Materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy that has been annotated as a prompt-book; a handwritten scenario; and 11 handwritten role books, for the following parts: Leocadia Schwalbach; Ritter von Schwalbach, ihr Enkel; Emilie, seine Frau; Bertha Schwalbach; Strunk; Schweiger; Robert Mohr; Heinrich Schill; Bohrmann, Buchhalter; Anton, Diener; and Möller, Redaktionsdiener. (One role is apparently missing: Therese, Strunks Tochter.) The published copy gives no publishing information except for the note on the title page: "Den Bühnen gegenüber als Manuscript gedruckt"; possibly it comes from Rosen's Gesammelte Dramatische Werke, published in 14 volumes between 1870 and 1888. The scenario is signed and dated from New Orleans, 17 Dec. 1877, by Hirschberg, who was an actor in German-language theater in Philadelphia in the early to mid 1870s and then again from 1879 through the 1880s. Many of the names of actors and actors noted on the front of role books are familiar from the casts of other German-language plays in Philadelphia and seem to reflect two casts, one in the mid to late 1880s, and another around the mid 1890s. The published copy is labeled as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia, first as an actor and later as a prompter, from 1873 until at least the mid 1890s, and who also ran a theater lending library. (The collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills contain no reference to this play.)
