Manuscripts
Photographs of classroom scenes
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Negatives: Various courses
Manuscripts
Folder 11 contains negatives depicting activities and classroom scenes in acting, dance, make-up, set design, and voice and speech courses. Folders 12-14 contain negatives depicting Don Lee television production (circa 1942) and the first and second annual T.V. production workshops (1953-1954), and Folder 15 contains negatives from T.V. productions of Happy Hangs his Hat and Hedda Gabler.
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Commercial Photographs of Pasadena Playhouse, undated
Manuscripts
Title from first page. Contains exterior and interior views, many stamped with Pasadena Community Playhouse Association. Also contains prints depicting dorm life, a makeup session, rehearsals and classes, leisure study, Gilmor Brown, eurythmics, fencing, the dining hall, set design, costume design, and more. Most photos are by W. Albert Martin, Pasadena, and a few are by Hiller Studio.
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Fairfax Walkup photograph album and scrapbook pages
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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.
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Publicity books, photographs, other
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Contains mimeographed typescript of The Mechanics of Modern Acting, by Robert Graham Paris, undated; publicity books for Eva Le Galliene (1934) and Raquel Meller (1926); photographs and letters to their collector from various radio actors and writers, 1932 and undated; and postcards, printed photographs, and facsimiles depicting various characters and figures, including famous people and characters, both historical and then-contemporary, many originally divided into men and women; most of the prints are undated, circa 1890-1940. Most of the postcards are from the Rotary Photographic series, circa 1890-1938.
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Matted portrait and performance photographs
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Contains loose matted photographs from plays and many portraits of actors and actresses, some in performance; most are from the Midsummer Drama Festival of 1937. Photographs by Jerry Eaton include: Nude with Pineapple (seven photos); Juarez and Maximilian (five photographs and one posterboard with cutouts); Night over Taos (four photos); Montezuma (two photos); and one photo of Morris Ankrum as Pablo Montoya in an unidentified play. Photographs by Peter Piper include: Mlle. Richert in Rose of the Rancho (one photo); Girl of the Golden West (two photos by Piper and two by unidentified photographers); a photo of Charlie Prickett and unidentified man, captioned Nose! Nose! Nose! (A Million Times Nose!) (1938); and Miracle of the Swallows (two photos). Photographs by C. K. Eaton include: Ethan Frome (five photos). Also includes several unidentified photographs and several depictions of set and costume design.
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Portraits and performance photographs
Manuscripts
Contains loose photographs including: performance photograph by Jerome Robinson of Gilmor Brown in an unidentified play; a collage of performance photos captioned "Michael Collins"; one performance photograph by Peter Piper of After the Bell (1937); and a photograph by Jerome Robinson of an unidentified performance. Also contains several unidentified production and publicity photographs; photographs of the wardrobe room, with people viewing costumes; one photograph of fencing instruction; and original designs for Pasadena Playhouse News layouts and for a program for Green Fire, the latter by Pasadena Junior College students.
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