Contains scenes from courses including Fencing, Acting, Costume Design, Dance, Eurythmics/Body Movement, Make-up, Set Design and Construction, Stagecraft, and Voice and Speech.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
