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Oral history interviews
Manuscripts
Contains ten audiocassettes of interviews Shoup conducted in the 1960s. The interviews were digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) in 2018 and are being hosted by the Internet Archive. Contents same as audiotapes 1-4 in Box 359.
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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.
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Contains various oversize materials, including performance photographs, portraits of actors and actresses, programs, and posters. Includes banner for Cherry Blossom Players at the Hotel Huntington, presented by the management of the Huntington, the Green, and the Maryland hotels and Clarence McGehee, [1916?]; a program for a benefit concert for survivors of an earthquake in Italy and Sicily, 1909, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City; and a cloth poster for The Rivals, 1889, at the Park Theatre, donated to the Pasadena Playhouse Museum and Library and including a note from Gilmor Brown to the Library director regarding the donation. Also includes a hand-lettered poster for the Pasadena Amateur Dramatic Company featuring a photographic portrait showing company members (circa 1886) and a facsimile of the first theatre program of a Southern California vaudeville show in Los Angeles, in Spanish.
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Negatives: Various
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Contains negatives of photographs depicting the Library; a ballet company, possibly the Harlem ballet, possibly part of a poster donated by Sidney Houston; a ship; a party/costumes; and an altar, possibly part of a stage design.
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Various oversized items
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Contains awards and honors, 1951-1959; floor plans, undated and by unidentified architect; a broadside of Shakespeare and Shakespeare-related images, inscribed to Gilmor Brown by Mrs. H.D. Bentley, 1936, in appreciation of the Midsummer Drama Festival; one painting of Gilmor Brown in a kilt, undated, and one cartoon by Ernest Hix and Doug Hayes, 1948, celebrating Gilmor Brown. Also includes a 17th-century theater prop given to Gilmor Brown by Gareth Hughes: Indenture, used as Shylock's bond, 1687, accompanied by a label stating that this was stage property used in many productions of "The Merchant of Venice." Additionally, contains two copies of a banner advertising Pasadena Playhouse and its College of Theatre Arts, 1959; and portraits, including a photograph of Gilmor Brown's father, a photograph of Percy MacKaye inscribed to Brown, a photo depicting Bob Hope and Bing Crosby with a Pasadena Playhouse student, and photos of Elton Howard's portraits of Brown, Shanewise, Freud, and Wells, approximately 1925.
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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.
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