Manuscripts

Charles Prickett scrapbook

Description: Title on spine: Main Stage, Pictures, Personalities, Playhouse Pictures. Charles Prickett scrapbook given to Playhouse by Maudie Prickett in 1962. Contains 76 pages of gelatin silver photographs depicting the Mainstage, its curtain (created by Alson Clark), interior and exterior views of the Playhouse, set designs and various aspects of productions, set construction, and people engaged in various activities.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1928-1962
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,

H. Prickett, Oliver

Manuscripts

This collection contains the records of the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater established in Pasadena, California, in 1917. Materials consist primarily of theater programs, scrapbooks, business records, correspondence, clippings, scripts, school catalogues, brochures and ephemera, indexes, photographs, original drawings of set and costume designs, and research materials originally housed in the organization's library. The materials document the performance history of the various theaters of the Playhouse and also contain partial administrative records and school records, with particular strength in coverage for the "Mainstage" theater and an extensive run of programs and performance photographs. The core records are strengthened by the complementary personal paper collections of directors, performers, and others associated with the Playhouse.

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Batchelder, Crandall, Messer, Pricketts

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Contains a pamphlet, An Appreciation by C. F. Shoop, regarding Board of Trustees member Ernest Alan Batchelder (after 1950); David Crandall's autobiography, Just David (1985); personal and some professional correspondence of Board member Earl Messer (1935-1950, 1965-1968), chiefly letters of appreciation from Charles Prickett for Messer's support of the Midsummer Drama Festivals; and writings by Charles Prickett, including Aids for the Formation and Management of Little Theatres (undated) and Pitfalls of Little Theatre Management (May 1938). Also includes Charles Prickett's C.V. from 1951; a life insurance policy; and clippings, an obituary, and a poem from his funeral service; plus a letter from Samuel Herrick to Ollie Prickett.

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Playhouse Playbill, Curtain Call

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Contains Playhouse Playbill: Programs, October 1937-August 1941; Mainstage playbills, 1940-1945, 1955; Curtain Call, programs and playbills, 1951-1963, undated; and assorted programs, 1960s.

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