Manuscripts

Alumni files

Description: Contains a few pages of a Players Directory (loose scrapbook pages); drawings and a memoir by Jack Chick; alumni directories; permissions to use photographs; booklets, clippings, lists, and article about alumni trained at Pasadena Playhouse; and photographs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1941-1985
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.

Eugenia Ong Scrapbook, approximately 1968

Manuscripts

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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Padua Players, El Pablo Players, others

Manuscripts

Includes chronological list of plays performed at various venues, 1919-1941, including Workshop plays, Little Theatre in Padua Hills, Outside Productions, and Special Productions. Other venues include the Little Theatre of the Huntington Hotel and several high school stages. Contains several programs featuring the Junior Players, 1921-1922; programs featuring the Padua Players, 1933-1935; and the El Pablo Players, 1940-1941. Also includes Playhouse players presented by the U.S. military and other programs from tours. Additionally includes programs from the Padua Hills Theatre and from the Mexican Players, plus a few programs from other Gilmor Brown productions outside of the Playhouse, 1921-1922, 1924, and 1933.

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Interior views; Gilmor Brown

Manuscripts

Items 10890-10969 and 10979-10981: Various views of interiors, undated. Items 10970-10978: Playbox interior and exterior views, 695 Herkimer Street, undated. Items 10982-11066: Gilmor Brown, circa 1888-1960, including portraits of Brown as a youth and in various roles, among them as part of pre-Playhouse companies such as the Gilmor Brown Players; depictions of Brown with others, including at a New York Pasadena Playhouse Alumni Associate Breakfast (1956) and with Charlie Prickett, Victor Mature, Dana Andrews, Robert Preston, and Murray Yates; and images of Brown speaking, rehearsing, and traveling.

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Seniors, Postgraduate, Summer, others

Manuscripts

Includes programs for the Senior Players, 1942-1946; Postgraduate programs, 1936-1942; Summer Sessions (Recital Hall), 1930, 1934-1946; Recital Hall programs, including for Summer Sessions, Laboratory Theatre, Junior, and Senior Players (bound, 1943-1946); Technical Class, 1938-1939; Theater demonstration programs, 1935-1939; and visiting student productions, 1938, 1944.

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Special Activities; El Pablo Players, approximately 1940

Manuscripts

Contains correspondence, fliers, programs, announcements, press releases, programs, blank forms, ticket stubs, and other ephemera relating to the El Pablo Players and to a drama conference, One-Act Play Tournaments, Playhouse Day, and State Theatre of California performances.

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Portraits of Players, Vol. I, undated

Manuscripts

Contains photographs of Mrs. A. H. Palmer (Adelle Adams); Maurice Wells, with list of plays; Marjorie Sinclair (photo missing); Mrs. Hinds (photo missing); Samuel S. Hinds; Margaret R. Clarke; Victor Jory; Irvin Pichel; Arthur Lubin; C. Pardee Erdman; and many others, some unidentified. Also includes note inside book by unidentified person to Community Players instructing them to put their photographs and a list of plays in which they have performed in the book.

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