Reprise / by Zoe Akins ; based on the novel "Return Engagement" by Gwen Davenport ; directed by John Holden, 1952 - house program. 1952.

Josephine Barrington Collection.

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Melody Fair was a musical series that ran for several summers between c.1951-56. The first location was a tent at the Dufferin Race Track on the west side of Dufferin just below Bloor Street, now a shopping mall. Another location, perhaps the second, was the Mutual Street Arena, just off Jarvis Street, home of roller skating. The final location was a tent on the Dixie Plaza. There was a different show each week after it had run for a week in Buffalo. The tent featured theatre in the round, with ...

Holden, John, 1942-

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Niagara Falls Summer Theatre.

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Akins, Zoë (1886-1958).

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Zoë Akins (1886-1958) was a dramatist, novelist, poet and screenwriter. Born in Missouri, Akins wrote plays for the better part of two decades before she moved to California in 1928 and worked as a screenwriter under contract to Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She won the Pulitzer prize for her play, The old maid (1936), which she adapted from the story by Edith Wharton. From the description of Papers of Zoë Akins, 1907-1951. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical ...

Davenport, Gwen, 1910-2002

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