| Description | Scrapbook of material collected and compiled by Lorn Macnaughten, later Lorn Loraine, consisting of both personal and theatre press-cuttings.
Mostly undated, includes illustrations and photographs of society ladies, actresses and actors with some engagement notices, several signed. For example:
/ Gladys Cooper
/ Charles Hawtrey
/ Lady de Clifford
/ Yvonne Arnauld
/ Ethel Levey, many images of her and also her house
/ Robert Hale
/ Auriol Lee
/ Elsie Janis
/ Lilian Braithwaite
/ George Graves
/ Anna Pavlova
/ Alice Delysia
/ Doris Keane
/ Leon Morton
/ Unity More
Two pages are devoted to photographs of paintings, perhaps from an exhibition as they are numbered, the artists include J.M.W. Turner and Dante Gabriel Rosetti. In addition, cast list from the adaptation of 'Peter Ibbetson', a matinee performance in aid of the Allied Forces' Base Hospital. Extensive cuttings from 'Romance' by Edward Sheldon.
Some items relating to Lorn Macnaughten such as an engagement announcement to Lieutenant Rupert Harold Nevison Loraine of the Royal Navy, serving on HM Submarine H32. There is a printed greetings card from Rupert. Also a cutting about her appearance in Albert de Courville's play 'The Thirteenth Chair'.
Several cuttings, photographs and a memorial service sheet for Basil Hallam Radford, killed in action on 20 August 1916. Also cuttings and a memorial service sheet relating to Commander Evan Campbell Bunbury of the Royal Navy, who died at sea on 16 October 1918. |