Manuscripts

Plays L-R

Description: Works include: Powers, Tom, Ladybug, Ladybug (undated); Kennedy, Belle Cumming, Lovely Miss Linley (master and production scripts; music and scenes; correspondence; production plots; clippings; program; and ephemera, 1942); Grant, James Shaw, The Magic Rowan (script, sound cues, property plots, and program, 1947); Rose, Billy, The Night They Made a Bum out of Helen Hayes (television script?, circa 1950); MacKaye, Percy, Odin against Christus (1948); Walkup, Fairfax, Orbit in Light (circa 1966-1969); Haney, Edith S, Pasadena Panorama (undated); and Kennedy, Belle Cumming, Rosemary – That's for Remembrance ([1957]).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1687-2013.
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,; Additional gifts have been supplemented by former affiliates of the Playhouse over the years.
Associated people: Arnold, A. E., (-1941,); Ben Ali, Bobker, (1921-1985,); Ben Ali, Bobker, (1921-1985,); Ben Ali, Bobker, (1921-1985,); Ben Ali, Bobker, (1921-1985,); Blanchard, Frederick W., (1878-1948,); Blanchard, Frederick W., (1878-1948,); Bowditch, Vincent Yardley, (1916-1985,); Bowditch, Vincent Yardley, (1916-1985,); Brown, Gilmor, (1886-1960,); Brown, Gilmor, (1886-1960,); Brown, Gilmor, (1886-1960,); Brown, Gilmor, (1886-1960,); Brown, Gilmor, 1886-1960, (1886-1955,); Cook, Philip, (1886-1955,); Cook, Philip, (1901-1954,); Eaton, Jerry, (1905-1992,); Evans, June, (1905-1992,); Evans, June, (1904-1934,); Haas, W. (1904-1934,); Howell Helen, (1904-1934,); Howell, Helen, (1905-1952,); Hyde, James, (1911-1993,); Powell, Jack, (1911-1993,); Martin, W. Albert,; Muncis, Jānis,; Muncis, Jānis,; Prickett, Charles F.,; Blake, Oliver,; Blake, Oliver,; Sharpe, Robert Redington,; Sharpe, Robert Redington,; Sharpe, Robert Redington,; Shoup, Gail,; Shoup, Gail,; Spalding, Charles Gordon,; Spalding, Graydon E.; Spalding, Graydon E.; Spalding, Kim,; Sterling, Eloise,; Sterling, Eloise,; Van Dyke, Philip,; Van Dyke, Philip,
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Materials include sample blank contracts and a brochure regarding Actor's Equity (1939); articles and studies about education, including a conference program for the Educational TV Programs Institute (1952); pamphlets regarding fundraising strategies (circa 1925-1969); brochures, fliers, and ephemera regarding membership drives (circa 1919-1975); and programs and fliers for membership meetings, 1921-1936 and undated.
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