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Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook, 1927-1962, 1927-1935

Title: Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook 1927-1962 1927-1935

Felix Mendelsohn, Jr. (1906-1991), was an advertising copy writer based in Chicago. As a young man, Mendelsohn aspired to be a journalist. He found work writing promotional copy, booklets and brochures for various companies. He died in 1991 at the age of 84. The Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook holds a number of interviews with prominent actors and actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the age of 21, aspiring journalist Felix Mendelsohn, Jr. conducted a number of interviews with famous stage performers in which he asked each one to describe the "most thrilling moment" of his or her career. Mendelsohn developed these interviews into profiles, and hoped to sell the resulting series to a newspaper or magazine, but was unable to do so. He later compiled the profiles into a scrapbook, adding photographs of all the interviewees, some of which were inscribed to him. The performers profiled were Helen Hayes, Otis Skinner, Helen Gahagan, John Drew, Irene Bordoni, Richard Bennett, Helen Menken, John Cromwell, Ina Claire, Dennis King, Fay Bainter, Laurette Taylor, Grant Mitchell, Lowell Sherman, Ruth Draper, Florence Reed, Estelle Winwood, John E. Kellard, Wilton Lackaye, O.P. Heggie, Effie Shannon, Elsie Janis, Frank Keenan, Leo Carillo, Amelita Galli-Curci, Arthur Byron, Louis Mann, Lenore Ulric, and Raymond Hitchcock. Mendelsohn also included in his scrapbook rejection notes the proposed series received from several newspapers and publishing syndicates, dated between 1927-1935. More photographs are tucked into the back of the book, mostly actors who were not interviewed by Mendelsohn and prominent personalities outside the field of theater; many of these photographs are autographed and inscribed to Mendelsohn. Subjects include Pauline Frederick, H. L. Mencken, Frank Harris, Fritz Feld, Whitford Kane, William Faversham, Fortune Gallo, James O'Donnell Bennett, Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar of the Waldorf"), and Burl Ives.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol

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Anderson, Ellen Graham, 1887-. Papers of Ellen Graham Anderson [manuscript], 1912-1959.

Title: Papers of Ellen Graham Anderson [manuscript], 1912-1959.

The papers consist chiefly of drawings, chiefly pen-and-ink, by Anderson including portraits of Marietta Minnegerode Andrews, Michael Arlen, Tallulah Bankhead, James Boyd, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Jane Cowl, Beale Davis, Anna Denzler Duncan, Isadora Duncan, Amelita Galli-Curci, Ellen Glasgow, Margaret Hamilton, O. P. Heggie, DuBose Heyward, Raymond Hitchcock, De Wolf Hopper, Margaret Bell Houston, Ring Lardner, Pauline Lord, O.O. McIntyre, Ethel Merman, Victor Moore, John Powell, Maud Powell, John Cowper Powys, Yvonne Printemps, Fred Stone, Laurette Taylor, June Walker, Clifton Webb, and Helen Westley together with newsclippings of her illustrations. In addition there are many sketches of circus performers, unidentified actors and dancers, still lifes, street scenes and houses in several southern cities, and scenes in Bermuda, The papers also contain correspondence of William Alexander Anderson regarding the controversy over the inventor of the McCormick reaper; and miscellaneous family correspondence. In addition there is a manuscript of a poem by Anderson entitled Goose Creek Church. Correspondents include Anita McCormick Blane, Cyrus H. Adams, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Kathaleen Bruce, Virginius Dabney, E.G. Dodson, J. Albertis Harrison, Paul M. Panick and A. Willis Robertson.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

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Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

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Mendelsohn, Felix, Jr. Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook, 1927-1962, bulk 1927-1935.

Title: Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook, 1927-1962, bulk 1927-1935.

The Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook holds a number of interviews with prominent actors and actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More photographs are tucked into the back of the book, mostly actors who were not interviewed by Mendelsohn and prominent personalities outside the field of theater; many of these photographs are autographed and inscribed to Mendelsohn. Subjects include Pauline Frederick, H. L. Mencken, Frank Harris, Fritz Feld, Whitford Kane, William Faversham, Fortune Gallo, James O'Donnell Bennett, Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar of the Waldorf"), and Burl Ives.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

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Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978

Title: Robert Benney research materials 1926-1978

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period.

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