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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Bernardine Szold-Fritz performing arts collection
Creator:
Szold-Fritz, Bernardine
Identifier/Call Number: 2560
Physical Description:
0.44 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): c. 1920s-1941
Abstract: This collection consists of performing arts materials collected by American journalist Bernardine Szold-Fritz. Materials are
primarily composed of clippings about the career of her daughter, theatre actress Rosemary Carver.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
This collection consists of performing arts materials collected by American journalist Bernardine Szold-Fritz. Materials are
primarily composed of clippings about the career of her daughter, theatre actress Rosemary Carver. Other items present include
headshots of various actresses, Carver's contracts, telegrams, photographs, and playbills, and a folder with writings on American
dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. Headshots are inscribed to Edith Breckenridge. This collection was originally part
of the Special Collections Performing Arts 100 series.
Bernardine Szold-Fritz (1896-1982) was an American stage actress turned journalist and theatre producer. She lived in London
and Paris and traveled extensively throughout India and China. She established the International Art Theater in Shanghai,
China and was a Paris correspondent for The New Yorker before establishing her "Hollywood salon" which brought together leading
literary and artistic personalities of the era.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at cin@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bernardine Szold-Fritz in 1972 and from the Szold-Fritz estate, February 1982.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Bernardine Szold-Fritz performing arts collection, Collection no. 2560, Cinematic Arts Library,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Actresses -- Photographs
Actresses -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Performing Arts
Theater -- Reviews
Theater -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Szold-Fritz, Bernardine -- Archives
Carver, Rosemary, 1915-1969 -- Archives
Graham, Martha -- Archives