Contains one scrapbook and scores, scripts, and other materials that appear to have belonged to actress Helena Modjeska (1840-1909). Their connection to Blanchard is not identified.
Box originally labeled "Modjeska material." Materials include notes on comedy; Charles Dickens; diction, voice, and speech; and various topics on theater. Also included are typescripts of radio programs on theater materials relating to Frederick Blanchard, including a scrapbook, typed notes on Chinese theater, and a typescript for Putting on Heirs: A Comedy in Three Acts, written by Blanchard and Louis Piccirillo. Also includes a second scrapbook, possibly belonging to Blanchard. The relationship of these materials to the actress Helena Modjeska is unclear.
Framed color painting titled The Play of the Man who Married a Dumb Wife. Captions on back note that Blanchard, who taught and worked at the Playhouse during the 1930s and 1940s, also wrote the play, and that the painting hung in the Playhouse faculty lounge during the 1950s and 1960s.
Contains handwritten scores and scripts for Les Chouans, many annotated, for production(s) of Romeo and Juliet; also contains a photograph of Helene Modjeska taken by Madame Wineman (1909).
Contains original scripts for Unparalleled Attraction!!! (C. W. Tayleure, circa 1860-1890); Lucky Stars (George Robert Graham, circa 1885?); and Keep Your Eye on the Corporal: A Farce (W. J. Lucas, 1939), signed by Graham. Scores include Music of MacBeth, arranged by J. M. Navoni, 1897, originally the property of Tayleure; and It's Sun Up Now (Eugene Lockhart, 1924), signed by actress Lucille LaVerne.
Contains personal papers of people affiliated with the Playhouse. Included are the papers of writer, producer, director, and actor Bobker Ben Ali (1921-1985), whose play, Manya: The Story of Marie Curie, helped to launch the career of William Holden; actor, director, and artist Frederick Blanchard (1878-1948); actor and staff director Vincent Yardley Bowditch (1916-1985), who also served as co-director at its College of Theatre Arts; dancer and actor Phil Cook, who studied at the Playhouse before embarking on a career in touring theater; actress, writer, director, and singer June Evans, who was active at the Playhouse from approximately 1930-1960; Ambassador Hotel Theater manager William "Uncle Bill" Haas; actor Graydon Spalding (1911-1993); set designer Helen Howell, active at the Playhouse from approximately 1927-1936; actor and teacher Oliver Prickett (1905-1992); actor Graydon Spalding (1911-1993); actress and associate director Eloise Sterling, active at the Playhouse from approximately 1916-1925; and writer Philip Van Dyke.
