Manuscripts

Original designs by James Hyde, Jānis Muncis, and others

Description: Work by Jānis Muncis includes a painting for "Armoured Train." Also contains several designs by unidentified artists, including paintings of houses and interiors (possibly by Hyde); costume designs for a Shakespearean festival; drawings and photographs of costumes for the Merry Wives of Windsor; two drawings by Harbert, one of Mistress Page and one of Mistress Ford, with annotations; and various other set and costume designs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930-1950
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,

Designs by James Hyde, identified productions

Manuscripts

Includes designs by James Hyde for Lazarus Laughed (circa 1928); Larry Apart (circa 1950); Eight Bells (circa 1940?); and unidentified plays. Also includes two costume designs by an unidentified designer.

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Character and costume sketches, stage designs, other

Manuscripts

Includes a sketch of Guy Bates Post, from The Play's the Thing, by John W. Haynes; drawings and sketches of the Mad Hatter and unidentified characters; two sketches of Shylock by [Donald?] Finlayson, one for a production of The Lady of Belmont and one for The Merchant of Venice; annotated magazine pages featuring costume and set designs, 1929 and undated; a blueprint of a stage design for Dancing Days by Corliss McGee, 1930; and drawings and photographs depicting stage settings and designs for plays including Skidding, On the Spot, The Armored Train, The Watched Pot, and Marco Millions. Also includes photographs dated circa 1920-1969 depicting costume and wardrobe fabrication, and photographs dated circa 1922-1937 depicting stage sets and design for productions including The Sunken Bell, Hassan, The Pirates of Penzance, King Lear, The Makropoulos Secret, and an unidentified Shakespeare set, as well as for unidentified productions, circa 1937-1960. Also contains one photograph depicting stagehands surrounding a Pasadena Community Playhouse truck, circa 1918-1925.

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Designs by Jānis Muncis

Manuscripts

Contains designs for productions of Marco Millions, Kismet, Julius Caesar, and unidentified productions.

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Designs by James Hyde, unidentified productions

Manuscripts

Includes paintings of houses and their environs; of men at a roulette table, one captioned "Follow the Fleet," with an attribution of Carroll Clark, Unit Art Director; of Ivanhoe and Friar Tuck's Hut (also with Carroll Clark, Unit Art Director); and of a banquet and of couples outside of a mansion.

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B. Set and costume designs

Manuscripts

This collection contains the records of the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater established in Pasadena, California, in 1917. Materials consist primarily of theater programs, scrapbooks, business records, correspondence, clippings, scripts, school catalogues, brochures and ephemera, indexes, photographs, original drawings of set and costume designs, and research materials originally housed in the organization's library. The materials document the performance history of the various theaters of the Playhouse and also contain partial administrative records and school records, with particular strength in coverage for the "Mainstage" theater and an extensive run of programs and performance photographs. The core records are strengthened by the complementary personal paper collections of directors, performers, and others associated with the Playhouse.

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Negatives: Unidentified set designs

Manuscripts

mssPlayhouse

Original designs by James Hyde, Jānis Muncis, and others

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Designs by James Hyde, identified productions

Character and costume sketches, stage designs, other

Designs by Jānis Muncis

Designs by James Hyde, unidentified productions

B. Set and costume designs

Negatives: Unidentified set designs