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    Playhouse television scrapbook. 1946-1949

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    Contains scrapbook presented to Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates by David Crandall.

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    Vincent Bowditch scrapbooks

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    Contains a set of three scrapbooks, dated 1938-1940, with commencement and theater programs and photographs depicting students and others in rehearsal, performance, and at leisure. Volume III contains announcements and photographs documenting a visit by George Bernard Shaw to the Playhouse; this volume also contains promotional materials for plays in which Bowditch performed, along with photographs presumably of Bowditch. The scrapbooks are inscribed to Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates, 1984, by Vincent Y. Bowditch and Mary King Bowditch.

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    Guides to Pasadena Playhouse plays

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    Guides to Pasadena Playhouse plays, removed from a binder labeled "Ephemera finding aid, Pasadena Playhouse plays, 1917-1946." Gift of Gail Shoup. Includes an alphabetical list of plays; alphabetical index of all public performers of works by an author; Mainstage plays, November 1917-December 1959 and November 1917-August 1949; Chronological list of Pasadena Playhouse premieres, 1917-1951; "Plays attended by less than 10,000 persons for the past seven years" (May 1962); and chronological list of productions, 1916-1941.

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    Charles Prickett scrapbook

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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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    Scrapbook set

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    The scrapbooks, which contain playbills, clippings, photographs, advertisements, reviews, various ephemera, and occasionally correspondence concerning the Pasadena Community Playhouse and Pasadena Playhouse, were compiled by an unidentified person. Many of the volumes have indexes of plays covered on title page versos. Twenty volumes from the set (Scrapbooks 59-67, 69, and 71-80) have been incorporated into Series V, Theater performance and related photographs. Note: Series V was previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327.

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    1925-1961

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    Contains Pasadena Community Playhouse Bulletin (1925); The Callboard (1960-1961); Curtain Call (1950-1962); The Playhouser (1954-1956); The Stage Whisper (student publication, May 1942); Stage Whispers (bound, 1942-1950, and individual issues, 1945-circa 1956); and the Weekly Bulletin (1939-1951, undated).

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