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Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). Sadie Thompson / music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Howard Dietz, book by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian, base on the story "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham and the play "Rain" by Coulton and Clemence Randolph, adapted by Paul Sportelli and Christopher Newton ; directed by Christopher Newton, 2000 - house program.

Title: Sadie Thompson / music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Howard Dietz, book by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian, base on the story "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham and the play "Rain" by Coulton and Clemence Randolph, adapted by Paul Sportelli and Christopher Newton ; directed by Christopher Newton, 2000 - house program. 2000.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/628404672 View

Ussher, Bruno David. Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, 1892-1957 (bulk 1922-1935).

Title: Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, 1892-1957 (bulk 1922-1935).

Photographs of musicians and music celebrties given to Ussher in the 1920s and 1930s. Many are autographed and inscribed. Also included is a score by Edward MacDowell.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700521295 View

Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith, 1881-1927. Dialogue script for Gypsy blood, 1952, Jan. 2.

Title: Dialogue script for Gypsy blood, 1952, Jan. 2.

ArchivalResource: [36] leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55028994 View

Drawings for theater productions, 1926-1945.

Title: Drawings for theater productions, 1926-1945.

Drawings of costume and set designs for ballets and other productions by Russian artist and designer Serge Soudekine.

ArchivalResource: 34 drawings (3 linear feet.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00552/catalog View

New York motion picture industry oral history project, 1963-1985, 1979-1985 (bulk)

Title: New York motion picture industry oral history project, 1963-1985, 1979-1985 (bulk)

Interviews with people involved in professions associated with the motion picture industry in New York City, especially those pertaining to Astoria Studios. Some of the founders of Astoria Motion Picture and Television Foundation are interviewed. Professions include directors, producers, screen writers, cameramen, business agents, electricians, songwriters, casting directors, editors, actors, artists, songwriters, costume designers, projectionists, and propmen. Some of the interviews deal with the Astoria Studios during the time it was the Army Pictorial Center, others are interviews with people associated with recent pictures such as JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, and WOLFEN. A few interviewees are members of the union of motion picture craftsmen. Some people were interviewed by staff members of the museum, and many interviews have been transcribed, 1963-1981. Also video tapes of interviews with Sylvia Sidney, 1985, and Rouben Mamoulian, 1984.

ArchivalResource: 125 audio tapes; 12 video tapes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155452079 View

De Mille, Agnes,. An oral history interview with Agnes de Mille / conducted by Peggy Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1991 Aug. 9 : recording and transcript.

Title: An oral history interview with Agnes de Mille / conducted by Peggy Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1991 Aug. 9 : recording and transcript.

De Mille discusses her choreography of the ballets for One touch of Venus; Weill's role in editing the ballets; Lenya's role in coaching Mary Martin's songs; the possibilities of reviving of the original production; and Venus in the context of Weill's oeuvre, of de Mille's development, and of the American musical. People discussed include: George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Elia Kazan, Lotte Lenya, Rouben Mamoulian, Mary Martin, Ogden Nash, Sono Osato, S.J. Perelman, Richard Rodgers (with particular reference to Oklahoma and her role as choreographer), and Kurt Weill.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (15 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122537807 View

Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection.

Title: Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection.

The Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection at the Harvard Film Archive consists of approximately 800,000 film stills, pressbooks, posters, and other cinema-related ephemera originally amassed by Lothar Just, a Munich-based film publicist. Just's expansive collection began in the gathering of image and source material for the annual film lexicons, the Heyne Filmlexikon and Filmjahrbuch, which he continues to publish.

ArchivalResource: 800 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hfa00019/catalog View

Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990. Ernst Bacon collection, 1931-1990.

Title: Ernst Bacon collection, 1931-1990.

Manuscripts and many music scores, correspondence, photographs, and large collection of published music.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70960120 View

Mamoulian, Rouben. Typewritten letter signed, dated : Beverly Hills, Ca., 25 January 1972, to Phillip Bloom, 1972 Jan. 25.

Title: Typewritten letter signed, dated : Beverly Hills, Ca., 25 January 1972, to Phillip Bloom, 1972 Jan. 25.

Saying he is indeed glad Bloom is coming: "Just see that you don't cancel out again!"

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270874498 View

Mamoulian, Rouben. Reminiscences of Rouben Mamoulian : oral history, 1958.

Title: Reminiscences of Rouben Mamoulian : oral history, 1958.

Director in London, 1919; directing opera in Rochester, New York; interviews with George Eastman; Theatre Guild in New York, N.Y.; films: APPLAUSE, QUEEN CHRISTINA, BECKY SHARP; stage productions of PORGY AND BESS and CAROUSEL; move from major studios to more individualized production units; impressions of Eugene O'Neill, Greta Garbo.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 115 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122587306 View

Duncan, Todd,. An oral history interview with Todd Duncan / conducted by Peggy Meyer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, Washington, DC, 1991 May 2 : recording and transcript.

Title: An oral history interview with Todd Duncan / conducted by Peggy Meyer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, Washington, DC, 1991 May 2 : recording and transcript.

Duncan talks of his performance of Stephen Kumalo in premiere production of Weill/Anderson musical tragedy Lost in the stars (1949-1950); compares Kumalo with the role of Porgy in original production of Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess; and explains his feelings about the disagreement between Maxwell Anderson and Rouben Mamoulian over political message of production and the weaknesses of Anderson's book. Discussion relates to Maxwell Anderson, George Gershwin, Lotte Lenya, Rouben Mamoulian, Inez Matthews, Alan Paton, and Kurt Weill.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (26 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 75 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574742 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

Title: The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

The Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya contain manuscript scores and sketches of Weill's music, including 8 American stage works, 2 German stage works, and other major compositions and smaller pieces. The Papers also hold photocopies of holograph scores from Weill's German period which are housed in the Archives of Universal-Edition, Vienna. The careers of Weill and Lenya are documented by: correspondence to and from their families, friends, and collaborators; programs; photographs, including pictures of musical productions by Weill and Lenya's film appearances; personal documents; and 20,000 newspaper clippings from the Berlin years.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear ft. (107 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702188923 View

Wachsman, Robert A. Papers, [ca. 1933-ca. 1942].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1933-ca. 1942].

Photographs, programs, reviews, clippings and miscellaneous materials, chiefly of the original production of Porgy and Bess which opened in Boston in 1935 and toured for several years in the U.S. Also contains various materials related to John Henry, Boy meets girl, Home town boy and other productions in which Wachsman was involved. Includes programs and clippings on composer George Gershwin; holograph manuscript of a musical composition by Harold Arlen (Last night when we were young) with signed notation; copies of scores by Harold Arlen (Stormy weather, Let's fall in love excerpt); souvenir program signed by producer Merle Armitage; autographed copy of John Henry blues by composer W.C. Handy; menu signed by Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer and others; portrait print of Jerome Kern with signed inscription.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21071995 View

Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984, inclusive

Title: Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya 1890-1984, inclusive

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the German-American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and the German-American actress and singer Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)

ArchivalResource: 107 boxes (47 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0030 View

Souvenir programs of motion pictures, 1915-1978.

Title: Souvenir programs of motion pictures, 1915-1978.

20th century souvenir programs primarily of motion pictures.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (1.75 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02211/catalog View

Rouben Mamoulian Papers, 1740-1987, (bulk 1906-1987)

Title: Rouben Mamoulian Papers 1740-1987 (bulk 1906-1987)

Theatrical and film director. Correspondence, diaries, scripts, production material, speeches, writings, printed matter, scrapbooks, memorabilia and other papers relating to Mamoulian's life and career.

ArchivalResource: 59,000 items; 209 containers plus 48 oversize and 12 artifacts; 102 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010225 View

Mamoulian, Rouben. Hollywood needs a laboratory ; What makes a critic ; Colour and light in films from 1946 to 1956.

Title: Hollywood needs a laboratory ; What makes a critic ; Colour and light in films from 1946 to 1956. [195-?-1956?]

ArchivalResource: 6, 6, 18 leaves ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47180467 View

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

Title: The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

The Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya contain manuscript scores and sketches of Weill's music, including 8 American stage works, 2 German stage works, and other major compositions and smaller pieces. The Papers also hold photocopies of holograph scores from Weill's German period which are housed in the Archives of Universal-Edition, Vienna. The careers of Weill and Lenya are documented by: correspondence to and from their families, friends, and collaborators; programs; photographs, including pictures of musical productions by Weill and Lenya's film appearances; personal documents; and 20,000 newspaper clippings from the Berlin years.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear ft. (107 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501258 View

Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, Bulk, 1922-1935, 1892-1957

Title: Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs Bulk, 1922-1935 1892-1957

Celebrity photographs (classical music and films) autographed to Ussher in the 1930s; Ussher was a musicologist/music critic.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet; 1 box

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8s20398c View