The Secrets of a Savoyard Part 14

CARTE.

The starting of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas: a letter written by R.

D'Oyly Carte in 1877 to "My Lord" (unnamed), apropos of a proposal to form a small company to produce the operas. Printed in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, May 1, 1907.

The pet.i.tion by the Savoy Theatre and Operas, Ltd., and Reduced, for the approval of the Court to the reduction of the capital from 75,000 to 41,250 was heard before Mr. Justice Walton, August 26, 1903 (_Times_, August 27). This led to a very interesting letter from Gilbert in the _Times_ (Aug. 28) and one in the _Telegraph_ by Mrs. Carte (Aug. 29).

PORTRAITS. Four reproductions are inventoried in the _A.L.A. Portrait Index_ (Was.h.i.+ngton, 1908: p. 259), including that by "Spy" in _Vanity Fair_ (1891: xxiii, plate 498).

THE SAVOY OPERAS.

GILBERT, SULLIVAN, AND D'OYLY CARTE: Reminiscences of the Savoy and the Savoyards. By Francois Cellier and Cunningham Bridgeman. London: Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1914.

8vo. pp. xxiv+443: with 63 portraits and other ill.u.s.trations and six facsimile letters; and a complete set of casts at the Savoy (pp. 425-435). The collaboration between Mr. Cellier and Mr.

Bridgeman (pp. 3-163) was ended by the former's death, January 5, 1914. The rest of the book (pp. 164-422) was done by Mr.

Bridgeman.

THE SAVOY OPERA AND THE SAVOYARDS. By Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A.; with six ill.u.s.trations. London: Chatto and Windus, 1894.

8vo. pp. xvi, 248. Most of the ill.u.s.trations are pen and ink drawings.

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERA: a history and a comment. By H. M. Walbrook: with a foreword by Sir Henry Wood. London: F. V. White and Co., Ltd., 1920.

8vo. pp. 155+[3]+4 plates, including two drawings by H. M.

Bateman and a reproduction of the Sullivan Memorial in the Victoria Embankment Gardens; with 42 pen and ink sketches in the text: Short bibliography (p. 155).

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN JOTTINGS. By Shelford Walsh [Harrogate?] coach to the princ.i.p.al operatic societies in the United Kingdom [1903].

16 mo.: pp. 24+cover. Contains little stories about the operas.

Price 4d.

SAVOYARDS ON TOUR: a description of the various companies on the road.

_Sketch_, June 13, 1894.

SAVOYARD DINNER, given by the O.P. Club in the Hotel Cecil, December 30, 1906.

Gilbert's historical speech on this occasion was printed verbatim in the _Daily Telegraph_, December 31, 1906.

BARRINGTON.

RUTLAND BARRINGTON: a record of thirty-five years' experience on the English stage. By Himself; with a preface by Sir William S. Gilbert, London: Grant Richards, 1908.

8vo. pp. 270+31 ill.u.s.trations and coloured portrait on the cover. Printed at Plymouth. Dedicated to "My good friend, Mrs.

D'Oyly Carte." The Savoy is dealt with pp. 25-86.

MORE RUTLAND BARRINGTON. By Himself. London: Grant Richards, 1911.

8vo. pp. 233+[1]+15 ill.u.s.trations, including one of H. A. Lytton as the Pirate King. Printed in Edinburgh.

GROSSMITH.

A SOCIETY CLOWN: reminiscences. By George Grossmith. Bristol: J. W.

Arrowsmith, 1888.

8vo. pp. iv+182. Forming vol. 31 of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. Chapter on Gilbert and Sullivan pp. 91-125. In "Piano and I" (1910), he describes (pp. 11-18) why he left the Savoy.

See also "The Diary of n.o.body" (1892).

LYTTON.

MEMORIES OF A MERRYMAN. By H. A. Lytton. _Graphic_, Nov. 19, 26; Dec. 3, 10, 17, 1921.

This consists of some extracts from the present volume.