447024
- TitleFay Compton, actor, 1938 / unknown photographer
- Call numberP1/368
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1938 - Type of material
- Reference code447024
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical DescriptionPhotographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - 21.8 x 16.6 cm.
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Compton told the Sydney Morning Herald that it had been suggested that she should stay and play the part of Juliet. I said, "Not on your life." Shakespeare would never draw an audience in Sydney because the public was not ready for him, she said. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p. 238, which see for further details of Compton in Australia) - Scope and ContentCompton is posed resting her chin on folded hands, a pave bracelet on her right arm and a wristwatch on her left
- Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - General note
Transferred from P1/Compton, Fay (BM). January 2010
Digital order no:a4260068 - Signatures / Inscriptions
"Dear Sid - [Sydney Ure Smith] / with much love, / Fay" -- signature lower left corner of photograph - Name
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