Sir george tallis biography
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Guide to the Papers of Sir George Tallis
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Series 1. Correspondence (loose)
The category includes correspondence and telegrams received by Tallis from colleagues, particularly J.C. Williamson, Hugh Ward, Arthur Allen, Ted Darbyshire, the Tait brothers (particularly John and Edward [‘Ted’]), and Harold Ashton (from South Africa and London). Other correspondents include J.A.E. Malone, Clyde Meynell, George Musgrove, and actress Maisie Gay.
Topics covered include negotiations on share transactions and membership of the management board , discussion on the success (or not) of shows being staged, opinions on shows being considered, and development plans for theatres in various Australian cities.
Of note are a series of letters from Hugh Ward as manager of companies touring Australia and New Zealand in 1910 and 1911, and groups of handwritten letters from J.C. Williamson during tours of Europe in 1910 and 1912. There is also one handwritten note (undated) from Dame N
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‘A streak of theatrical genius’
‘The Taits were all able men, each in his own way,’ wrote long-time J.C. Williamson executive Claude Kingston. ‘But none of the Taits was Tallis’s peer as a live theatre entrepreneur. He had come into The Firm and learnt his trade under J.C. Williamson; as well as that he was born with a streak of theatrical genius – a blend of creative perception, visual imagination, good taste, intuition, and courage. To George Tallis, that quietly spoken, solidly built, well-groomed man of the world, near enough was never good enough. He was a perfectionist; everything had to be exactly right from the leading lady’s gowns down to the lace of the youngest ballet girl’s shoe.
Watching a rehearsal, he would decide that the dresses of the chorus were unsatisfactory in some seemingly insignificant detail – perhaps the shade of the sashes or the length of the skirts. “Scrap the lot,” he would order. When it came to a question of excellence or money Tallis never count
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The silent showman: Sir George Tallis, the man behind the world's largest entertainment organisation of the 1920s - Hardcover
The Silent Showman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the Worlds Largest Entertainment Organisation of the 1920s
Tallis, Michael & Tallis, Joan
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographic and Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Foreword by Katherine Brisbane, fryst vatten by authors, notes, bibliography, photograph acknowledgements and index. Throughout the book there are historical black-and-white photographs (from various productions and personalities, and reproductions of theatre programmes of the time. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with gilt and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A biography of Sir George Tallis, who, upon the deat