Old Theatre Photo's

[Alan Day]

This is my first time of posting photos so if I mess it up please forgive me.

 

These photos are from Play Pictorial Illustrated Monthly Journal (Monthly Sixpence Net)

"The Toreador " Issue No3 at "The Gaiety" 1902

"The Admirable Crichton" issue No 11 " Duke of York" 1903

The Interrupted Dance, A Ship in Sight, Mr Ernest Wooley's New Book (that is a bucket he is carrying )

Edited December 12, 2007 by Alan Day

[Alan Day]

Not sure you got these I will try again

Edited September 15, 2008 by Alan Day

[Alan Day]

The final one and I am having problems with it.

Al

Edited December 13, 2007 by Alan Day

[Jody Kruskal]

The final one and I am having problems with it.

Al

 

Al, I would like to see these but can't. Can you "save as" jpeg files and then repost those? Other file formats that most folks can see are gif, tiff and pdf. Doc files require software that I don't have.

[Alan Day]

The final one and I am having problems with it.

Al

 

Al, I would like to see these but can't. Can you "save as" jpeg files and then repost those? Other file formats that most folks can see are gif, tiff and pdf. Doc files require software that I don't have.

I do not appear to have the option of changing the format on my scanner ,but I will keep trying.

Has anyone managed to see these yet?

Al

[Leo]

I do not appear to have the option of changing the format on my scanner ,but I will keep trying.

Has anyone managed to see these yet?

Al

Hi Al

 

They are an attachment to the post as a Microsoft Word Document. On my computer they open as a word processing file. The pictures look fine if you open them up in "Word".

 

Thanks

Leo

[tony]

I do not appear to have the option of changing the format on my scanner ,but I will keep trying.

Has anyone managed to see these yet?

Al

Hi Al

 

They are an attachment to the post as a Microsoft Word Document. On my computer they open as a word processing file. The pictures look fine if you open them up in "Word".

 

Thanks

Leo

 

And if you copy them from Word to MS Paint I think you can save them in other formats.

[JimLucas]

I do not appear to have the option of changing the format on my scanner ,but I will keep trying.

Has anyone managed to see these yet?

They are an attachment to the post as a Microsoft Word Document. On my computer they open as a word processing file. The pictures look fine if you open them up in "Word".

I, too, see them as Word documents. But not everyone has Word. It's a Microsoft product, and it costs money.

 

It's also a word processor, neither specifically for photos or other graphics, nor particularly good with them. And my experience with Word is that it only stores images as bit maps... very inefficient! The other formats listed by Jody are common standards, viewable directly in just about any internet browser, requiring less space to store the images, and easy to select as default by all the scanner programs I've seen.

 

Alan, it seems very odd that Word would be your default program for capturing output from your scanner. What kind of scanner do you have? And what program do you have for running the scanner?

[peelypost]

Alan's photos uploaded as PDF

 

E2144FBB.pdf

 

 

Neil.

 

Not sure you got these I will try again

[Alan Day]

Well done Neil many thanks.

Here is a second try at the missing one.

Al

Edited December 13, 2007 by Alan Day

[Dan Worrall]

Thanks for the effort, Alan...they are great photos.

 

Cheers,

Dan

[Alan Day]

I do not appear to have the option of changing the format on my scanner ,but I will keep trying.

Has anyone managed to see these yet?

They are an attachment to the post as a Microsoft Word Document. On my computer they open as a word processing file. The pictures look fine if you open them up in "Word".

I, too, see them as Word documents. But not everyone has Word. It's a Microsoft product, and it costs money.

 

It's also a word processor, neither specifically for photos or other graphics, nor particularly good with them. And my experience with Word is that it only stores images as bit maps... very inefficient! The other formats listed by Jody are common standards, viewable directly in just about any internet browser, requiring less space to store the images, and easy to select as default by all the scanner programs I've seen.

 

Alan, it seems very odd that Word would be your default program for capturing output from your scanner. What kind of scanner do you have? And what program do you have for running the scanner?

 

Jim it is my fault, the scanner is new and from the information and advice I have received I am downloading it from the wrong connection,that only gives me the option I have posted. The quality of the photos are far better than they are on my posting and if these photos are required for anything important I can in the future do a better job.There is still one of " The Toreador" that I am struggling with. If anyone is interested in more old theatre ,not concertina related, pictures ,I can send some more privately.I went through about fifty of these magazines to find these photos and they were the only two that I purchased .

Thanks to you all who have commented for making this worth while.

Al

[Robert Booth]

Great photos, which I had no problems opening-a fool's luck, I'm sure.

 

Are the captions exerpts from the play dialogue?

[Alan Day]

Great photos, which I had no problems opening-a fool's luck, I'm sure.

 

Are the captions exerpts from the play dialogue?

Robert they seem to be based on the play subject possibly part of the script or overall story,but actual lines of the play appear underneath some of the photos.

These magazines seem to be an extension to the programs you buy when seeing a play and certain scenes are depicted with the story line through them.

There are some great photos and adverts, but only the ones posted include the concertina.

I am still having problems with the last one so I will try another route and get someone to post it for me.

Al

[Alan Day]

The final attempt

[Stephen Chambers]

I am still having problems with the last one so I will try another route and get someone to post it for me.

Al,

 

Ah, so that's why you emailed me tonight!

 

Here you go:

 

 

In fact I've got a post card of Mr. Fred Wright in the same costume, with the same concertina, and in almost the same pose, that is very obviously from the same sitting. Indeed that photograph appears to have been taken within maybe a second, or two, of this one. So what's the date of it Al?

Edited December 15, 2007 by Stephen Chambers

[Stephen Chambers]

And while I'm at it, here are the rest of them:

 

 

 

[Leo]

Footlight notes website has a lot of old stage photos, and quite a few links to information, both in England and the US.

 

Under Press Clippings for the week ending Saturday, 22 March 2003 is a picture of Perci Honri from Hana London, Circa 1918. Unfortunately, the site is a bit restricted in their ability to copy information from it. You have to use the search function at the bottom of the front page. The database seems to be recorded in date added with no cross reference available other than that. There might be some information worthwhile here. According to the front page, it goes from the 1850's to the 1920's.

http://footlightnotes.tripod.com/

 

Interesting bit of history. Thanks for your work. I'll crawl back into oblivion and eavesdrop again.

 

Thanks

Leo