Guide to the Partheneia Texts, Reports and Music
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Guide to the Partheneia Texts, Reports and Music
Collection number: CU-223
University Archives, The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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- University Archives
- The Bancroft Library
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
- Phone: (510) 642-2933
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- Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
- URL: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/university-archives/
- Processed by:
- The Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- March 2004
- Encoded by:
- James Lake
© 2004 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Partheneia texts, reports and music,
Date (inclusive): 1912-1936
Collection Number: CU-223
Creator:
University of California (1868-1952). Partheneia
Extent:
8 boxes (9.15 linear ft.)
Repository: The
Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Texts of the plays, annual reports on the preparation and completion of the year's activities, and original music composed
for the pageant.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Partheneia texts, reports and music, CU-223, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Materials were collected on an annual basis by University Archives; often as gifts of the authors and composers.
Administrative History
Partheneia, an original, open-air pageant or masque presented each spring term, was initiated in 1911 by Miss Lucy Sprague,
then dean of women. A competition for a student-written script was held in the previous fall term, the general theme being
that of the transition from girlhood into womanhood; 400-500 women took part in the performance.
The first Partheneia, presented on April 6, 1912, was performed under the oaks bordering the eucalyptus grove. It was not
a satisfactory location for spectators, however, and later performances were given in Faculty Glade. The Partheneia was produced
regularly until interest in pageantry declined generally. It was discontinued in 1931.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of texts of the plays, reports on the year's activities, and music composed or used in the productions.
There is a small amount of correspondence and one unused play at the end of series 1.
Series 1:
Texts and reports
Scope and Content Note
Texts may be typewritten or printed; many were printed as an annual feature in the campus periodical
Occident, and some of the texts noted below are in fact bound copies of the publication. Reports may be typewritten or in manuscript
form; many also contain clippings of newspaper accounts and programs, and a few contain photographs. Photographs may also
be found in University Archives pictorial collection.
1912: A masque of maidenhood, by Anna Rearden [Baeck]
box-folder 1:1
Text (for music see box 3)
1913: The awakening of everymaiden, by Evelyn Agnes Steel
box-folder 1:3
Text (for music see box 3)
1914: The dream of Derdra, by Helen Marion Cornelius
box-folder 1:5
Text (music by Ruth Esther Carroll not in collection)
1915: The queen's masque, by Mary Van Orden
box-folder 1:7
Text (music by Charles Louis Seeger not in this collection)
1916: Aranyani of the jasmine vine, by Maude Marion Meagher
box-folder 1:9
Text (for music see box 4)
1917: Youth's advocate, by Mariquita de Laguna
box-folder 1:11
Text (for music see box 4)
box-folder 1:13
1919: The newer Pandora, by Sarah Unna - report (music by Flora Rouleau not in collection)
Additional Note
The text may be found in the May 1919
Occident
1920: The poet's answer, by Priscilla Cavagnaro
box-folder 1:14
Text (for music see box 5)
1921: The lilies of Mirones, by Josephine Brown and Janet Brown
box-folder 1:16
Text (for music see box 5)
1922: The vision of Marpessa, by Harlow Wilson
box-folder 1:18
Text (for music see box 6)
1923: A thing of dust, by Claire Jones and Natalie Lowenthal, revised by Hildegard Flanner
1924: The merrie masque of May, by Marie Onions and Jean Dupont - text (for music see box 7)
box-folder 2:3
1925: Threads of the loom, by Nellie Hatchell
Additional Note
Text pasted in front cover of score, see box 7
box-folder 2:4
1926: There was a shepherdess, by Dorothy Damianakes - report (no music in this collection)
Additional Note
The text was not printed
box-folder 2:5
1927: The wings of Ranana, by Tanette Jaloff and Dora Richards Shattuck - text (for music see box 7)
box-folder 2:6
1928: Mara, a maid of the Balkans, by Virginia Russ and Genevra Shuey - program only
box-folder 2:7
1929: The Druid's weed, by Leslie Alice Koempl - Program and synopsis (for music see box 8)
1930: Judith, by Kathryn Eshleman and Betty Ballentine
Additional Note
Music: see box 8
box-folder 2:8
1931: The potter's wheel, by Cecilia Silverman and Gertrude Moore - text
box-folder 2:9
1932 correspondence re cancellation
box-folder 2:10
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1922-36
box-folder 2:11
Script contest rules, n.d.
box-folder 2:12
An Era of Eve - script, apparently submitted but unused.
Series 2:
Music
Scope and Content Note
Full score and parts unless otherwise noted, housed in original portfolios (some years in two portfolios). Some portfolios
have programs or other materials pasted in.
box 3
1912: Music by Edward McDowell; orchestration by Edward Griffith Stricklen
box 3
1913: Music by Edward Griffith Stricklen
box 4
1916: Music by Catherine Urner
box 4
1917: Music by Ruth Cornell and Sarah Unna
box 5
1920: Music by Mary Millard
box 5
1921: Music by J. Leon Ruddick, Marjorie C. Tracy, Marjorie W. Leach and Natalie Bigelow
box 6
1922: Music by Marjorie Tracy
box 6
1923: Music by Edward Griffith Stricklen
box 7
1924: Music by Edward German
box 7
1925: Music from Grieg, Appli, Berge, Schumann, Guirand, Troyer
box 7
1927: Music by Beatrice Cotton
box 8
1929: Music by Glen Haydon
box 8
1930: Music by Mary Glockler