Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Includes images of Robert Redington Sharpe, taken by photographer Gordon Spalding.
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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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Includes a sketch of Guy Bates Post, from The Play's the Thing, by John W. Haynes; drawings and sketches of the Mad Hatter and unidentified characters; two sketches of Shylock by [Donald?] Finlayson, one for a production of The Lady of Belmont and one for The Merchant of Venice; annotated magazine pages featuring costume and set designs, 1929 and undated; a blueprint of a stage design for Dancing Days by Corliss McGee, 1930; and drawings and photographs depicting stage settings and designs for plays including Skidding, On the Spot, The Armored Train, The Watched Pot, and Marco Millions. Also includes photographs dated circa 1920-1969 depicting costume and wardrobe fabrication, and photographs dated circa 1922-1937 depicting stage sets and design for productions including The Sunken Bell, Hassan, The Pirates of Penzance, King Lear, The Makropoulos Secret, and an unidentified Shakespeare set, as well as for unidentified productions, circa 1937-1960. Also contains one photograph depicting stagehands surrounding a Pasadena Community Playhouse truck, circa 1918-1925.
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Includes Thomas Browne Henry Acting and Directing Assignments at Pasadena Playhouse (1950, 4 typed pages covering productions from 1930-1950); Robert Redington Sharpe: The Life of a Theatre Designer, by Arnold Wengrow, 1990; and two typescripts, one regarding outdoor productions and referencing Brookside Par, and one a 1931 review of Green Fire, by Monroe Lathrop, in LA Express, 5/30/1931.
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Includes design for Hamlet and otherwise unidentified designs and designers. Also includes unidentified photograph of set design for a bedroom, circa 1950s-1960s.
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Title on spine: Main Stage, Pictures, Personalities, Playhouse Pictures. Charles Prickett scrapbook given to Playhouse by Maudie Prickett in 1962. Contains 76 pages of gelatin silver photographs depicting the Mainstage, its curtain (created by Alson Clark), interior and exterior views of the Playhouse, set designs and various aspects of productions, set construction, and people engaged in various activities.
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