Manuscripts

Series V. Theater performance and related photographs

Description: Subseries A (Community Playhouse and Mainstage productions), Subseries B (Playbox productions) and Subseries C (Mainstage, Playbox, and Gilmor Brown) are from a collection previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327, compiled from the scrapbook series set described in Series II.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1888-1969
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.

Various photographs, posters, and programs

Manuscripts

Contains enlargements of performance photographs from the set previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327; depictions of Gilmor Brown in character for unidentified play; and a scene from Trelawny of the Halwels, 1920. Also includes programs from Pasadena Community Playhouse and Playbox productions; a hand-drawn poster for When Knighthood was in Flower, 1932, by Corliss McGee; posters for the Gin Game, Charley's Aunt, and El Grande de Coca Cola; and four blueprints of the set design for a Mainstage production of Picnic, 1955.

mssPlayhouse

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Various performance and other photographs

Manuscripts

Contains loose undated performance photographs by Jerome Robinson for productions including: Broken dishes (three photos); Take it from the Angels and River Boy (two photos each); and A Yankee Fable, Oh! Susanna, Dr. Knock, A Servant in the House, Twin Beds, The Unmarried Hat, What Happened to Jones?, I Have Been Here Before, and The Patsy (one photo each). Also contains photographs by Jerry Eaton (Arms and the Man, one photo, plus unidentified photos) and two photos by Peter Pipe, one unidentified and one, from Autumn Crocus, inscribed to Gilmor Brown, "with best wishes for the Playbox," signed by Piper (1938). Also contains one drawing of an unidentified actor; portraits of groups and students; two undated photographs of a Mainstage play, Remains to Be Seen (undated); one undated photograph of an event, possibly a Festival breakfast; and 12 undated photos from unidentified performances, taken by unidentified photographer(s).

mssPlayhouse

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Negatives

Manuscripts

Contains negatives and glass plates removed from the collection previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327; item numbers correspond with item numbers for prints.

mssPlayhouse

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Card catalog indexes

Manuscripts

Card catalog containing indexes to the Pasadena Playhouse and the Theater Collection. The catalog provides an alphabetical index of people involved with the Playhouse, with cards listing name, role in a production and production title, date, and venue. The Theatre Collection provides information on productions arranged by playwright, region, programs in chronological order and by performer. Also includes an index of photographs previously in the photCL 327 or Album 327 collection.

mssPlayhouse

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Scrapbook set

Manuscripts

The scrapbooks, which contain playbills, clippings, photographs, advertisements, reviews, various ephemera, and occasionally correspondence concerning the Pasadena Community Playhouse and Pasadena Playhouse, were compiled by an unidentified person. Many of the volumes have indexes of plays covered on title page versos. Twenty volumes from the set (Scrapbooks 59-67, 69, and 71-80) have been incorporated into Series V, Theater performance and related photographs. Note: Series V was previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327.

mssPlayhouse

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Playbox and other

Manuscripts

Contains portraits of actors and actresses; performance photos from the Playbox; and images of Gilmor Brown and Lenore Shanewise in performance.

mssPlayhouse

Series V. Theater performance and related photographs

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