Booth Tarkington playbills collection, 1910-1926

Printable guide [HTML]
Request items

Summary

Abstract:
This 10 item collection consists of playbills for productions of plays by, or adapted from stories by, Booth Tarkington. Tarkington is best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams", and is only one of three American authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.
Extent:
0.9 linear feet. 1 box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Booth Tarkington playbills collection, Collection no. 6161, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

This 10 item collection consists of playbills for productions of plays by, or adapted from stories by, Booth Tarkington. All productions were at theaters in New York City. Included is the Park Theatre's production of "Poldekin" starring Geroge Arliss, September 27, 1920; Henry Miller's Theatre, "The Intimate Strangers" starring Billie Burke, December 5, 1921; Maxine Elliott's Theatre, "Hello Lola!", based on Tarkington's novel and play "Seventeen", February 8, 1926; the Hudson Tehatre, "Clarence", March 22, 1920; the New Amsterdam Theatre, "Monsieur Beaucaire", based on Tarkington's story, February 2, 1920; the Park Theatre, "The Man From Home", starring William Hodge, February 14, 1910; the Liberty Theatre, "Magnolia", starring Leo Carillo, August 27, 1923; the Empire Theatre, "Rose Briar", starring Billie Burke, February 19, 1923; the Booth Theatre, "Seventeen", March 18, 1918; and the Frazee Theatre, "Tweedles", August 13, 1923.

Biographical / historical:

Booth Tarkington is best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams", and is only one of three American authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike). Tarkington's work was immensely popular in the 1910s and 1920s.

Acquisition information:
Transferred from the American Literature book collection, August 2018.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Booth Tarkington playbills collection, Collection no. 6161, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Doheny Memorial Library, Room G-24
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1822, US
Contact:
(213) 740-0183
ajustice@usc.edu
Website