Manuscripts

B. Theater Periodicals

Description: Includes publications concerning the Little Theatre movement that feature the Pasadena Community Playhouse: Little Theatres (New York Drama League, December 1923), with an article on Gilmor Brown; The Little Theatre Magazine (January and November 1933, and February 1934), with photographs and news concerning the Playhouse and its activities; and Little Theatre Arts (February 1937). Also contains serials published by the American National Theatre Association (ANTA), 1960 and 1969; and individual issues of titles including American Theatre Magazine (March 1940); Fink's Magazine (April 1908); The Play Pictorial (1905?); The Playgoer (1939, 1941, 1954, undated); Script (Rob Wagner, September 1943); The Theater (1887-1890); Theater and School (January 1936); The Theatre Annual (1943, 1944); Theatre in Education (April 1951); Theatre Magazine (1924, 1926-1928); Theatrical Times (1846, 1847, 1849, undated); and The Theatergoer (1942, 1945, 1946, 1948). Also includes periodicals concerning general topics, such as the Pasadena Lens and TAB (weekly entertainment guides, 1960) and Survey Graphic (1946), and music (The Concertgoer, 1951).
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Children's Theatre and Reader Theater

Manuscripts

Contains Pasadena Playhouse Association Children's Theatre programs, 1962-1968; and photographs, 1961, 1963, 1966. Also includes programs from other children's theatre groups and programs, brochures, and clippings regarding children's theater organizations. Also includes programs and clippings from the Pasadena Playhouse Reader Theatre, 1942, 1975.

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Early documents, correspondence, and meeting minutes

Manuscripts

Includes an invitation to join the Community Playhouse and rules for players, 1917; an undated document, How a Community Play is Made; and a report on the Community Playhouse's 1921-22 season; documentation of the relationship between Actor's Equity and Little Theaters, including Pasadena Community Playhouse, circa 1936-1937; State Theater of California designation, 1937: and the Red Cross's recognition of the Savoy Stock Company and Gilmor Brown, 1917; a photograph of an early board meeting, circa 1925-1929; applications to the Rockefeller Foundation (1947) and a Ford Foundation proposal and reports (1951); a report to the Board on instructional activities, including a school calendar (1946-1948); sales agreements and appraisals of properties (1943-1949); and documentation of various development initiatives (circa 1950-1952).

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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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Notes on theater and writings about Brown, other

Manuscripts

Contains typed notes, in many cases on index cards, on the importance of theater, the place of art in the commercial world, and the history of the Playbox Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse. Also includes some programs and playbills featuring Brown; various scrapbook pages; and articles, clippings, and a booklet about Brown. Also contains list of A. E. Arnold negatives of Pasadena Community Playhouse; and notes for speeches.

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Personal; Pasadena Playhouse

Manuscripts

Contains chiefly personal documents; also includes files concerning Little Theater, Pasadena Playhouse scripts (sides), and clippings.

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Theater organizations

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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