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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Contains a set of three scrapbooks, dated 1938-1940, with commencement and theater programs and photographs depicting students and others in rehearsal, performance, and at leisure. Volume III contains announcements and photographs documenting a visit by George Bernard Shaw to the Playhouse; this volume also contains promotional materials for plays in which Bowditch performed, along with photographs presumably of Bowditch. The scrapbooks are inscribed to Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates, 1984, by Vincent Y. Bowditch and Mary King Bowditch.
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Contains materials dated 1928-1968, including clippings, programs, and a few pages of Padua Players programs, with headings and annotations by Gilmor Brown.
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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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Includes Pasadena Community Playhouse chronological list of productions from November 1917-July 1934; statistics regarding performers, 1938-1940; Pasadena Playhouse Association chronological list of productions from July 1934-circa 1937; activities records 1947-1952; and theater program data sheets from 1952-1953 and circa 1960. Also includes calendars of events dated 1950-1956, 1958-1963, and 1965-1968.
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Contains clippings from approximately 1950-1962, chiefly concerning alumni. Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates, 1990.
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Contains one disbound scrapbook with theater programs, clippings, and pencil and color design sketches, and photographs. Also includes a color sketch, hand-drawn poster, and photographs of set designs by Howell for various Playhouse productions dating approximately 1929-1932; the photographs were taken by Gordon Spalding.
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