Pasadena Playhouse records: Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Sue Tyson.
The Huntington Library
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Pasadena Playhouse records
Dates (inclusive): Approximately 1687-2013
Bulk Dates: 1916-1979
Collection Number: mssPlayhouse
Creator:
Pasadena
Playhouse
Extent:
362 boxes, 98 volumes, 6 oversize folders, and 22 audiovisual items (223 linear feet)
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: 626-405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains the records of the Pasadena
Playhouse, a community theater established in Pasadena, California, in 1917.
Materials consist primarily of theater programs, scrapbooks, business
records, correspondence, clippings, scripts, school catalogues, brochures and
ephemera, indexes, photographs, original drawings of set and costume designs, and research
materials originally housed in the organization's. The materials document
the performance history of the various theaters of the Playhouse and also contain
partial administrative records and school records, with particular strength in
coverage for the "Mainstage" theater and an extensive run of programs and
performance photographs. The core records are strengthened by the complementary personal paper collections of directors, performers,
and others associated with the Playhouse.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on April 30, 2019.
Administration Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Pasadena Playhouse records, The Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
Provenance
The bulk of the collection was received from the Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and
Associates in February 1987. It has been supplemented by additional donations by former affiliates of the
Playhouse over the years.
Processing Information
The collection was initially processed at the Huntington Library in
the 1980s and 1990s by Susan Naulty, Cathy Cherbosque, and Anne Wray. In 2017 and 2018, Sue Tyson re-processed the collection
and
wrote the finding aid. In 2019, Gina Giang completed physical control over the collection and added Series IX: Index cards.
Separated Materials Note
The following books were transferred to the General Collections, April 2019:
Playhouse / Diane Alexander ; foreword by Raymond Burr (circa 1984),
Raymond Burr : a film, radio, and television biography (1994), and
The Pasadena Playhouse : a celebration of one of the oldest theatrical producing organizations in America (1992).
Historical Note
The Pasadena Playhouse produced over 1,600 plays between 1917 and 1969, training and featuring hundreds of leading actors
of the twentieth century. At one time the largest community theater west of New York, the Playhouse pioneered a "theatre-in-the-round"
staging technique and became a leader in the Little Theatre movement that began prior to World War I. During the organization's
"golden years" from the 1920s through the 1940s, it staged hundreds of new plays, including American and world premieres by
Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, and Noel Coward, and became known internationally as the only American
theater to have performed all of Shakespeare's plays.
The Playhouse had its roots in 1916, when actor and director Gilmor Brown brought a company of professional actors from the
Midwest to Pasadena, California. Brown rented the Savoy Theatre on North Fair Oaks Avenue and served as manager, director,
and lead actor of the troupe, which he renamed the Savoy Players (variously the Savoy Stock Company). Troupe members included
John Allard, Lilian Buck, Jack M. Castleman, Vail Hobart, Minnie Janicki, Orrin Knox, Virginia Lykins, Frank Staples, Marjorie
Sinclair, and Wendell Wilson; the company would eventually form the nucleus of the Pasadena Community Playhouse, its name
as of 1917. In its first year of operation the group performed
Man of the Hour (September 1916) and, in November 1917, four one-act plays, including
The Song of Lady Lotus Eyes which featured a young Martha Graham (1894-1991).
In 1918, Brown founded the Pasadena Community Playhouse Association. A nonprofit corporation with a board of directors, the
Association enlisted Brown as its manager and director. After initially holding performances at the Pasadena Shakespeare Club,
Brown returned to the Savoy Theatre, renaming the organization the Community Playhouse of Pasadena, and its acting company
the Community Players. Audiences embraced the Playhouse's artistic integrity and vision despite its small size and precarious
survival due to the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. The company continued to put on a range of plays and, in 1919, started
a new Workshop theater. In 1920, Charles Prickett, who had acted and worked with the Players since 1917, became the Playhouse
business manager.
In 1922, the Playhouse theatre was condemned as a fire hazard and over 1,000 community members and cultural organizations
rallied to donate funds for a new building. The Pasadena Community Playhouse at 39 South El Molino, designed by architect
Elmer Grey, was dedicated on May 31, 1924, and opened its doors a year later, with a performance of Victor Mape's
The Amethyst. The Playhouse, which initially comprised a Mainstage (seating 820) and a recital hall, expanded to include the Patio and
the East Balcony and West Balcony Theatres (each seating 50). The Pasadena Playhouse continues to operate at this location
as of 2019.
In 1924, Brown founded the Playbox theater, which pioneered the technique of central staging, also known as theater-in-the-round.
Located in a private home in Pasadena, the Playbox was intended to bring niche and experimental work small audiences, for
which tickets could be obtained only on a subscription basis. In 1926, the Playhouse revived the Workshop Theatre (later the
Laboratory Theatre).
In 1927-1928, Brown and Prickett founded the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre
Arts (variously called School of the Theatre), with Eugenia Ong as Dean. The School, whose first class boasted 21 students,
offered
coursework in all aspects of theater production, including acting, directing,
set and costume design, set construction, eurythmics/body movement, dance, and
more. Where the Mainstage was reserved for professional-level productions, the
East and West Balcony Theatres (later renamed the Huxley and Prickett Theatres)
provided students the opportunity to perform before
paying audiences. (Additionally, the Patio Theatre was student-centered with participation by community members).
The school, which offered Bachelor's and Master's degrees (the latter in collaboration with other
institutions) in acting, directing, stage
technology, playwriting, and theater administration, would eventually be renamed
the College of Theatre Arts (variously, College of the Theatre).
1930, Brown started the annual One-Act Play Tournaments, which provided a venue
for California high school students to compete before judges in categories such
as acting and directing; and in 1935, he launched the Midsummer Drama Festival,
initially focusing on Shakespeare plays before broadening out to a other
playwrights and topical programs. The Playhouse also began training programs in
television, radio, and film instruction, collaborating with a local television
station in experimental television projects in 1933, and eventually created its
own TV and radio production studios. In 1930 and 1936, a charitable gift enabled the Playhouse to pay off its debt and build
a six-story annex.
May 1937, the Playhouse re-incorporated as the Pasadena Playhouse Association
(dropping "Community" from its title), uniting under this aegis the
newly-accredited College of Theatre Arts and the Pasadena Playhouse. That year,
the California State Legislature designated the Pasadena
Playhouse as the State Theatre of California, and soon thereafter, Playhouse
postgraduate students participated in touring productions all over the state as
the State Theatre Players.
Gilmor Brown died in January 1960, and the Playhouse underwent a period of financial and other difficulties. In 1969, the
Playhouse declared
bankruptcy and, along with the College of Theatre Arts, closed its doors. The City of
Pasadena bought the Playhouse in 1975 from the Bank of America and in the late 1970s, entrepreneur and developer David Houk
began efforts to save it, opening the 52-seat Interim Theatre in 1980; the
99-seat Balcony Theatre in 1982; the Playhouse in 1986. By the early 1990s,
with a subscriber base of over 24,000 patrons, the Playhouse produced
eight plays per year. In 1997, it named Sheldon Epps its artistic
director, the first director of color at a major theater in Southern California. Danny Feldman succeeded Epps in 2016. The
organization marked its centennial anniversary in 2017.
Gilmor Brown (1886-1960)
Playhouse founder and director, actor, and
author George Gilmor Brown, known as Gilmor Brown, was born on June 16, 1886, near New Salem, North Dakota to parents Orville
Brown and Emma Louise
Gilmor Brown. He grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he discovered his love of
theater. At the age of eight, Brown founded his first theater company, a
troupe of children from his neighborhood named The Tuxedo Stock Company, for
which he wrote, staged, and acted in most of the plays. After
high school, Brown studied theater in Chicago, joined a touring company, and
founded several theater troupes, producing plays in
Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. In approximately 1914, Brown and his extended family moved to Pasadena.
Brown acted in many of the Playhouse productions, including as
Falstaff in The
Merry Wives of Windsor
and as Tiberius in
Lazarus Laughed. Under Brown, the
Playhouse produced over 1600 plays, 175 of which were world premieres, and the Playhouse was the only American theater to
produce
all of Shakespeare's plays. Brown was a key figure in the Little Theater
movement, which sought to underscore and support the importance of community
theaters, and was active in local and national theatrical organizations,
including the Drama League of America and the American National Theater
Association. He wrote or adapted four stage plays, including The Cricket on the
Hearth (adapted from a novel by Charles Dickens, 1934); and co-authored a
textbook with Alice Garwood,
General Principles of Play Direction (1936). In
1926, Brown was awarded the first-ever Arthur Noble gold medal award, for which
he was honored as Pasadena's "most useful citizen." Brown died January 11, 1960,
in Palm Springs, California.
Fairfax Proudfit Walkup (1887-1976)
Pasadena Playhouse educator, School and College of Theatre Arts dean, playwright,
executive, and board member. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup was born
November 17, 1887 in Memphis, Tennessee. She began studies at Vassar College in
1905, but was forced to withdraw to care for her family; in 1922, she returned
to her studies, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
California and then Master's and Doctoral degrees from the University of Utah,
where her studies focused on costume, set design, and theater history. She moved
to Pasadena in 1924 and immediately became involved with the Pasadena Community
Playhouse as an actress, including in Playbox productions. Walkup also served as
a costumer for the Playhouse, and taught courses in costume and fashion,
eventually rising to positions including Dean of the Pasadena Playhouse College
of Theatre Arts, Vice-President of the Playhouse, and member of the Board of
Trustees.
Her writings included "Outline History of Costume, Based on Authentic and Historic
Sources" (article, 1933); "The Sunbonnet Woman: Fashions in Utah Pioneer Costume"
(article, 1947);
Dressing the Part: A History of Costume for the Theatre (book,
1950), a text widely used in college theater courses; and an appendix on costume
and make-up for the book,
Modern Theatre Practice: A Handbook of Play Production
(1938), by Hubert Heffner, John Selden, and Hunton Dade Sellman. Her plays
include Jade Bracelet (undated). She also served as a professor in the theater
department of California State University, Fullerton, and at the Universities of
Arizona, Iowa, and Utah, as well as at Stanford University. Fairfax Walkup died
on September 30, 1976, in Anaheim, California.
Lenore Shanewise (1887-1980)
Actress, stage director, and teacher Lenore Shanewise was born
October 12, 1887 in Denver, Iowa. She studied at the University of Northern
Iowa; at Iowa State Teachers College, where she later taught English, elocution,
and interpretive reading; and at the University of Chicago, where she studied
public speaking and drama and participated in the Dramatic Club; graduated
from in 1911. In 1916, spurred by health concerns, she visited
California, joining the drama section of the Schubert Club in Los Angeles; after
returning to her teaching duties in Iowa and teaching at other colleges, she
moved once again to California, in 1921, and remained there for the rest of her
professional career. Shanewise began taking courses at the Summer Arts Colony
and soon joined the Pasadena Community Players. She became an assistant director
at the Pasadena Community Playhouse in 1923 and remained there for four decades,
acting in or directing hundreds of productions; giving lectures on community
play production and on modern theater; and mentoring actors, including Raymond
Burr. In the 1950s and 1960s, she also acted in television productions,
including on Burr's show, Perry Mason; NBC's Matinee Theater; and The Twilight
Zone. Shanewise retired from the Playhouse in 1967 and died in San Diego on
December 22, 1980.
Existence and Location of Copies
Several audiovisual items in the collection were digitized by the
California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) in 2018 and are
being hosted by the Internet Archive.
Pasadena Playhouse records
Scope and Content
The collection contains materials documenting the history and activities of the
Pasadena Playhouse and its College of Theatre Arts. It includes approximately 15,000
photographs; 5,000 theater programs; 300 scripts; over 100 scrapbooks; 70 set and
costume designs; and a few musical scores; as well as board meeting minutes;
business records including ledgers, financial records, and correspondence; student
catalogs, manuals, and yearbooks; curricular materials; newspaper clippings; theater
periodicals; and various subject files. Also included are publications and business
records from the Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates, as well as a set of
indexes (Series IX) and other research materials compiled by archivists at the Huntington
Library (Series IVV). The materials date from approximately 1657-2013, with the bulk of the
materials dating from the beginnings of the Playhouse in 1916 through its bankruptcy
in 1969.
Major areas of interest represented in the collection include the Playhouse Board of
Trustees' meeting minutes and correspondence; correspondence and business records of
Playhouse executives and administrators, including Gilmor Brown, Fairfax Walkup, and
Lenore Shanewise; writings, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings detailing various
aspects of the Pasadena Playhouse's history; catalogs, photographs, and promotional
and curricular materials documenting the School of the Theatre (later College of
Theatre Arts), its students, and student life; performance photographs, theater
programs, original set and costume designs, scripts and scores, and supplementary
materials reflecting productions at the Playhouse's venues (Community Playhouse,
Mainstage, Playbox, Workshop and Laboratory Theatres, Patio Theatre, and East and
West Balcony Theatres) as well from various student, traveling, and special events
productions; and the holdings of the Playhouse's library and museum.
Along with Brown, Prickett, Walkup, and Shanewise, other key figures surfacing within the collection include Maurice Wells,
assistant director of the Playbox; Charles Lane, actor in many Playhouse productions; Ralph Freud, a director at the Playhouse;
Catherine Turney, a member of the School of the Theatre's first class who went on to become director of the Workshop; Dorothy
Arzner, a filmmaker from the silent film era into the 1940s and cinema instructor at the Playhouse; Gail Shoup, a Playhouse
staff director; Bobker Ben Ali, a writer and director whose productions included
Manya: The Story of Marie Curie (circa 1938) and
The People Win Thru (1952); Board chairs David Crandall and Earl Messer; and actors Maudie and Oliver Prickett, Charles Prickett's spouse and
brother, respectively. The core records are strengthened by the complementary personal paper collections of directors, performers,
and others associated with the Playhouse, including ben Ali; Graydon Spalding; Gail Shoup; and more (see Series VIII, Related
Personal Collections).
The collection features the work of photographers including Jerome Robinson, Jack Powell,
Gordon Spalding, Kim Spalding, and A. E. Arnold, and the original set and costume
designs of James Hyde; Jānis Muncis; Rita Glover, who was the first woman to be admitted to the Designers Guild of California;
and Robert Redington Sharpe, among many
others.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following nine series:
- Series I. Administrative
- Subseries A. Board of Trustees files
- Subseries B. Business records
- Subseries C. Principals
- Subseries D. Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates
- Series II. Playhouse history
- Subseries A. Historical treatments
- Subseries B. Photographs
- Subseries C. Scrapbooks
- Subseries D. Clippings
- Subseries E. Other historical materials
- Series III. School/College of the Theatre
- Subseries A. Administrative
- Subseries B. Catalogs, student manuals, and yearbooks
- Subseries C. Commencements
- Subseries D. Courses and curricular
- Subseries E. Promotion and publicity
- Subseries F. Students and student life
- Series IV. Theater programs and related materials
- Subseries A. Early Gilmor Brown troupes, Savoy Theatre
- Subseries B. Community players of Pasadena/Community
Playhouse
- Subseries C. Mainstage
- Subseries D. Playbox
- Subseries E. Other venues
- Subseries F. Other student productions
- Subseries G. Special events; visiting and offsite
productions
- Series V. Theater performance and related photographs
- Subseries A. Community Playhouse and Mainstage productions
- Subseries B. Playbox productions
- Subseries C. Mainstage, Playbox, and Gilmor Brown
- Subseries D. Other venues
- Subseries E. Other student productions
- Subseries F. Other performance and related photographs
- Series VI. Theater production materials
- Subseries A. Various
- Subseries B. Set and costume designs
- Subseries C. Scores
- Subseries D. Scripts
- Series VII. Library, museum, and research files
- Subseries A. Administrative
- Subseries B. Theater periodicals
- Subseries C. Materials related to theater rroduction
- Subseries D. Programs and publicity materials
- Subseries E. Subject files
- Subseries F. Additional research materials
- Series VIII. Related personal collections
- Subseries A. Ben Ali, Bobker
- Subseries B. Blanchard, Frederick
- Subseries C. Bowditch, Vincent
- Subseries D. Cook, Philip
- Subseries E. Evans, June
- Subseries F. Haas, William
- Subseries G. Howell, Helen
- Subseries H. Prickett, Oliver
- Subseries I. Shoup, Gail
- Subseries J. Spalding, Graydon
- Subseries K. Sterling, Eloise
- Subseries L. Van Dyke, Philip
- Series IX. Index cards
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Brown, Gilmor --
Archives.
Prickett, Charles --
Archives.
Shanewise, Lenore,
1887-1980 -- Archives.
Walkup, Fairfax
Proudfit, 1887-1976 -- Archives.
Corporate Names
Drama League of
America.
Federal Theatre Project
(U.S.).
Pasadena Community
Playhouse.
Pasadena Community
Playhouse Association.
Pasadena
Playhouse.
Pasadena Playhouse
Alumni & Associates.
Pasadena Playhouse
Association.
Subjects
Acting -- Study and teaching --
California -- Pasadena.
Advertising campaigns -- California --
Pasadena.
Arena theater -- California --
Pasadena.
Community theater -- California --
Pasadena.
Costume design.
Drama.
Drama -- 20th century --
Periodicals.
Drama festivals -- California --
Pasadena.
Little theater movement -- California --
Pasadena.
Motion pictures -- Study and teaching --
California -- Pasadena.
Plays -- Production and
direction.
Radio -- Study and teaching --
California -- Pasadena.
Students -- California --
Pasadena.
Students -- Drama -- California --
Pasadena.
Television -- Study and teaching --
California -- Pasadena.
Theater -- California --
Pasadena.
Theater -- Production and
direction.
Theater -- Reviews.
Theater -- Study and teaching (Higher)
-- California -- Pasadena.
Theater and society.
Theater management.
Theater programs -- Specimens.
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
Theatrical companies -- California --
Pasadena.
Veterans -- Education -- California --
Pasadena.
Veterans -- Training of -- California --
Pasadena.
Geographic Areas
Pasadena (Calif.)
Form/Genres
Business records.
Card indexes.
Card photographs.
Clippings (information
artifacts).
Correspondence.
Drama.
Drama (literary genre).
Drawings (visual works).
Ephemera (general object genre).
Financial records.
Ledgers (account books).
Negatives (photographs).
Plays (performing arts
compositions).
Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Promotional materials.
Scores (documents for
music).
Scrapbooks.
Theater programs.
Theater reviews.
Alternate Authors
Arnold, A. E., 1941-,
photographer.
Ben Ali, Bobker, 1921-1985, actor.
Ben Ali, Bobker, 1921-1985, author.
Ben Ali, Bobker, 1921-1985, compiler.
Ben Ali, Bobker, 1921-1985, director.
Blanchard, Frederick W., 1878-1948, actor.
Blanchard, Frederick W., 1878-1948, compiler.
Bowditch, Vincent Yardley, 1916-1985, actor.
Bowditch, Vincent Yardley, 1916-1985, compiler.
Brown, Gilmor, 1886-1960,
actor.
Brown, Gilmor, 1886-1960,
author.
Brown, Gilmor, 1886-1960,
producer.
Brown, Gilmor, 1886-1960, stage
director.
Brown, Gilmor, 1886-1960, stage
manager.
Cook, Philip, compiler.
Cook, Philip, dancer.
Eaton, Jerry,
photographer.
Evans, June,
actor.
Evans, June,
compiler.
Haas, William, compiler.
Howell Helen,
compiler.
Howell, Helen,
set designer.
Hyde, James, designer
Powell, Jack, photographer.
Martin, W. Albert,
photographer.
Muncis, Janis, 1886-1955, costume
designer.
Muncis, Janis, 1886-1955,
designer.
Prickett, Charles F., 1901-1954,
compiler.
Prickett, Oliver, 1905-1992,
actor.
Prickett, Oliver, 1905-1992,
compiler.
Sharpe, Robert Redington, 1904-1934,
art director.
Sharpe, Robert Redington, 1904-1934,
set designer.
Sharpe, Robert Redington, 1904-1934,
costume designer.
Shoup, Gail,
director.
Shoup, Gail,
interviewer.
Spalding, Charles Gordon, 1905-1952,
photographer.
Spalding, Graydon E. (Graydon Edward), 1911-1993, actor.
Spalding, Graydon E. (Graydon Edward), 1911-1993, compiler.
Spalding, Kim,
photographer.
Sterling, Eloise, actor.
Sterling, Eloise, compiler.
Van Dyke, Philip, author.
Van Dyke, Philip, compiler.
Series I. Administrative.
Approximately 1916-2002
Physical Description: 44 boxes, 3 oversize folders
A. Board of Trustees files.
1917-1980
Box 1, Folders 1-14
Early documents, correspondence, and meeting
minutes.
1917-1952
Scope and Content Note
Includes an invitation to join the Community Playhouse and rules for
players, 1917; an undated document, How a Community Play is Made;
and a report on the Community Playhouse's 1921-22 season;
documentation of the relationship between Actor's Equity and Little
Theaters, including Pasadena Community Playhouse, circa 1936-1937;
State Theater of California designation, 1937: and the Red Cross's
recognition of the Savoy Stock Company and Gilmor Brown, 1917; a
photograph of an early board meeting, circa 1925-1929; applications to
the Rockefeller Foundation (1947) and a Ford Foundation proposal and
reports (1951); a report to the Board on instructional activities,
including a school calendar (1946-1948); sales agreements and
appraisals of properties (1943-1949); and documentation of various
development initiatives (circa 1950-1952).
Box 2, Folders 1-7
Articles of incorporation, bylaws, and
organization.
1933-1950
Scope and Content Note
Includes Historical and Organization Outline of the Pasadena
Playhouse (1938) and specimen articles of incorporation and bylaws
for Little Theater organizations; court rulings establishing the
Playhouse as a non-profit, collegiate-grade institution (1945,
1950); and an undated copy of the Pasadena Playhouse Players'
Manual.
Board meeting minutes and correspondence.
1952-1980
Box 3, Folders 1-9
1952-1954.
Scope and Content Note
Includes an August 20, 1953 report of the Executive Vice
President to the Board describing a Pasadena Playhouse contract
with the Air Force for training students in television
operations; documentation from September 1954 regarding
re-organization of the Playhouse; and materials describing a
fundraising initiative, the Theatre Resale Plan, to rent out
theater space.
Box 4, Folders 1-10
1955-1956.
Scope and Content Note
Includes Notes on Pasadena Playhouse Reorganization circa 1955,
(Folder 6).
Box 6, Folders 1-8
1960-1961.
Scope and Content Note
Includes Statement of Operational Procedures and Policy for the
Pasadena Playhouse and College of Theatre Arts, submitted by
David M. Crandall, circa 1961 (Folder 6).
Box 8, Folders 1-7
1963-1965.
Scope and Content Note
Includes fundraising and development study, December 1963, and
an analysis of expenses, 1957-1965 (Folder 7).
Box 10, Folders 1-8
1967-1969.
Scope and Content Note
Includes hand-drawn and annotated organization chart, circa 1968,
mentioning Mid-West securities, which financed the Playhouse's
reorganization in 1968 (Folder 6).
Box 11, Folders 1-9
1968-1980. Closure and reopening
Scope and Content Note
Materials in Folders 1-4 were originally found in two document
cases labeled "Playhouse Closure and Reopening." Also contains
brochures, correspondence, clippings, and photographs concerning
the 1979 Builders Bash, a gala event to raise funds and
awareness for the Playhouse's anticipated planned reopening.
B. Business records.
Approximately
1916-2002
General administration.
1925-1967
Box 12
Business Office general administration
binder.
Approximately 1949
Scope and Content Note
Tabbed binder containing office procedures, forms, and memoranda,
and including a topical index. Major categories include
Auditorium; Fees and Expenses; General Administration; General
Office; Library; Membership; Maintenance; Productions; Residence
Hall; School; and Grading Procedure. Materials are dated from
1945 to 1949, with many undated items.
Box 13, Folders 1-5
General administrative files.
1925-1967,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes contacts; Administrative Council meeting minutes,
1946-1947 and 1949; various other committee meeting minutes,
1955-1957; blank forms and letterhead; and unidentified ephemera
and notes.
Box 14
Directory of faculty and staff.
Approximately 1953
Scope and Content Note
Includes names, photographs (in most cases), titles, addresses,
and date employed; the photograph is missing from Gilmor Brown's
entry.
Correspondence and related materials.
1923-2002
Box 19, Folders 1-11
1980-2002.
Scope and Content Note
Materials chiefly concern the reopening of the Playhouse.
Box 20, Folder 1
Contract signing.
1981
Scope and Content Note
Contains audiocassette removed from file (Box 20, Folder 2) labeled
"Closure/Reopening."
Financial records and reports.
1933-1969
Scope and Content Note
Contains Pasadena Community Guild, Pasadena Playhouse Association,
and Pasadena Playhouse Association financial reports.
Box 21, Folders 1-7
Audit, proposed budget, and financial
reports.
1933-1953
Scope and Content Note
Contains audit reports for 1949, 1951, and 1953; a report by
Eberle Economic Service, Pasadena Playhouse Survey (mimeograph),
comparing Playhouse receipts and productions with statistics on
U.S. spending on recreation from 1920-1949; and proposed budget
and financial reports from 1933-1953.
Box 22, Folders 1-9
Financial and budgetary reports.
1935-1969
Scope and Content Note
Contains financial and budgetary reports from 1954, 1956-1960
(January and February), and 1968-1969, plus Commissary Records,
1957-1964; correspondence with the Internal Revenue Service,
1937-1938, 1942, and 1959; and assorted receipts and invoices,
1938-1959 and 1967.
Box 23
Financial reports: bound volumes.
1933-1953
Scope and Content Note
Contains three volumes: July 1, 1934-June 30, 1937; July 31,
1937-June 30, 1940; and July 31, 1940-June 30, 1943.
Theater administration and production data.
1936-1968
Box 24
Theater administration manual.
1936
Scope and Content Note
Tabbed manual, with sections including: Recording department
(accounting); Publicity Department; Service Department;
Maintenance Department; Directorial; Workshop; Outside
Productions; School; Warehouse; Wardrobe; Printing; and All
Departments.
Box 25, Folders 1-8
Production data and calendars of events.
Approximately
1934-1968
Scope and Content Note
Includes Pasadena Community Playhouse chronological list of
productions from November 1917-July 1934; statistics regarding
performers, 1938-1940; Pasadena Playhouse Association
chronological list of productions from July 1934-circa 1937;
activities records 1947-1952; and theater program data sheets
from 1952-1953 and circa 1960. Also includes calendars of events
dated 1950-1956, 1958-1963, and 1965-1968.
Box 26
Production ledger.
Approximately 1956
Scope and Content Note
Contains data including production number, title, playwright,
director, production dates, number of performances, attendance,
and gross for productions by venue and format. Included are
Mainstage, 1917-1956; East and West Balcony, including Senior
productions, 1948-1956; Patio, Laboratory, and Workshop,
1936-1949 (date ranges vary per venue); Playbox, 1924-1953;
State Theatre Players, 1947-1952; One-Act Play Tournaments,
1934-1947; radio productions, 1946-1952; and television plays
produced, including by Don Lee, 1946-1951. Also includes data
regarding assemblies, 1947-1952, and Coleman Concerts,
1926-1948.
Box 27
Production ledger: photocopies.
Scope and Content Note
Contains incomplete set of photocopies from ledger.
Promotion and publicity campaigns.
Approximately
1916-1968
Box 28, Folders 1-6
Advertising and advertising campaigns.
Approximately
1922-1960
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and samples, plus several newspaper mats
used in advertising.
Folder OV 1
Advertising samples.
Approximately
1916-1958
Scope and Content Note
Contains newspaper advertisement samples and a promotional
portfolio by publicity director Joan Caldwell entitled Pasadena
Playhouse Community Promotion Format, December 1-13 (no year).
Box 29, Folders 1-10
Informational materials and mailing
campaigns.
Approximately
1918-1969
Scope and Content Note
Folder 6 contains brochures marking various anniversaries, each
providing information about achievements to date; folder also
includes typed copy on the history and practices of the
Playhouse, written in the form of a question-and-answer session
(undated)
Box 30, Folders 1-8
News releases and publicity packages.
Approximately
1938-1968
Scope and Content Note
Also includes reviews and other writings about the Playhouse,
plus two ticket stubs labeled "tickets for last production of
Pasadena Playhouse in 1967."
Box 31, Folders 1-12
1925-1961.
Scope and Content Note
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).
Box 32, Folders 1-5
1979-2000.
Scope and Content Note
Contains Images (1979); Stages (1980-1988); and Preview (2000).
Topical files.
1919-1961
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials found together on various subjects relating to
Playhouse administration.
Folder OV 2
Awards and other.
1937-1952
Scope and Content Note
Contains a Pan American Grace Airways certificate awarded to
Gilmor Brown granting him admission into the "Empyrean Realm of
Jupiter Rex" for crossing the equator, 1937; an invitation to
Brown for the Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta, 1949;
two copies of the Governor Earl Warren trophy for Superior Merit
in the Nineteenth Annual Pasadena Playhouse Association One-Act
Play Tournament ... March 1952, and early clippings related to Pasadena Playhouse, 1940s.
Box 33, Folders 1-13
Topics A-M.
1919-1975
Scope and Content Note
Materials include sample blank contracts and a brochure regarding
Actor's Equity (1939); articles and studies about education,
including a conference program for the Educational TV Programs
Institute (1952); pamphlets regarding fundraising strategies
(circa 1925-1969); brochures, fliers, and ephemera regarding
membership drives (circa 1919-1975); and programs and fliers for
membership meetings, 1921-1936 and undated.
Box 34, Folders 1-6
Topics S-V.
1937-1960
Scope and Content Note
Contains samples of solicitations for donations, including of
original play manuscripts, and for volunteers (1937, undated);
and materials relating to the veterans training program in which
the Playhouse participated, including forms, applications,
contracts, invoices, and correspondence regarding veteran
certification and training (circa 1949-1961).
Box 280, Folders 1-9
Negatives: Various people and events.
Approximately
1920-1969
Scope and Content Note
Folders 1-5 contain negatives of photographs depicting Gilmor Brown
and Charlie Prickett; Lenore Shanewise; various people in groups,
from Fairfax Walkup files; and portraits of unidentified people.
Folders 6-9 depict special events and festivities including a
Pasadena Playhouse brunch; a buffet dinner on the set of What Every
Woman Knows (1931); and unidentified special events, including
possibly a Midsummer Drama Festival breakfast (undated).
C. Principals.
1876, approximately
1906-1993
Scope and Content Note
Contains files of key figures in the Playhouse and its history.
Brown, Gilmor.
1876, approximately
1906-1984
Scope and Content Note
Of special significance for understanding Brown's philosophy and
approach to theater are the notes on theater in Box 36.
Box 35, Folders 1-35
Biographical information and business
records.
Approximately
1906-1984
Scope and Content Note
Contains an address by Brown, The Drama of History (1937);
address books, circa 1948-1953; brochures and announcements; marketing and publicity materials; clippings and articles relating
to Brown's involvement with the
Little Theater movement and theatrical organizations;
photographs, including one of Brown standing outside of the
Playbox (1930); Harriet Green's biography, Gilmor Brown:
Portrait of a Man - and an Idea (1933); obituaries and tributes
to Brown; ephemera; some personal correspondence; invoices and
receipts from lodging and insurance; a memoir by Percy
MacKaye and a World War II poster inscribed to Brown; and records of gifts.
Box 36, Folders 1-27
Notes on theater and writings about Brown,
other.
Approximately
1876-1983
Scope and Content Note
Contains typed notes, in many cases on index cards, on the
importance of theater, the place of art in the commercial world,
and the history of the Playbox Theatre and the Pasadena
Playhouse. Also includes some programs and playbills featuring
Brown; various scrapbook pages; and articles, clippings, and a
booklet about Brown. Also contains list of A. E. Arnold negatives of Pasadena Community Playhouse; and notes for speeches.
Box 37, Folders 1-4
Photographs and artifacts.
Approximately
1889-1959
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs, mostly later prints, of Gilmor Brown with
others, in portraits, and in various roles Also includes two
photographs from Brown's casting file. Also includes framed autograph of Francesca Janaushek, 1889, presented to Brown by
actor Daniel Reed; buttons, tie clip, and shell (7 pieces); wallet and checkbook; Gilmor Brown Memorial plaque; and two sets
of Crane's engraved bookplates, 50 plates each, with Brown's name on them.
Folder OV 3
Early career in Kansas, other.
1916, 1941,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains two programs announcing productions by Gilmor Brown in
Hutchinson, Kansas, and one program for a production of Twelfth
Night at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California, in which
Brown played Sir Toby Belch (1941).
Box 38 , Folders 1-5
Batchelder, Crandall, Messer, Pricketts.
Approximately
1935-1985
Scope and Content Note
Contains a pamphlet, An Appreciation by C. F. Shoop, regarding Board
of Trustees member Ernest Alan Batchelder (after 1950); David
Crandall's autobiography, Just David (1985); personal and some
professional correspondence of Board member Earl Messer (1935-1950,
1965-1968), chiefly letters of appreciation from Charles Prickett
for Messer's support of the Midsummer Drama Festivals; and writings
by Charles Prickett, including Aids for the Formation and Management
of Little Theatres (undated) and Pitfalls of Little Theatre
Management (May 1938). Also includes Charles Prickett's C.V. from
1951; a life insurance policy; and clippings, an obituary, and a
poem from his funeral service; plus a letter from Samuel Herrick to
Ollie Prickett.
Box 39, Folders 1-15
Lenore Shanewise and Fairfax Walkup.
Approximately
1920-1993
Scope and Content Note
Materials relating to Lenore Shanewise include awards and honors;
clippings and correspondence; performance and portrait photographs;
programs from various productions; eulogies for Eugenia Ong (1955)
and Gilmor Brown (1960); and some material from her service as a
member of the Board of Trustees, including Task Force Committee
reports (circa March 1966) and Board meeting minutes (1967).
Materials relating to Fairfax Walkup include personal correspondence
(1951-1971); her reflections on Gilmor Brown (circa 1960); resumes;
and honors and tributes.
Box 40, Folders 1-13
Fairfax Walkup, others.
Approximately
1925-1968
Scope and Content Note
Contains Walkup's work on a production of the Oresteia (1961-1963)
and on a television series (Impressions, 1965); her writings on the
history of theater (Outline history of costume, 1928-1929, 1933) and
the play, Jade Bracelet (1949); files documenting her work as a
teacher at the Playhouse, including notes and a class grade book for
a course on Manner and Customs; a press release regarding an outside
teaching commitment; and topical files.
Box 282
Charles Prickett scrapbook.
Approximately
1928-1962
Scope and Content Note
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.
D. Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates.
1953-2006
Board and business records.
1953-2006
Box 41, Folders 1-10
Constitution and bylaws, board meeting
minutes.
1953-1984
Scope and Content Note
Contains proposals for an alumni association (1953-1955);
constitution and bylaws (circa 1956-1983); lists of board members
(1968-1969 and 1982-1984); and board meeting minutes
(1957-1969).
Box 42, Folders 1-9
Board meeting minutes and other business
records.
1958-2006
Scope and Content Note
Contains board meeting minutes (1970-1986); board motions
(1958-1980); and records concerning archival procedures, awards,
fundraising and benefit programs, and the Library Committee
(1960-2006).
Publications.
Approximately
1957-1987
Box 43, Folders 1-7
Savoy Star, National Newsletter.
1957-1982
Scope and Content Note
Contains the Savoy Star and other early publications (circa
1957-1960); National Newsletter (1960-1979); and National
Newsletter/Stage Whispers (1980-1982).
Box 44, Folders 1-2
Stage Whispers.
1983-1984,
1986-1987
Series II. Playhouse history.
Approximately 1880-1982
Physical Description: 25 boxes, 98 volumes, and 2 oversize
folders
A. Historical treatments.
1934-1979, undated
Box 45, Folders 1-4
Scrapbook, book, typescripts, other.
Approximately 1934-1951
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 46
History of the Pasadena Playhouse, Sections I and II, by
Laurie Grey (Herrick).
1949
Scope and Content Note
Contains the first draft of Grey's book, Sections I and II, covering
the Playhouse's early years, circa 1916-1920, from material Grey
gathered from 1948-1949.
Box 47, Folders 1-5
A Historical Study of Gilmor Brown's Fair Oaks Playbox:
1924-1927 (dissertation).
1964
Scope and Content Note
Contains dissertation and research materials.
B. Photographs.
1921-1969, undated
Box 48, Folders 1-10
People.
Approximately 1925-1969,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs of actors, actresses, faculty, staff, and
students, most of whom are identified. Several photographs may have
originally come from disbound scrapbooks.
Box 49, Folders 1-6
Events and Environs.
1921-1956,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of special events, some identified, and various
views of buildings and grounds, including exterior views dated
approximately 1935-1945. Also includes prints of artists' renderings
of the then-newly-constructed Playhouse by an unidentified artist,
1925, and a metal printing plate depicting the fountain.
C. Scrapbooks.
Approximately
1880-1969
Box 50
The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington.
Approximately 1929
Scope and Content Note
The materials relate to a production dramatized by Arthur Goodrich
and produced by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coburn, September 10th and 21,
1929. The photographs were taken from the Auditorium during the
performance by Clinton C. Clarke.
Box 51, Folders 1-7
Pasadena Playhouse Association scrapbook.
Approximately 1957, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes one disbound scrapbook covering approximately 1928-1957,
plus the scrapbook of Marvin S. Alter, containing photocopies of
photographs of Oliver Prickett, Gilmor Brown, and various actors and
actresses, undated.
Box 52
Meg Wyllie scrapbook.
Approximately 1958
Scope and Content Note
Materials are dated approximately 1940-1946 and 1958.
Box 53
Unidentified scrapbook.
Approximately 1962
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings from approximately 1950-1962, chiefly concerning
alumni. Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates, 1990.
Scrapbook set.
Approximately
1919-1956
Scope and Content Note
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.
Scrapbook 8
December 1926-August 1927.
Scrapbook 9
November 1927-March 1928.
Scrapbook 23
January 193[6]-June 1937.
Scrapbook 24
September 1937-January 1938.
Scrapbook 40
(General Only), 1949-1952.
Scrapbook 46
Midsummer Drama Festival 1935.
Scope and Content Note
The Chronicle Plays of Shakespeare.
Scrapbook 47
Midsummer Drama Festival 1936.
Scope and Content Note
The Greco-Roman Plays of Shakespeare.
Scrapbook 48
Midsummer Drama Festival 1937.
Scope and Content Note
The Story of the Great Southwest.
Scrapbook 49
Midsummer Drama Festival 1938.
Scope and Content Note
Seven from Shaw.
Scrapbook 50
Midsummer Drama Festival 1939.
Scope and Content Note
Maxwell Anderson.
Scrapbook 51
Midsummer Drama Festival 1940;
1945.
Scope and Content Note
James Matthew Barrie (1940); Eight Great Living American
Playwrights (1945).
Scrapbook 52
Midsummer Drama Festival
1941-1942.
Scope and Content Note
Modern American Comedy (Kaufman Series). Eight Great Laugh Plays
(Comedy Series).
Scrapbook 53
Midsummer Drama Festival
1943-1944.
Scope and Content Note
Booth Tarkington; Sidney Howard; Cavalcade.
Scrapbook 54
Midsummer Drama Festival
1946-1947.
Scope and Content Note
Clyde Fitch Parade; Milestones in Playhouse History.
Scrapbook 55
Midsummer Drama Festival
1948-1949.
Scope and Content Note
Favorite Plays of the "Gold Rush Days", California Playwrights.
Scrapbook 56
Midsummer Drama Festival
1950-1951.
Scope and Content Note
Modern Playwrights, George M. Cohan.
Scrapbook 57
Midsummer Drama Festival
1952-1953.
Scope and Content Note
Great Americans / Shakespeare Comedies.
Scrapbook 58
Portraits of Players, Vol. I, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs of Mrs. A. H. Palmer (Adelle Adams); Maurice
Wells, with list of plays; Marjorie Sinclair (photo missing);
Mrs. Hinds (photo missing); Samuel S. Hinds; Margaret R. Clarke;
Victor Jory; Irvin Pichel; Arthur Lubin; C. Pardee Erdman; and
many others, some unidentified. Also includes note inside book
by unidentified person to Community Players instructing them to
put their photographs and a list of plays in which they have
performed in the book.
Scrapbook 68
Commercial Photographs of Pasadena
Playhouse, undated.
Scope and Content Note
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.
Scrapbook 70
Photographs of Productions, Vol. 3,
1925.
Scope and Content Note
Contains empty portfolios for Playbox plays and index pages.
Scrapbook 81
Special Activities; El Pablo Players,
approximately 1940.
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence, fliers, programs, announcements, press
releases, programs, blank forms, ticket stubs, and other
ephemera relating to the El Pablo Players and to a drama
conference, One-Act Play Tournaments, Playhouse Day, and State
Theatre of California performances.
Scrapbook 82
Mimeograph Scrapbook to 1936.
Scope and Content Note
Contains blank and sample forms for operational undertakings
including reports, tests, and balance sheets. Also contains
bylaws, student's manuals, rules, announcements, voting forms,
memos, sheet music, exam questions, faculty credentials,
announcements, press releases, and programs.
Scrapbook 83
Mimeograph Scrapbook 1936-1938.
Scrapbook 84
Mimeograph Scrapbook 1939[-1940,
undated].
Scope and Content Note
Also contains a bibliography concerning radio and several
syllabi.
Scrapbook 85
Multigraph Scrapbook,
1928-1936.
Scrapbook 86
Multigraph Scrapbook,
1936-1938.
Scrapbook 87
Multigraph Scrapbook, 1939[-1940,
undated].
Scrapbook 88
Multigraph Scrapbook,
1943-1945.
Scrapbook 89
Printing, Scrapbook, to 1936.
Scope and Content Note
Contains programs, fliers, announcements, brochures, forms,
stationery, booklets, and ephemera.
Scrapbook 90
Printing, Scrapbook, 1936- .
Scrapbook 91
Printing #1, January 1, 1941.
Scope and Content Note
Contains news releases, announcements, blank stationery, fliers,
membership and fundraising letters, blank forms for production
work, floor plans, standard rental contract, production
organization charts, and other materials.
Scrapbook 92
Pictures for Advertising, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Contains numbered thumbnail and larger line drawings, prints, and
photographs of Playhouse affiliates including Gilmor Brown,
Lenore Shanewise, students, and others, as well as characters
and historical figures including Shakespeare. Also contains
imagery including the Pasadena Community Playhouse Association
logo, palm trees, and more.
Scrapbook 93
Pictures for Advertising,
undated.
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials similar to those in Scrapbook 92.
Scrapbook 94
Pictures for advertising (General
Scrapbook), 1945-1951.
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials similar to those in Scrapbook 92.
Scrapbook 95
Cuts, 1939.
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials similar to those in Scrapbook 92.
Scrapbook 96
Form Records, 1942-1948.
Scope and Content Note
Contains blank and sample forms including for rules, registration
books, directors' assignments, office funds, and the like.
Scrapbook 97
Membership, 1936-1939, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Contains membership forms; brochures; letters, including for
membership campaign 1936-1937; and pamphlets.
Scrapbook 98
School of the Theatre, Catalogs and
Letters, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Materials are from schools around the United States, especially
New York City.
Scrapbook 99
School of the Theatre; Summer Sessions,
1945-1947.
Scrapbook 100
School Advertising, 1936-1939.
Scope and Content Note
Contains first and follow-up letters to prospective students.
Major topics include School Inquiries, 1935-1939;
Advertisements, 1935-1936, and more, plus advertisements that
appeared in magazines including Redbook, Theatre Arts, National
Geographic, Modern Mechanics, and various stage publications.
Scrapbook 101
School Advertising, 1939-1948.
Scope and Content Note
At the beginning of the volume is a list of publications in which
the Playhouse advertised.
Scrapbook 102
Graduations, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Contains graduation materials from 1918 and 1930-1952; materials
include diplomas, postgraduate certificates, graduation and
commencement programs, tickets, fliers, announcements,
invitations, musical revues and performances, commencement
exercises, and other ephemera.
Scrapbook 103
Graduates, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs of students and administrators, graduates
and postgraduates, Classes of 1930-1945.
Scrapbook 104
1926-1939.
Scope and Content Note
Box contains disbound scrapbook with programs from the Pasadena
Community Playhouse Workshop, 1926-1936, and Laboratory Theatre,
1936-1939.
Scrapbook 105
Playhouse Workshop Programs,
1926-1936.
Scrapbook 106
Playhouse Workshop Programs, 1936-1941;
Padua Players, 1933-1935.
Scrapbook 107
Senior and Lab Plays, Programs,
1941-1947.
Scrapbook 108
Senior and Lab Plays,
1947-1948.
Scrapbook 109
Television Program Scrapbook,
1948-1963.
Scope and Content Note
Contains TV production sheets, including cast lists and program
staff, for TV productions #10-15. Has TV CC#1-7 sheets (Closed
Channel?), 1949-1950, and CC#1-11, season 1950-1951 and CC#1-3,
season 1951-1952, again with cast lists and program staff; has
TV productions labeled #1-#9, 1948. Also has cast and production
lists for TV productions season 1962-1963.
Scrapbook 110
One-Act Play Tournaments,
1930-1953.
Scope and Content Note
Contains programs, fliers, filled-out and blank entry forms,
judges' reports and rating sheets (including filled-in), rules
and regulations, certificates, judges' guidelines, tickets,
invitations, stage managers' reports, clippings, photographs,
and official lists of participating schools.
Scrapbook 111
One-Act Play Tournaments,
1954.
Scope and Content Note
Contains newspaper clippings.
Scrapbook 112
Eugenia Ong Scrapbook, approximately
1968.
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials dated 1928-1968, including clippings,
programs, and a few pages of Padua Players programs, with
headings and annotations by Gilmor Brown.
Scrapbook 113
Playhouse Scrapbook of Mrs. A. H. Palmer,
approximately 1925.
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, circa 1925, about all aspects of the
newly-established Pasadena Community Playhouse, plus an undated
list of Community Playhouse of Pasadena founders on front cover
verso.
Scrapbook 114
Playhouse Scrapbook, approximately
1926.
Scope and Content Note
Continues in same vein as Scrapbook 113, with entries dating into
1926.
Scrapbook 115
Programs. Mrs. Arthur Palmer,
approximately 1927.
Scope and Content Note
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.
Scrapbook 116
Alice C. D. Riley Scrapbook. 19th Century
Theatrical Material, approximately 1926.
Scope and Content Note
Contains inscription to Gilmor Brown donating the scrapbook to
the Playhouse Library, 1949; along with clippings and programs,
includes a 1926 certificate to Riley from the Ancient and
Honorable Association of Unionized Taxi Cab Drivers, with seal,
for dramatizing the guild's labors and the "mental anguish and
physical hazards of this occupation." Also includes tabbed
sections with a handwritten index of entries in alphabetical
order.
Scrapbook 117
Approximately 1880-1900.
Scope and Content Note
Contains programs, playbills, and fliers for theater, concerts,
other performances at venues around the country and also
international (e.g., London).
Scrapbook 118
Theatre League Scrapbook, approximately
1932-1933.
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings.
Box 53a , Folders 1-8
Loose material contained in scrapbooks.
Scope and Content Note
Includes publications, articles, fliers, and clippings.
D. Clippings.
Approximately 1910-1969,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings about actors, actresses, and other figures and events
in theater and other arts.
Box 59, Folders 1-7
1970-approximately 1999, undated.
Box 60, Folders 1-2
Oversize periodicals and clippings.
Approximately 1924-1938
Scope and Content Note
Contains profiles of Shanewise and Blanchard, plus a German-language
article on the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
Photocopies of clippings.
Undated
Box 61, Folder 1
Reviews, January 1918-April 1925.
E. Other historical materials.
Box 63, Folders 1-5
Pasadena Playhouse figures.
Approximately 1931, 1950,
1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes Thomas Browne Henry Acting and Directing Assignments at
Pasadena Playhouse (1950, 4 typed pages covering productions from
1930-1950); Robert Redington Sharpe: The Life of a Theatre Designer,
by Arnold Wengrow, 1990; and two typescripts, one regarding outdoor
productions and referencing Brookside Par, and one a 1931 review of
Green Fire, by Monroe Lathrop, in LA Express, 5/30/1931.
Box 64, Folders 1-5
Tributes and "Success Story"
Approximately
1931-1985
Scope and Content Note
Including tributes to Raymond Burr and to Belle Kennedy; Charles
Pierce, "Breaking Away"; and the Playhouse promotional video,
"Success Story," with other footage (2 copies).
Various.
Scope and Content Note
The items included in this section were digitized by the
California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) in 2018 and are
being hosted by the Internet Archive.
Reel 1
Silent footage.
Approximately
1940-1949
Scope and Content Note
Contains scenes from plays; a clip of a student learning
about lighting; scenes depicting radio production; and a
clip of a student visiting Playhouse founder Gilmor Brown in
his office. Also depicts set design and a review of
headshots, as well as an actress putting on makeup before
going onstage. Approximately 8 minutes.
Reel 2
"Success Story".
Approximately 1957
Scope and Content Note
Publicity film introducing Pasadena Playhouse and describing
its mission and history; film features an interview with
Gilmor Brown. Approximately 29 minutes.
Reel 3
Pasadena Playhouse Historic Footage.
Approximately
1925-1929
Scope and Content Note
Film presenting a pictorial history of the Pasadena Playhouse
as a civic enterprise significant to its community.
Approximately 46 minutes.
Reel 4
Introduction to the Play, Manya: The Story of Marie
Curie.
Approximately 1938
Scope and Content Note
Contains film clip introducing production staff, actors, and
actresses in play written and directed by a young Bobker Ben
Ali; one of the actors mentioned is Bill Beedle (later known
as William Holden). Approximately 4 minutes.
Reel 5
Student Films: Third-Year Cinema
Projects.
Approximately 1940?
Scope and Content Note
Contains one complete project, an unidentified piece,
undated, about plotting for a jewelry theft and its
aftermath. Instructors Dorothy Arzner and Dan Bailey are
listed as directors for the project. Approximately 38
minutes.
Reel 6
Student Films: O'Henry III: Three O'Henry
Plays.
Approximately 1940?
Scope and Content Note
Instructors Dorothy Arzner and Dan Bailey are listed as
directors for the project. Approximately 50 minutes.
Box 359, Folders 1-2
Personal Messages from Dana Andrews.
1954
Scope and Content Note
Two vinyl discs with messages from actor Dana Andrews
inviting recipients to attend the Second Annual Pasadena
Playhouse TV Institute and Workshop. Disc 1 is an invitation
to Burke Gilliam, and Disc 2 to M. B. Rudman. Approximately
2 minutes.
Box 359, Folders 3-6
Gail Shoup oral history interviews.
1960s
Scope and Content Note
Four audiotapes with interviews with key figures
in the history of the Pasadena Playhouse, including Lenore
Shanewise; Maurice Wells; Charles, Maudie, and Oliver
Prickett; Charles Lane; Ralph Freud; Albert McCleery; and
others. The interviews were conducted by Gail Shoup as part
of his dissertation research. Approximately 20 hours. Contents same as audiocassettes 1-10 in Box 314.
Box 65
Various oversized items.
1687-1959,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains awards and honors, 1951-1959; floor plans, undated and by
unidentified architect; a broadside of Shakespeare and
Shakespeare-related images, inscribed to Gilmor Brown by Mrs. H.D.
Bentley, 1936, in appreciation of the Midsummer Drama Festival; one
painting of Gilmor Brown in a kilt, undated, and one cartoon by
Ernest Hix and Doug Hayes, 1948, celebrating Gilmor Brown. Also
includes a 17th-century theater prop given to Gilmor Brown by Gareth
Hughes: Indenture, used as Shylock's bond, 1687, accompanied by a
label stating that this was stage property used in many productions
of "The Merchant of Venice." Additionally, contains two copies of a
banner advertising Pasadena Playhouse and its College of Theatre
Arts, 1959; and portraits, including a photograph of Gilmor Brown's
father, a photograph of Percy MacKaye inscribed to Brown, a photo
depicting Bob Hope and Bing Crosby with a Pasadena Playhouse
student, and photos of Elton Howard's portraits of Brown, Shanewise,
Freud, and Wells, approximately 1925.
Folder OV 4
Photographs.
Approximately
1924-1942
Scope and Content Note
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.
Folder OV 5
Architectural drawings.
1982
Scope and Content Note
Contains 50 sheets of blueprints for the Pasadena Playhouse by R. F.
McCann & Co., Architects including site plan, exterior and
interior photographs with design annotations, structural drawings,
floor plans, elevations, and more, many with annotations.
Box 66
Various artifacts.
Approximately 1930-1980,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains one fan; one hat; one directional sign; one class ring; a
medal awarded by Paul Perigord to William Humphrey Fairchild for
outstanding artistic ability; Gilmor Brown's nameplate; a metal
fixture noting how many times a bell would be rung before
performances; another metal fixture, dedicated to actor Victor Jory;
and a button.
Series III. School of Theatre Arts / College of Theatre
Arts.
Approximately 1920-1990
Physical Description: 25 boxes
Box 67, Folders 1-19
General.
1925-1990
Scope and Content Note
Contains admissions and application materials; Administrative Council
meeting minutes; annual reports; memos and policies; clippings;
curricular materials including course announcements, proposals, and
syllabi; development program; faculty biographies and credentials,
instructional activities report, and faculty and staff roster; and
fundraising materials.
Box 68
Sample mailings, forms, and related.
1958
Scope and Content Note
Contains a binder also including student rosters and promotional
materials, approximately 1934-1950.
Box 69
School of Theatre Arts publications.
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Contains hardcover volume with curricular materials, applications,
brochures and fliers, rules and regulations, student manuals and
directories, and newsletters.
Box 70
Correspondence with other institutions.
Approximately 1951
Scope and Content Note
Binder contains correspondence from approximately 1943-1951 regarding
the number of credits other institutions award for coursework at the
Pasadena Playhouse.
Box 71, Folders 1-11
Applications, reports, and rulings on non-profit
status.
Approximately
1939-1970
Box 72, Folders 1-4
Application and transcripts.
Approximately
1948-1970
Scope and Content Note
Contains duplicate of 1962 application and documentation, plus
transcripts.
B. Catalogs, student manuals, and yearbooks.
1929-1969
Course catalogs.
1929-1969
Box 73
Summer and regular sessions.
1929-1930, 1935-1936,
1941-1947
Scope and Content Note
Contains three hardcover volumes.
Box 74
Catalogs.
1951-1965
Scope and Content Note
Contains three hardcover volumes.
Box 75, Folders 1-6
Catalogs and yearbook.
1944-1955
Scope and Content Note
Contains catalogs, 1944-1955, and yearbooks, 1944-1948.
Box 77, Folders 1-4
Student manuals.
Approximately 1935,
1955-1956, 1964-1965, 1968, undated
C. Commencements.
1930-1969
Programs, scripts, notes, and related.
1930-1969
Box 80, Folders 1-7
Photographs.
1930-1960,
undated
Box 280, Folder 10
Negatives: Commencements
1930, 1952
D. Courses and curricular.
Box 81, Folders 1-18
Course materials, class lists, and promotional
materials.
1939-1969,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains course outlines, syllabi, class lists, brochures, programs,
press releases, promotional materials, and research materials.
Box 82, Folders 1-12
Photographs of classroom scenes.
1936-1955,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains scenes from courses including Fencing, Acting, Costume
Design, Dance, Eurythmics/Body Movement, Make-up, Set Design and
Construction, Stagecraft, and Voice and Speech.
Cinema, radio, and television.
Box 83, Folders 1-7
Photographs of cinema, radio, and television
production.
1942-1954
Scope and Content Note
Includes Don Lee TV Production, circa 1942, 1954; various views of
television production, 1948-1952; First Annual Television
Workshop, staff and students, 1953; Second Annual Television
Workshop, students, faculty and guest speakers; and performance
photos, 1954.
Box 84, Folders 1-9
Television production performance
photographs.
Approximately
1948-1960
Scope and Content Note
Most of the photographs are by Jerome Robinson.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by play title.
Box 85
Playhouse television scrapbook. 1946-1949
Scope and Content Note
Contains scrapbook presented to Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and
Associates by David Crandall.
Box 280, Folders 11-15
Negatives: Various courses.
Approximately
1928-1960
Scope and Content Note
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.
E. Promotion and publicity.
Approximately
1928-1969
Box 86, Folders 1-12
Articles, brochures, and fliers.
Scope and Content Note
Contains articles from the publicity office, headed by Joan Caldwell;
School of the Theater and College of Theatre Arts brochures, fliers,
and other materials; brochures and fliers for other courses of study
(high school teachers, evening extension classes); and Pasadena
Theatre Academy brochures. Also includes two issues of Pasadena
Playhouse College of Theatre Arts News (newsletter) and one issue of
Playhouse News, Pasadena Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Box 87, Folders 1-3
Layouts, promotional copy, and mailing samples.
Scope and Content Note
Contains mockups, layouts, copy for brochures, fliers, and other
materials; mailings strategy and samples; and a photocopy of a
script, Two years before the masque, possibly a promotional
video.
F. Students and student life.
Approximately
1922-1985
Box 88, Folders 1-9
Student rosters and directories.
Approximately
1935-1966
Scope and Content Note
Contains student rosters, directories, and class registration books,
circa 1936-1941; 1945-1953, 1955, 1966, and undated (including undated
"players in profile"). Also includes School of the Theatre student
newsletter, 1935; one student letter to another student, 1951; a
sample of student coursework (bibliography); and ephemera.
Box 89, Folders 1-15
Photographs of students and staff.
Approximately
1922-1960
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs depicting administrators, faculty, and guest
speakers; class photographs and student portraits, circa 1922-1959
(with gaps); various views of dormitories, circa 1940-1960; and
students in rehearsal, at the library, during social activities,
engaging in sports, and at mail call.
Box 90
Fairfax Walkup photograph album and scrapbook
pages.
Approximately
1928-1956
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 280, Folder 16
Negatives: Various aspects.
Approximately
1920-1969
Scope and Content Note
Contains negatives depicting students and various aspects of student
life including mail call; life in dormitories; and recreational and
leisure activities.
Box 91, Folders 1-10
Alumni files.
Approximately
1941-1985
Scope and Content Note
Contains a few pages of a Players Directory (loose scrapbook pages);
drawings and a memoir by Jack Chick; alumni directories; permissions
to use photographs; booklets, clippings, lists, and article about
alumni trained at Pasadena Playhouse; and photographs.
Series IV. Theater programs and related materials.
Approximately 1903-1994
Physical Description: 49 boxes
Box 92, Folders 1-10
A. Early Gilmor Brown Troupes, Savoy Theatre.
Approximately
1903-1917
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials documenting theatrical work of Gilmor Brown, circa
1903-1916; various companies affiliated with Gilmor Brown, 1916-1917;
and Savoy Stock Company and Savoy Theatre, 1916-1917. Also includes
photographs, clippings, reviews, and photocopies plus a portrait and scrapbook
materials concerning Virginia Lykins, 1906-1916.
B. Community Players of Pasadena/Community Playhouse.
1917-1925
Box 93, Folders 1-2
Community Players of Pasadena/Community Playhouse of
Pasadena.November
1917-January 1920
Scope and Content Note
Contains early programs, several for plays held at the Shakespeare
Club House.
Box 94, Folders 1-4
Pasadena Community Playhouse and affiliated
companies.
January 1920-July
1922
Scope and Content Note
Includes also Summer Art Colony (1921) and Drama League at Pasadena
Community Playhouse (1922) programs.
Box 95, Folders 1-4
Pasadena Community Playhouse.
July 1922-April
1925
C. Mainstage.
1925-1968,
1986-1994
Scope and Content Note
Programs for Mainstage productions were contained in issues of the
Pasadena Community Playhouse News, later named the Pasadena Playhouse
News. Also included are programs contained in The Playbill and The
Playgoer, plus supplementary materials.
Box 96, Folders 1-11
Productions: Lazarus Laughed.
1928, 1929,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes articles and clippings; cast, costume, and dressing room
lists; correspondence, including a copy and transcription of Eugene
O'Neill's letter to Gilmor Brown and correspondence about the
production's score, plus a photograph of the composer; programs,
correspondence, and clippings concerning the 1928 and 1929
premieres. Also includes and scripts, in the form of sides for
various characters and the chorus.
Pasadena Community Playhouse News/Pasadena Playhouse
News.
Box 100, Folders 1-6
September 1931-June 1934.
Scope and Content Note
One folder contains autographed and/or inscribed issues.
Box 104, Folders 1-4
January 1944-December 1946.
Box 105, Folders 1-4
January 1947-December 1948.
Box 106, Folders 1-6
January 1949-December 1951.
Scope and Content Note
One copy of program for Percy MacKaye's Hamlet (April 14-May 1,
1949) includes announcement, clipping, and brochure.
Box 107, Folders 1-6
January 1952-December 1956.
Other Mainstage programs.
Box 109, Folders 1-9
Pasadena Community Playhouse.
1925-1937
Scope and Content Note
Contains Pasadena Community Playhouse programs and playbills from
1925-1937; also includes some ephemera and photographs.
Box 110, Folders 1-8
Oversize programs.
1927-1961
Scope and Content Note
Contains oversize programs for Pasadena Community Playhouse,
1927-1937. Also includes programs for the Playbox, 1931-1962,
and the Mainstage, approximately 1937-1941 and 1960-1961.
Box 111, Folders 1-11
Playhouse Playbill, Curtain Call.
1937-1963,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains Playhouse Playbill: Programs, October 1937-August 1941;
Mainstage playbills, 1940-1945, 1955; Curtain Call, programs and
playbills, 1951-1963, undated; and assorted programs, 1960s.
Playhouse programs: bound volumes.
1937-1949
Box 112
Volumes I and II, June 28, 1937-June 24,
1945.
Box 113
Volumes III and IV, June 26, 1945-June 26,
1949.
Box 116, Folders 1-8
Pasadena Playhouse, State Theatre of
California.
1986-1994
Scope and Content Note
Programs chiefly contained within Performing Arts magazine. Also
includes typed Mainstage programs index, 1986-1994.
Mainstage productions: supplemental materials.
Approximately
1930-1968
Box 117, Folders 1-12
Fliers, brochures, and lists of Mainstage
plays.
1930-1961
Scope and Content Note
Contains list of Mainstage plays, 1930-1961; fliers and
brochures, 1930s-1960s, including for unidentified or multiple
venues. Undated fliers and brochures are arranged alphabetically
by play title.
Box 118, Folders 1-31
Oversize materials.
1941-1968
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs, notes, typescripts, layouts for publicity
materials, and other; most materials related to promotion and
publicity.
D. Playbox.
1923-1968
Scope and Content Note
See Series II, Box 47, for Roger Altenberg's dissertation on the
Playbox.
Box 122, Folders 1-20
Playbox supplemental materials, 1923-1962.
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, membership and subscription invitations, lists of
plays performed, cast lists, original drawings and costume designs,
performance photographs, and ephemera including tickets and
subscription passes. Also includes financial records including a
ledger and checkbook register, 1955-1958.
E. Other venues.
1926-1969
Workshop and Laboratory Theatres.
1927-1946
Box 123, Folders 1-9
Programs and clippings.
Scope and Content Note
Contains Workshop programs, 1929-1936; and Laboratory Theatre
programs 1933 (summer session), 1936-1946. Also includes
clippings, Workshop and Laboratory Theatre, 1927-1939; and a
scrapbook page with clipping re: Workshop group, 1927. See also
Series II, Scrapbook 104, for more materials on the Workshop and
Laboratory Theatres.
Box 125, Folders 1-6
1960-1969, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Includes file of undated or multiple productions, arranged in
alphabetical order by play title. Also includes one ticket for
unspecified productions.
Box 126, Folders 1-12
The People Win Thru (1952).
1951-1957
Scope and Content Note
Includes cast list; clippings; correspondence; programs;
publicity materials; photographs; production notes; Gilmor
Brown's report about the event to the Board of Trustees; and
reviews. Also contains a hand-painted guest book and a
transcription of an interview with Brown regarding the
production of this play.
Balcony Theatres.
1946-1969
Box 129, Folders 1-9
1961-1969.
Scope and Content Note
Also includes Arena Theatre programs, 1962-1963.
F. Other student productions.
1930-1955
Box 130, Folders 1-11
First- through third-year; Senior Players.
1930-1941
Box 131, Folders 1-11
Seniors, Postgraduate, Summer, others.
1930-1946
Scope and Content Note
Includes programs for the Senior Players, 1942-1946; Postgraduate
programs, 1936-1942; Summer Sessions (Recital Hall), 1930,
1934-1946; Recital Hall programs, including for Summer Sessions,
Laboratory Theatre, Junior, and Senior Players (bound, 1943-1946);
Technical Class, 1938-1939; Theater demonstration programs,
1935-1939; and visiting student productions, 1938, 1944.
Box 132, Folders 1-9
Events and projects.
Approximately
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
Includes Annual Drama Clinics; Cue Gardens; dance projects; Playhouse
Day; special and holiday events; Showcases; College of Theatre Arts,
Advanced extension project, 1954-1955; various student productions;
Pasadena Playhouse College Repertory Company, and R.E.P. (Repertory
Exists in Pasadena).
Special programs; visiting and offsite productions.
1935-1975
Midsummer Drama Festivals.
1935-1953
Box 133, Folders 1-9
First through Fifth Annual, 1935-1939.
Scope and Content Note
Contains lists of productions, 1935-1952, and programs and
related materials from the First through Fifth Annual Festivals,
1935-1939
Box 134, Folders 1-10
Sixth through Nineteenth Annual, 1940-1953.
One-Act Play Tournaments.
1930-1969
Box 135, Folders 1-10
Forms, rules, rating sheets, approximately
1950-1962.
Scope and Content Note
Contains entry forms, certificates, judges' rating sheets, news
releases, clippings, rules and regulations, lists of plays, and
certificates.
Box 137, Folders 1-6
Children's Theatre and Reader Theater.
1942, 1961-1968,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Contains Pasadena Playhouse Association Children's Theatre programs,
1962-1968; and photographs, 1961, 1963, 1966. Also includes programs
from other children's theatre groups and programs, brochures, and
clippings regarding children's theater organizations. Also includes
programs and clippings from the Pasadena Playhouse Reader Theatre,
1942, 1975.
Box 138, Folders 1-16
Other special productions.
Approximately
1930-1946
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials for one-off and special events productions,
affiliated and collaborating companies, and visiting companies.
Included are anniversary programs, holiday events, Federal Theatre
Project/WPA at the Playhouse, Dublin Players, Eighteen Acres, and
other individual programs. Also includes programs from visiting
dance and musical programs, lectures, and related.
Touring and offsite productions.
1919-1968
Box 139, Folders 1-13
Padua Players, El Pablo Players, others.
Approximately
1919-1941
Scope and Content Note
Includes chronological list of plays performed at various venues,
1919-1941, including Workshop plays, Little Theatre in Padua
Hills, Outside Productions, and Special Productions. Other
venues include the Little Theatre of the Huntington Hotel and
several high school stages. Contains several programs featuring
the Junior Players, 1921-1922; programs featuring the Padua
Players, 1933-1935; and the El Pablo Players, 1940-1941. Also
includes Playhouse players presented by the U.S. military and
other programs from tours. Additionally includes programs from
the Padua Hills Theatre and from the Mexican Players, plus a few
programs from other Gilmor Brown productions outside of the
Playhouse, 1921-1922, 1924, and 1933.
Box 140, Folders 1-19
State Theatre Players and others.
1947-1968
Scope and Content Note
Chiefly contains programs from plays featuring the State Theatre
Players. Also includes materials reflecting the Playhouse's
association with the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and
Recreation and the Pasadena Playhouse at Catalina, as well as
fliers and a coursebook from educational outreach efforts.
Series V. Theater performance and related photographs.
Approximately 1888-1969
Physical Description: 74 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Subseries A (Community Playhouse and Mainstage productions), Subseries B
(Playbox productions) and Subseries C (Mainstage, Playbox, and Gilmor Brown)
are from a collection previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327, compiled from the scrapbook series set
described in Series II.
A. Community Playhouse and Mainstage productions.
1918-1962
North Fair Oaks performance photographs.
1918-1925
Scope and Content Note
The North Fair Oaks location was home to the Savoy Theatre until
1918, when Brown's company renamed it the Pasadena Community
Playhouse.
Box 141, Folders 1-39
Items 1-217. May 14, 1918-June 20, 1921.
Box 142, Folders 1-28
Items 218-424. August 4, 1921-November 6,
1922.
Box 143, Folders 1-34
Items 425-595. November 20, 1922-February 5,
1925.
North Fair Oaks and Mainstage performance
photographs.
1925-1926
Box 144, Folders 1-38
Items 596-840. February 23, 1925-January 7-16,
1926.
Scope and Content Note
Items 596-666 chiefly depict performances prior to the
establishment of the Mainstage in 1925, and also include various
other views, including images of the exterior and interior at
North Fair Oaks; a performance to benefit the Kiwanis Club at
the Pasadena High School Auditorium, November 1922 (Item 614);
Pasadena Playhouse Children's Department productions at the
Shakespeare Club and Raymond Theatre (Items 621-622); a group
photograph depicting the Summer Art Colony, 1922 (Item 623);
and other images. Items 667-840 chiefly depict performances on
the Mainstage, beginning May 18, 1925.
Mainstage performance photographs.
1925-1969
Box 145, Folders 1-31
Items 841-1326. January 21-30, 1926-February 10-19,
1927
Box 146, Folders 1-23
Items 1327-1683. February 10-19, 1927-July 26,
1927
Box 147, Folders 1-29
Items 1684-2016. August 16, 1927-July 24,
1928
Scope and Content Note
Contains section of photos devoted to Lazarus Laughed (Items
1942-1977.9), including publicity photos, masks and mask
creation, sets and scenes, and performers.
Box 148, Folders 1-25
Items 2017-2333. April 20, 1928-March 5,
1929
Box 149, Folders 1-28
Items 2334-2604. March 5, 1929-October 8,
1929
Box 150, Folders 1-25
Items 2605-2857. October 22, 1929-April 24,
1930
Box 151, Folders 1-27
Items 2858-3144. May 8, 1930-February 5,
1931
Box 152, Folders 1-29
Items 3145-3422. February 5, 1931-January 2,
1932
Box 153, Folders 1-39
Items 3423-3689. January 7-16, 1932-Septamber 26,
1933
Box 154, Folders 1-39
Items 3690-3900.1. October 31, 1931-July 13,
1936
Box 155, Folders 1-43
Items 3901-4492. July 20, 1936-January 4,
1938
Box 156, Folders 1-45
Items 4493-5030. January 18, 1938-June 26,
1939
Box 157, Folders 1-45
Items 5031-5397. June 26, 1939-March 11,
1941
Box 158, Folders 1-53
Items 5398-5678. March 25, 1941-February 23,
1944
Box 159, Folders 1-61
Items 5679-5896. March 8, 1944-November 13,
1946
Box 160, Folders 1-39
Items 5897-6200. November 27, 1946-July 13,
1948
Box 161, Folders 1-40
Items 6201-6458. July 20, 1948-January 18,
1950
Box 162, Folders 1-44
Items 6459-6749. February 15, 1950-December 6,
1951
Box 163, Folders 1-42
Items 6750-7020. December 20, 1951-April 1,
1954
Box 164, Folders 1-26
Items 7021-7358. April 29, 1954-December 19-22,
1955
Box 165, Folders 1-25
Items 7359-7668. January 5, 1956-June 6,
1957
Box 166, Folders 1-25
Items 7669-8006. October 7, 1957-January 29,
1959
Box 167, Folders 1-22
Items 8007-8389. January 29, 1959-February 11,
1960
Box 168, Folders 1-21
Items 8390-8789. February 11, 1960-December 30,
1960
Box 169, Folders 1-27
Items 8790-9086. February 17, 1961-May 23,
1969
Box 170, Folders 1-34
Items 9087-9225. October 29, 1924-December 3-5,
1935
Box 171, Folders 1-25
Items 9226-9410. December 6-13, 1935-March 14-23,
1937
Box 172, Folders 1-23
Items 9411-9692. March 25-April 1, 1937-November 27-December
6, 1938
Box 173, Folders 1-44
Items 9693-9919. December 11-20, 1938-March 25-April 7,
1945
Box 174, Folders 1-20
Items 9920-10182. October 21, 46-May 10, 1948
Box 175, Folders 1-22
Items 10183-10394. May 26, 1948-March 19, 1950
Box 176, Folders 1-44
Items 10395-10634. April 9, 1950-March 16, 1962
Box 177, Folders 1-33
Items 10635-10889: Various.
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs depicting Playbox performances, November 18,
1950-February 10, 1951 (Items 10635-10715); various views of
exteriors, circa 1925-1940 (Items 10716-10834); architectural drawings
by Elmer Grey, 1925 (Items 10837-10838.1); and views of the
Mainstage auditorium and other interiors (Items 10881-10889).
C. Mainstage, Playbox, and Gilmor Brown.
Approximately
1888-1969
Box 178, Folders 1-28
Interior views; Gilmor Brown.
Scope and Content Note
Items 10890-10969 and 10979-10981: Various views of interiors,
undated. Items 10970-10978: Playbox interior and exterior views, 695
Herkimer Street, undated. Items 10982-11066: Gilmor Brown, circa
1888-1960, including portraits of Brown as a youth and in various
roles, among them as part of pre-Playhouse companies such as the
Gilmor Brown Players; depictions of Brown with others, including at
a New York Pasadena Playhouse Alumni Associate Breakfast (1956) and
with Charlie Prickett, Victor Mature, Dana Andrews, Robert Preston,
and Murray Yates; and images of Brown speaking, rehearsing, and
traveling.
Oversize photographs and other materials.
Box 179, Folders 1-23
Mainstage and other.
Approximately
1926-1941
Box 180, Folders 1-24
Mainstage.
Approximately
1947-1968
Box 181, Folders 1-29
Playbox and other.
Approximately
1932-1959
Scope and Content Note
Contains portraits of actors and actresses; performance photos
from the Playbox; and images of Gilmor Brown and Lenore
Shanewise in performance.
Box 182
Various photographs, posters, and programs.
Approximately
1932-1959
Scope and Content Note
Contains enlargements of performance photographs from the set previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327; depictions of Gilmor
Brown in character for
unidentified play; and a scene from Trelawny of the Halwels,
1920. Also includes programs from Pasadena Community Playhouse
and Playbox productions; a hand-drawn poster for When Knighthood
was in Flower, 1932, by Corliss McGee; posters for the Gin Game,
Charley's Aunt, and El Grande de Coca Cola; and four blueprints
of the set design for a Mainstage production of Picnic, 1955.
Negatives.
Scope and Content Note
Contains negatives and glass plates removed from the collection previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327; item
numbers correspond with item numbers for prints.
Box 183, Folders 1-5
Items 120-2674, 10738.
Scope and Content Note
Also includes two color glass plate images from Lazarus Laughed,
Apri1 1, 1929.
Box 193, Folders 1-5
Items 10782-11060.
Scope and Content Note
Includes negatives for King of Hearts illustrated mailer, for
1963 production; negatives labeled "Barrie Festival Book"
(around 30 negatives); and negatives of the laying of the
cornerstone of the Community Playhouse, 5/31/1924. Also includes
negatives of a cartoon caricature of George Bernard Shaw and of
a layout, also combined with the Hildebrand collection (two
images from Album 328: Modjeska and Brookside Park).
D. Other venues.
1922-1969
Box 194, Folders 1-6
Various.
1922-1936
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs from productions including The Wedding (1922);
Polly with a Past (1922); The Wolves (1928); Julius Caesar (1929);
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary (1929); The Armored Train (1930,
undated); Marco Millions (1930); The Blue Bird (Muncie set, 1930;
1937); and Yes is for a Very Young Man (circa 1946). Also contains
performance photographs and clippings from The Follies of Pasadena,
possibly the Playhouse's first comedy caper (1923-1924, undated) and
around 40 unidentified performance and cast photographs, possibly
from Mainstage and North Fair Oaks theater, from circa 1927-1936.
Box 194a, Folders 1-10
Various.
1945-1965
Scope and Content Note
Contains non-Mainstage damaged photographs: A, B, I, N-P, R-T, W, and Cinema Project Princess Tin-Tan. Please handle carefully.
Box 195
Slides.
1947-1952
Scope and Content Note
Box 195A contains performance photographs (color slides), School for
Scandal. July 15, 1947 (unidentified venue). Box 195B contains a set
of slides depicting Playhouse buildings and activities; images of
Pasadena, including Tournament of Roses 1950-1952; and various views
of Los Angeles.
Box 196, Folders 1-7
Workshop and Laboratory Theatres.
1926-1962
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs from the Workshop, 1926-1934, and Laboratory
Theatre, 1936-1943. Also contains photographs depicting One-Act Play
Tournaments, approximately 1938-1962.
Patio and unidentified venues.
1946-1969
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by play title.
Balcony Theatres.
Approximately
1946-1969
Box 204, Folders 1-7
R-Th.
Scope and Content Note
Includes one cast portrait, from The Royal Gambit.
E. Other Student Productions.
Approximately
1922-1961
Box 206, Folders 1-7
First- through third-year projects.
1922-1936
Scope and Content Note
Contains chiefly first-year projects, most undated.
Box 207, Folders 1-9
Senior, holiday, other productions.
[1947-1952]
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs depicting performances at Cue Gardens; Junior
and Senior productions; special and holiday productions; Summer
Sessions; Third Annual Drama Clinic; and other various student
productions, some unidentified.
Other performance and related photographs.
Approximately
1917-1969
Various performance and other photographs.
1937-1938,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Set of four boxes transferred to the collection from the Pasadena
Public Library in 2013.
Box 208
Libel, Miner's Gold, and other productions
1937-1938,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains loose photographs depicting performances, actors, and
actresses; images are chiefly from the 1937 Midsummer Drama
Festival. Photographs include 10 images from Libel; nine
photographs from Miner's Gold; two from Rose of the Rancho; and
one of a woman reading. Also includes one photograph of a scene
from Major Barbara, 1938. Photographers credited include Jerry
Eaton and Peter Piper (James F. Pieper).
Box 209
Various performance and other photographs.
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains loose undated performance photographs by Jerome Robinson for
productions including: Broken dishes (three photos); Take it
from the Angels and River Boy (two photos each); and A Yankee
Fable, Oh! Susanna, Dr. Knock, A Servant in the House, Twin
Beds, The Unmarried Hat, What Happened to Jones?, I Have Been
Here Before, and The Patsy (one photo each). Also contains
photographs by Jerry Eaton (Arms and the Man, one photo, plus
unidentified photos) and two photos by Peter Pipe, one
unidentified and one, from Autumn Crocus, inscribed to Gilmor
Brown, "with best wishes for the Playbox," signed by Piper
(1938). Also contains one drawing of an unidentified actor;
portraits of groups and students; two undated photographs of a
Mainstage play, Remains to Be Seen (undated); one undated
photograph of an event, possibly a Festival breakfast; and 12
undated photos from unidentified performances, taken by
unidentified photographer(s).
Box 210
Portraits and performance photographs.
1937, undated
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 211
Matted portrait and performance photographs.
1937-1938,
undated
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 281, Folders 1-6
Negatives: Various productions and related
photographs.
Approximately
1917-1969
Scope and Content Note
Folder 1 contains negatives from productions including Autumn Leaves
(1938), And So They Perish (undated), and unidentified productions,
including ones labeled "Workshop" and and "Lab"; also included are
negatives labeled "Barrie Festival book." Folders 2-3 contain images
from a Third-Year student production of Mine Eyes Have Seen (1955)
and unidentified student productions (possibly a pageant). Folders
4-5 contain negatives from unidentified productions, circa 1917-1925,
and rehearsals, undated. Folder 6 contains negatives from various
productions.
Box 212, Folders 1-13
Unidentified theater productions.
Approximately
1917-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes many undated later prints of performance photographs, plus
receipts and other documentation; these are possibly from a
collaboration between the Pasadena Playhouse and the Huntington
Library to create prints from negatives.
Series VI. Theater production materials.
Approximately 1916-1991
Physical Description: 20 boxes
A. Various.
Approximately
1918-1969
Box 213, Folders 1-17
Costume lists, property and lighting plots,
other.
1930-1952
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 214, Folders 1-8
Character and costume sketches, stage designs,
other.
Approximately
1918-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes a sketch of Guy Bates Post, from The Play's the Thing, by
John W. Haynes; drawings and sketches of the Mad Hatter and
unidentified characters; two sketches of Shylock by [Donald?]
Finlayson, one for a production of The Lady of Belmont and one for
The Merchant of Venice; annotated magazine pages featuring costume
and set designs, 1929 and undated; a blueprint of a stage design for
Dancing Days by Corliss McGee, 1930; and drawings and photographs
depicting stage settings and designs for plays including Skidding,
On the Spot, The Armored Train, The Watched Pot, and Marco Millions.
Also includes photographs dated circa 1920-1969 depicting costume and
wardrobe fabrication, and photographs dated circa 1922-1937 depicting
stage sets and design for productions including The Sunken Bell,
Hassan, The Pirates of Penzance, King Lear, The Makropoulos Secret,
and an unidentified Shakespeare set, as well as for unidentified
productions, circa 1937-1960. Also contains one photograph depicting
stagehands surrounding a Pasadena Community Playhouse truck, circa
1918-1925.
B. Set and costume designs.
Approximately
1918-1962
Box 215, Folders 1-12
Original designs by James Hyde, Jānis Muncis, and
others.
1930-1950
Scope and Content Note
Work by Jānis Muncis includes a painting for "Armoured Train." Also
contains several designs by unidentified artists, including
paintings of houses and interiors (possibly by Hyde); costume
designs for a Shakespearean festival; drawings and photographs of
costumes for the Merry Wives of Windsor; two drawings by Harbert,
one of Mistress Page and one of Mistress Ford, with annotations; and
various other set and costume designs.
Box 216
Designs by James Hyde, identified productions.
1920-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes designs by James Hyde for Lazarus Laughed (circa 1928); Larry
Apart (circa 1950); Eight Bells (circa 1940?); and unidentified plays.
Also includes two costume designs by an unidentified designer.
Box 217
Designs by James Hyde, unidentified productions.
1930-1933
Scope and Content Note
Includes paintings of houses and their environs; of men at a roulette
table, one captioned "Follow the Fleet," with an attribution of
Carroll Clark, Unit Art Director; of Ivanhoe and Friar Tuck's Hut
(also with Carroll Clark, Unit Art Director); and of a banquet and
of couples outside of a mansion.
Box 218
Designs by Jānis Muncis.
1920-1969
Scope and Content Note
Contains designs for productions of Marco Millions, Kismet, Julius
Caesar, and unidentified productions.
Box 219
Work by various designers.
1920-1950
Scope and Content Note
Includes designs by Alson Clark, Robert Redington Sharpe, Corliss
McGee, and Wilmer[?].
Box 220
Work by unidentified designers.
1935-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes design for Hamlet and otherwise unidentified designs and
designers. Also includes unidentified photograph of set design for a
bedroom, circa 1950s-1960s.
Box 281, Folder 7
Negatives: Unidentified set designs.
Undated
Box 221
Frederick Blanchard painting of stage set.
Approximately 1945
Scope and Content Note
Framed color painting titled The Play of the Man who Married a Dumb
Wife. Captions on back note that Blanchard, who taught and worked at
the Playhouse during the 1930s and 1940s, also wrote the play, and
that the painting hung in the Playhouse faculty lounge during the
1950s and 1960s.
C. Scores.
1928-1939, undated
Box 222, Folders 1-8
Original scores for various productions.
Scope and Content Note
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.
D. Scripts.
Approximately
1916-1991
Scope and Content Note
The scripts, many of which contain annotations, may have been used in a
variety of production settings, including Mainstage or student
productions; they also may have been used in theater production courses.
Unless otherwise noted, contents consist of full or partial production
scripts.
Arrangement
Scripts are arranged in alphabetical order by play title.
Box 223, Folders 1-11
Plays A-H.
Scope and Content Note
Works include: Saroyan, William, Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning
(circa 1941); Aeschylus, The Agamemnon (undated); Morelli, Richard,
Aladdin (circa 1955?); Bachman, Robert, And So They Perish (script,
clippings, and correspondence, 1935, 1939, 1991); Crothers, Rachel,
As Husbands Go (script, property plot, and cast list, circa 1931,
1950); Hellman, Lillian, The Children's Hour (production script,
cast list, property and costume plots, and sound cues, 1963); Brown,
Gilmor, A Christmas Carol (arrangement, undated); MacKaye, Percy,
Hamlet Tetralogy (scenes, cast lists, promotional material,
1946-1948); Alden, A. W., The House in the Wood (notebook and
portions of director's copy of script, circa 1935); Middleton, George,
The House of a Thousand Candles (circa 1935).
Box 224, Folders 1-11
Plays L-R.
Scope and Content Note
Works include: Powers, Tom, Ladybug, Ladybug (undated); Kennedy,
Belle Cumming, Lovely Miss Linley (master and production scripts;
music and scenes; correspondence; production plots; clippings;
program; and ephemera, 1942); Grant, James Shaw, The Magic Rowan
(script, sound cues, property plots, and program, 1947); Rose,
Billy, The Night They Made a Bum out of Helen Hayes (television
script?, circa 1950); MacKaye, Percy, Odin against Christus (1948);
Walkup, Fairfax, Orbit in Light (circa 1966-1969); Haney, Edith S, Pasadena Panorama (undated); and Kennedy, Belle
Cumming, Rosemary – That's for Remembrance ([1957]).
Box 225, Folders 1-8
Plays S-T.
Scope and Content Note
Works include: James, Helen, Shiny Legs (1961); Flavin, Martin,
Shucks (script and correspondence, 1949, 1966); Snow White (various
scripts, 1954, undated); Brown, Gilmor, A Soul for Mary Jane
(typescript, stage sketch, and memo from Pasadena Drama Guild,
1935); Riley, Alice C. D., A Stare Shone and Little New Moon (Samuel
French script, inscribed to Gilmor Brown, 1929, undated); Deval,
Jacques, Tovaritch (1937); Milne, A. A., The Truth About Blayds
(acting edition, Samuel French, 1923); and Hecht, Ben, and
MacArthur, Charles, Twentieth Century (after 1932).
Box 226, Folders 1-6
Plays T-W.
Scope and Content Note
Works include: Kennedy, Belle Cumming, To Where You Are (scripts and
correspondence, 1970, 1982); Aiken, George, Uncle Tom's Cabin
(dramatization, circa 1933?); Field, Edward Salisbury, Wedding Bells
(script and production materials, 1948); and Bronte, Emily,
Wuthering Heights (circa 1935).
Bound scripts.
1916-1951
Scope and Content Note
Most of the scripts in the set were Playbox productions.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by play title.
Box 227, Folders 1-6
Plays A-G.
Scope and Content Note
Works include: Ackland, Rodney, After October (1938; includes
annotations by Gilmor Brown); Bodeen, DeWitt, Argosy at Forty
(1938); Glaspell, Susan, Bernice (1925); Bennett, Julia, The
Bishop's Bed (1934); Bodeen, DeWitt, Fallen Angel (1949); and
Turney, Catherine and Longstreet, Stephen, Gaugin (1948).
Box 228, Folders 1-7
Plays H-M.
Scope and Content Note
Works include: Brighouse, Harold, Hobson's Choice (1916, 1950);
Rostand, Edmund, The Far Princess (1934); Van Dyke, Philip, Life
Sentence (1937); Sinclair, Upton, Love in Arms ([1935]);
Gribble, Henry Wagstaff, March Hares ([1940]); Sternheim, Carl,
The Mask of Virtue ([1938]); and Rouverol, Aurania (Ellerbeck),
Money ([1935]).
Box 229, Folders 1-8
Plays M-T.
Scope and Content Note
Works include: Bodeen, DeWitt, Morning Star (1949); Dell,
Jeffrey, Payment Deferred ([1941]); Ross Williamson, Hugh, The
Seven Deadly Virtues ([1938)]; Warwick, James, Smoke Screen
([1934]); Hodge, Max, A Striped Sack for Penny Candy (1951);
Bodeen, DeWitt, A Thing of Beauty ([1949]); Coward, Noel, This
Happy Breed ([194?]); and Homer, Frances, Triumph, My Britain
([1949]).
Scripts for children's productions.
1931-1945,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescripts and some additional production materials. Most
are labeled Pasadena Department of Recreation or Community
Playground of Pasadena; some are annotated.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by play title.
Box 232, Folder 1
Adventures of Alice.
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains typescript pages and handwritten notes; one section is
labeled Pasadena Department of Recreation. Materials are undated.
Series VII. Library, museum, and research files.
Approximately 1857-1995
Physical Description: 47 boxes
A. Administrative.
1930-1969
Box 233, Folders 1-10
General.
1930-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding the library and its collections,
1956-1969; donor lists, receipts, and documentation, 1941-1968,
including a souvenir program and typed summary of Honcho 24 Ko and
several scrapbook pages containing ephemera; an application for a
grant, 1968; inventories, reports, and statistics, 1950, 1962-1963,
and undated; requisitions for books, manuscripts, playbooks, and
supplies, 1960-1963; reference materials including bibliographies on
costume, dance, folklore, and theater arts, plus a list of subject
headings for various fields, 1945 and undated, and a general
directory of artists, writers, and directors, 1930. Also includes
curricular materials on cinema technique and the film industry, 1940
and undated, given to the Library by Fairfax Walkup.
Box 234
Classification of books in the Library.
Approximately 1959
Scope and Content Note
Categories include Plays; Play Construction; Costume; Stage Design;
History of Stage and Drama; Music; and Miscellaneous, comprising
History and Travel, Biography, Philosophy and Religion, General
Literature (novels, fiction, essays, and poetry), Technical
(encyclopedias, materials regarding fine arts, including radio and
television, and periodicals). Also includes Index of Photographs in
the Library of Photographs, 1918-1928, compiled by Clinton
Clarke.
Library index.
Approximately
1954-1960
Scope and Content Note
Contains indexes of correspondence, plays at various venues,
photographs, and Play of the Month Club subscribers. Also contains
Play of the Month Club ticket books from 1953 and 1954.
Box 235
Archival and pictorial materials.
Scope and Content Note
Contains indexes to Library archival materials, possibly compiled
by the original archivist and pictorial index; Play of the Month
Club ticket books from 1953 and 1954.
Box 236
Play of the Month Club subscribers.
Scope and Content Note
Contains index of Play of the Month Club subscribers, in
alphabetical order.
Box 237, Folders 1-17
B. Theater Periodicals.
1846-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes publications concerning the Little Theatre movement that feature
the Pasadena Community Playhouse: Little Theatres (New York Drama
League, December 1923), with an article on Gilmor Brown; The Little
Theatre Magazine (January and November 1933, and February 1934), with
photographs and news concerning the Playhouse and its activities; and
Little Theatre Arts (February 1937). Also contains serials published by
the American National Theatre Association (ANTA), 1960 and 1969; and
individual issues of titles including American Theatre Magazine (March
1940); Fink's Magazine (April 1908); The Play Pictorial (1905?); The
Playgoer (1939, 1941, 1954, undated); Script (Rob Wagner, September
1943); The Theater (1887-1890); Theater and School (January 1936); The
Theatre Annual (1943, 1944); Theatre in Education (April 1951); Theatre
Magazine (1924, 1926-1928); Theatrical Times (1846, 1847, 1849,
undated); and The Theatergoer (1942, 1945, 1946, 1948). Also includes
periodicals concerning general topics, such as the Pasadena Lens and TAB
(weekly entertainment guides, 1960) and Survey Graphic (1946), and music
(The Concertgoer, 1951).
C. Materials related to theater production.
Approximately
1857-1956
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials that appear to have been used for reference purposes
or as museum artifacts, rather than actively in plays produced by the
Playhouse.
Scripts and scores.
Approximately
1857-1956
Box 238, Folders 1-11
Playground Community Service of Pasadena
scripts.
Approximately
1929-1931
Scope and Content Note
Also includes a script for one scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin, plus
a library card, 1931 and undated.
Arrangement
Scripts arranged in alphabetical order by play title.
Theatre Arts Magazine scripts.
1948-1956
19th- and early 20th-century scripts and
scores.
Approximately
1857-1939
Box 241
Plays by Euripedes and Ibsen.
Scope and Content Note
Scripts include sides and a hardcover notebook with
pasted-in, annotated portions of a printed script for Medea
(Euripedes), 1857, undated; and a hardcover typescript of a
script for Brand (Henrik Ibsen, revised translation by
Gottfried Hult), undated.
Box 242, Folders 1-5
Various.
Scope and Content Note
Contains original scripts for Unparalleled Attraction!!! (C.
W. Tayleure, circa 1860-1890); Lucky Stars (George Robert
Graham, circa 1885?); and Keep Your Eye on the Corporal: A
Farce (W. J. Lucas, 1939), signed by Graham. Scores include
Music of MacBeth, arranged by J. M. Navoni, 1897, originally
the property of Tayleure; and It's Sun Up Now (Eugene
Lockhart, 1924), signed by actress Lucille LaVerne.
D. Programs and publicity materials.
Approximately
1861-1969
Scope and Content Note
Contains programs and other materials for theater and other arts
productions at venues other than the Pasadena Playhouse and its
precursors. Materials in 19th-century playbills and programs; souvenir
programs; and an assortment of programs from various regions of the
United States, chiefly in Southern California. Also includes a few
programs from countries outside of the United States.
19th-century playbills and programs: scrapbooks.
Approximately
1861-1890
Scope and Content Note
The materials were donated to the Playhouse Library by Edwin S.
White
Box 243, Folders 1-2
Civil War-era materials.
Scope and Content Note
Contains two disbound scrapbooks originally belonging to an actor
who performed before and during the Civil War; the scrapbooks
contain mostly playbills and clippings.
Box 244
Various materials.
Scope and Content Note
Contains one disbound scrapbook containing playbills, programs,
clippings, and other materials.
Souvenir programs.
Approximately
1870-1969
Scope and Content Note
Gift of Martin McCabe.
Various 19th- and 20th-century programs, theater and other
arts.
Approximately
1870-1969
Scope and Content Note
Most of the programs are from Southern California; other
well-represented areas include the Chicago area, New York City, and
Detroit.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged by region and then alphabetically by venue
name.
Venues in California.
Scope and Content Note
Except for the last folder in Box 250, materials are from
Southern California.
Venues outside of California.
Box 252, Folders 1-8
Chicago and other Illinois.
Box 253, Folders 1-6
Detroit, Boston, and other.
Scope and Content Note
Includes also various venues in the U.S. Midwest, East Coast,
South, and Southwest.
Box 254, Folders 1-11
Unidentified United States;
international.
E. Subject files.
Approximately
1879-1984
Acting, actors, and actresses.
Approximately
1860-1955
Box 255, Folders 1-11
Publicity books, photographs, other.
Approximately
1890-1938
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 256, Folders 1-11
Notes on theater, various typescripts.
Approximately
1927-1945
Scope and Content Note
Box originally labeled "Modjeska material." Materials include
notes on comedy; Charles Dickens; diction, voice, and speech;
and various topics on theater. Also included are typescripts of
radio programs on theater materials relating to Frederick
Blanchard, including a scrapbook, typed notes on Chinese
theater, and a typescript for Putting on Heirs: A Comedy in
Three Acts, written by Blanchard and Louis Piccirillo. Also
includes a second scrapbook, possibly belonging to Blanchard.
The relationship of these materials to the actress Helena
Modjeska is unclear.
Box 257, Folders 1-4
Malcolm MacDowell and William Haas.
Approximately
1900-1941
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of Malcolm MacDowell, circa 1918-1941; and
photographs relating to William "Uncle Bill" Haas, circa
1900-1930.
Box 258, Folders 1-6
Portraits of actors and actresses.
Approximately
1860-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographic portraits of actors, actresses, and
others, circa 1860-1969. Most are identified, some with
inscriptions, and some are not.
Box 259, Folders 1-6
Child actors and actresses.
Approximately
1890-1955
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographic portraits and some performance
photographs depicting child actors, circa 1915-1930; film,
television, and radio actors, circa 1920-1955; and actors and
actresses posed for studio portraits, circa 1890-1930.
Box 260
19th- and early 20th-century actors and
actresses.
Approximately
1880-1930
Scope and Content Note
Contains oversize prints of engravings depicting 19th- and
early 20th-century actors and actresses. Also includes a few
prints depicting landscapes and other scenes.
Box 261
Photograph albums.
Approximately
1880-1930
Scope and Content Note
Two photograph albums containing printed photographs and
signatures of various actors and actresses, presented
alphabetically by last name. The first album contains names
K-L, and the second U-Z.
Box 262
Scrapbook.
Approximately
1870-1900
Scope and Content Note
Scrapbook containing printed photographs depicting 19th
century actors and actresses, plus an undated memo to the
Playhouse librarian identifying the item's donor. Also
includes scrapbook pages, possibly from a scrapbook owned by
Annette Gabrielson.
Box DAG-68
Daguerreotype of Civil War actor.
Approximately
1861-1865
Box 281, Folders 8-9
Negatives: Various.
Approximately
1935-1939, undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains negatives of photographs depicting the Library; a
ballet company, possibly the Harlem ballet, possibly part of
a poster donated by Sidney Houston; a ship; a
party/costumes; and an altar, possibly part of a stage
design.
Drama and theater.
Approximately
1910-1961
Box 263, Folders 1-21
General topics.
Approximately
1910-1961
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials concerning theater education, Chinese drama,
modern drama, the Little Theatre movement, press and publicity,
set and stage design, Shakespeare, and other topics. Also
includes Works Progress Administration research bulletins on
theater in San Francisco.
Box 264, Folders 1-2
Theater history: costumes and fashion.
1961, undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains Fairfax Walkup scrapbook pages on theater history,
including fashion, costume, and dress.
Theater organizations.
Approximately
1910-1961
Box 266, Folders 1-10
Other organizations.
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials relating to the Drama League of Chicago;
the Player's Club; American National Theater Academy; and
National Theatre Conference.
Other topics.
Approximately
1879-1984
Box 267, Folders 1-15
Dance, film, and music, and other.
Scope and Content Note
Includes files concerning dance, film, painting, music, and
poetry, along with some material on education and on the
humanities.
Box 268, Folders 1-10
History, geography, and travel.
Scope and Content Note
Includes files concerning history, geography, travels and
tourism, and various other topics, including snapshots from
La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1931 and other materials relating
to Pasadena and Southern California.
Box 269
Various.
Scope and Content Note
Contains various oversize materials, including performance
photographs, portraits of actors and actresses, programs,
and posters. Includes banner for Cherry Blossom Players at
the Hotel Huntington, presented by the management of the
Huntington, the Green, and the Maryland hotels and Clarence
McGehee, [1916?]; a program for a benefit concert for
survivors of an earthquake in Italy and Sicily, 1909, at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York City; and a cloth poster
for The Rivals, 1889, at the Park Theatre, donated to the
Pasadena Playhouse Museum and Library and including a note
from Gilmor Brown to the Library director regarding the
donation. Also includes a hand-lettered poster for the
Pasadena Amateur Dramatic Company featuring a photographic
portrait showing company members (circa 1886) and a facsimile
of the first theatre program of a Southern California
vaudeville show in Los Angeles, in Spanish.
F. Additional research materials.
Approximately
1960-1995
Scope and Content Note
Contains research aids created mostly by Huntington Library archivists
and volunteers; some materials may have been created prior to the
Huntington's acquisition of the Pasadena Playhouse records in 1987. Item
numbers no longer correspond to the collection's arrangement, but the
indexes provide valuable information to find materials by performer,
date, and other categories.
Card catalog indexes.
Scope and Content Note
Card catalog containing indexes to the Pasadena Playhouse and the
Theater Collection. The catalog provides an alphabetical index of
people involved with the Playhouse, with cards listing name, role in
a production and production title, date, and venue. The Theatre
Collection provides information on productions arranged by
playwright, region, programs in chronological order and by
performer. Also includes an index of photographs previously in the photCL 327 or Album 327
collection.
Box 270, Folders 1-6
Guides to Pasadena Playhouse plays.
Scope and Content Note
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.
Performer Index.
Scope and Content Note
Contains professional photographs, biographical information, and
clippings about performers, arranged alphabetically by last name.
Performers were not necessarily involved with the Playhouse.
Box 281, Folder 10
Negatives: Performer Index, B-S
Scope and Content Note
Includes images of Robert Redington Sharpe, taken by
photographer Gordon Spalding.
Famous people and their programs.
Approximately
1870-1925
Scope and Content Note
Programs arranged alphabetically by last name of person. Not
necessarily connected with Pasadena Playhouse.
Series VIII. Related personal collections.
Approximately 1904-1989
Physical Description: 59 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Contains personal papers of people affiliated with the Playhouse. Included are the papers of writer, producer, director, and
actor Bobker Ben Ali (1921-1985), whose play, Manya: The Story of Marie Curie, helped to launch the career of William Holden;
actor, director, and artist Frederick Blanchard (1878-1948); actor and staff director Vincent Yardley Bowditch (1916-1985),
who also served as co-director at its College of Theatre Arts; dancer and actor Phil Cook, who studied at the Playhouse before
embarking on a career in touring theater; actress, writer, director, and singer June Evans, who was active at the Playhouse
from approximately 1930-1960; Ambassador Hotel Theater manager William "Uncle Bill" Haas; actor Graydon Spalding (1911-1993);
set designer Helen Howell, active at the Playhouse from approximately 1927-1936; actor and teacher Oliver Prickett (1905-1992);
actor Graydon Spalding (1911-1993); actress and associate director Eloise Sterling, active at the Playhouse from approximately
1916-1925; and writer Philip Van Dyke.
A. Ben Ali, Bobker.
1924-1983
Box 283, Folders 1-12
Performance and publicity photographs.
1924-1974
Box 284, Folders 1-12
Scripts.
Approximately 1935-1954
Scope and Content Note
Contains material written chiefly by ben Ali, including several copies of Manya, many containing cues and other annotations.
Also includes scripts by other playwrights, some with annotations.
Box 285, Folders 1-10
Writings and correspondence about William Holden.
1973-1982
Scope and Content Note
Contains typescripts and research materials for ben Ali's unpublished writings about William Holden, Holden: Bill: A Memoir,
parts 1 and 2 (1973-1974) and Bill: A Memoir of William Holden (1981-1982). Also includes a typescript of film scholar Martin
Sopocy's unpublished biography of the actor, Actor in an Art Business: The Hollywood of William Holden (1977) and correspondence
between Ben Ali and Sopocy, 1973-1982.
Box 286, Folders 1-10
Biographical.
Approximately 1937-1983
Scope and Content Note
Contains biographical information; correspondence; employment agreements; clippings, primarily mentioning Manya; programs,
some listing ben Ali; design drawings; and a typescript for a prose piece, 1983.
Oversize materials.
Scope and Content Note
Contains scrapbooks and two original posters for performance of Manya at Pasadena Jr. College, listing Robert Ben Ali as author
and director.
B. Blanchard, Frederick.
Approximately 1930-1948
Scope and Content Note
Contains one scrapbook and scores, scripts, and other materials that appear to have belonged to actress Helena Modjeska (1840-1909).
Their connection to Blanchard is not identified.
Box 288
Scores and scripts.
1909, undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains handwritten scores and scripts for Les Chouans, many annotated, for production(s) of Romeo and Juliet; also contains
a photograph of Helene Modjeska taken by Madame Wineman (1909).
Box 289
Prompt book and autograph album.
1898-1913, undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains a prompt book for the play East Lynne, labeled as property of Modjeska; and an autograph album, with signatures dating
approximately 1904-1913. The album contains a few letters as well, including two dated 1898 from C. Leslie Allen to Mrs. George
Morgan, Highland Park.
C. Bowditch, Vincent.
1938-1940, 1984
Box 290, Folders 1-3
Vincent Bowditch scrapbooks.
Scope and Content Note
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.
D. Cook, Philip.
Approximately 1920-1975
Box 291, Folders 1-8
Biographical.
Approximately 1920-1975
Scope and Content Note
Contains student records from Cook's Playhouse years; resumes; memos and meeting minutes from Cook's service as a director
at the Foundation for Performing Arts; performance and publicity photographs of Cook and others; and a disbound scrapbook.
Scrapbooks.
Approximately
1943-1957
Box 292
Pasadena Playhouse and Kiss Me Kate.
1947-1949, 1952
Scope and Content Note
Contains two scrapbooks.
Box 293
Oklahoma!
1943-1952
Scope and Content Note
Contains three scrapbooks, one disbound.
Box 294
Oklahoma! Touring, 1949-1950.
Scope and Content Note
Contains two scrapbooks.
Box 295
Oklahoma! Touring, 1950-1951.
Scope and Content Note
Contains two scrapbooks.
Box 296
Mister Roberts and Walk Tall.
1953
Scope and Content Note
Contains one scrapbook.
Box 297
Tour with Diosa Costello; Seventh Heaven.
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
Contains two scrapbooks. Cook was part of the trio, Diosa Costello and her Caballeros, along with Mario Regis; Diosa Costello
was, according to one source, the first Latina on Broadway.
Box 298
Kismet.
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
Contains two scrapbooks.
Box 299
The King and I.
1957
Scope and Content Note
Contains one scrapbook.
Box 300
1920s theater materials.
Approximately 1920-1929
Scope and Content Note
Contains one scrapbook; materials were possibly collected by Cook.
E. Evans, June.
Approximately 1920-1960
Box 301, Folders 1-9
Biographical and agreements.
Scope and Content Note
Contains agreements and contracts, including Actors Equity; biography and resumes; and clippings.
Box 302
Scrapbooks.
Scope and Content Note
Includes two scrapbooks containing photographs, scripts, programs, and publicity.
F. Haas, William.
Approximately 1911-1955
Scope and Content Note
Contains chiefly studio portraits of actors and actresses dating approximately 1917-1932, most of them inscribed to Uncle
Bill Haas. Also contains some group portraits and many photographs depicting child actors and actresses.
Box 303, Folders 1-7
Actors and actresses, A-S.
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs of Dorothy and Lillian Gish and of the actor Redwing.
Box 304, Folders 1-12
Actors and Actresses, T-Z.
Scope and Content Note
Also contains some group photographs and a few photographs of Haas, including with Charlie Chaplin.
Box 305
Photographs of Actresses.
Scope and Content Note
Contains oversize photographs of actresses, most of them identified.
G. Howell, Helen.
Approximately 1929-1936
Box 306
Scrapbook.
Scope and Content Note
Contains one disbound scrapbook with theater programs, clippings, and pencil and color design sketches, and photographs. Also
includes a color sketch, hand-drawn poster, and photographs of set designs by Howell for various Playhouse productions dating
approximately 1929-1932; the photographs were taken by Gordon Spalding.
Box 307, Folders 1-25
Clippings and designs.
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings; handwritten design notes; a floor sheet; lists of plays, sketches, and models; programs; set designs;
and correspondence, including a letter from Gilmor Brown. Materials are dated 1929-1936; some are undated.
H. Prickett, Oliver.
Approximately 1905-1989
Box 308, Folders 1-6
Clippings, correspondence, and programs.
Approximately 1921-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes programs for productions for which Oliver Prickett served as actor, director, or manager, plus a list of his productions
and notice of honorary Master's degree.
Box 309
Scrapbooks.
Approximately 1905-1955
Scope and Content Note
Contains two scrapbooks, one originally belonging to Playbox director Maurice Wells, and one containing clippings, tickets,
fliers, and other ephemera about the community theater movement in Pasadena, Hollywood, and San Francisco about the Pasadena
Community Playhouse.
I. Shoup, Gail.
Approximately 1918-1966
Box 280, Folder 17
Negatives. Buildings and painting sets.
Box 310, Folders 1-15
Administrative, brochures, and fliers.
Box 311, Folders 1-18
Pasadena Playhouse history and building plans.
Scope and Content Note
Contains building and floor plans; documents detailing Playhouse history and organizational structure; and a player's manual,
yearbook, and programs.
Box 314
Oral history interviews.
Scope and Content Note
Contains ten audiocassettes of interviews Shoup conducted in the 1960s. The interviews were digitized by the
California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) in 2018 and are
being hosted by the Internet Archive. Contents same as audiotapes 1-4 in Box 359.
Folder OV 6
Building plans - Present structure and proposed additions.
1945, undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains original and copies.
J. Spalding, Graydon.
Approximately 1928-1984
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs, fliers, programs, and clippings documenting local community theater and the Little Theater movement,
including the work of actor Spalding, who appeared in the world premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed in 1928 and continued
to act at the Playhouse through the 1930s; acted at other San Gabriel Valley venues; and presented one-man shows and workshops
for drama classes at Pasadena High School, Pasadena City College, and others. Graydon Spalding later worked in the Rare Books
Department of the Huntington Library; his brother, Gordon Spalding, worked as a photographer for the Playhouse, primarily
taking publicity photographs.
Box 315, Folders 1-7
Programs and clippings.
Scope and Content Note
Contains assorted programs, photographs, and clippings.
Box 316, Folders 1-4
Personal; Little Theatre.
Scope and Content Note
Contains personal documents and files concerning Little Theater.
Box 317, Folders 1-7
Personal; Pasadena Playhouse.
Scope and Content Note
Contains chiefly personal documents; also includes files concerning Little Theater, Pasadena Playhouse scripts (sides), and
clippings.
Box 318, Folders 1-6
Programs, articles, clippings.
Scope and Content Note
Contains programs, autographed materials, clippings, and materials concerning the Shakespeare Clubhouse and speech course.
Box 319, Folders 1-3
San Gabriel Valley theater.
Scope and Content Note
Contains files concerning San Gabriel Civic Theatre and assorted clippings.
Box 320, Folders 1-4
Articles, various.
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials relating to the Pasadena Theatre Club; Spectrum productions at California Institute of Technology; 18 Actors
Inc., and clippings.
Box 321, Folders 1-3
Fine Arts club.
Scope and Content Note
Contains Fine Arts Club of Pasadena yearbooks and bylaws, 1956-1977, plus a scrapbook.
Box 322
Spalding scrapbook, 1918-1942.
Box 323, Folders 1-8
Periodicals and programs.
Scope and Content Note
Also includes a book of poetry and other items.
Box 324, Folders 1-5
Programs, performance photos, 1940-1960.
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs taken by Graydon Spalding, plus contact sheets; also includes Playbox cast lists from 1953-1959 and various
theater memorabilia.
Box 326, Folders 1-8
Lazarus Laughed.
Scope and Content Note
Contains programs, clippings, photographs, and a scrapbook, 1928-1962.
Box 327, Folders 1-14
Various prints and papers.
Scope and Content Note
On original container: II and III.
Box 328, Folders 1-6
Workshop.
Scope and Content Note
On original container: III.
Box 329, Folders 1-7
School, other: Photographs.
Scope and Content Note
School, Patio Theatre, crew, and television. On original container: IV.
Box 330, Folders 1-7
Box II: 1 of 2.
Scope and Content Note
Negatives removed.
Box 332, Folders 1-15
Boxes III and IV, A-H [negatives for Boxes 315-327, 329-330].
Box 332a, Folder 1
Boxes III.
Scope and Content Note
RESTRICTED: Negatives are too fragile.
K. Sterling, Eloise.
Approximately 1925
Box 333
Eloise Sterling scrapbook.
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings and other materials depicting actors and actresses; Sterling is most prominently represented.
L. Van Dyke, Philip.
Approximately 1904, 1923-1967
Box 334, Folders 1-14
Biographical, personal, and writings.
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence; photographs; poetry and other writings, and numerous scripts by Van Dyke, chiefly for stage but also
for radio.
Box 335, Folders 1-6
Scripts and prose pieces.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a draft of a novel.
Box 336, Folders 1-9
Scripts and other writings.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a prose piece, A Journal of California.
Box 337, Folders 1-6
Clippings, programs, and periodicals.
Scope and Content Note
Materials reflect various stages of Van Dyke's career.
Box 338
Scrapbook of Melbourne MacDowell, 1901-1904.
Scope and Content Note
Connection with Van Dyke is unclear.
Box 339, Folders 1-12
Related personal collections: Negatives.
Scope and Content Note
Contains negatives from the papers of ben Ali, Blanchard, Cook, Howell, and Shoup.
Series IX. Index cards.
Physical Description: 19 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Contains index cards created by Susan Naulty, who oversaw Prints & Ephemera. These cards are the only item-level source for
locating performers and performance by name for all materials but particularly for photographs. Card includes the following
information: date, name, activity, title, theater, and special event.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by last name of participant, actor, director, etc.
Box 358
Wilson, L.-Drawings. Architectural
