Finding Aid for the William A. Drake Papers, ca. 1915-1946; bulk 1930-1946
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According to the Evidence - preliminary outlines (no date)
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Adieu, New York - story translated by W.D. (no date)
Alfred Düblin Towards a New Naturalism - essay (no date)
Alibi Baby - by Claudia Cranston - reader summary (1932 Nov 30)
All the Evidence - [story outline or synopsis] (no date)
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Anybody's Crime - story synopsis and notes (no date)
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Apartments 1,5,7 - playscript (no date)
Apartments 1,5,7 - playscript (no date)
Aphrodite - [synopsis of story] (3 pages) (no date)
Artists and Ad Writers - by Claudia Cranston synopsis (1931 Sept 25)
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Bernhard Kellermann - essay (no date)
Big Jim - by William A. Drake - outline screen adaptation and suggested continuity revisions (no date)
Big Jim - outline screen adaptation by William A. Drake (236 pages) (no date)
Big Jim - outline screen adaptation by William A. Drake (267 pages) (no date)
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Big Sale (The) - [outline or synopsis?] (no date)
[Big Tim Sullivan?] - incomplete story (no date)
Blue-Bird (The) - a fairy tale by Count Aleksoy N. Tolstoy translated from the Russian by William A. Drake - story (no date)
Boomerang - rough first draft play script - William A. Drake (no date)
Brave Sparrow (The) by Eugene Chirikov - story (no date)
Breach of Discipline - first draft continuity script (1939 Oct. 9 - 1940 Jan. 8)
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Breach of Discipline - story and screenplay by William Drake (1939 Oct. 9 - 1940 Jan. 8)
Breach of Discipline by William A. Drake - first draft continuity script (1940 Jan. 13)
Brothel (The) - story by Karl Hans Strobl translated from the German by William A. Drake (no date)
[Brown Derby] - character list, script pages and notes (no date)
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Brown Derby - character profiles and notes (no date)
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Brown Derby - preliminary outline of a proposed play by Eddie Cantor and William A. Drake (no date)
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Brown Derby - suggested plots for play (no date)
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Capital Punishment - preliminary outline of an original story by Chase Morgan (no date)
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Carl Sternheim - by A. Mircea [?] - essay (no date)
Case of Too Much Conscience by Norman Barrett - story (15 pages) (no date)
Clown (The) - screen play by William A. Drake and Stanley Paley (no date)
Coat, A Hat, A Glove (A) - a play adapted from the German of Wilhelm Speyer by William A. Drake (1934 Jan 31)
Comrade Stalin - cut out stories from magazines (ca. 1940's)
Comrade Stalin - notes and writings (no date)
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Comrade Stalin - preliminary outline by William A. Drake (1940 March 23)
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Comrade Stalin - synopsis outline for screen story, notes and research (no date)
Cut out stories from magazines - one translated by W.D. (ca. 1916)
Dance Hall - rough first draft script (1939 Feb. 15)
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Dance Hall - screenplay (no date)
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Death Takes a Holiday - synopsis for the play by Alberto Casella (no date)
Delirium - a Paul Gordon Production - script (no date)
Deportation Train - by William A. Drake - story outline (no date)
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Don Carlos: A Dramatic Poem by Friedrich von Schiller - synopes (2 versions) (1938 Aug 15, no date)
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Education De Prince - An Anecdote in Fourteen Episodes by Maurice Donnay - translated from the French by William A. Drake - play (no date)
Else Lasker-Schüler - essay (no date)
Ernst Lissauer - essay (no date)
Escape - preliminary outline of an original story by William A. Drake (1931 Dec. 14)
Excentrique - by Bruce Bell - [story] (no date, 1930)
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Fear - story by Stefan Zweig; tentative screen treatment by William A. Drake - project proposal (no date)
Fifth Avenue Fatality - by Claudia Cranston reader synopsis (1933 Oct 4)
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Fight Story - rough sketch - original based on "Gentleman in Black" (1938 Aug 2)
Gentleman in Black - story by Francis M. Cockerell, 3rd. (no date)
Gottfried Benn. pp. 820-7 - essay (no date)
Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight (no date)
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Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) - essay (no date)
Happy Marriage (The) - rough outline of a proposed play by William A. Drake (1943 Dec 23)
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Herbert Eulenberg - essay (no date)
Herbert Eulenberg - essay (no date)
Hotel for Women - revised treatment by Kathryn Scola and William A. Drake (1938 Nov 23)
I've Been Around - by Claudia Cranston reader synopsis (1937 Aug 25)
Kasimir Edschmid - essay (no date)
Knight of the Flame by Lucien Lorriland - story (21 pages) (no date)
Lady's Own Goods - by Claudia Cranston reader synopsis (1931 Feb 25)
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Last Spring (The) - a play in three acts by Eugene Berton and Ralph Berton - script (no date)
Leaves From My Log - by Ardengo Soffici - writings (no date)
Love Versus Fame - outline for serial by Claudia Cranston (no date)
Lysistrata - annotated playscript by Maurice Donnay (no date)
Lysistrata - annotated playscript by Maurice Donnay (no date)
Lysistrata - annotated playscript by Maurice Donnay and program (no date)
Lysistrata - playscript by Maurice Donnay (no date)
Makoff - story by Maxim Gorky translated from the Russian by William A. Drake and Maxim Statsky (no date)
Marie Galante - screen play by William A. Drake from the novel by Jacques Deval (ca. 1932)
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Mister God - A Tragedy of Success by Maxim Gorky - story translated from the Russian by William A. Drake (no date)
Murder Maritime - by Claudia Cranston reader summary (1935 Aug 30)
Napoleon - a satirical tale by Carl Sternheim - rough translation (no date)
Napoleonette - synopsis (1936 Sept 2)
Novels and the Ideas of Madame Marcelle Tinayre (The) by Benjamin M. Woodbridge - in the Bulletin of the University of Texas (1915 Jan 25)
One More Spring - script (ca. 1934, 1935)
Only a Contingent - by Claudia Cranston reader synopsis (1931 Feb 25)
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Oskar Kokoschka - essay (no date)
Over the Ravine - story (15 pages) (no date)
Passing of the Third Floor Back (The) - preliminary screen treatment and annotated outline treatment and by William A. Drake (play by Jerome K. Jerome) (1931 Dec and 1932 Aug)
Passing of the Third Floor Back (The) - screen play by William A. Drake from the play by Jerome K. Jerome (no date)
Professor Dimonio - playscript for a comedy by Leopold Marchand (no date)
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926 - essay (no date)
Ready to Wear - a play in three acts and six scenes by Claudia Cranston (no date)
Ready to Wear - an original screen story by William A. Drake (no date)
Ready to Wear - an original screen story by William A. Drake - title page only (no date)
Ready to Wear - by Claudia Cranston - synopis (2 versions) (1935 Nov 6)
Ready to Wear - Parmount Pictures reader synopsis (1942 March 19)
Ready to Wear - Parmount Pictures reader synopsis (1932 Oct 5)
Ready to Wear by Claudia Cranston in Good Housekeeping Magazine (1931 Jan)
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Ready-to-Wear (The) - by Claudia Cranston synopsis (1930 Dec 22)
René Schickele - essay (no date)
Sacha Guity - clippings (1932, 1940)
Satyrus on the Boards - a consideration of the dramas of Frank Wedekind by William A. Drake - essay (no date)
Sherlock Holmes - first draft script (1939 April 14)
Sky Gypsy - by Claudia Cranston - synopsis (1936 Feb 17)
Stefan George - essay (no date)
Taming of the Shrew (The) - synopsis (17 pages) (no date)
That We May Live - author's working copy with script corrections - annotated (1946)
That We May Live - dramatic presentation by William Drake - annotated script and ephemera (1946 Dec. 17,18)
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Their Faces Their Fortunes - reader report (1938 May 16)
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Three Musketeers (The) - conference notes (1938)
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Trina - an original screen story by Ethel L. Drake, William A. Drake and Karl Hajos (no date)
Trip to Sorrento (A) - a comedy in three acts by Hans Adler and Paul Frank - rough preliminary version playscript (no date)
Twelve Thousand - synopsis of a play by Bruno Frank adapted by William A. Drake (no date)
Unnepi Jatek [Festival Play?] - playscript (1931)
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Untitled [Ready to Wear?] - [story outline or treatment?] (no date)
Valley (The) - rough preliminary version of play by Jerzy Zulawski (no date)
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Vanderbilt - [story] [by] Carl Sternheim (no date)
Way of All Chiffons (The) - by Claudia Cranston eader synopsis (1931 Feb 25)
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We Call For Judgement - by Milton Robertson for The Palestine Emergency Fund Madison Square Garden March 5th 1946 - annotated stage script (no date)
We Call For Judgement - by Milton Robertson for The Palestine Emergency Fund Madison Square Garden March 5th 1946 - stage script (1946 Jan. 1)
Women and Misses - by Claudia Cranston reader synopsis (1931 Feb 25)
Yousouff - story (33 pages) (no date)