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Davenport Papers, 1884-1959

Title: Davenport Papers 1884-1959

Playwright, producer, actor and theater manager. Papers contain correspondence, photographs, and autographs from numerous actors, producers and others relating chiefly to Butler Davenport's theatrical productions in New York City.

ArchivalResource: 4 archives boxes; (2 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma73.html View

Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of portraits, ca., ca., 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Theatre Arts Monthly collection of portraits, ca. ca. 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Portrait and group portrait photographs of theatre-related people.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02021/catalog View

Philip Faversham papers, 1919-1982

Title: Philip Faversham papers 1919-1982

The papers of Philip Faversham consist of correspondence from professional contacts, many of whom were friends.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21258 View

Bromberg, J. Edward, 1903-1951. J. Edward Bromberg papers, 1924-1951.

Title: J. Edward Bromberg papers, 1924-1951.

The J. Edward Bromberg Papers consist of a contract, scripts, a poster, playbills, flyers, correspondence, press releases, photographs, a scrapbook, some writings, ephemera, a sketched portrait, and a large collection of clippings documenting his 25-year career.

ArchivalResource: 1.18 lin. ft. (4 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83643363 View

Ward Morehouse papers, 1877-1966, 1924-1966

Title: Ward Morehouse papers 1877-1966 1924-1966

Ward Morehouse, journalist and playwright. The papers include correspondence, interviews, writings articles and ephemera documenting his career in the theater world.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21501 View

Peffer, Crawford A., 1868-1961. Crawford and Ella Peffer/Redpath Chautauqua collection, 1912-1997.

Title: Crawford and Ella Peffer/Redpath Chautauqua collection, 1912-1997.

Materials relating to Peffer and his wife, Ella Harding Peffer, a singer for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, including articles, photographs, and correspondence (1912-1960) between Peffer and Redpath Chautauqua speakers (including Adm. Richard Byrd, William Jennings Bryan, Sybil Thorndike, Eva Le Gallienne, Ida Tarbell, and Carl Sandburg); materials relating to the Redpath Chautaqua, including tour schedules (1914-1916), town reports (1928-1931, many for Maine towns), broadsides, programs, and brochures; correspondence of Anne Matthews, Peffer's assistant (1940-1958) and J.R. Schultz (1932-1941) regarding Peffer Chautauqua papers at Alleghany College and donor Carol McCracken (including a TLS from Margaret Chase Smith); articles and information concerning the Chautauqua movement and its circuits; and materials about Katherine Ridgeway's camp for girls in Jefferson, Me., co-founded by Ella Harding Peffer.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70923083 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

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

Margaret Webster Papers, 1837-1974, (bulk 1937-1970)

Title: Margaret Webster Papers

Actress, theatrical producer, author, and lecturer. Correspondence, family papers, prompt copies of plays and operas, musical scores, set and staging diagrams, articles, lectures, research material, scrapbooks of clippings, printed material, photographs, and othner papers consisting primarily of material used by Webster in compiling two family biographies and reflecting her theatrical career.

ArchivalResource: 7,000 items; 28 containers; 11 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150 View

Mary Fanton Roberts papers

Title: Mary Fanton Roberts papers

The papers of art writer and editor Mary Fanton Roberts measure 3.8 linear feet and are dated 1880 to 1956. The bulk of this collection is Roberts' correspondence with numerous important artists, dancers, actors, writers, and musicians of the day. Also found are scattered biographical materials, family correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs and artwork.

ArchivalResource: 3.8 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ea19ad44-7788-4ec4-8cb4-d4b8ec49fde3 View

Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991. Eva Le Gallienne papers and audiotapes, 1903-1991.

Title: Eva Le Gallienne papers and audiotapes, 1903-1991.

The Eva Le Gallienne Papers consist of correspondence found in bound volumes which belonged to her. It also includes correspondence and audiotaped interviews on her life and career, recorded by Bob Schanke.

ArchivalResource: <1.4 lin. ft.>

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652391 View

Meade, Julian R. (Julian Rutherfoord), 1909-1940. Papers of Julian Meade Rutherfoord, 1928-1940.

Title: Papers of Julian Meade Rutherfoord, 1928-1940.

The collection contains the short story *At the green tea pot," an article on Ellen Glasgow, an article on flower legends, and a poem "For my southern kinsmen." The remainder of the collection consists of letters to Meade from fellow authors. Many of them concern a symposium on Robert Louis Stevenson which he proposed. Others mention James Branch Cabell, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Margaret Mitchell, Edgar Allan Poe, Amélie Rives, and Thomas Wolfe, as well as the problems of being a writer, their own work, gardening and Meade's books. Fourteen letters from Julia Peterkin comment on her early life, her writing, Meade's books including "I live in Virginia" in which he quotes her, and her garden. Six letters from James Branch Cabell contain personal news and comment on his series on Manuel. Correspondents include Louis Adamic, Gertrude Atherton, James Boyd, Ganaliel Bradford, Louis Bromfield, Leonard Barron, Van Wyck Brooks, Pearl S. Buck, Maxwell Struthers Burg, Emily Clark Balch, Carl L. Carmer, Winston Churchill, Walter de la Mare, Henry C. Ficklen, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, and Joseph Hergesheimer. Also Hewitt H. Howland, Fannie Hurst, Odette Kenn, Eva Le Gallienne, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, John Calvin Metcalf, Kathleen Norris, Isabel Paterson, William Alexander Percy, William Lyon Phelps, Burton Rascoe, Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, Edward Arlington Robinson, Thomas S. Stribling, Arthur F. Swinnerton and Stark Young.

ArchivalResource: 77 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49246959 View

Wagner, Frederick,. Frederick Wagner autograph collection, 1917-1961.

Title: Frederick Wagner autograph collection, 1917-1961.

Letters written to Mary Ward and John Sayre Crawley primarily from Dame Sybil Thorndike, Madeleine Carroll, Todd Duncan, Daniel Frohman, Julie Harris, Eva La Gallienne, Rolle Peters, Edward Hugh Sothern, Margaret Webster, and other various correspondents. Letters from Thorndike address such topics as personal finance, family news, summer activities, travel plans to the United States, the Playhouse Theater in London, and the Old Vic Theater in London. Letters from others are thank you notes for gifts received from the Crawley's, letters about casting the Crawleys in play productions, Christmas cards, postcards, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80710285 View

Faversham, Philip. Philip Faversham papers, 1919-1982.

Title: Philip Faversham papers, 1919-1982.

The Philip Faversham papers consist solely of his correspondence.

ArchivalResource: .25 lf (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615770 View

Grand Theatre Collection (University of Guelph). Hedda Gabler / by Henrik Ibsen ; newely translated by Eva Le Gallienne ; directed by Peter Dearing, 1961 - house program.

Title: Hedda Gabler / by Henrik Ibsen ; newely translated by Eva Le Gallienne ; directed by Peter Dearing, 1961 - house program. 1961.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626237357 View

Witter Bynner papers, 1829-1965.

Title: Witter Bynner papers, 1829-1965.

Correspondence and compositions of American poet and translator Witter Bynner.

ArchivalResource: 99 boxes (49.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00668/catalog View

Vera Zorina papers

Title: Vera Zorina papers

Papers of ballet dancer, actress, choreographer and opera director Vera Zorina

ArchivalResource: 73.4 linear feet (158 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02312/catalog View

Eppes, William D. Autograph collection of William D. Eppes, 1908-1998.

Title: Autograph collection of William D. Eppes, 1908-1998.

The collection consists of autograph files maintained by Eppes containing correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, and printed material chiefly by or about people in the fine arts. Some literary and political figures are also included. People and organizations represented in the files, mostly by VERY BRIEF NOTES OF THANKS, include the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Louis Auchincloss, Hermione Baddeley, Cecil Beaton, Dirk Bogart, Louis Bromfield, Georgia Brown, Irving Caesar, Cass Canfield, Jan Garden Castro, Bennett Cerf, Clementine Churchill, Jan Clayton, William Sloane Coffin, and Bob Cummings. Also Jean Dalrymple, Margaret Truman Daniel, Agnes De Mille, Helen Gahagan Douglas, David Dukes, Dame Edith Evans, Albert Finney, Lynn Fontanne, Malcolm Forbes, Betty Ford, Arlene Francis, Robert S. Gamble, Lilian Gish, Joanna Glass, Ruth Gordon, Tammy Grimes, Desmond Guinness, Kay Halle, Helene Hanff, Julie Harris, June Havoc, Lilian Hellman, Pendleton Hogan, Helen H. Howe, Kim Hunter and Ada Louise Huxtable. Also Cherry Jones, Walter Kerr, Patricia Kluge, Bert Lahr, Arthur Laurents, Evelyn Laye, Vivian Leigh, Margaret Leighton, John V. Lindsay, Anna Neagle, Fritz Peters, Fritz Peters, Margot Peters, Cole Porter, Lynn Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Donald Sinden, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Ben Sonnenberg, Paul Standard, Patricia Ziegfield Stephenson, Paul Stookey, Jessica Tandy, Angela Thirkell, Helen Thomas, Harry Truman, Barbara Tuchman, Henry Walthall, Ethel Waters, Peggy Wood, Louis B. Wright, Teresa Wright, Stark Young and Philip Ziegler. Represented in the files to a greater extent are J. Mitchell Bailey; Tallulah Bankhead; the Empire Theatre; Armand Hammer; Eval Le Gallienne including a scrapbook "At 33" inscribed to Eppes; Anne Kaufman Schneider and an honorary degree for Le Gallienne, at the College of William and Mary; efforts to preserve the New York City home of Edna St. Vincent Millay; and Dorothy Stickney, including a copy of her "A lovely light," a dramatization of the poems and letters of Millay. In addition the collection contains Eppes' notes on portions of the collection; obituaries and tributes; playbills; programs, including a souvenir program from "Gone with the wind"; announcements; sound recordings; and poster replicas for theaters, chiefly in New York City. The collection also contains five long-playing record sets : "Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera 'Porgy and Bess' Volume Two (Phonodisk 0618 : 10 in.)--"Dorothy Stickney in 'A Lovely Light' ... a dramatization of the poems and letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay" (Phonodisk 0619 : 12 in.)--"Opening Nights at the Met" (Phonodisk 0620 : 10 in.)--"The Music of 'Cabin in the Sky' Featuring Ethel Waters" (Phonodisk 0621 : 10 in.)--"Presenting Gertrude Lawrence in Glamorous Music from "Lady in the Dark' " (Phonodisk 0622 : 10 in.). The collection also contains a memoir of William and Mary librarian E.G. Swem.

ArchivalResource: 2310 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49864158 View

Frederick Wagner autograph collection, 1917-1961.

Title: Frederick Wagner autograph collection, 1917-1961.

Correspondence of theatrical figures collected by English professor Frederick Wagner.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00508/catalog View

Hochwälder, Fritz, 1911-1986. The strong are lonely. Translation by Eva Le Gallienne from the original of Fritz Hochwälder and the French version of Jean Mercure and Richard Thieberger.

Title: The strong are lonely. Translation by Eva Le Gallienne from the original of Fritz Hochwälder and the French version of Jean Mercure and Richard Thieberger. [1953]

ArchivalResource: 48, 28 l. 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44133306 View