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  <dc:title>Papers relating to English concert parties and pierrot shows</dc:title>
  <dc:description>This small collection contains over 250 items relating to English concert parties and pier entertainments, including reviews, press cuttings, programmes, play bills, handouts, artists' cards, call sheets, costume design for Pelissier's Potted Pageant (not found), miscellaneous notes and photographs (many signed). Items relating to major touring companies are included (Catlin's Royal Pierrots, The Fol-de-Rols, Gaytime, Billie Manders' Quaintesques, Edgar Taylor's Lavender Follies, Clarkson Rose's Twinkle), as well as for other smaller companies. A thorough history of the genre is also contained: 'Pom-poms and Ruffles: the Story of Northern Seaside Entertainment', G J Mellor, 1966.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c 1900-1970s</dc:date>
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