Archive compiled by Alec Baron relating to theatrical life in Leeds from the late 1920s to the 1950s, principally Leeds Unity Theatre, supplemented by material relating to Leeds Film Theatre and world cinema. 1928-1991.

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Baron, Alec, 1913-1991. Archive compiled by Alec Baron relating to theatrical life in Leeds from the late 1920s to the 1950s, principally Leeds Unity Theatre, supplemented by material relating to Leeds Film Theatre and world cinema.

Archive compiled by Alec Baron relating to theatrical life in Leeds from the late 1920s to the 1950s, principally Leeds Unity Theatre, supplemented by material relating to Leeds Film Theatre and world cinema. 1928-1991.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61181003

Comprises: (a) Theatrical material mainly relating to Leeds Unity Theatre, including 83 items of correspondence (Alec Baron, Kate Plenty, Bill Ramsay (national organiser of the Unity Theatre Society Ltd.), Oscar Lewenstein (theatre and film producer), Sybil Thorndike, and others), programmes for plays by George Bernard Shaw, Clifford Odets, and others, typescripts for plays by Ted Willis, and others, designs for logos and costumes, song sheets, press-cuttings, promotional material, tickets, and other printed ephemera; also includes material relating to Theatre Workshop (under the direction of Joan Littlewood); and other theatre companies; (b) Film material, mainly relating to Leeds Film Theatre, Leeds Film Society, Leeds Film Group, also including world cinema material: programmes, promotional leaflets and catalogues, correspondence, film magazines; (c) AB's personal notebooks on his theatre and film going, AB's personal memoir (103 ff., photocopy of a typescript).

19 boxes.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds