Manuscripts

Fairfax Walkup, others

Description: Contains Walkup's work on a production of the Oresteia (1961-1963) and on a television series (Impressions, 1965); her writings on the history of theater (Outline history of costume, 1928-1929, 1933) and the play, Jade Bracelet (1949); files documenting her work as a teacher at the Playhouse, including notes and a class grade book for a course on Manner and Customs; a press release regarding an outside teaching commitment; and topical files.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1925-1968
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,

Lenore Shanewise and Fairfax Walkup

Manuscripts

Materials relating to Lenore Shanewise include awards and honors; clippings and correspondence; performance and portrait photographs; programs from various productions; eulogies for Eugenia Ong (1955) and Gilmor Brown (1960); and some material from her service as a member of the Board of Trustees, including Task Force Committee reports (circa March 1966) and Board meeting minutes (1967). Materials relating to Fairfax Walkup include personal correspondence (1951-1971); her reflections on Gilmor Brown (circa 1960); resumes; and honors and tributes.

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Fairfax Walkup photograph album and scrapbook pages

Manuscripts

Contains a photograph album and pages of a scrapbook with photographs depicting students and student life; materials were compiled by Fairfax Walkup and dated 1928-1939, undated. Also contains a few loose photographs from Walkup's photograph album, possibly connected to a course she taught about costumes and costuming, plus one of an unidentified woman; two publicity photographs of a dance class, from 1956; one photograph of students in a dorm; and one photograph of students in an acting class, both undated.

mssPlayhouse

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Dance, film, and music, and other

Manuscripts

Includes files concerning dance, film, painting, music, and poetry, along with some material on education and on the humanities.

mssPlayhouse

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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.

mssPlayhouse

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Mainstage and other

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.

mssPlayhouse

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