Letters written by Dan Totheroh, 1927-1966
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Letters written to Totheroh
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Letters from various agents, 1939-1974, arranged chronologically (one folder)
Congratulatory telegrams on play openings (one folder)
MSS of plays
Alice in Wonderland - adapted by Totheroh for a Mt. Tamalpais play
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Alice Through the Looking Glass - adapted by Totheroh
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Attack on a Glass House
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Birds of a Feather
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Chocolate for My Darling
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Cora Potts
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Death on Sunday Typescript. The Devil and Daniel Webster
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Eden Ends
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The Emperor's Nightingale - suggested by Hans Christian Andersen's story, The Nightingale.
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The First of the Blacks
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Flamenca - Mt. Tamalpais play
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Ghost of a Chance
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He Belongs to the Ages - a TV play
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The Heart of Pierrot
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In Dark Confusion
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Kismet - adapted by Totheroh from an Arabian Night by Edward Knoblock
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Live Life Again
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A Lost Lady - dramatized from Willa Cather's novel
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Meadowlark, Change Your Song
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The Monterey Centennial Pageant (1949) - Frank Lloyd, co-author
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Moor Born - TV adaptation by Keith Fisk
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Mother Lode
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New World Forward!
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Night Club - dramatized from the short story by Katharine Brush
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Once Upon an Earthquake
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Peer Gynt - adapted by Totheroh for a Mt. Tamalpais play
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Prancing Nigger - dramatized from the novel by Ronald Firbank
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The Princess Salome
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Quick Silver - operetta; book by Totheroh
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Rain Angels
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Rip of the Mountain - Mt. Tamalpais play
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Robin Hood - Mt. Tamalpais play
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Rough an' Ready (A Mountain Play of the days of `49)
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Searching for the Sun
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The Sheep Are Kneeling
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Tamalpa - Mt. Tamalpais play
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Traipsin' Woman - suggested by the novel, The Traipsin' Woman, by Jean Thomas Annotated mimeographed copy.
Wind in the Sails
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MSS of other writings
Be Still and Know; the Story of Mary of Magdala [novel]
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Big Sur Gothic [story]
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Bimbo's Christmas Presents [story]
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A Christmas Paper (1958)
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Egg Hunt [story]
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Going Hollywood 1946 [novel]
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How to Direct the Amateur Play
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Men Call Me Fool - screen treatment based on his novel of the same name. Typescript.
Rockmont Gothic - former title Mark Orme [novel]
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A Short History of the Tamalpais Mountain Play from 1913 to 1968
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The Song of the Phoenix [novel]
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Tailspin's Boy [novella]
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A Talk on Victorian Poetry - S.F. Women's Club, Nov. 15, 1963
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Visions [story]
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Zoo in Budapest [screenplay]
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Folder of poems written by Totheroh Typescripts, clippings, etc.
Screenplay for Deep Valley, by Salka Viertel and Stephen M. Avery, based on Totheroh's novel (Mimeographed copy)
Libretto for The Oregon Trail by Marion Morrey, based on Totheroh's play, Distant Drums
Biographical information
Awards
Programs for Totheroh plays
Programs for plays (not his own) directed by Totheroh
Publicity material for Totheroh's plays and for his personal appearances
Lyrics for songs, with musical settings
Mt. Tamalpais play announcements, publicity material, programs, etc.
Mountain Play Association - miscellaneous items including drawing of stage measurements; copy of financial report for Rip of the Mountain, 196l; Newsletter; press release; photograph of plaque to Garnet Holme, etc.
Bohemian Club announcements
Contracts, including publishing agreements and dramatic contracts, 1929-1966 (2 folders)
Copyrights - certifications of copyright registration, applications for renewal, etc.
Royalty statements (7 folders)
Financial records (6 folders)
The Wanderer (v. 1, no. 1 & v. 2, no. 10) containing poems by Totheroh
Wild Birds-1st edition: inscribed
Clippings re Totheroh
Clippings re The Cove Players, Tiburon
Clippings re Mountain plays
Miscellaneous clippings
Miscellany
17 scrapbooks containing clippings re production and reviews of his plays, reviews of plays he directed, reviews of his novels and of movies based on his screenplays, etc.; clippings about Totheroh; occasional photographs and snapshots of actors and of production scenes; programs and publicity material for plays, occasional congratulatory letters and telegrams, etc. As follows:
ca. 1925-1929. Primarily re Wild Birds and reviews of his novels, Wild Orchard and Men Call Me Fool.
ca. 1934-1944. Contains material re the plays Mother Lode, Searching for the Sun, Live Life Again, Wind in the Sails, Distant Drums, Moor Born, etc.
ca. 1932-1938. Contains material re the plays Distant Drums and Moor Born and the movies Zoo in Budapest and Dawn Patrol.
ca. 1945-1947. Contains material re the plays Live Life Agair Distant Drums and Tamalpa and for the Carmel production of The Time of Your Life directed by Totheroh. Photograph of Totheroh pasted in on back cover.
ca. 1940-1956. Material re the plays Rough an' Ready, The Pied Piper, The Stolen Prince, Wild Birds; his novel, Deep Valley and the film based on the novel; the film, All That Money Can Buy; clipping of Totheroh's play, Seeing the Ele- phant, as published in Scholastic, Apr. 29, 1940; Bohemian Club programs for plays.
ca. 194l- 1953. Material re the plays Distant Drums, Wild Birds, A Chinese Legend, Rough an' Ready, and for various plays directed by Totheroh.
ca. 1949-1955. Material re pageant, Beginnings of Statehood, and the play, Once Upon an Earthquake; and material re the Wharf Players (Monterey, Calif.) and the Cove Players (Ti- buron, Calif.).
ca. 1949-1958. Material re the Mountain play Rough an' Ready
1960. Material re the Mountain play, Alice in Wonderland
196l. Material re the Mountain play, Robin Hood.
1962. Material re the Mountain play, Rip of the Mountain
1964. Material re the Mountain play, Flamenca
1965-1968. Material re the Mountain plays Rough an' Ready, Peer Gynt on the Mountain, Kismet and Alice through the Looking Glass
1967. Material re production of Traipsin' Woman at University Theatre, University of Denver
1963 & 1970. Material re Tamalpa and other Mountain plays
ca. 1956-1972. Material re Cove Players (Tiburon, Calif.), the Mountain play Rough an' Ready, and the Bohemian Club Christmas Jinks, The Sheep Are Kneeling.
ca. 1939-1967. Material re the play Traipsin' Woman and for various plays directed by Totheroh; material re his film plays, etc.
Announcements for plays
Plaque presented to Totheroh by the Mountain Play Association, June 1970
Aldis, Mary
Letter, n.d. congratulating Totheroh on Wild Birds
Bancroft Library
Letter, Aug. 8, 1972. From James D. Hart, director. Requesting Totheroh's papers for the Library. With this: holograph statement by Totheroh concerning donation of his papers.
Barker, Chester W.
2 letters, n.d. Re music for Tamalpa.
Barrett, Edith
2 letters, 1975. Actress who appeared in Moor Born.
Bates, Blanche
see Norris, Charles G.
Benét, William Rose, 1886-
Letter, Apr. 24, 1934. Re Moor Born.
Benkovitz, Miriam J.
2 letters, 196l. Re her bibliography of Ronald Firbanks.
Bird, Remsen DuBois, 1888-
Letter, June 6, 1965
Bohemian Club, San Francisco
10 letters, 1956-1972. Several from W. C. Bacon, chairman of the Sequoia Trust Fund.
Bondi, Beulah
3 letters, 1962-1974 & n.d.
see also Thomas, Jean.
Brandt & Brandt
6 letters, 1931-1967
Brown, Edmund Gerald, 1905-
Letter, [1966]. Greetings to participants and spectators at the Mountain Play on Mt. Tamalpais.
Brush, Katharine, 1902-
Letter, Nov. 10, 1941. Re Totheroh's adaptation of her story, Night Club. With this: 2 letters from her heir, re renewal of copyright.
Bynner, Witter, 188l-1968
2 letters, 1925
Caen, Herbert Eugene, 19l6-
2 letters, 1975. Addressed to David Forsberg. With these: copies of 2 letters from Forsberg to Caen.
California. Centennials Commission
2 letters, 1949
Clark, Barrett Harper, 1890-1953
see Dramatists Play Service Incorporated.
Cochran, Charles B.
Letter, Nov. 3, 1937. Comments on Totheroh's adaptation of Ronald Firbank's novel, Prancing Nigger.
Coward-McCann, Inc.
Letter, Feb. 3, 1939. Re Totheroh's dramatization of Ronald Firbank's novel, Prancing Nigger.
see also Hayward (Leland) Inc.
see also Liebling-Wood, Inc.
see also Cochran, Charles B.
Douglas, Helen (Gahagan), 1900-
4 letters, 1962-1965 & n.d. One written for her by her secretary.
see also Douglas, Melvyn.
Douglas, Melvyn, 190l-
4 letters, 1960-1964. Letter, Feb. 9, 1962, has added notes from Helen G. Douglas and their children. One letter written for him by his secretary.
Dramatists' Play Service Incorporated
5 letters, 1941-1969. Include letters from Barrett H. Clark. Some relate to Night Club and Live Life Again.
Ferber, Edna, 1887-
Signed statement, [1924]. Holograph note added.
Pirbanks, Ronald
For letters about him and his novel Prancing Nigger
see Benkovitz, Miriam J.
see Coward-McCann, Inc.
see Hayward (Leland) Inc.
see Liebling-Wood, Inc.
see Cochran, Charles B.
see O'Bryen, Linnit and Dunfee (London)
see MS of Totheroh's play based on the novel (carton 1)
Fisk, Howard Keith
Letter, Apr; 9, 1958. Carbon copy, signed, addressed to Frank Price. Re his adaptation of Moor Born for television.
French (Samuel) Inc.
20 letters, 1928-1972. Re agreements covering publication and acting rights for his plays.
[Goddard, Paulette]
Letter, July 20, 1937. Written for her by Catherine Hunter. Commenting on his play, Moor Born.
Hart, Moss, 1904-
Letter, n.d.
Harvard University
6 letters, 1964-1965. Re material donated to the Harvard Theatre Collection.
Hayward (Leland) Inc.
Letter, Jan. l6, 1939. Re Prancing Nigger. Enclosure: copy of letter, Jan. 9, 1939, from Coward-McCann, Inc.
Holme, Garnet
Letter, n.d.
Irwin, Inez (Haynes), 1873-
2 letters, 1924-1934. Letter, Apr. 24, 1924, addressed to Kathleen Norris; re Wild Birds.
Irwin, Will[iam Henry], 1873-1948
Letter, Apr. l2, [1924]. Addressed to Kathleen Norris; re Wild Birds.
Lasky, Jesse Louis, 1880-
Letter, Apr. 4, 1933. Re the movie, Zoo in Budapest.
Leake, Chauncey [Depew], 1896-
Letter, July 27, 1960
Liebling-Wood, Inc.
Letter, Feb. 25, 1939. Re Totheroh's dramatization of Ronald Firbank's novel, Prancing Nigger.
Loew's Incorporated
3 letters, 1948-1956. Re renewal of copyright for The Breaking of the Calm.
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
Letter, Feb. 7, 1932. Comments on Distant Drums.
Mountain Play Association
Letter, May 5, 1972. Photocopy of letter addressed to chairman of American Cancer Society's Special Events Committee; proposing Totheroh for Night of Roses award. Enclosure: photocopy of biographical sketch for Totheroh.
Munson, Ona
Postcard, ca. Sept. 28, 1949
Nathan, George Jean
Letter, Apr. 25, 1934. Copy; re Moor Born.
Negalesco, Jean
Letter, Aug. 29, 1947. Comments on reviews of the film Deep Valley, which he directed.
New York Drama League, Inc.
Letter, Apr. 28, 1925
Nicholson, Kenyon
Letter, Nov. 10, 1927. Thanking Totheroh for the novelization of his play.
Niles, Blair
2 letters, 1934. Re Moor Born.
Norris, Charles G[ilman], 1881-1945
Letter, n.d.to [Blanche Bates]. On the verso is her reply.
Norris, Kathleen (Thompson), 1880-1966
Letter, [1924] and telegram, Aug. 2, 1947
O'Bryen, Linnit and Dunfee (London)
5 letters, 1937. Re dramatic rights for Prancing Nigger.
O'Neil, Nance, 1874-1965
Telegram, letter, & note on a Christmas card, 1934-1963. With these: note from an unidentified correspondent re Miss O'Neil and clippings.
O'Neill, Eugene [Gladstone], 1888-1953
Letter, Mar. 28, [1925?] Re Wild Birds.
Pattison, Ellen J.
Letter, July 16, 1943. Re Totheroh's play based on life of Walt Whitman. Addressed to Audrey Wood.
Pilkington, John, 1918-
2 letters, 1967. Re his proposed edition of Stark Young letters.
Pollock, Channing, 1880-1946
Letter, Apr. 30, 1925. Re Wild Birds.
Reed, Florence
Letter, n.d.
Richter, Marion Morrey
Letter, Jan. 24, 1966. Re the music she had written for his play, Distant Drums.
Roach (Hal) Studios Inc.
2 letters, 1951-1952. Re dramatic rights for Once Upon an Earthquake.
Rolph, James, 1869-1934
Telegram, Apr. 9, 1925. Congratulating him on his play, Wild Birds.
Samuels, Maurice Victor, 1874-
Letter, Apr. 14, 1925. Re Wild Birds.
Serlin, Oscar, 1901-
Letter, Nov. 23, 1944. Re a play written by Totheroh.
Sharmat, Stephen W.
4 letters, 1963. Discusses possibility of musical version of The Devil and Daniel Webster.
Skinner, R. Dana
Letter, May 9, 1925. Re Wild Birds.
Spiro, Leon
Letter, Mar. 15, 1965. Enclosure: broadside with his poem.
Starr, Frances
5 letters, and cards, 1967 & n.d. Actress who appeared in Moor Born.
Stone, Carol
Letter, n.d. Actress. Comments on The Emperor's Nightingale.
Thomas, Jean
2 letters, 1959-1964. One addressed to Beulah Bondi, with Miss Bondi's note on verso.
Towne, Charles Hanson, 1877-1949
Letter, Apr. 26, 1934. Re Moor Born.
U.S. Copyright Office
Letter, Nov. 24, 1959. Re renewal of copyright for Night Club.
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation
2 letters, 1960-1971
Wisconsin University. Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research
9 letters, 1962-1965. Discussing formation of a Dan Totheroh Collection.
Young, Stark, 1881-
Letter, Apr. 26, 1934. Copy, to Harry Weinberger. Re Moor Born.