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Theresa Helburn papers, 1903-1958

Title: Theresa Helburn papers 1903-1958

The Theresa Helburn Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, financial documents, writings, scrapbooks and memorabilia documenting her career as a writer and theatrical director and administrator for The Theatre Guild and other theatres.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (incl. 2 oversize boxes); 6.68 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.helburn View

Kauser, Alice, ca. 1872-1945. Papers of Alice Kauser, ca. 1895-1940 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Alice Kauser, ca. 1895-1940 (inclusive).

Contains mostly correspondence and some scripts.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5,000 letters (17 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612377100 View

Aldrich, Larry L. Correspondence between Theresa Helburn and Larry Aldrich, 1957-1958.

Title: Correspondence between Theresa Helburn and Larry Aldrich, 1957-1958.

A few letters on professional matters between Aldrich, a producer and costume designer, and his friend, actress Theresa Helburn of the Theatre Guild.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79492168 View

Dransfield, Jane, 1875-1957. Jane Dransfield papers, 1917-1945, bulk (1920-1941).

Title: Jane Dransfield papers, 1917-1945, bulk (1920-1941).

Collection consists of correspondence, lecture notes and printed matter relating to Dransfield's career as a writer and lecturer.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122378744 View

Elisabeth Fraser papers, 1920-1999

Title: Elisabeth Fraser papers 1920-1999

Elisabeth Fraser was a stage, screen and television actress. Her papers consist of correspondence, diaries and journals, scripts and ephemera documenting her career.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21528 View

Lucille Lortel papers

Title: Lucille Lortel papers

The papers of Lucille Lortel relate the details of her life and career from teen years to her death in 1999, and include correspondence, production files, scripts, programs, production photographs, personal and family photographs, organization files, clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. Lucille Lortel's life spanned the twentieth century, so in addition to providing details of her family and personal life her papers encompass many aspects of the theatrical history of her era. Lortel is credited with fostering the Off-Broadway movement and providing a forum for avant-garde and experimental work at her Theatre de Lys. Lortel's productions at the White Barn and the ANTA Matinee Series at the Theatre de Lys brought works by Jean Genet, Sean O'Casey, Athol Fugard, and others to a wider audience. Many of these productions are represented in the collection by correspondence, programs, photographs and clippings. Over the years Lortel also worked closely with several non-profit theaters as a donor and mentor. Her affiliations with Circle in the Square, Circle Repertory Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Yale Repertory Theatre, and other companies are documented in the organization files.

ArchivalResource: 49.61 linear feet; 37 vols. (150 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21631 View

Lawrence Langner papers, 1915-1962

Title: Lawrence Langner papers 1915-1962

The Lawrence Langner Papers include scripts by Langner and others, and speeches, articles and miscellaneous writings by Langner. The collection contains over 30 scripts by Langner, and several adaptations by him. Many of the scripts are annotated, and a few include related material including programs, light plots, and prompt books. Langner's writings and speeches include memorial addresses for Ferenc Molnar and Joan McCracken, seminars on playwriting, and works on the future of the theater, morals in mass media, and some material relating to his interest in inventions and patent law.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21453 View

Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files, 1925-1969

Title: Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files 1925-1969

The Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild Files chiefly contain correspondence relating to activities of the Theatre Guild during some of its most significant years of operation. Sara Greenspan, who began as secretary with the Guild in 1925, served as the business manager of the prestigious production company for twenty years before retiring in 1963.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear feet; 1 box

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21815 View

Elmer Rice letters from various correspondents, 1915-1967.

Title: Elmer Rice letters from various correspondents, 1915-1967.

Letters to the American playwright Elmer Rice.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00377/catalog View

John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.

Title: John Mason Brown papers

Papers of American author and drama critic John Mason Brown.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes (36 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00655/catalog View

Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959. Theresa Helburn papers, 1903-1958.

Title: Theresa Helburn papers, 1903-1958.

The Theresa Helburn Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, financial documents, writings, scrapbooks and memorabilia documenting Helburn's career as a writer and a theatrical director and administrator for the Theatre Guild and other theatres.

ArchivalResource: 6.68 linear feet (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702158109 View

Greenspan, Sara, 1894-1968. Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files, 1925-1969.

Title: Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files, 1925-1969.

The Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files chiefly contain correspondence, consisting mostly of letters sent to Greenspan in her capacity as business manager for the Guild.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear feet (1 box )

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181590871 View

Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959. Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1943.

Title: Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1943.

Concerns the Theatre Guild's Broadway production of Werfel's play Jacobowsky and the Colonel. For related correspondence, see under: Theatre Guild.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155863437 View

Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967,. Elmer Rice letters from various correspondents, 1915-1967.

Title: Elmer Rice letters from various correspondents, 1915-1967.

Consists of 245 letters to Rice from both theatrical and political correspondents. The collection was compiled by his widow, the former Barbara Marshall.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612378035 View

Abel, Walter, 1898-1987. Walter C. Abel and family papers, 1887-1963.

Title: Walter C. Abel and family papers, 1887-1963.

Correspondence, clippings and other papers relating to the career of Abel, St. Paul-born actor; and a picture post card from Switzerland (1887). An address book [undated], expense book (1916), memorandum book (1919), and scrapbook (1915-1934, 1957) are from his early years in New York City as a student and actor. In an oral history interview (April 1959, 41 pages) Abel discusses his acting career, family background, and general topics in the performing arts. The interview is part of the Columbia University Oral History Project.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (32 items and 4 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86124573 View

Eugene O'Neill papers, 1872-1970, 1930-1959

Title: Eugene O'Neill papers 1872-1970 1930-1959

The Eugene O'Neill Papers document the life ofdramatist Eugene O'Neill, especially his life with Carlotta Monterey O'Neillafter 1928. Correspondents include O'Neill's lawyers, Harry Weinberger andWinfield E. Aronberg; his agent, the Richard J. Madden Play Company, Inc.;friends and colleagues; and family members, including his daughter, Oona, hissons, Shane and Eugene, Jr., his third wife, Carlotta, and her daughter,Cynthia Chapman Stram. The collection also contains Carlotta'scorrespondence after O'Neill's death. There is correspondence with her lawyersat Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and at Nutter, McClennen & Fish; theYale Library system regarding her gift of O'Neill's papers; biographers ofO'Neill; others concerning her work on the production and publication ofO'Neill's plays; and friends and family members. There are also letters fromformer husband Ralph Barton before she married O'Neill. Writings includenotes, outlines and plot summaries, drafts (typescript and holograph), proofs,contracts, programs, and clippings for many of O'Neill's plays. There are somepoems and other writings, as well as his work diaries, in which he documentedhis writing schedule from 1924 to 1943. There are also some works by othersabout O'Neill's life and writing. The personal papers include addressbooks, membership certificates, awards for O'Neill's writing, Carlotta'sdiaries from 1928 to 1964, clippings and ephemera about friends and relatives,and financial material, including cancelled checks and checkbooks. Thephotographs document O'Neill, his family members, friends, colleagues, pets,and places where he lived and visited. Some of the photographs are in albums.There are also photographs of productions of his plays, from 1916 to 1966. Thememorabilia includes office materials, writing tools, jewelry, and locks ofhair, among other items. Artists represented in the collection include CyrusLeroy Baldridge, Miguel Covarrubias, Alfred Joseph Frueh, and Robert EdmondJones. Some of the artworks are portraits of O'Neill; others pertain to hisplays; others were given to, or collected by, the O'Neills. The recordings (allafter O'Neill's death) include three recordings of O'Neill plays and onetribute to O'Neill.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 185 (incl. 25 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 7 broadsides, 4 art storage items, cold storage; Linear Feet: 92.60

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.eopapers View

Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951,. Letters to Alfred Kreymborg [manuscript], 1921-1956.

Title: Letters to Alfred Kreymborg [manuscript], 1921-1956.

Hundreds of letters from over 200 individuals to Alfred Kreymborg, including correspondence from the poets Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot, as well as playwright Eugene O'Neill. Also included are some assorted business papers, theater programs, examinations, resumes, and magazine clippings. Correspondents include Louis Adamic, Franklin P. Adams, Conrad Aiken, Richard Aldington, Maxwell Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Brooks Atkinson, W.. H. Auden, Joseph Auslander, Stringfellow Barr, Emjo Basshe, Joseph Warren Beach, Charles Beard, John [J.?] Becker, Norman Gel Geddes, Emile Beliveau, William Rose Benét, Maxwell Bodenheim, Hal Borland, Julian Boyd, Kay Boyle, Millen Braand, Bessie Brewer, Herschel Brickell, Van Wyck Brooks, Robert Carlton Brown, Stanley Burnshaw, and Richard Burton. Also Erskine Caldwell, Melville Cane, Robert Cantwell, Carl L. Carmer, Bennett Cert, Katherine Chapin, Michael Chekhov, John Ciardi, Cyril Clemens, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Mary Maguire Coffin, Padraic Colum, Hilda Conkling, Florence Converse, Aaron Copland, Norman Corwin, John Cournos, Malcolm Cowley, Gordon Craig, e e cummings, James Daly, S. F. Damon, Donald Davidson, Katharine Day, Benjamin De Casseres, Robert De Lany, Babetter Deutsch, David Diamond, John Dos Passos, Richard Eberhart, Manyel Eisenberg, Paul Eldridge, and Paul Engle. Also Clifton Fadiman, Howard Fast, Kenneth Fearing, Vincent Ferrini, Mahlon Fisher, Robert Fitzgerald, Kimball Flaccus, Hallie flanagan, Charles Henri Ford, Waldoo Frank, Robert Frost, Henry Blake Fuller, John Gassner, Virgil Geddes, Wilfred Gibson, Wallace Gould , Arthur Guiterman, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, Edith Hamilton, Harry Hansen, Roy Harris, Marsden Hartley, Theresa Helburn, Lillian Hellman, DuBose Heyward, Hamilton Holt, Paul Horgan, Langston Hughes, Richard Hughes, Fannie Hurst and Robert Hutchins. Also Jeremy Ingalls, Josephine Jacobsen, Robinson Jeffers, Eugène Jolas, Margo Jones, Alan Kapelner, Helen Keller, Rockwell Kent, Harry Kemp, Fiske Kimball, Manuel Komroff, William Kozlenko, Aaron Kramer, Raymond Larsson, James Lauglin, David Lawson, Henry G. Leach, Clair Leonard, Wyndham Lewis, Elias Lieberman, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Long, John R. McCarthy, Kenneth Macgowan, Percy MacKaye, Archibald MacLeish, Norman MacLeod, Albert Maltz, Sherry Mangan, Edwin Markham, don Marquis, André Maurois, Margaret Mayorga, Hughes Mearnes, H. L. Mencken, Josephine Miles, Henry Miller, Harold Monro, Harriet Monroe, Merrill Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Lloyd Morris, David Morton and Lewis Mumford. Also Yone Noguchi, Alex North, Edward O'Brien, James Oppenheim,Gil Orlovita, Leo Ornstein, Shaemas O'Sheel, Kenneth Patchen, Claude Pepper, Pablo Picasso, John Crowe Ransom, Burton Rascoe, Harry Raymond, Cale Young Rice, Elmer Rice, Lola Ridge, Paul Rosenfield, Norman Rosten, Selden Rodman, Lew Sarrett, Aaron Schmuller, Delmore Schwartz, Clinton Scollard, Evelyn Scott, Winfield Townley Scott, Martin, Secker, Margorie Seiffert, Roger Sessions, Karl Shapiro, Elsie Singmaster, Wilbert Snow, Lawrence Spingarn, André Spire, William Steig, Alfred Stieglitz, and A. M. Sullivan. Also Allen Tate, Deems Taylor, Scofield Thayer, Virgil Thomson, Boris Todrin, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Edgar Varèse, Byron Vazakas, George S. Viereck, Peter Viereck, Harold Vinal, Christopher Ward, Alec Waugh, Brom Weber, Margaret Webster, Harry Weinberger, Glenway Wescott, John Brooks Wheelwritht, Clement Wood, and Art Young.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647988387 View

Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959. Complete working script of A hero is born; an extravaganza in two acts, by Theresa Helburn. Based on a story by Andrew Lang. Produced at the "Adelphi" Theatre, N.Y.C. ... October 1, 1937 ... Manuscript assembled by Elsa Ryan ...

Title: Complete working script of A hero is born; an extravaganza in two acts, by Theresa Helburn. Based on a story by Andrew Lang. Produced at the "Adelphi" Theatre, N.Y.C. ... October 1, 1937 ... Manuscript assembled by Elsa Ryan ... [1937?]

ArchivalResource: [140] f. mounted plans (blue prints), mounted plates. 29 x 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44108150 View

Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959. Denbigh.

Title: Denbigh. [1927]

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44108156 View

The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording], 1948-1954

Title: The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording] 1948-1954

The Railroad hour was a program which presented excerpts of famous musical comedies, as well as original stories, for radio audiences. Each half-hour episode of the program presented the highlights of one musical. Gordon MacRae was the host and leading man for each episode; his leading ladies came from radio and the Metropolitan Opera.

ArchivalResource: 490 sound discs; analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 16 in.; 42 sound tapes

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20435 View

Clifford Odets papers, 1926-1963

Title: Clifford Odets papers 1926-1963

Clifford Odets, playwright of the 1930s, was born in Philadelphia on July 18, 1906. He began his acting career on radio and in stock companies. In 1928, he acted with the Theatre Guild, which later introduced the Group Theatre. His first successful play was the one act play , produced by the Group Theatre in 1935. In 1936, Odets began working in Hollywood as a screenwriter and producer. He later returned to writing plays in 1937 and wrote which became his biggest hit. His last Broadway success was in 1950. Odets died in Los Angeles on August 14, 1963. The Clifford Odets papers contain diaries, scripts, screenplays, personal and professional notes, research materials, clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. In addition, the collection contains other writings by Clifford Odets such as poetry, short stories, articles, and paintings. There are also biographical notes on Clifford Odets and his father, Louis J. Odets, for the book . Waiting for Lefty Golden Boy The Country Girl Clifford Odets, The American Playwright by Margaret Brenman-Gibson

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21250 View

Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935. Papers of George Pierce Baker, 1882-1926 (inclusive), 1890-1926 (bulk).

Title: Papers of George Pierce Baker, 1882-1926 (inclusive), 1890-1926 (bulk).

Contains professional and family correspondence (ca. 35 boxes), manuscripts of published works, lecture notes, financial records, photographs, play scripts, scrapbooks, and programs.

ArchivalResource: ca. 75 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612379314 View

Opdycke, John B. (John Baker), 1878-1956. Autograph note signed John B. Opdycke to: Hugh Fullerton November 19, 1925.

Title: Autograph note signed John B. Opdycke to: Hugh Fullerton November 19, 1925.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70816382 View

Langner, Lawrence, 1890-1962. Letters to Doris Humphrey, 1944 and 1947. (5 items).

Title: Letters to Doris Humphrey, 1944 and 1947. (5 items).

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134805 View

Adams, Edward C. L. (Edward Clarkson Leverett), 1876-1946. Edward C.L. Adams papers, 1926-1931.

Title: Edward C.L. Adams papers, 1926-1931.

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, book reviews, drafts of ethnic sketches, and other papers documenting literary representations of African-American residents of South Carolina as seen through folktales, dialect, portions of sermons, ballads, and fiction; includes correspondence and other material relating to the publication and reception of Adams's works Congaree Sketches (1927), Nigger to Nigger (1928), and Potee's Gal "A Drama of Negro Life Near the Big Congaree" (1929). Papers and reviews re publication of Congaree Sketches in 1927 by University of North Carolina Press which included an introduction by Chapel Hill professor and playwright Paul Green, in which he called for more humane treatment of African Americans, with letter, 30 May 1927, to George Coffin Taylor, in which Adams expressed his disapproval of Green's introduction; and three short undated sketches in dialect, "conversations with Tad," re USC football, politics, politicians, and other issues of the day. Correspondents include Maxwell E. Perkins, editor of Scribner's, ca. 1928-1930, re publication of Nigger to Nigger and publicity; many letters address the controversy re staging of the play, Potee's Gal by the Columbia Stage Society with a cast of 150 African-American actors which was cancelled shortly before opening due to protests, including letter, 7 Feb. 1928, from Harry R.E. Hampton, in which he urges Adams to resume rehersals for the good of the Stage Society, the city, the state, and the South; and Adams correspondence, ca. 1929-1930, with Theresa Helburn, docmenting his efforts to produce the play in New York; and letter, 24 Mar. 1930, from Elliott White Springs in which he praises the play and encourages Adams to expand the story. Also including letter, 6 June 1931, London, England from Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode (Mrs. Paul Robeson), expressing appreciation for letters and books sent by Adams following their meeting in Columbia, S.C., reporting enjoyment of her first trip to South Carolina and noting family connections to the state [Robeson was granddaughter of Francis L. Cardozo, the secretary of state of South Carolina during Reconstruction]. Other correspondents include Christie Benet, J. Heyward Gibbes, Paul Green, Margaret Haynes, McDavid Horton, Bishop John Hurst, W. Bedford Moore, Charles Norman, Albert D. Oliphant, Josephine Pinckney, Stanhope Sams, Yates Snowden, and Edgar T. Thompson.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (1 carton)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412570 View

Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Title: Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Letters, photographs, and other documents by individuals associated with the theater.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01596/catalog View

Paul Muni collection, 1908-1980 (inclusive), 1932-1959 (bulk).

Title: Paul Muni collection, 1908-1980 (inclusive), 1932-1959 (bulk).

Manuscripts, cassette tapes and transcripts of interviews on Muni, photographs, programs, clippings, letters (mostly copies), scripts and articles relate to the life and film and stage career of Paul Muni. The papers were collected by the American dramatists and directors, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. (Lawrence wrote Actor: The Life and Times of Paul Muni (1973).) Includes material on the Yiddish theatre.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 photographs, 53 audio tape cassetts, 5 3-ring binders, and 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122372905 View

Theatre Guild. Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1938-1949.

Title: Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1938-1949.

A number of items concern the sale of the film rights to Werfel's play Juarez und Maximilian. Most of the items from Werfel concern the negotiations over the script for the Theatre Guild's Broadway production of his play Jacobowsky and the Colonel (adapted by S. N. Behrman and staged by Elia Kazan). 2 sheets of typed notes (apparently made by Langner) compare Werfel's and Behrman's versions of the play (photocopies). 1 item is a condolence telegram from Langner upon the death of Werfel. For additional correspondence concerning the Theatre Guild's production of Jacobowsky and the Colonel, see under: Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959.

ArchivalResource: 18 items (31 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155864599 View