Materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, Bühnen-Manuscripten-Verlag, L. Lassar's Buchhandlung, n.d.), which has been annotated as a prompt-book; a handwritten scenario, along with a handwritten booklet of excerpts from the play that appears also to relate to staging; a handwritten item that served as a prop; and 19 handwritten role books, for the following parts: Präsident von Wellheim; Schwulibus, Director einer Künstlertruppe; Sempronia, seine Schwägerin; Anton Skrampel, Acrobat; Friedländer, Banquier; Schneller, Theater-Agent; Sitten, Polizei-Rath; Schimmling, Direktor des Hoftheaters; Hühnchen, Restaurateur; Schreier, Chorist; Frl. Lehmann, Künstlerin; Strunk, Gastwirth; Schultz, Dorfschulze; Faulhaber, Steuer-Einnehmer; Johann, Diener; Josephine Schindelmann; Camilla Räusper, Choristin; Fleschke, Hausknecht; and ein Adjutant. (The play has three additional main roles: ein Polizeibeamter; Schätzler, Tenorist; and Marcuse, Buchhalter.) The written item that was used a prop served the purpose of simulating a written order held by one of the characters, and bears a note indicating the timing of its implementation in the play; however, the actual content of the writing on the sheet appears to be the draft of an advertisement for a performance of Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, on 10 Nov., as part of the German commemoration of 9 Nov. (the year is not given). The published copy might date from as early as 1860. On the page listing characters, the cast of the play is given as performed at Meysels Theater, Berlin (a theater that was founded in 1859, and re-named to Woltersdorff-Theater in 1865). On the title page, music is attributed to Th. Hauptner. The handwritten musical scores included here (see folders 662-664) all bear the name of Theodor Schaumberg as composer, although one item also indicates, along with the title and author of the play, the attribution of music to Hauptner. Schaumberg was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia as early as 1868. Possibly the items comprise supplemental music, or a particular arrangement. The musical scores include a (homemade, handwritten) booklet of 6 songs; and musical scores designated for violin and for trombone (the latter item is a fragment, with the bottom half of the leaves missing). The booklet of songs is labeled as the property of Theodor Bloch, as are the published copy and all of the role books. Bloch was an actor, and later a prompter, in German-language theater in Philadelphia beginning around 1873, and formally ran a theater lending library from around 1880 to the mid 1890s. Names of actors and actesses written on many of the role books reflect about three different casts over time, the earliest of which probably performed around 1873, and the others in the late 1870s and early 1880s. A list of props pasted to an inside back page of the published copy apparently makes reference to names of cast members from the April 1885 performance documented in a theater newspaper and playbill (see folders 704 and 682, respectively). A playbill for a performance in Feb. 1878 can be found in folder 677.
