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Australian
variety, circus, puppetry sites & publications
Sites
Australian Travelling Entertainers
Created
by Mark St Leon. Dedicated to Australia's circus history and to travelling
entertainers.
Publications
Anderson, Gae. Tivoli
King: Life of Harry Rickards vaudeville showman. Kensington NSW: Allambie
Press, 2009.
Bridges, N. Curtain call,
as told by Nancye Bridges to Frank Crook.
North Ryde, NSW. Cassell, 1980. 189 p., illus. A personal and
anecdotal account of vaudeville and variety theatre in Australia from the
1920s to the 1960s.
Gibson, Emily.
The original million dollar mermaid: the Annette Kellerman story,
by Emily Gibson with Barbara Firth. (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2005.
Tells the story of am Australian woman who became one one of the highest paid
Hollywood and vaudeville stars of her day.
Greaves, G. The circus comes
to town: nostalgia of Australian big tops. Terry Hills, NSW: Reed. 1980. 96 p., illus. A brief history and appreciation of the circus
in Australia arranged in chapters under performing groups, animal acts and
other aspects of circus life. Well
illustrated.
Hetherington,
N. Puppets
of Australia. Sydney: Australian Council for the Arts, 1974.
3'7p., illus. A brief survey of Australian puppeteers and puppet
theatres in the 1970s, with a short historical introduction.
Humphries,
Barry. My life as me. Penguin, 2002.
Lindsay,
Norman. The magic pudding [sound recording] / by Norman Lindsay;
music by Eleanore Witcombe. Story director: Richard Bradshaw. Produced by the
Marionette Theatre of Australia. Cherry Pie L 25378
Napier,
Valantyne. Act as known: Australian speciality acts on the world
vaudeville / variety circuits from 1900-1960
Parsons, F H. A man called Mo.
Melbourne, Heinemann, 1973. 174 p., illus. A biography of Australian
comic, vaudeville and radio star.
Roy Rene, as told by one of his scriptwriters.
Includes excerpts from MacCackie Mansion and other shows made famous by
Rene.
St Leon, Mark.
An Australian circus: the origins of Ashton's Circus and a brief record of its
travels in Australia until 1918. Sydney,
Mark St Leon, 1978. 76,
[151 leaves}. A privately published limited edition tracing the early history
of one of Australia's leading circus families.
Includes bibliography.
St Leon, Mark.
Circus: the Australian story. Melbourne: Melbourne Books, 2011.
St Leon, Mark.
Circus and nation: a
critical inquiry into circus in its Australian setting, 1847-2006, from the
perspectives of society, enterprise and culture. PhD thesis, School of
History and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Sydney, 2006.
St Leon, Mark.
The circus in
Australia, 1842-1921. Wahroonga,
NSW: M. St Leon, 1981. 267 leaves. A privately published limited edition of 50
copies containing information on over 80 circuses and circus families in
Australia during the l9th century and early 20th century.
Alphabetically arranged under circus.
St Leon, Mark.
Circus in Australia: a way of life for 70 years, 1847-1917. Article on
Australian Government website
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/early-circus.
With list of additional sites and sources. (Added to website, November
2013).
St Leon, Mark.
Circus in Australia: the American Century,
1851-1950. (Wattle n the Sawdust: the history of circus in Australia,
volume three). Penshurst, NSW: Mark St Leon, 2006. Available directly from the
author markstlaon@bigpond.com
St Leon, Mark.
Circus in Australia: index of show movements 1833-1966. An
index of 10,000 entries. Limited edition of 200 copies. Penshurst, NSW: Mark
St Leon, 2005. Available directly from the author at markstleon@bigpond.com
St Leon, Mark.
Circus in Australia: its origins and
development to 1856. (Wattle in the sawdust: the history of circus in
Australia, volume one). Limited edition of 200 copies, 350 pages,
comprehensively indexed and annotated. Illustrated with contemporary pictures
and documents. Penshurst, NSW: Mark St Leon, 2004. Available directly from the
author at markstleon@bigpond.com.
St
Leon, Mark.
Circus in Australia: May Wirth, the bareback queen.
(Wattle in the sawdust: the history of circus in Australia, volume thirteen).
Limited edition of 200 copies. With 100 photographs, including colour
reproductions of posters. Penshurst, NSW: Mark St Leon, 2007. Available
directly from the author at markstleon@bigpond.com.
St
Leon, Mark.
Circus in Australia: printed ephemera, 1833-2007.
(Wattle in the sawdust: the history of circus in Australia, volume seven).
Limited edition of 200 copies. With 100 photographs, including colour
reproductions of posters. Penshurst, NSW: Mark St Leon, 2007. Available
directly from the author at markstleon@bigpond.com.
St Leon, Mark.
Theatre, amphitheatre and circus in Sydney, 1833-60, ( in Journal of
the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol 97 part 2, December 2011:
220-243).
Speight,
Gayle.
The travelling Wirth family : a
history of our ancestors as musicians, miners and Wirths' Circus including
descendants / written and compiled by Gayle Speight.
Bundaberg, Qld. : G. Speight, 2008.
Tait, Viola,
Dames, principal boys -- and all that : a history of pantomime in Australia
/by Viola Tait with a prologue by Barry Humphries. South Melbourne : Macmillan, 2001.
Tivoli Circuit of Australia Pty Limited.
The
Tivoli story: 55 years of variety. Melbourne, the Company, 1956. 24 p,
illus. A small souvenir booklet on the Tivoli circuit and variety theatre in
Australia -from the Harry Rickards era to the management by David N. Martin.
Van Straten, Frank.
Tivoli. South Melbourne: Lothian, 2003. With CD-ROM entitled Tivoli
Echoes.
Waller, Charles. Magical nights in the theatre: a chronicle / edited and
published by Gerald Taylor. Melbourne: Gerald Taylor, 1980.
Waterhouse, Richard.
Ripping yarns of the Pacific: American minstrel performers travel to
Australia, 1850-1914
in Coast to Coast: case studies of modern Pacific crossings edited by
Chris Dixon and Prudence Ahrens.
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2010.
Wirth, G.
Round the world with a circus.
Melbourne: Troedel & Cooper, pr., 1925. 144p.
The Wirth Brothers' Circus was, until its demise in
1963, Australia's own 'greatest show on earth'. This book traces the evolution of the Wirth family's
involvement in the business from the 1870s to the mid-1920s.
Wirth, P.
The life of
Philip Wirth: a lifetime with an Australian circus.
Melbourne, Troedel & Cooper, pr., 1934. 128 p, illus.
Complements George Wirth's book
York, Barry.
In the company of Chaplin
in National Library of Australia News, vol 16, no 12, September 2006 (pages
7-10). Reflects on the life and art of Roy Rene, based on sources in the
National Library.
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