COSTUME COMEDY COMPANY PERSONNEL:
All dates shown below are for the 1917-1918 Cremorne Theatre season, except as noted. Some individuals may have been associated with the company for only part of that time, however. In these instances, the year of their engagement has been entered.
1.1. Principal troupe members were Nesta Barry, Harry Borradale, Joe Brennan (1917), Colin Crane, Linda Dale, George Edwards (1917), Gracie Funston (1917), Madge Griffiths, Arthur Helmsley, Leslie Holmes, Lalla Knight, Sydney Mannering (director), Miss Ira Love, Elsa May, Connie Milne, Rosie Parkes (1917), George Powall, Violet Sylvester, Ford Waltham.
1.2. Musicians engaged with the company included A. C. Ball (trombone, 1917-1918), Henri Penn (piano, 1917), Maggie Foster (violin, 1917-1918).
1.3. Additional notes and/or historical clarification:
2. PHOTOGRAPHS:
The following list comprises bibliographic details of published and unpublished photographs of members of the Courtiers Costume Comedy Company. Whenever possible only photographs of individual troupe members taken during or within a few years of their association with the Courtiers ensemble are included. See also John N. McCallum's AustLit entry.
Theatre Magazine: June 1918, p.4 [John N. McCallum, Harry Borrodale, Joe Brennan, Colin Crane, Linda Dale, Maggie Foster, Madge Griffiths, Leslie Holmes, Lalla Knight, Sydney Mannering, Connie Milne, George Pownall, Violet Sylvester, Fred Waltham].
This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive