Guide to the Guide to theatre programs and related material regarding Oscar Asche
Asche
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Collection Summary
- Title
- Theatre programs and related material regarding Oscar Asche
- Date Range
- March 1899 - July 2008
- Collection Number
- Asche
- Extent
- 116 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Printed Collections
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The PROMPT collection documents the career of Oscar Asche as actor, producer and director on the Australian and English stage. This list includes programmes, ephemera, and journal articles covering his forty year stage career. It is to be noted that the Library's holdings are incomplete and every effort is being made to add to them.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use this material should refer to the Ephemera PROMPT collection.
Citation of items from this collection should include references to author's/organisation's name, date, item title, Publisher and place of publication.
Example: J.C. Williamson (Firm). & Theatre Royal (Adelaide, S.A.). 1950, Gilbert & Sullivan opera season [theatre program] : The gondoliers J. C. Williamson Ltd [Adelaide]
Related Materials
A filmography of Asche's four year English film career is not included in this list. For comprehensive information about this aspect of his career readers are advised to contact National Film and Sound Archive at http://www.nfsa.gov.au/.
The National Library's collection [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/] also includes: manuscripts; pictures; published works; other Ephemera or PROMPT collections; biographical news cuttings and newspaper articles can be found through Trove [https://trove.nla.gov.au/].
Arrangement
Programs in the National Library' PROMPT collection are arranged chronologically, then individually listed by performance as follows:venue; City; Name of production or performer; Date (day and month);Headline performers etc.
Biographical / Historical
John Stange(r) Heiss Oscar Asche, better known as Oscar Asche, was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical Chu Chin Chow, both on stage and film, and for acting in, directing, or producing many Shakespeare plays and successful musicals.
Asche was born in Geelong, Victoria on 26 January 1871 to a Norwegian father, Thomas Asche and an Australian mother, Harriet Emma (Lily) née Trear.
He was educated at Laurel Lodge, Dandenong, and from 1884 at Melbourne Grammar School before leaving at the age of 16. From 1887 to 1890 Asche worked and travelled until he decided to enter the theatre/ He then trained in Christiana under Bjorn-Bjornson and London, making his London debut in March 1893 in Man and Woman, at the Opera Comique under the management of Arthur Dacre.
In the same year he joined the Benson Repertory Company and for eight years acted in every kind of part, from Biondello in The Taming of the Shrew and Pistol in Henry V to the King in Hamlet. While with Benson he married Lily Brayton in 1898 or 1899.
In 1902 they both worked for Herbert Beerbohn Tree, Asche playing Antinous in Phillips's Ulysses. In 1904 when they joined up with Otho Stuart, an old Bensonian, in the management of the Adelphi Theatre, putting on productions such as The Prayer of the Sword, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and Rudolf Besier's The Virgin Goddess.
In 1907 Asche and his wife went into management of His Majesty's Theatre producing Laurence Binyon's Attila with Asche in the title role, as well as several more Shakespearian titles - particularly Othello. Between 1909 and 1910 their company toured Australia.
In 1911 he appeared at the Garrick Theatre as Hajj in a musical scena Kismet written for him by Edward Knobloch, based on an eastern tale, an oriental theme which later influenced him to write Chu Chin Chow. This ran for two years before he toured Australia a second time in 1912-1913 taking Kismet with him. After Australia he toured South Africa with the expressed purpose of dramatising B. Rider Haggard's novel A Child of the Storm presenting it unsuccessfully in London in October 1914 as Mameena.
Asche wrote the book and lyrics to Chu Chin Chow in two weeks, to a score by Frederic Norton. He also directed and starred in it playing opposite his wife Lily Brayton. It ran in London for five years breaking all records. It opened at His Majesty's Theatre on 31 August 1916 and closed there on 22 July 1921.
During this time he also directed another very successful musical The Maid of the Mountains, and also wrote Cairo, a musical modelled on Chu Chin Chow which opened in New York in 1920, and in London in 1921 – although with less success.
Asche completed a third and final Australian tour between 1922 and 1924 featuring Chu Chin Chow and Cairo as well as reviving more Shakespeare.
On his return to England he became bankrupt due to his grey hound racing, an unsuccessful Sugley Farm, and unpaid taxes. His wife helped him in his lavish, new but unsuccessful romantic musical The Good Old Days which ran one month at the Gaiety Theatre in October-November 1925. He wrote his autobiography Oscar Asche, his life (Lond., 1929) chronicling the changes from Victorian theatre to early twentieth-century cinema, as well as two novels: The Joss-Strings of Chung (Lond., 1930), Saga of Hans Hansen (Lond., 1930).
In 1932 he directed his wife in her last stage appearance and he probably appeared on stage for the last time in The Beggar's Bowl in 1933 at the Duke of York's Theatre. Although his stage career had ended, he appeared in six films between 1932 and 1936: My Lucky Star (1932), Don Quixote (1933), Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934), Scrooge (1935), Private Secretary (1935) and Eliza Comes to Stay (1936).
Asche found success more and more difficult to achieve in his later days, and his last work as director and performer was in some of the more amateurish musical would-be spectaculars of his time such as The White Camellia, El Dorado, Kong. Ill and impoverished he re-joined his once estranged wife at Marlow, Buckinghamshire and died at Bisham of coronary thrombosis on 23rd March 1936. They had no children.A powerfully built man with a virile figure in his early years, Asche became grossly fat in old age, a factor which made him violent on stage, being criticised for his lack of tenderness and subtlety. He is remembered for his innovative Shakespearian interpretations as well as his use of lighting, particularly in Kismet. As a producer he was considered a perfectionist, and was regarded as having the vilest temper in show business but a splendid showman. Asche thought his finest work as an actor was in Othello and as a producer and manager in Chu Chin Chow.
Item Descriptions
Series. Programs listing for Oscar Asche, March 1899 - July 2008
116 itemsOscar Asche at Laurel Lodge by Ian Laurenson, Early years (Item)
Journal article from Margin, no.34, 1994 : 1-12.
Royal Lyceum Theatre. London, England; She Stoops to Conquer, 20 March 1899 (Item)
Mr. F.R. Benson's Shakespearean & Olde English Comedy Company. Oscar Asche as Mr Hardcastle.
Royal Lyceum Theatre. London, England; Henry the Fifth, 15 February 1900 - 21 February 1900 (Item)
Mr. F.R. Benson's Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Pistol.
Royal Lyceum Theatre. London, England; A Midsummer Night's Dream, 22 February 1900 - 28 February 1900 (Item)
Mr. F.R. Benson's Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Snug (a Joiner).
Royal Lyceum Theatre. London, England; Hamlet, 1 March 1900 - 14 March 1900 (Item)
Mr. F.R. Benson's Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Claudius (King of Denmark).
Royal Lyceum Theatre. London, England; Richard II, 15 March 1900 - 21 March 1900 (Item)
Mr. F.R. Benson's Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Thomas Mowbray (Duke of Norfolk).
Royal Lyceum Theatre. London, England; Twelfth Night, 22 March 1900 - 28 March 1900 (Item)
Mr. F.R. Benson's Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Antonio (a Sea-Captain, friend to Sebastian).
Royal Lyceum Theatre, London, England; Antony & Cleopatra, 29 March 1900 - 4 April 1900 (Item)
Mr F. R. Benson's Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Sextus Pompeius.
Memorial Theatre. Stratford-on-Avon, England; Annual Dramatic Performances Series: As You Like It, 23 April 1900 - 30 April 1900 (Item)
Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. Birmingham, England; As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, 27 August 1900 - 29 August 1900 (Item)
F.R. Benson's Co. As You Like It: Oscar Asche as Duke, living in exile. Twelfth Night: Oscar Asche as Antonio. Much Ado About Nothing: Oscar Asche as Borachio.
Comedy Theatre. London, England; The Merry Wives of Windsor, 19 December 1900 (Item)
The Benson Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Pistol. 2 copies, one with green cover (price sixpence), one with no cover (twopence), some variation in advertisements.
Comedy Theatre. London, England; Merchant of Venice, 16 January 1901 - 28 January 1901 (Item)
The Benson Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Prince of Morocca (Suitor to Portia).
Comedy Theatre. London, England; Coriolanus, 13 February 1901 - 25 February 1901 (Item)
The Benson Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Sicinius Velutus.
Comedy Theatre. London, England; Richard II, 13 March 1901 - 25 March 1901 (Item)
The Benson Shakespeare Season. Oscar Asche as Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.
Garrick Theatre. London, England; Iris (Pinero), 21 September 1901 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Frederick Maldonado opposite principals Dion Boucicault, Fay Davis. 3 copies, two with green cover (price sixpence), one with no cover (twopence), some variation in advertisements.
Her Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Ulysses (S. Phillip), 1 February 1902 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Antinous opposite principals Beerbohm Tree, Lily Hanbury. Includes [Notes to] Ulysses (Cover by Chas. A. Buchel) and Ulysses souvenir (Cover by Chas. A. Buchel). Includes print of Asche in character.
Her Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Ulysses (S. Phillip), 28 April 1902 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Antinous opposite principals Beerbohm Tree, Lily Hanbury. Souvenir programme on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the opening of Her Majesty's Theatre, 1897-1902. Includes portraits of Oscar and Brayton.
Her Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare), 10 June 1902 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Master Ford opposite principals Beerbohm Tree, Mrs. Tree, Ellen Terry, Mrs. Kendal. [Notes on] Merry Wives of Windsor.
The Imperial Theatre. London, England; The Vikings (Ibsen), 15 April 1903 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Sigurd the Strong (a sea king). Under the Management of Miss Ellen Terry.
The Imperial Theatre. London, England; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 1903 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Benedick. Under the Management of Miss Ellen Terry.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Resurrection (Tolstoy ; adapt. H. Bataille, M. Morton), 17 February 1903 - 16 May 1903 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Vladimir Simonson opposite principals Beerbohm Tree, Lena Ashwell.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Flodden Field (Alfred Austin), June 1903 (Item)
Oscar Asche as The Earl of Surrey.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; King Richard II (Shakespeare), 10 September 1903 - 23 December 1903 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Henry of Hereford, surnamed Bolingbroke opposite principals Beerbohm Tree, Brayton. Additional notes on King Richard the Third with cover illustration by C.A. Buchel. Additional souvenir in panorama format entitled: Souvenir of Shakespeare'
Royal Adelphi Theatre. London, England; Hamlet (Shakespeare), 1904 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Claudius opposite principals H.B. Irving, Maud Milton, Brayton.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; A Matinee Performance under the direct patronage of H.R.H The Duchess of Albany to benefit the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queens' Square, Bloomsbury, 1 March 1904 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Brutus in Julius Caesar.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), June 1904 (Item)
Oscar Asche plays Antonio (friend to Sebastian).
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England: Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare), 5 July 1904 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Master Ford opposite principals Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry. "An entertainment under the immediate patronage of … King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in aid of the British Ophthalmic Hospital at Jerusalem…"
Royal Adelphi Theatre. London, England; The Prayer of the Sword. A Play in Four Acts (J.B. Fagan), 1904 (Item)
Royal Adelphi Theatre. London, England; Under Which King? (J.B. Fagan), 1905 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Colonel Eversdale opposite principals H.R. Hignett, Brayton. 2 copies.
His Majesty's Theatre, London, England; Cairo, 1905 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Ali Shar, a wrestler. A mosaic in music and mime. Mime by Oscar Asche.
Royal Adelphi Theatre. London, England; A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare), 25 November 1905 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Bottom (the Weaver) opposite principals W. Hampden, Roxy Barton. 1 program and 1 fragment (showing cast changes).
Royal Adelphi Theatre. London, England; Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 20 March 1906 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Angelo and producer.
Theatre Royal Drury Lane. London, England; Souvenir Programme given by the Theatrical & Musical Professions as a Tribute to Miss Ellen Terry on the occasion of her jubilee, 12 June 1906 (Item)
Royal Adelphi Theatre. London, England; Tristram and Iseult (J. Comyns Carr), 4 September 1906 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Mark, King of Cornwall opposite principals Matheson Lang, Brayton. 2 copies, one priced sixpence and one at twopence.
Royal Adelphi Theatre. London, England; The Virgin Goddess, 23 October 1906 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Haephestion, opposite Alfed Brydone and Lily Brayton.
Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton on Tour : the Taming of the Shrew, Othello, the Virgin Goddess, 1907 (Item)
Includes several portraits of Asche and Brayton in costume. Tour souvenir booklet.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche & Lily Brayton Season: Attila (L. Binyon), 4 September 1907 - 2 October 1907 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Attila, King of the Huns, opposite principal Brayton.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche & Lily Brayton's Season: As You Like It (Shakespeare), October 1907 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Jacques opposite Lily Brayton.
Theatre Royal. Dublin, Ireland; The Two Pins (F. Stayton), 30 April 1908 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Philip opposite principals Brayton, Courtice Pounds.
His Majesty's Theatre, London, England; Memorial matinee to Adelaide Ristori, 30 November 1908 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Petruchio in Act 1, Scene 2 of Taming of the Shrew
Theatre Royal. Melbourne, Victoria; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 17 July 1909 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Christopher Sly, a tinker. Includes portraits of Asche and Brayton in character.
Theatre Royal. Melbourne; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Othello (Shakespeare), August 1909 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Othello with principals H. Grimwood, Brayton. Includes portraits of Asche and Brayton as other Shakespearian characters. Produced by Asche.
Town Hall. Melbourne; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton and their entire London Company: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 25 September 1909 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Brutus with principals J. Fritz Russell and George Relph. First Sydney season.
Criterion Theatre. Sydney; Oscar Asche-Lily Brayton Season: Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), October 1909 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Christopher Sly, a tinker, Petruchio opposite Brayton as Katharina, the Shrew. Includes portraits of Asche and Brayton in character.
Criterion Theatre. Sydney; Oscar Asche & Lily Brayton with their entire London Company: Othello (Shakespeare), 30 October 1909 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Othello and Lily Brayton as Desdemona. Produced by Asche. 2 copies.
Theatre Royal. Melbourne; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Count Hannibal, 15 January 1910 - 23 February 1910 (Item)
By S. Weyman ; adaption O. Asche, N. Connell. Oscar Asche as Count Hannibal de Tavannes opposite Brayton as Clotilde, Lady of Vrillac. "Souvenir programme, Oscar Asche & Lily Brayton: Musical and Dramatic Benevolent Fund : Matinee of Count Hannibal, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1910" - Cover title. Inside
Theatre Royal. Melbourne; Scenes from 4 Shakespearian plays Oscar Asche playing opposite Brayton, 8 July 1910 (Item)
Taming of the Shrew, Act 1, scene 2, Merchant of Venice, Act. 4, Julius Caesar, Act 4, scene 3, As You Like It, Act 3. Taming of the Shrew, Act 1, scene 2 : Oscar Asche as Petruchio. Merchant of Venice, Act. 4: Oscar Asche as Shylock. Julius Caesar, Act 4, scene 3: Oscar Asche as Brutus. As You Like It, Act 3: Oscar Asche as Jaques, Duke's attendant. "Grand matinee ben
Garrick Theatre, London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton's Season: Count Hannibal (S. Weyman, adapted by Asche.), January 1911 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Count Hannibal de Tavannes.
Garrick Theatre, London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton's Season: Kismet (E Knoblauch, adapted by Asche.), April 1911 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Hajj and producer. 2 copies. Press cutting review of 20 April 1911 enclosed in program.
Theatre Royal Melbourne; Kismet (Knobloch), 1912 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Hajj playing opposite Brayton as Marsinah.
Theatre Royal. Melbourne; Kismet (Knobloch), 6 April 1912 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Hajj playing opposite Brayton as Marsinah. [Souvenir of] Kismet. Includes plot summaries, production photos. Pp. 3-78. Imperfect.
Theatre Royal. Sydney; Antony & Cleopatra (Shakespeare), May 1913 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Antony playing opposite Brayton as Cleopatra. Includes 1 sheet of notes by Asche regarding production.
Wellington, New Zealand,[?] Country Tour; Othello and The Merchant of Venice, 1912 - 1913 (Item)
Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton. 1 sheet, 2 sided.
Garrick Theatre. London, England; Mameena (R. Haggard ; dramatisation O. Asche), 1914 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Saduka opposite principal Brayton. Missing.
Globe Theatre. London, England; Mameena, 1914 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Saduka opposite principal Brayton (Producer). 2 copies, one at sixpence, with high quality paper and one at twopence on plainer paper.
Globe Theatre. London, England; Kismet (E. Knoblauch), February 1914 - April 1914 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Hajj opposite principals Brayton, James Plinge.
Globe Theatre. London, England; Motherhood Matinee, The Women's League of Service: The Wooing scene from The Taming of the Shrew, 9 June 1914 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Petruchio.
King's Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland; The Spanish Main, 18 October 1915 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Patrick O'Gorman, Master of the Albatross.
Apollo Theatre. London, England; The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), January 1916 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Christopher Sly ; Petruchio opposite principal Brayton.
Drury Lane Theatre. London, England; Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 2 May 1916 (Item)
"A tribute to the genius of William Shakespeare : being the programme of a performance at Drury Lane Theatre on May 2, 1916 the tercentenary of his death". London : Macmillan and Co., 1916. Photocopy of title page, preliminaries.
His Majesty's Theatre. London; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Chu Chin Chow, 31 August 1916 - 22 July 1921 (Item)
Written and produced by Asche ; music by Frederic Norton. Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan (Asche/Hubert Carter/E. Lyall Swete), Zahrat al-Kulub (Brayton/Miriam Lewes/Muriel Dole). "Chu Chin Chow : a musical tale of the East" World premiere. Missing.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Chu Chin Chow : a musical tale of the East, 31 August 1916 - 22 July 1921 (Item)
Written and produced by Asche ; music by Frederic Norton. Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan (Asche/Hubert Carter/E. Lyall Swete), [?] Zahrat al-Kulub (Brayton/Miriam Lewes/Muriel Dole). World premiere. Missing.
London. His Majesty's Theatre; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Chu Chin Chow, 26 January 1917 (Item)
Told by Oscar Asche and set to music by Frederic Norton. By arrangement with Sir Herbert Tree. Australian Y.M.C.A. Special Matinee. Chu Chin Chow told by Oscar Asche and set to music by Frederic Norton. Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan . (+ 1 sheet - Australia Anniversary Day complimentary performance)
London. His Majesty's Theatre; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Chu Chin Chow, March 1917 (Item)
Told by Oscar Asche and set to music by Frederic Norton. By arrangement with Sir Herbert Tree. Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan.
Daly's Theatre. London, England; The Maid of the Mountains, May 1917 (Item)
The George Edwardes New Musical Production. Presentation souvenir programme. Oscar Asche producer [includes portrait].
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Motherhood Matinee: Chu Chin Chow, slave market scene (O. Asche), 18 May 1917 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan opposite principal Brayton, Norman Williams. "…in aid of the Women's League of Service".
Manhattan Opera House. New York; Chu Chin Chow, 22 October 1917 - 13 January 1918 (Item)
William Elliott, F. Ray Comstock, Morris Gest presentation. "Chu Chin Chow : souvenir and story of the play". New York : William Elliott …, c1917. 36 p. with one double page and several full-page colour ills., text of the story by Asche, foreword by Asch
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Chu Chin Chow (O. Asche), May 1918 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan opposite principal Brayton.
Sam S. Shubert Theatre. Boston; Chu Chin Chow, 22 October 1918 (Item)
Written and created by Oscar Asche.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season: Chu Chin Chow (O. Asche) (Item)
Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan opposite principal Brayton.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season, Fourth Year: Chu Chin Chow (O. Asche), February 1920 (Item)
Oscar Asche as producer.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season, Fifth Year: Chu Chin Chow (O. Asche), October 1920 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan and also producer.
Century Theatre. New York, USA; Mecca: A mosaic in music and mime, 4 October 1920 (Item)
Mime by O. Asche, music by Percy Fletcher. Souvenir Program. Illustrated by Carl Link and Roland Harker.
Tivoli Theatre. Melbourne; Chu Chin Chow, 11 December 1920 (Item)
Hugh D. McIntosh presentation ; produced & directed by Frank Cochrane ; principals incl. Arthur Styan, Gerald Kay Souper, Charles H. Workman, Maggie Moore, Winifred O'Connor. "Chu Chin Chow : a musical extravaganza of the Orient" - Cover title.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Season, Fifth Year: Chu Chin Chow (O. Asche), February 1921 - May 1921 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan and also producer.
Grand Opera House. Sydney; J. C. Williamson Ltd presents: Chu Chin Chow : a musical extravaganza of the Orient - Cover title, 26 March 1921 - 9 April 1921 (Item)
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Lily Brayton and Oscar Asche's Season: Mecca: A mosaic in music and mime, 1922 (Item)
Mime by O. Asche, music by Percy Fletcher. Produced by O. Asche. Missing.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Lily Brayton and Oscar Asche's Season: Cairo, 1921 - 1922 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Ali Shar, a wrestler. Magazine programme [undated], / 2 copies, with different advertisements and number of pages.
Her Majesty's Theatre. Melbourne; Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 17 February 1923 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Marcus Antonius. Produced by Asche. Includes portraits.
New Theatre Royal, Sydney; Chu Chin Chow, May 1923 - June 1923 (Item)
J. C. Williamson Ltd in conjunction with Oscar Asche present "Chu Chin Chow". Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan. Produced by Oscar Asche.
King's Theatre. Melbourne; Othello (Shakespeare), 9 February 1924 (Item)
Asche in title role. Includes portrait.
Gaiety Theatre, London, England; The Good Old days (Asche), 27 October 1925 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Earl of Jawleyford. Produced by Asche, playing opposite Brayton.
Globe Theatre. London, England; Green Room Rags, 11 June 1926 (Item)
4th Rag of 3rd Series. Oscar Asche performs in the sketch "The Cardinals' Collation" as Cardinal Rufo, Archbishop of Ostia and Senior of the Sacred College. Includes flyer for afternoon show, the Maria Martin or The Murder in the Red Barn.
Globe Theatre. London, England; Green Room Rags, 27 November 1927 (Item)
2nd Rag of 5th Series. Oscar Asche performs in the sketch "His Grace" as Ben Reddick (a tough customer).
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; The Charles Courtice Pounds Tribute Matinee.., 12 December 1927 (Item)
Oscar Asche performs as Sir John Falstaff in one act (3 scenes) of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Gaiety Theatre, London, England; Marjolaine, May 1928 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Jerome Brooke-Hoskyn, Esq.
Regent Theatre. London; London Repertory Co.: Chu Chin Chow, December 1928 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan. Doris Champion as Zahrat al-Kulub. Martin Sabine presentation by arrangement with Walter Payne ; produced by Asche. "126th week" - Cover.
Daly's Theatre. London, England; The White Camellia, 26 February 1929 (Item)
Produced by Oscar Asche.
Daly's Theatre, London, England; Eldorado, 6 September 1930 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Senhor Pedro Urquiza.
Golders Green Hippodrome, London, England; Eldorado, 17 November 1930 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Senhor Pedro Urquiza.
Cambridge Theatre. London, England; Kong (H. Kingsley), 1931 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Chung-Chang, Peacock Mandarin. Staged by O. Asche. The production under the personal supervision of Oscar Asche and Brayton. Includes portrait of Asche, Brayton and other principals.
His Majesty's Theatre. London, England; Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), February 1932 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Casca playing opposite Lyn Harding, Godfrey Tearle, Brayton. Includes portrait of Asche, Brayton and other principals. 2 copies.
Streatham Hill Theatre. London, England; Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 4 April 1932 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Casca playing opposite principals A. Sofaer, G. Skillan, Brayton. Magazine programme, no. 893, 2 copies.
Winter Garden Theatre. London, England; The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare), 26 December 1932 (Item)
Oscar Asche as Sir John Falstaff. Produced by O. Asche. Includes port. of Asche and other principals.
Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane. London, England; Androcles and the Lion, October 1934 (Item)
Oscar Asche as The Emperor. Produced by Robert Atkins.
Lewisham Town Hall. Sydney; El'Dorado Amateur Operatic Society: Chu Chin Chow, 22 November 1934 - 24 November 1934 (Item)
Richmond Theatre, Surrey; Richmond Operatic Society: Chu Chin Chow, 30 November 1936 (Item)
Told by Oscar Asche. 2 programs, different sizes.
Prince of Wales Theatre. Birmingham; Chu Chin Chow, 7 May 1940 - 21 May 1940 (Item)
Lyn Harding as Abu Hasan, Rosalinde Fuller as Zahrat al-Kulub. Henry Isaacs & Joseph Fenston (on behalf of Chu Chin Chow Play Productions Limited) present Oscar Asche's immortal spectacle. Directed by Robert Atkins.
Palace Theatre. London; Chu Chin Chow, 22 July 1941 - 22 November 1941 (Item)
Lyn Harding as Abu Hasan, Rosalinde Fuller as Zahrat al-Kulub. Produced by Robert Atkins. Magazine programme, no.1303; 2 copies.
Empire. Nottingham; Chu Chin Chow, 16 November 1942 (Item)
David Basil Gill as Abu Hasan, Margaret Rowan as Zahrat al-Kulub.
Empire Theatre. Shepherds Bush; Chu Chin Chow., 24 May 1943 (Item)
David Basil Gill as Abu Hasan, Glen Alyn as Zaharat Al Kulub.
Embassy Theatre. Peterborough; Chu Chin Chow, 9 August 1943 (Item)
David Basil Gill as Abu Hasan, Silvia Shelly as Zahrat al-Kulub.
Moss' Empire Theatre. Liverpool; Ralph Reader Ltd. Presents The National Light Opera Company: Chu Chin Chow, 13 November 1950 (Item)
Told by Oscar Asche and set to music by Frederic Norton.
Palace Theatre. Manchester; Ralph Reader Ltd. presents the National Light Opera Company: Chu Chin Chow, 19 November 1951 (Item)
Empire Pool; Wembley. London; Chu Chin Chow on Ice, 13 July 1953 - 19 September 1953 (Item)
Ice version adapted by Stanley Lloyd and Gerald Palmer; choreographed by Beatrice Livesey; Tom Arnold presentation. Ron Priestley as Abu Hasan, Valerie Moon as Zahrat al-Kulub.
Sports Stadium, Brighton; Chu Chin Chow on Ice, October 1953 - November 1953 (Item)
Ice version adapted by Stanley Lloyd and Gerald Palmer; choreographed by Beatrice Livesey; Tom Arnold presentation. Victor Macdonald as Abu Hasan, Moira Crook as Zahrat al-Kulub.
Wood Green Empire. London; Chu Chin Chow, 31 August 1953 (Item)
David Basil Gill as Abu Hasan, Margaret Rowan as Zahrat al-Kulub.
The Opera House. Manchester; Chu Chin Chow, 11 May 1954 (Item)
Tom Arnold's Chu Chin Chow on Ice - the famous musical tale of the East by Oscar Asche. Adapted for ice presentation by Stanley Lloyd and Gerald Palmer. Victor Mac Donald as Abu Hasan, Moira Crook as Zahrat al-Kulub.
Palace Theatre. Manchester; Chu Chin Chow, 10 August 1959 (Item)
Inia Te Wiata as Abu Hassan, Patricia Kerry as Zahrat Al-Kulub.
Streatham Hill Theatre. London; Chu Chin Chow, 16 November 1959 (Item)
Inia Te Wiata as Abu Hasan, Patricia Kerry as Zahrat al-Kulub. Maurice Winnick Productions, Stanley Willis-Croft, director.
Golders Green Hippodrome. London; Chu Chin Chow, 23 November 1959 (Item)
Inia Te Wiata as Abu Hasan, Patricia Kerry as Zahrat al-Kulub. Maurice Winnick Productions, Stanley Willis-Croft, director. 2 copies.