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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Includes correspondence regarding the library and its collections, 1956-1969; donor lists, receipts, and documentation, 1941-1968, including a souvenir program and typed summary of Honcho 24 Ko and several scrapbook pages containing ephemera; an application for a grant, 1968; inventories, reports, and statistics, 1950, 1962-1963, and undated; requisitions for books, manuscripts, playbooks, and supplies, 1960-1963; reference materials including bibliographies on costume, dance, folklore, and theater arts, plus a list of subject headings for various fields, 1945 and undated, and a general directory of artists, writers, and directors, 1930. Also includes curricular materials on cinema technique and the film industry, 1940 and undated, given to the Library by Fairfax Walkup.
mssPlayhouse
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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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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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Manuscripts
Box originally labeled "Modjeska material." Materials include notes on comedy; Charles Dickens; diction, voice, and speech; and various topics on theater. Also included are typescripts of radio programs on theater materials relating to Frederick Blanchard, including a scrapbook, typed notes on Chinese theater, and a typescript for Putting on Heirs: A Comedy in Three Acts, written by Blanchard and Louis Piccirillo. Also includes a second scrapbook, possibly belonging to Blanchard. The relationship of these materials to the actress Helena Modjeska is unclear.
mssPlayhouse
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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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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