Manuscripts
Adventures of Alice
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Scripts for children's productions
Manuscripts
Includes typescripts and some additional production materials. Most are labeled Pasadena Department of Recreation or Community Playground of Pasadena; some are annotated.
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Scrapbook, book, typescripts, other
Manuscripts
Contains Book of the Pasadena Playhouse, edited by Harriet Green, 1934; a 21-page typescript, Pasadena Community Playhouse Beginnings, 1916-1918, as Recalled Twenty Years Later, by Marjorie Sinclair, plus clippings and a typescript of the Playhouse's first program, circa 1938; a scrapbook Sinclair compiled, The Stage, Volume I, comprising printed photographs of various actors and actresses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (undated; materials not necessarily connected to the Pasadena Community Playhouse); and an undated typescript by Margit Veszi, Theatre. Also includes two copies of the booklet, Theatre Professionals Trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, undated; typescript of a tour of the Playhouse buildings, undated; and Historical Sketch of the Organization of the Pasadena Community Playhouse, approximately 1940.
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Costume lists, property and lighting plots, other
Manuscripts
Contains costume and property lists and lighting plots, circa 1930-1950, some originally from a folder labeled, "Junior Dramatics, technician's copy"; instructions and samples for stage managers; preliminary production coordinating sheets for plays performed circa 1949-1952; cast lists; and a stage manager's report for Mister Angel, 1952. Also includes stage settings, lighting plots, and more for various plays; materials chiefly from the Pasadena Department of Recreation.
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Programs. Mrs. Arthur Palmer, approximately 1927
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Hardbound scrapbook containing clippings, some postcards and handwritten notes, programs, a list of plays produced, and more, dated 1926-1927 and undated. Also includes sleeve of clippings found loose, plus cards commemorating her death; one includes three dried leaves.
mssPlayhouse
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Photographs
Manuscripts
Contains photograph depicting the laying of the cornerstone of the Community Playhouse of Pasadena, May 31, 1924. Also includes one broadside from the Los Angeles Sunday Times with photos from a Pasadena Community Players production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, staged at Brookside Park (undated); a painted poster providing the Pasadena Playhouse Late Winter Play Schedule, after 1942; and a handwritten broadside featuring verse honoring Gilmor Brown, approximately 1937.
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Original scores for various productions
Manuscripts
Contains scores for: Lovely Miss Linley (Lee Gilmore piano score used in 1942 production); Lazarus Laughed (Arthur Alexander original music, 1928, in five parts, some copies and some handwritten); Follies of Pasadena (original scores, blueprint copies, undated); and original music composed in 1939 and undated by Vincent Bowditch for unidentified Pasadena Playhouse productions.
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