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Sidney Easton papers, 1913-1980.

Title: Sidney Easton papers, 1913-1980.

The collection is arranged in four series, Personal and Professional Papers, Writings, Legal Information File and Helen Armstead-Johnson Notes, and includes a scrapbook. The Personal and Professional Papers series includes printed materials that contains information about Easton's career. The Career Information File includes sheet music written by Easton, Bert Williams, Alex Rogers, Sheldon Brooks and Clarence Muse. In addition, there is a list of performers that Easton had some association with over the span of fifty years and a scrapbook. Included in the Writings series are Easton's typescript autobiography and various undated play scripts, skits, monologues, short stories, television scripts, a screenplay, and a small file of manuscript music. The legal series includes information regarding the lawsuit he filed against 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation claiming the use of his play, "Lifeboat #3" as the basis for the film "Lifeboat." There are also notes by Helen Armstead-Johnson on Easton and his career.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 lin. ft. (2 archival boxes, 1 flat box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465367 View

Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook, 1922-1962, 1920-1930

Title: Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook 1922-1962 1920-1930

William H. Glenn and Walter Jenkins (Glenn & Jenkins) were a popular comedy team who performed on the vaudeville circuit and toured the United States, Canada, and London during the 1920s and 1930s. They became renowned for their black face routines, "Working for the Railway" and "The Broom Dance.". The contents of the scrapbook includes reviews and advertisments of their comedy routines dating from 1922 to 1949 and 1962. The scrapbook also contains notes, flyers, photographs, telegrams, greeting cards, and copies of their pay stubs.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20861 View

Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook, 1922-1962 (bulk 1920-1930)

Title: Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook, 1922-1962 (bulk 1920-1930)

The contents of the scrapbook includes reviews and advertisments of their comedy routines dating from 1922 to 1949 and 1962. The scrapbook also contains notes, flyers, photographs, telegrams, greeting cards, and copies of their pay stubs.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122686765 View

Gordone, Charles. Charles Gordone collection, 1962-1995.

Title: Charles Gordone collection, 1962-1995.

The bulk of the Charles Gordone Collection pertains to the author's Pulitzer-prize winning play "No Place to Be Somebody," which includes several versions of the play script, programs, letters, playbills, flyers, posters, production and showcase materials, press, and two files for awards Gordone received from the Pulitzer Prize and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1970 and 1971, respectively.

ArchivalResource: 3 lin. ft. (2 record cartons, 1 archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122313888 View