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box 1

Biographical material.

General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 1

Report of Zoë Akins Collection in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1951.

box 1

Correspondence.

General Physical Description note: 1 piece.
box 1

Another Darling.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 1

An Attic in Paris.

General Physical Description note: A play.

Scope and Contents note

( First Love) Adapted by Zoë Akins from the French play Pile On Face, by Louis Verneuil.
box 1

Babylonian Lullaby.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 1

The Bed.

General Physical Description note: Manuscript story.
box 1

Blood and Ink. An interview of Zoë Akins for radio broadcast.

box 1

A Bruised Reed.

General Physical Description note: Typescript story.
box 1

Cake Upon the Waters.

Scope and Contents note

Synopsis of a novel.
box 1

Careers.

Scope and Contents note

A play in three separate episodes.
box 1

Colonel Pat.

General Physical Description note: Typescript story.
box 1

A Country House Idyll.

Scope and Contents note

2 versions of the story.
box 1

Déclassé.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 1

Did It Really Happen.

Scope and Contents note

Two copies of the play, and one copy of the adaptation by Hugo Rumbold.
box 1

The Evening Star.

General Physical Description note: Two copies of suggested treatment for screenplay.
box 2

The Florist's Shop.

General Physical Description note: Typescript story.
box 2

The Food of Love.

General Physical Description note: A Screenplay.
box 2

The Toy Wife.

General Physical Description note: A Screenplay.

General note

[out of alpha sequence]
box 2

The Furies.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 2

The Glare.

General Physical Description note: Typescript story.
box 2

The Greeks Had a Word for It.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 2

Green Mansions.

General Physical Description note: A treatment.
box 2

Guide Posts for Screen Writers. An interview with Zoë. Akins by Russell Bledsoe.

box 2

Hatter's Castle.

General Physical Description note: A screenplay.
box 2

Akins, Zoë, and Rumbold, Hugo. The Human Element. (From the short story by W. Somerset Maugham.)

General Physical Description note: Two versions of the play.
box 2

I Am Different. A comedy adapted from the Hungarian of Lili Hatvany.

box 2

I Write Good Parts.

General Physical Description note: An article.
box 2

Instead of Advice.

General Physical Description note: An article.
box 2

The Little Miracle.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 2

Lost and Found.

General Physical Description note: A synopsis and a play.
box 2

Lallah.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 3

The Love Duel.

General Physical Description note: A synopsis and a play.
box 3

The Love Potion.

General Physical Description note: A synopsis and a play.
box 3

The Magical City.

General Physical Description note: 3 copies.

Scope and Contents note

A one-act play in free verse.
box 3

The Magnificent Mistake.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 3

Major Barbara.

Scope and Contents note

A screen treatment, based on the play by Bernard Shaw.
box 3

Miss Hargreaves.

General Physical Description note: A treatment.
box 3

Morning Glory.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 3

New York Nocturne

General Physical Description note: A play.

General note

(From the Magical City, see above).
box 3

New Year's Day.

Scope and Contents note

Outline for a screenplay, based on the novel by Edith Wharton.
box 3

One Night In Turino.

General Physical Description note: An article.
box 3

Orchids.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 3

Paris In May.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 3

Phaëthon.

Scope and Contents note

A drama in a prologue and three acts.
box 3

Plans For Tomorrow.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 3

The Playhouse and the Playwright.

General Physical Description note: An article.
box 3

The Portrait of Tiero.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 3

A Preliminary Honeymoon.

General Physical Description note: Two copies of a synopsis.
box 3

Pride and Prejudice.

Scope and Contents note

A screenplay, based on the novel by Jane Austen.
box 4

The Promise To Caroline.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 4

The Recognition.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 4

The Romance of Robert and Clara Schumann.

Scope and Contents note

A screenplay.
box 4

A Royal Fandango.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 4

Sea-Change.

General Physical Description note: An outline for a play.
box 4

The Shanghai Crowd.

General Physical Description note: A synopsis of a play.
box 4

A Secret of Sienna.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 4

The Singing Swans.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 4

A Slave Is Free.

General Physical Description note: A film treatment. Two copies.
box 4

The Starling.

General Physical Description note: A play, holograph, unfinished.
box 4

Starvation On Red River.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 4

Such a Charming Young Man.

General Physical Description note: A one-act play.
box 4

The Swallow's Nest.

Scope and Contents note

A play, based on the novel Return Engagement, by Gwen Davenport.
box 4

The Texas Nightingale.

General Physical Description note: A treatment and a play.
box 4

The Trojan Pony.

General Physical Description note: An outline for a play and screenplay.
box 4

The Unforgettable Red Emma.

General Physical Description note: An article.
box 4

The Varying Shore.

General Physical Description note: A play.
box 4

The Wild Goose Chase.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 4

The Woman Who Killed Her Pearls.

Scope and Contents note

A story.
box 4

Working Girls.

Scope and Contents note

A screenplay, adapted from the play Blind Mice, by Vera Caspary and Winifred Lenihan.
box 4

One untitled article about Irving Thalberg.

General Physical Description note: Also, three unidentified pages of typescript material.