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'In the decades from Federation to the 1920s live entertainment was an integral part of the Imperial world and performers were the first generation of truly global marketeers.In epic tales of royal splendours and Napoleonic conquests, of heroic gladiators and Christian sacrifice, of musketeers and courtesans, hussars and doomed princesses, Arab houris and Oriental mandarins, international stage celebrities transported Australian audiences into identification with the older, more powerful civilizations from which they had come. These stars travelled the world in style, carrying messages of trade, fashion, tourism, modernism and the privilege of being a member of the British Empire.' Source: Book jacket.

Notes

  • Launched on 11 November 2010 by Nancye Hayes at the State Library of New South Wales and on the 23 November 2010 at the Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland by Bille Brown.
  • Dedication: In celebration of (Mary) Leith McNaught, who was born in Queensland in 1944 and died in Athens in 1970. A beloved friend to many. she lived life with passion and courage, and left it early.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency House , 2009 .
      Extent: xii, 211pp.
      Description: illus. (some col.), facsims., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliographical references and index.
      ISBN: 9780980563290 (hbk.)

Works about this Work

[Review] The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Melissa Bellanta , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 97-99)

— Review of The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Veronica Kelly , 2009 single work criticism
Reviews Veronica Kelly , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , no. 59 2011; (p. 195-197)

— Review of The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Veronica Kelly , 2009 single work criticism
[Review] The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Kate Flaherty , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 11 no. 2 2011;

— Review of The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Veronica Kelly , 2009 single work criticism
[Review] The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Kate Flaherty , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 11 no. 2 2011;

— Review of The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Veronica Kelly , 2009 single work criticism
Reviews Veronica Kelly , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , no. 59 2011; (p. 195-197)

— Review of The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Veronica Kelly , 2009 single work criticism
[Review] The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Melissa Bellanta , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 97-99)

— Review of The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s Veronica Kelly , 2009 single work criticism
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