Materials relating to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, n.d.; Eduard Bloch's Theater-Correspondenz Nr. 51, third edition), which has been annotated as a prompt book; and 4 handwritten role books (the complete character list): Nettchen, Friedel, Lord Mickelby, and Box. The published copy, which might date from the 1880s, attributes music to Th. Hauptner. Handwritten musical scores are included as follows (see folder 661): full sheets with title page, for piano and voice; and half sheets scored for instruments including violin, flute, bass, and clarinet. The title page of the music indicates Hauptner as the composer; however, the music on the back of the last full page, under the title "Couplet," is signed at the top: "Telle," and is presumably by the same Max Telle who appears in casts of German-language plays in Philadelphia around 1894. The role books also bear the names of actors and one actress that are recognizable from casts that performed in German-language theater in Philadelphia at that time, although it is likely that the role books themselves are older. The published copy has been rebound into a homemade cover of cardboard, on one side of which is a German-language advertisement for entertainment on a boat, in Philadelphia on 31 Aug. 1890. All of the materials, including the music (on the title page), are labeled by hand as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia beginning around 1873 and who ran a formal theater lending library from around 1880 to the mid 1890s. See also a theater newspaper pertaining to a performance in Nov. 1878 (folder 690), and a playbill with a brief reference to a coming performance in May 1879 (folder 678).
