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Description: Categories include Plays; Play Construction; Costume; Stage Design; History of Stage and Drama; Music; and Miscellaneous, comprising History and Travel, Biography, Philosophy and Religion, General Literature (novels, fiction, essays, and poetry), Technical (encyclopedias, materials regarding fine arts, including radio and television, and periodicals). Also includes Index of Photographs in the Library of Photographs, 1918-1928, compiled by Clinton Clarke.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1959
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,

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Manuscripts

Includes materials concerning theater education, Chinese drama, modern drama, the Little Theatre movement, press and publicity, set and stage design, Shakespeare, and other topics. Also includes Works Progress Administration research bulletins on theater in San Francisco.

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The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington

Manuscripts

The materials relate to a production dramatized by Arthur Goodrich and produced by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coburn, September 10th and 21, 1929. The photographs were taken from the Auditorium during the performance by Clinton C. Clarke.

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Scrapbook, book, typescripts, other

Manuscripts

Contains Book of the Pasadena Playhouse, edited by Harriet Green, 1934; a 21-page typescript, Pasadena Community Playhouse Beginnings, 1916-1918, as Recalled Twenty Years Later, by Marjorie Sinclair, plus clippings and a typescript of the Playhouse's first program, circa 1938; a scrapbook Sinclair compiled, The Stage, Volume I, comprising printed photographs of various actors and actresses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (undated; materials not necessarily connected to the Pasadena Community Playhouse); and an undated typescript by Margit Veszi, Theatre. Also includes two copies of the booklet, Theatre Professionals Trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, undated; typescript of a tour of the Playhouse buildings, undated; and Historical Sketch of the Organization of the Pasadena Community Playhouse, approximately 1940.

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Plays S-T

Manuscripts

Works include: James, Helen, Shiny Legs (1961); Flavin, Martin, Shucks (script and correspondence, 1949, 1966); Snow White (various scripts, 1954, undated); Brown, Gilmor, A Soul for Mary Jane (typescript, stage sketch, and memo from Pasadena Drama Guild, 1935); Riley, Alice C. D., A Stare Shone and Little New Moon (Samuel French script, inscribed to Gilmor Brown, 1929, undated); Deval, Jacques, Tovaritch (1937); Milne, A. A., The Truth About Blayds (acting edition, Samuel French, 1923); and Hecht, Ben, and MacArthur, Charles, Twentieth Century (after 1932).

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Senior, holiday, other productions

Manuscripts

Contains photographs depicting performances at Cue Gardens; Junior and Senior productions; special and holiday productions; Summer Sessions; Third Annual Drama Clinic; and other various student productions, some unidentified.

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Biographical, personal, and writings

Manuscripts

Contains correspondence; photographs; poetry and other writings, and numerous scripts by Van Dyke, chiefly for stage but also for radio.

mssPlayhouse

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