Lyston Lyle Scrapbook Collection

These scrapbooks contain national newspaper, magazine and periodical cuttings relating to theatrical productions Lyle appeared in.

The scrapbooks contain materials referring to the following productions:

• Scrapbook 1: The Little Damozel, Wyndham's Theatre (1909) and Alias Jimmy Valentine, Comedy Theatre (1910). Scrapbook also contains some personal effects including dinner invitations to Windsor Castle and Sandringham.
• Scrapbook 2: Eccentric Lord Comberdene, St James's Theatre (1910), The Witness for the Defense, St. James's Theatre (1911) and The Easiest Way, Glasgow Theatre Royal (1912).
• Scrapbook 3: The Hope, Theatre Royal Drury Lane (1911) and A Place in the Sun, Comedy Theatre (1913).
• Scrapbook 4: The Dust of Egypt, Wyndham's Theatre (1912), Lady Noggs, Comedy Theatre (1913), My Lady's Dress, Royalty Theatre (1914), Gambler's All, Wyndham's Theatre (1915) and Raffles, Wyndham's Theatre (date unknown).
• Scrapbook 5: The New Shylock, Lyric Theatre (1914) and Thing's We'd Like to Know, Apollo Theatre (1914).
• Scrapbook 6: Scrapbook contains programmes, photographs, cuttings, correspondence (1872-1894)

Lyston Lyle, whose real name was Edward Gibson, was a sucessful character actor and actor-manager on the West End stage from the turn of the 19th century until the 1910s. A contemporary and friend of theatrical luminaries Charles Hawtrey and Sir Gerald DuMaurier, Lyle was also the actor-manager at Wyndham's Theatre for a time.

This archive collection is available for consultation in the V&A Blythe House Archive and Library Study Room by appointment only. Full details of access arrangements may be found here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/archives/.

Access to some of the material may be restricted. These are noted in the catalogue where relevant.

Gift, 2007.

Information on copying and commercial reproduction may be found here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/archives/.

This collection was appraised in line with the collection management policy.

No further accruals are expected.

See also the core collections of the V&A Theatre and Performance Department. Material relating to Lyston Lyle performances may be found in the production and photograph files, as well as in the library collections.

Please ask for details.