Series

Adams, Maude

Alda, Frances

Anderson, Mary

Anglin, Margaret

Antheil, George

Arditi, Luigi

Arliss, George

Armsby, Leonora Wood

Arnold, Edward

Arthur, Julia

Auer, Leopold

Bailey, Frankie

Baring, Maurice

Barry, Philip

Barrymore, Diana

Barrymore, Ethel

Barrymore, John

Barthelmess, Richard

Basil, Wassily de

Bauer, Harold

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Beerbohm, Max

Beethoven

Belasco, David

Berlioz, Hector

Bernhardt, Sarah

Boardman, Eleanor

Bond, Carrie Jacobs

Booth, Edwin

Bordoni, Irene

Bori, Lucrezia

Bos, C.V.

Boulanger, Nadia

Brady, William A.

Brian, Donald

Buhlig, Richard

Burke, Billie

Calvé, Emma

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick

Carpenter, John

Carreno, Teresa

Caruso, Enrico

Casals, Pablo

Castle, Irene

Cather, Willa

Cavallieri, Lina

Chaliapin, Feodor

Chaplin, Charlie

Chatfield, Taylor, Hobart

Chatterton, Ruth

Chenal, Marthe

Cochran, Charles B.

Cohan, George M.

Collier, Constance

Colton, John

Cornell, Katherine

Cortot, Alfred

Coward, Noel

Cowles, Eugene

Craig, Edward Gordon

Crane, William H.

Cuevas, Marquis de

Damrosch, Walter

Danilova, Alexander

Debussy, Claude

DeFalla, Manuel

DeMille, Agnes

Donahue, Lester

Draper, Muriel

Dressler, Marie

Drew, John

Duchin, Eddy

Duncan, Isadora

Duse, Eleonora

Eagles, Jeanne

Eames, Emma

Elliott, Maxine

Fairbanks, Douglas

Farrar, Geraldine

Fiske, Harrison Grey

Fiske, Minnie Maddern

Fitch, Clyde

Flagstad, Kirsten

Fokine, Michel

Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston

Forrest, Edwin

Forrester, Izola

Fowler, Gene

Frank, Herman W.

Fremstad, Olive

Friedman, Ignaz

Fry, Christopher

Galli-Curci, Amelita

Garden, Mary

Gentle, Alice

Gershwin, George

Godowsky, Leopold

Golden, John

Goldwyn, Samuel

Grainger, Percy

Granville-Barter, Harley

Greene, Patterson

Guilbert, Yvette

Guitry, Sacha

Hammond, John Hays, Jr.

Hampden, Walter

Hart, William S.

Hayes, Helen

Henschel, George

Herbert, Victor

Herne, Chrystal

Heyman, K. H.

Hofmann, Josef

Honegger, Arthur

Hopper, Edna Wallace

Hopper, Hedda

Howard, Kathleen

Howard, Leslie

Huberman, Bronislaw

Huneker, James Gibbons

Hurok, S.

Hutcheson, Ernest

Irving, Henry

Janis, Elsie

Jefferson, Joseph

Jeritza, Maria

Jones, Isabel

Joseffy, Rafael

Joyce, Peggy Hopkins

Kaufman, George

Kendal

Korngold, Erich

Kreisler, Fritz

Kubelik, Jan

Lamond, Frederic

Landowska, Wanda

Langtry, Lillie

Lasky, Jesse

Lauder, Harry

Lawrence, Gertrude

LeGallienne, Eva

Lehar, Franz

Lehmann, Lilli

Leichtentritt, Hugo

Levant, Oscar

Lhevinne, Josef

Lind, Jenny

Lindgren, Lydia

Lunt, Alfred

McArthur, Charles

McCarthy, Lillah

McCormack, John

MacDowell, Marian

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Mansfield, Richard

Mantle, Burns

Marbury, Elisabeth

Marlowe, Julia

Martin-Harvey, John

Martinelli, Giovanni

Matthay, Tobias

Maude, Cryil

Maugham, W. Somerset

Maxwell, Elsa

May, Edna

Melba, Nellie

Mendl, Elsie de Wolfe

Mengelberg, Willem

Mistinguett

Miura, Tamaki

Modjeska, Helena

Moiseiwitsche, Benno

Molnar, Ferenc

Montez, Lola

Moore, Grace

Mordkin, Mikail

Moussorgsky

Mowett, Anna Cora

Mozart

Nathan, George Jean

Nazimonva, Alla

Nielson, Alice

Nijinsky, Vaclav

Nordica, Lillian

Novello, Ivor

Odets, Clifford

O'Neill, Eugene

Ortero, La Belle

Pachmann, Vladimir de

Paderewski, Ignace Jan

Painter, Eleanor

Parker, Louise N.

Patti, Adelina

Payne, Theodore

Pemberton, Brock

Pickford, Mary

Pierrot

Pinza, Ezio

Power, Tyrone

Prokofieff, Sergei

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Raisa, Rosa

Rambova, Natacha

Reinhardt, Max

Renard, Rosita

Reszke, Jean de

Richardson, Henry Handel

Ristori, Adelaide

Robertson, W. Graham

Robeson, Paul

Rogers, Will

Romberg, Sigmund

Rosenthal, Moriz

Russell, Lillian

Scheff, Fritzi

Schmitz, E. Robert

Schnabel Artur

Schoenberg, Arnold

Schumann-Heink, Ernestine

Shattuck, Arthur

Sheldon, Edward

Sherwood, Robert

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

Skinner, Otis

Sothern, E. H.

Sousa, John Philip

Spalding, Albert

St. Denis, Ruth

Stanislavsky, Kinstantin

Stevens, Ashton

Stock, F. A.

Stojowski, Sigismond

Stokowski, Leopold

Stokowski, Olga S.

Strange, Michael

Strauss, Richard

Stravinsky, Igor

Sullivan, Arthur

Sylva, Marguerita

Talmadge, Norma

Taylor, Deems

Taylor, Laurette

Terry, Ellen

Tetrazzini, Luisa

Teyte, Maggie

Thibaud, Jacques

Tibbet, Lawrence

Tree, Iris

Toscanini, Arturo

Tyler, George C.

Ulanova, Galina

Van Druten, John

Vanbrugh, Irene

Veiller, Bayard

Verne, Adela

Victoria, Vesta

Wadsworth, Mary Mannering

Wagner, Charles

Wagner, Friedelind

Warde, Frederick

Warren, Leonard

Watters, Gordon W.

Whitty, Dame May

Wood, Peggy

Woods, A. H.

Woollcott, Alexander

Wright, Cobina

Yurka, Blanche

Mass, Color, Life: The Russians Make Brilliant Beginning, [re: Russian Ballet], Boston Transcript January 18, 1926

Testing Memories of Music Lovers, [re: music memory contests sponsored by women's clubs], Chicago Sunday Tribune February 21, 1926

Ancient Town to Celebrate:Carcassonne, in France, Now 2000 Years of Age..., ; Carcassone to Celebrate 2000th Birthday, Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles School Journal [1928?]

The Theatre, New Yorker January 19, 1929

Ballet Theater Includes this City in Tour by Isabel Morse Jones, Los Angeles Times September 6, 1942

[Newspaper picture of La Scala Theatre in Milan after allied attack], New York Times Sept. 11, 1943

Britten's New Opera Potent, by Patterson Greene [ re: the Metropolitan Opera Production of Peter Grimes], Los Angeles Examiner April 16, 1948

Di Stefano Artistry Hailed, by Patterson Greene [re: Manon at the Shrine Auditorium], Los Angeles Examiner April 21, 1948

The Book Report, by Robert Kirsch [re: All the King's Ladies by John Harold Wilson], September 18, 1958

Historic Chords Cover Keyboard, by Albert Goldberg. (Book review: The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present) Los Angeles Times December 22, 1963

Abbey's Theatre. The Chieftain; MacBeth beginning October 21, 1895; beginning Oct. 29, 1895

Aida. Opera in four acts by Giusepe Verde. 2 copies October 26, 1955

Anderson, Dame Judith, in the Major Scenes from MacBeth, Tower Beyond Tragedy, Medea. Huntington Hartford Theatre, opening Nov. 13, 1961.

Ariadne auf Naxos. Opera in one act with prologue by Richard Strauss. 3 copies. Nov. 1 1957

Auditorium [Los Angeles theater]. Program for La Tosca, Otello, Rigoletto, and Barber of Seville. Undated

Auntie Mame. A new comedy by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Biltmore Theatre 1958

Ben-Hur. By General Lew Wallace. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1926

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward. Biltmore Theatre. Undated

Bolshoi Ballet. Shrine Auditorium May 19 through 30, 1959 and October 5 through October 16, 1962

Boris Godounoff. Music drama in four acts...by Modeste Moussorgsky. n.y. Monday, Nov. 5

British American War Relief Fund. Century Theatre. February 1st, 1916

Callas, Maria Meneghini with symphony orchestra, Nicola Rescigno conductor. Shrine Auditorium. November 29, 1958

The Carmelites. Opera in three acts...by Francis Foulenc. 3 copies. Oct. 29 1957

Community Civic Music Association of Los Angeles. February 1961

The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams. National Theatre, New York; Biltmore Theatre. May 4, 1941; Undated

Cosi' Fan Tutte. Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 3 copies Wed. Nov. 6, 1957

La Danse. Adeline Genee World-Famed Danseuse Assisted by M. Volinin and Corps de Ballet. (Souvenir program) Undated

Dear Liar. A comedy of letters by Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Bernard Shaw. Huntington Hartford Theatre. (2 copies) Opening Nov. 16, 1959.

Die Frau ohne Schatten. Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss. November 16 , 1960

Die Walkure. Opera in three acts. Music and text by Richard Wagner. November 2, 1949

Don Giovanni. Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera House. Jan. 13, 1899

Don Giovanni. Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 2 copies. November 5, 1955 and October 28, 1962

Donna Diana. A Spanish comedy of Moreto, adapted by Westland Marston. Globe Theatre Boston. Featuring Modjeska. March 1st to 6th, 1886

Elektra. Opera in one act by Richard Strauss. 1958 1958

Faust by Goethe. Pilgrimage Outdoor Theatre, Los Angeles. Also clippings from the Los Angles Times and Los Angeles Examiner. 1938

Garden District. [By] Tennessee Williams. Nov. 1958

Hamlet. Chicago Opera House. Edwin Booth as Hamlet and [Helena] Modjeska as Ophelia March 17, 1890 March 17, 1890

Hamlet. 1958

Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts with Leonard Pennario and guests. Scottish Rite-Masonic Temple September 14, 22, 29, No Year

Henschel, Mr. and Mrs. Georg vocal recital January 10. 1901

Henry V by William Shakespeare Oct. 1958

I Know My Love. A new play by S. N. Behrman...Biltmore Theatre beginning March 28, No Year

Junior Patriots of America. Hippodrome 8 April 1917

Leningrad Kirov Ballet. Shrine Auditorium. November 21 through December 3, 1961.

Long Day's Journey into Night. [By] Eugene O'Neill. Biltmore Theatre April 28, 1958

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Symphonies Under the Stars. July 30, 1958

MacBeth. Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. [By] William Shakespeare, February 24; Wednesday Oct. 30 1957; Tuesday Nov. 1

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt. Greek Theatre Association, July 22 through August 3, 1963

The Man Who Came to Dinner. A new comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Biltmore Theatre Feb. 12, 1940

Manon. Opera in five acts. Book by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille. Music by Jules Massenet. April 20, 1948

Mary Stuart [by] Friedrich Schiller. Biltmore Theatre, beginning Oct. 19, 1959

Measure for Measure. Hollis St. Theatre. Modjeska accompanied by Mr. Eben Plympton and Her Own Company. March 26th to March 31st, 1888

Medea. Opera in three acts by Luigi Chrubini. Freely adapted from "Medea" of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers Nov. 7 1958

The Miracle. Book by Karl Vollmoeller, score by Engelbert Humperdinck, The Theatre International Seasons 1926-1927

Das Mirakel von Carl Vollmoeller, mufic von Engelbert Humperdinck. Undated

Modjeska, Helena. Performances at the Garrick Theater, two weeks beginning. Camille and Measure for Measure. October 7, 1895

Moiseyev Dance Company. Shrine Auditorium. May 24-29 1958

Moscow State Symphony. Shrine Auditorium. February 17 and 18, 1960

Music Hall, Founded by William Carnegie. Sixteenth Season. 1893-1894

My Fair Lady. Adapted from Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Books and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Music by Frederick Loewe. Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. Philharmonic Auditorium.

Il Nerone de Arrigo Boito. 1924.

Nude with Violin by Noel Coward. Belasco Theatre, premiere performance; Huntington Hartford Theatre. (2 copies); Also a menu from the Hotel Algonquin: "The Algonquin warmly welcomes Noel Coward[,] the Company and Friends on the opening of `Nude with Violin'" Nov. 14, 1957; two 1957 newspaper clippings; letter from Peggy Wood to Lester [Donahue] Nov. 14, 1957; March 11, 1958; Npv.14, 1957; 1957; Undated

The Old Vic Company in a repertory of plays by William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. Orpheum Theatre. April 17 through May 5, 1962.

Paderewski. Twentieth American tour. Souvenir Program. Shrine Auditorium, April 2, 1939 and April 9, 1939. April 2, 1939 and April 9, 1939

Paris '90. Music and lyrics by Kay Swift. (Cornelia Otis Skinner in Her New Solo Production) Undated

Peter Grimes. Opera in three acts and prologue. From the poem of George Crabbe. Words by Montagu Slater. Music by Benjamin Britten. 2 copies. April 15, 1948

The Pleasure of His Company. A comedy by Samuel Taylor with Cornelia Otis Skinner with John Napier, Carolyn Groves. Biltmore Theatre Feb. 29, 1960

Reinhardt, Max. Gilbert Miller presents Max Reinhardt New York Repertory Season, Signed by Reinhardt. 1927-1928

Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. Jan. 12th - Feb. 16th, No Year

Romeo et Juliette. Metropolitan Opera House. Supplementary season of Grand Opera. April 1, No Year

Friday Oct. 28 [1955?] 2 copies

Sunday Oct. 27 [1957?] 3 copies

Rubinstein, Artur. Undated

Russian Ballet, Royal Opera Covent Garden. July 2-10, 1920.

San Francisco Opera. Shrine Auditorium. Southern California Symphony presents the San Francisco Opera; Shrine Auditorium. Southern California Symphony Association presents the San Francisco Opera. October 23 through November 10, 1959.; October 27 through November 19, 1961.

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteus, conductor. War Memorial Opera House. Tenth Program. February 20-22, 1947

Scherzo. By Henry Cruse. Burbank Stage. Undated

Sonfín und der Haupttreffer. Theater in der Josefstadt. 1924

Testimonial Tendered by Her Friends to Madame Modjeska. Metropolitan Opera House. May 2, 1905

Tosca. Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. November 18, 1962

Tphigenie. Theater in der Josefstadt . 1928

Tristan und Isolde. Opera in three acts. Music and text by Richard Wagner. October 18, 1949

Trouilus and Cressida. Opera in three acts by William Walton. Nov. 4, 1955

Turandot. Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. Nov. 5, 1957

Twelfth Night. Globe Theatre (Boston), Featuring Modjeska. March 1-6, 1886

Under Two Flags by Paul M. Potter. [A collections of photographic scenes from the play] Cover signed by Blanch Bates. Clippings about Bates are glued to inside front and back covers. 1901

The Visit. A play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. Adapted by Maurice Valency. Biltmore Theatre, beginning (2 copies); Also three newspaper clippings about the performance. Nov. 17, 1959; Nov. 18-19, 1959

Wozzeck. Opera in three acts by Alban Berg. Undated

Comoedia, anno 6, no. 9 . May 10, 1924

Eikones. Undated

The Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio of Stage Celebrities, parts 1-14. 1894

Paris Comet, vol. 2, no. 4 . [There is a picture of Lester Donahue on p. 47] September 1928

The Philharmonic Review, vol. 9, no. 2 . November 1911

Social Service Review. 1937-1939

vol. 1, no. 1 (October 1937). See p. 12: "Stokowski" by Lester Donahue

vol. 1, no. 4 (May 1938). See p. 10: "Artur Rubinstein" by Lester Donahue

vol. 2, no. 1 (October 1938). See p. 11: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue

vol. 2, no. 2 (December 1938). See p. 7: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue (continued from October issue)

vol. 2, no. 3 (March 1939). See p. 7: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue (continued from December issue).

vol. 2, no. 4 (May 1939). See p. 9: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue (the fourth and concluding article by Mr. Donahue on the theater in early days of Los Angeles)

Le Theatré et Comoedia Illustré, 27 anneé, no. 33 . May 1, 1924

Costain, Thomas B. The Silver Chalice. Undated

Falk, Bernard. Rachel The Immortal. Undated

Fisher, Anne B. Cathedral in the Sun. Undated

Nijinsky, Romola. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. Undated

Sheean, Vincent. Oscar Hammerstein 1: The Life an Exploits of an Impresario. Undated

Sichel, Pierre. The Jersey Lily: The Story of the Fabulous Mrs. Langtry. Undated

Thomas, Augustus. The Print of My Remembrance. Undated

Woon, Basil. The Real Sarah Bernhardt Whom Her Audiences Never Knew. Undated

Alvares, Margarite d' [?], photograph, 21 x 15 cm. Inscribed "To Lester...." Undated

Bernhardt, Sarah, (printed picture), framed 17 x 11 cm. "Sarah Bernhardt 1891" written under picture. 1891

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, photograph, framed 22 x 15 cm. "When I was young!" above picture. "Ophelia" and an inscription to Donahue written below picture. On back of frame: "Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Her Christmas card." 1932

Duse, Eleanora (printed picture), framed 37 x 17 cm. On verso: "Eleanora Duse looks out over the dead city, in the play La Citta Morta." Undated

Duse, Eleanora, photograph, framed 16 x 11 cm. Undated

Hammond, John Hays, photograph, framed 23 x 15 cm. Undated

Hofmann [?], Josef, printed photograph?, 16 x 11 cm. Written on image: "To Lester Donahue with best greetings and wishes. Josef Hofmann [?]. Los Angeles 1948." 1948

Mossell, Herndon, 18 x 26 cm. Inscription under photograph: "Madame Helena Modjeska as a small token of respect and friendship for her ardent admirer Herdon Mossell. On Verso: "To my dear and kind friend. Helena Modjeska from hers my truly Herndon Mossell. London, Eng. July 20th 1880." Undated

Paderewski, I. J., print of sketch?, framed 34 x 29 cm. Written under picture: "To Lester Donahue with every good wish from I. J. Paderewski...1939. 1939

Print of sketch, 26 x 20 cm. “Helena Modjeska” printed under image. Mounting board Undated

Photograph, framed 23 x 12 cm. “Helena Modjeska” written under photograph. Undated

Printed picture, framed 23 x 17 cm. On verso: “Madame Modjeska as `Mary Stuart’ Undated

Printed picture, framed 20 x 15 cm. On verso: “Madame Modjeska as `Ophelia’ Undated

Printed picture (lithograph?) Undated

Photograph, mounted 31 x 26 cm. “Home of Madame Modjeska, Bay Island” Undated

Photograph [?] of sketch, in oval frame, 35 x 30 cm. Written on verso: “Modjeska in private life--artist Wyatt Eaton, 1883 Century Mag.” 1883

Photograph, framed, 49 x 43 cm. Written on verso: Mme. Helena Modjeska…as Constance in Shakespeare’s “King John” produced in 1901.” 1901

Photograph, framed, 48 x 43 cm. Undated

Lester Donahue’s First Holy Communion certificate. St Vincent’s Church 7 June 1903.

Certificate appointing Lester Donahue as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Municipal Arts Commissioners. 24 July 1945.

Certificate appointing Lester Donahue as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Municipal Arts Commissioners. 24 July 1950.

Letter, George Arliss to Donahue. April 17, 1933.

Letter, Charles L. Wagner to Donahue. February 11, 1939

Letter, Elsie Mendl to Donahue. Undated

“Letters to my grandmother from her parents in Ireland”: Oct. 1, 1883; Sept. 29, 1852; March 12, 1854; Oct. 25, 1909.

“Modjeska Memoir” by Lester Donahue (4 copies)

“Poland’s Noblest Daughter” by Lester Donahue

Sheet music in leather folder. Most of the pieces have Helena Modjeska’s name written and/or stamped on the cover. Includes works by John Alden Carpenter, Chopin, Dvorak, and Schubert. Undated.

Sheet music: Slavische Danze von Anton Dvorak, 1887. “Helena Modjeska” written on cover. Undated

George Migot, Suite Pour Piano et Orchestre. Handwritten and bound in leather cover. “Lester Donahue” embossed on lower right of cover. Undated.

Songs. Tom Dobson. Original Mss. [Bound] Undated.

Modjeska Scrapbook. Contains articles and photographs pertaining to the unveiling of the Modjeska statue in Anaheim Park (1935); many printed portraits of Modjeska and her home; various postcards addressed to Lester Donahue; a letter from Helena Modjeska to Mrs. Donahue (Lester Donahue’s mother); two letters from Modjeska to Anna Feld Heinrich (1907); one letter from Charles Modjeska (grandson of Helena Modjeska) to Lester Donahue (1940); articles about Helena Modjeska’s funeral (April 12, 1909). 1907-1940

Scrapbook of Lester Donahue’s 1928 European concert tour. The scrapbook contains snapshots and postcards of Paris and cities in Italy that Donahue visited on this tour. Purchased in 2001. Accession # 2002.50. 1928

Ribbon: Remembrance of First Holy Communion, St. Vincent’s Church Undated

Ribbon: Boys Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, St. Vincent’s Church, Los Angeles, Undated

Medal: Municipal Art Commission, City of Los Angeles (in small hinged case) Undated

Small metal curved container with loose metal sculpture in the shape of a flower inside. Undated

Round photograph of an unidentified man made into a pin. Undated

Small metal figure of an angel slaying a dragon. Undated

Small wooden carved crucifixes Undated

Small gold pin with moon (“L.A.H.S.”) and star (“10”) Undated

Straight gold pin with three small round metals attached Undated

8 glass table place holders (?) Undated

Two bronze Lincoln bookends. “Lincoln, 1809-1865.” Undated

Pin cushion decorated with beads “From Niagara Falls 1893” 1893

Helena Modjeska’s carved wooden music box. “Mont Pelerin” carved on cover. Note in box says “Music box (Helena’s) from Father and Virge in 1938. (Mount Pellerin) [sic] engraved on box front--not sure where box was purchased--in Poland or Amerika. Anelka [?]” Note also refers to the handkerchief (see next item): “Madame Helena Modjeska. Helena’s Handkerchief--I carried it when I was married. (From Poland.) Ralph and I married 1938--Witnesses[:] Virginia G. Modjeska[,] Lorena Weis. 1938

Helena Modjeska’s handkerchief. (See note above, following music box.) Undated

Helena Modjeska’s palette Undated

Helena Modjeska’s candle holder. Note taped to bottom: “Candle holder belonged to Madame Helena Modjeska--Polish Shakespearean actress. Mother of Ralph Modjeska, Engineer on San Francisco Bridge, 1936-1937. 1936-1937

This box contains oversized materials from Series Two (Programs) and Series Three (Serials). The materials are itemized above, under the lists for the two series. Undated

This box contains a scrapbook of Donahue’s 1928 European tour from Series Eight. 1928