MS 421
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: |
Cullen, Frank, 1936-?,
McNeilly, Donald, 1945-,
American Museum of Vaudeville |
| Collection Name: | American Vaudeville Museum collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1845-2007 |
| Bulk Dates: | (bulk 1910-1940) |
| Physical Description: | 66.8 linear feet |
| Abstract: | This collection consists of materials documenting vaudeville and other entertainment in the United States, particularly in the 1910s through 1940s. Primary materials such as photographs, scrapbooks and handwritten stage scripts document the careers of particular performers. There are substantial numbers of sheet music and theatre programs, and a large LP collection. The collection focuses on vaudeville but encompasses other forms and eras of American entertainment as well. |
| Collection Number: | MS 421 |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
This archive was collected by Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly, founders of the American Museum of Vaudeville (commonly referred to as the American Vaudeville Museum) in Boston. Many of the materials pertain to the Boston and New York areas. Some items were purchased by Cullen and McNeilly; others were contributed by fans and other interested persons, or by family members of performers from the vaudeville era. Many of the histories gathered by Cullen and McNeilly were published in their periodical, The Vaudeville Times. The culmination of their research appeared in their two-volume encyclopedia, Vaudeville Old & New, co-authored also by Florence Hackman. The collection was donated by the Museum in 2008.
This collection, originally located at the American Vaudeville Museum in Boston, comprises theatre programs and postcards, sheet music, magazines, playbills, photographs and posters, stage scripts and other manuscripts, clippings and scrapbooks, films, miscellaneous papers, and a large collection of LP albums, as well as some entertainers' costumes and accessories. Some materials are included as photocopies rather than in original form. There are primary materials such as scrapbooks and handwritten stage scripts that document the careers of particular performers, often couples or family members. The collection focuses on vaudeville but encompasses other forms and eras of American entertainment as well, such as film and recorded music.
Specific descriptions of scope and content are provided for each series, along with biographical notes for the individual performers' collections.
Many of the items in this collection are extremely fragile and therefore not available for handling. For the scrapbooks in particular, reference photocopies have been provided for viewing.
Patrons must use motion picture reels under the direct supervision of the Manuscripts Librarian. Preservation copies of this material are not currently available. Depending upon equipment availability and item condition, users may not be able to view this material.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
See also the David Soren Popular Sheet Music Collection, MS 365.
Linda Diane Jackson Collection, MS 457
American Vaudeville Museum collection (MS 421). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
A publication related to this archive, and reproducing many of the items included in it, is Vaudeville Old & New: An encyclopedia of variety performers in America, by Frank Cullen, with Florence Hackman and Donald McNeilly (New York: Routledge, 2007), in 2 volumes.
Related articles may also be found in The Vaudeville Times, 40 issues of which were published by The American Museum of Vaudeville from spring 1998 to Winter 2007.
| Series I: Vaudeville Reference Materials, ca. 1897-2007 1 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series includes photocopies and printouts from various sources, as well as loose original articles and other texts. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Black women recording pioneers," by Rainer Lotz. IAJRC Journal, vol. 40, no. 2 ( ), pp. 32-41, May 2007 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Boston Opera House (Keith Memorial Theatre) - articles from the Boston Sunday Globe, (photocopies), 2004 | |||||||||
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"Virtually Vaudeville,"
June 20, 2004
"Another opening, another show,"
June 27, 2004
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| 1 | 3 | Boston Theatre District (map - former streets, demolished historic buildings, former theatres, etc.) | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | "Cabaret comeback," by Elizabeth Kendall. Civilization, , pp. 34-36, Feb.-Mar. 1999 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Comedy shorts - typed list | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Cosmopolitan, - articles, 1897?-1905 | |||||||||
| "Actress aided by camera," by Daniel Frohman. Cosmopolitan, , pp. 413-420., Feb. 1897? | |||||||||||
| "Where vaudeville holds the boards," by Charles R. Sherlock; "The postal-card craze," by Julian Ralph. Cosmopolitan, , pp. 411-426, Feb. 1902 | |||||||||||
| "The future of vaudeville in America," by Israel Zangwill. Cosmopolitan 38 , pp. 639-646 (2 copies), Apr. 1905 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Chinese performance art | |||||||||
| "Chinese Vaudeville: Xiangsheng and the Performer Hou Baolin" by Shu-ying Tsau, , for "Workshop on Contemporary Chinese Literature and the Performing Arts", Harvard, June 1979, May-June 1979 | |||||||||||
| Report by Frank Cullen on researching Chinese performance art in English language holdings at Harvard Yenching Library, June 6, 1996 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Down Memory Lane, by Guy Magley, n.d. - booklet with names of vaudeville acts listed by city and theatre, 1914-15, 1926, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | "The evolution of American vaudeville," by John J. Murdock (source not identified) | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Keith/Albee Collection | |||||||||
| Keith/Albee Collection Inventory, University of Iowa Libraries | |||||||||||
| "The Keith/Albee Collection: The vaudeville industry, 1894-1935" by M. Alison Kibler, Books at Iowa 56, Apr. 1992 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 11 | "In Vaudeville" by Hartley Davis, Everybody's Magazine, Aug. 19, 2005 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | "Jugglers, past and present" by M.S. Mahendra, Linking Ring, Dec. 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | "Lest We Forget": Curtain falls on notable theatrical personages in 1949 (13th ed.); 1950 (14th ed.); 1951 (15th ed.). From the records compiled by Paul E. Glase, Fabian's Embassy Theatre, Reading, Pa. | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Library of Congress, 1993-1995 | |||||||||
| Correspondence between
Frank Cullen and LC
reference librarian
Madeline F. Matz,
1993-1995, and printout search results, for LC holdings of early silent films
related to vaudeville, Vitaphone short films, and films with all-black
casts. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 15 | [List of theaters and contact information], ca. 2000 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | "Memphis Vaudeville Theater Orchestras" by Roy C. Brewer, from diss. Professional Musicians in Memphis, Tennessee (1900-1950) | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | The Mississippi Rag, - articles, 2004 | |||||||||
| "Sax appeal," by William J. Schafer, , pp. 32-33"The TJEN corner," by Dave Robinson, founder, Traditional Jazz Educators Network, , p. 34, Oct. 2004 Oct. 2004 | |||||||||||
| - review of books and recordings about the Six Brown Brothers | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 18 | "New York Theatres 1882 to 1939, Now Demolished" - typed list | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | "The Origin, Development, and Significance of Dramatic Entertainment in American Vaudeville, 1893-1925," by Mari Lyn Henry (thesis, Catholic University of America, 1968) | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | "Notes on the Principal Spanish Dances," by Vicente Escudero | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Orpheum Circuit | |||||||||
| Orpheum Circuit of Theatres, - booklet, published upon the occasion of the dedication of the New Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, 1909 | |||||||||||
| "The Orpheum Road Show," - photograph of flyer, 1908 | |||||||||||
| "Origin of Orpheum Circuit," by Epes W. Sargent, July 24, 1934 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Orpheum Theatres (San Francisco, Calif.) - correspondence, papers, photocopies | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | "The Palace" by Donald Wayne ( Holiday, , pp. 63-66+)- photocopy, lacks first page; accompanied by typed text and summary, March 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Panning the 'pan' time: being a compilation of information appertaining to the Pantages Circuit," "cooked up" by Herbert Lloyd, "chef de claque", - booklet, 1917 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | "Paramount turns 75: Oldest U.S. movie studio proves to be survivor," by Joseph Gelmis; Cape Cod Times, , p. 24, Jul 10, 1987 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Performance arts bibliography, (source not identified), 1995 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Play Production, by Henning Nelms, - photocopy, 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Poster catalogs | |||||||||
| Christie's - Hollywood Posters, Christie's East, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1990 | |||||||||||
| Sports Movie Posters,, vol. 4 of The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, comp. Richard Allen and Bruce Hershenson, 1996 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 7 | "Primary Sources in Vaudeville History: A Survey," by Michael Leininger, 1982 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | "Telemedia Soundies" and Telemedia catalog | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Theatre articles, various - photocopies | |||||||||
| "Historic Uptown may get an encore at last," Chicago Sun Times, Dec. 1, 2006 | |||||||||||
| "A palace of a playhouse: Rockford's Coronado Theatre," Historic Illinois, Aug. 2001 | |||||||||||
| "The rise and fall of the Old Howard," Boston Sunday Globe, May 20, 2001 | |||||||||||
| "Vaudeville once again takes center stage at Netcong theater," Star-Ledger, Sep. 12, 2003 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 10 | "They Stopped the Show" - album cover and liner notes, 1969 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | "To Artists" by E.F. Albee | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Bookers Association; black vaudeville) - photocopies | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Vitaphone Project | |||||||||
|
Vitaphone News, vol. 1 (fall 1991),
vol. 2 (undated), vol. 4, no. 1 (summer 1998), vol. 4, no. 2 (fall 1998)- web
page printouts | |||||||||||
| 2 | 14 | The White Rats (actors' union) | |||||||||
| "A historical study of the White Rats of America," by Thomas Colley (thesis, Wayne State University, ), 1967 | |||||||||||
| The Player, - photocopy, Dec. 22, 1916 | |||||||||||
| E.A. Albee, The Dromio, The Original Eight - digital prints | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 15 | "Yesterday's movie stars in their heaven on earth," by Bill Slocum, Record American, , re: Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, Feb. 5-6, 1971 | |||||||||
| Series II: Promotional Materials and Business Materials, ca. 1997-2006, .25 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of brochures, correspondence, and other promotional materials from organizations. There is also a series of periodicals, Lambs Script, provided by their issuing organization. The series is arranged alphabetically by organization. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | American Southwestern Railway Association (Los Angeles, Calif.) - correspondence, "The Little Nugget" promotional card, 2006 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | American Vaudeville Theatre (Brooklyn, NY) - brochure, after 1996 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Audio Film Center - brochure pages | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | British Music Hall Society, Players Theatre (London, England) - correspondence and information, 1998-2000 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Certificates of Authenticity , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Correspondence - Frank Cullen / Vaudeville Museum , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Correspondence - Frank Cullen / Turner Entertainment , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Harvard Theatre Collection (Cambridge, Mass.) | |||||||||
|
"Cross-Dressing in the Theatre" - lecture/exhibition
announcement,
2003
"Dime Museums and Nickel Theatres" - exhibition brochure,
2006
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| 3 | 9 | The Institute of the American Musical (Los Angeles, Calif.) - press kit, ca. 1998 | |||||||||
| 3 | 10 | The International Al Jolson Society ( Norman Conrad) - order form, correspondence | |||||||||
| 3 | 11 | KiMo Theatre (Albuquerque, N.M.) - folder, flyers; incl. Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts (Ruidoso/Alto, N.M.) flyer | |||||||||
| 3 | 12 | The Lambs (New York, N.Y.) - correspondence, "Installation Gambol" dinner program, ; Lambs Script, 1998 Jan/Feb 1997 - spring 1998 | |||||||||
| 3 | 13 |
Moschen, Michael (
David Belenzon Management, Inc. ) - press kit, 2002 | |||||||||
| 3 | 14 | Museum of the Moving Image, British Film Institute (London, England) - correspondence and flyers, 1997 | |||||||||
| 3 | 15 | National Comedy Hall of Fame (St. Petersburg, Fla.) - press kit, ca. 1997 | |||||||||
| 3 | 16 | New York Friar's Club (New York, N.Y.) - booklet, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 17 | New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.) - exhibition brochure, "Vaudeville Nation," , 2005-2006 | |||||||||
| 3 | 18 | Palm Springs Follies (Palm Springs, Calif.) - press kit, 2001 | |||||||||
| 3 | 19 | Periwinkle Entertainment Productions (Anaheim, Calif.) - press kit, 2005 | |||||||||
| 3 | 20 | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.), Donehy Memorial Library - exhibition booklet, "Setting the State: The Rise of American Popular Theater" , 2005 | |||||||||
| Series III: Thematic Subjects , .5 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises photographs, articles, stamps, postcards, and photocopies that were organized by the American Vaudeville Museum based on themes rather than performers. The holdings in this series are generally minimal, with only one or a few items in each category. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Acrobats, Balancing Acts, Bicycle Acts | |||||||||
|
Harry Decoe
Rice and Prevost
Kay Farrelli, Holiday
on Ice, 1950s-1960s?
Mel Hall, and The
Fabulous Cycling Whiz Kids (Mel Hall's Kids)
Bobby May
The Percelly's
, Holiday on Ice, 1955
Rice & Prevost
Eddy Rose and
Marion
Harry Sykes
Tubby & Spats
Jimmy Valdare &
Duffy
"Where Vaudeville Holds the Boards," by
Charles R.
Sherlock;
Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1902
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| 4 | 2 | Acts Who Used Drawings | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | African Americans | |||||||||
|
Sandy Burns
Dixie Strutters
Radcliffe and Rogers
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| 4 | 4 | Burlesque | |||||||||
|
Four Sisters Ruby
Helen Leach,
Wallin Trio
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| 4 | 5 | Caricatures and Drawings | |||||||||
| (Subjects of drawings include Dardanelle, Anita O'Day, Walter
Lippman, Bessie Smith, and Maxine Sullivan. Two are part of a card series,
Women Singers of Cafe Society.) | |||||||||||
|
Caricatures and drawings by Frank Cullen
"The Algonquin Wits", caricature by Hirschfield,
The New York Times Book Review,
May 19, 1968
Caricatures of celebrities,
1927 - Cocoanut Grove, by
Ralph Barton, and
1996 - Mortons, by
David Cowles,
Vanity Fair
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| 4 | 6 | Clowns | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | Dance Acts | |||||||||
|
Maarya and Rene
Gunsett
Al and Carmelita
Hernandez
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| 4 | 8 | Entrepreneurs | |||||||||
|
Michael O'Harro,
Champions stuff cards,
ca. 2001
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| 4 | 9 | Flash Act; posters (color reproductions) | |||||||||
|
Gavine and Arnette
T.F. Harris
A. Mae
Preston
Washer Brothers
, "Champion Scientific Midget Boxers"
Weston and Beasley
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| 4 | 10 | Little People | |||||||||
|
Bob Hermine's Magazine of Midgets,
1945
The Doll Family
(Tiny, Harry, Daisy, Grace)
Hansel and Gretel
King and Prince
Royal Lilliputians
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| 4 | 11 | Movies: promotional photos - "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" | |||||||||
| 4 | 12 | Movies: promotional photos - "The Great American Broadcast" | |||||||||
| 4 | 13 | Movies: promotional photos - various | |||||||||
|
Airplane
Alien
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Apartment (
Jack Lemmon,
Shirley
MacLaine)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Butterfly (
Stacy Keach,
Pia Zadora)
The Chinese Connection (
Bruce Lee)
The Conspirators (
Hedy Lamarr and
Paul Henreid)
Elephant Man
From Russia with Love (
Sean Connery)
Gold Rush Maisie
The Great American Broadcast
Hardcore (
George C.
Scott)
Hercules Unchained (
Steve Reeves)
High Plains Drifter (
Clint
Eastwood)
Incredible Shrinking Woman (
Lily Tomlin)
The Late Show (
Lily Tomlin)
My Life with Caroline (
Ronald Colman and
Anna Lee)
A Night at Earl Carroll's (
Jack Norton)
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Nobody's Perfekt (
Gabe Kaplan,
Alex Karras,
Robert Klein)
Only When I Laugh (
Kristy McNichol
and
Marsha Mason)
Parachute Battalion (
Harry Carey,
Buddy Ebsen,
Richard Cromwell,
Edmond O'Brien,
Robert
Preston)
The Perils of Pauline
Pixote
Play Girl
Pollyanna (
Hayley Mills)
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
Scanty Panties (
Virginia Bell,
Irving Benson,
Max Furman,
Billy "Cheese & Crackers"
Hagan)
Star Wars
Strange Idols (
Dustin
Farnum)
Sunny
Tarzan (
Johnny
Weissmuller)
Tommy
Walking My Baby Back Home (
Donald
O'Connor)
What's New Pussycat
Zorro, the Gay Blade (
George
Hamilton)
Unidentified
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| 4 | 14 | Movies: "Polyester" (Odorama) | |||||||||
| 4 | 15 | Movies: "Rize" (review) | |||||||||
| 4 | 16 | Musicians | |||||||||
|
International Cornet School, Inc. (Boston, Mass.) - pupil
lesson receipt card
Musicians Supply Co. (Boston, Mass.) - catalog,
1920s
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| 4 | 17 | Player/Actor Bios | |||||||||
|
"Mrs. Wiggs in the Cabbage Patch" by
Ethyl
Eichelberger
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| 4 | 18 | Postcards | |||||||||
|
To
Lilly Chargé of
Magdeburg,
1900-1908
To
Julia Redman of
Brooklyn and Long Island,
1910-1914
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| 4 | 19 | Singers, misc. ( Mildred Bailey, Rosemary Clooney, Ethel Waters) | |||||||||
| 4 | 20 | Stamps | |||||||||
| 4 | 21 | Tap dance | |||||||||
|
Postcards of performances in Germany,
2002-2005
Urban Tap (Boston, Mass.), founder/performer
Herbin "Tamango"
Van Cayseele
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| 4 | 22 | Vaudeville acts | |||||||||
| 4 | 23 | Ventriloquists | |||||||||
| 4 | 24 |
Vitaphone - photographs | |||||||||
|
Crystal Cave Revue
Xavier Cugat and His Gigolos
Florentine Choir
The Ingenues
Morrisey & Miller Revue
Jesse Stafford Orchestra
Earnie Stanton
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| Series IV: Performers , 4.75 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of clippings, photographs, announcements, sheet music, publications, and ephemera. The subjects are individual and group performers; they include singers, dancers, female impersonators, acrobats, jugglers, actors, clowns and comedians. It is organized alphabetically - by performer's surname, by stage name, or by group name - with oversize material grouped at the end. | |||||||||||
| Two more substantial collections originally received among this material - Frank J. Sidney and Doreen Rae - have been organized separately. | |||||||||||
| Performers A - Be | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1 |
Abbott and Costello ( Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Abeles, Edward | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Adams, Maude | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | Adams, S.S. ( Samuel Sorenson Adams) | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Ailey, Alvin (dance company) | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Albee, Edward Franklin | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | Allan, Maud | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | Allard, Bee | |||||||||
| 5 | 9 | Anderson, Eddie "Rochester" | |||||||||
| 5 | 10 | Anderson, Ernestine | |||||||||
| 5 | 11 |
Andrews Sisters ( Laverne Andrews; Patty Andrews; Maxene Andrews) | |||||||||
| 5 | 12 | Arden, Eve | |||||||||
| 5 | 13 | Arnaz, Desi | |||||||||
| 5 | 14 | Ashcroft, Peggy | |||||||||
| 5 | 15 | Ashford, Pauline | |||||||||
| 5 | 16 | Avner the Eccentric ( Avner Eisenberg) | |||||||||
| 5 | 17 | Baez, Joan | |||||||||
| 5 | 18 | Baker, Josephine | |||||||||
| 5 | 19 | Ball, Lucille | |||||||||
| 5 | 20 | Bankhead, Tallulah | |||||||||
| 5 | 21 | Bara, Theda | |||||||||
| 5 | 22 | Barnet, Robert A. (producer), and Eltinge, Julian (female impersonators) | |||||||||
| 5 | 23 | Barrymore, Ethel | |||||||||
| 5 | 24 | El Barto ( James Barton, 1858-1935) | |||||||||
| 5 | 25 | Barton, James, 1890-1962 | |||||||||
| 5 | 26 | Barty, Billy | |||||||||
| 5 | 27 | Bates, Peg Leg ( Clayton Bates) | |||||||||
| 5 | 28 | Bayes, Nora | |||||||||
| 5 | 29 | Bennett, Richard | |||||||||
| 5 | 30 | Benny, Jack | |||||||||
| 5 | 31 | Bentley, Gladys | |||||||||
| 5 | 32 | Bergen, Edgar | |||||||||
| 5 | 33 | Bergman, Ingrid, and Matthau, Walter | |||||||||
| 5 | 34 | Berle, Milton | |||||||||
| 5 | 35 | Bernie, Ben | |||||||||
| 5 | 36 | Bernhardt, Sarah | |||||||||
| Performers Bi - Bu | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Bigger, Laura | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 |
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 |
Bizzarro Brothers | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Blake, Eubie | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | Blake, Robert | |||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Blesh, Rudi | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 |
Block & Sully ( Jesse Block and Eva Sully (Block)) | |||||||||
| 6 | 8 | Blondell, Joan | |||||||||
| 6 | 9 | Bloolips (P.G. "Bette" Bourne, Danny "Diva Dan" Barratt, Vincent "Lavinia Coop" Fox, Paul "Precious Pearl" Shaw, etc.) | |||||||||
| 6 | 10 | Bolger, Ray | |||||||||
| 6 | 11 | Bigger, Laura | |||||||||
| 6 | 12 | Bondi, Beulah | |||||||||
| 6 | 13 | Bowers, Cookie | |||||||||
| 6 | 14 | Brachetti, Arturo | |||||||||
| 6 | 15 | El Brendel | |||||||||
| 6 | 16 | Brice, Fanny | |||||||||
| 6 | 17 | Bronson, Charles | |||||||||
| 6 | 18 | Brown, Buster | |||||||||
| 6 | 19 | Brown, George | |||||||||
| 6 | 20 | Brown, Joe E. | |||||||||
| 6 | 21 | Bubbles, John | |||||||||
| 6 | 22 | Buckley, Dick (Lord Buckley) | |||||||||
| 6 | 23 | Bufalino, Brenda | |||||||||
| 6 | 24 |
Burns & Allen ( George Burns and Gracie Allen) | |||||||||
| 6 | 25 |
Butterbeans and Susie ( Jodie Edwards and Susie Hawthorne-Edwards) | |||||||||
| 6 | 26 | Buttons, Red | |||||||||
| Performers C - D | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Caesar, Sid | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Cagney, James | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Calloway, Cab | |||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Calvert, John | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | Canova, Judy | |||||||||
| 7 | 6 | Cantor, Eddie | |||||||||
| 7 | 7 |
Carl Freed's Harmonic Harlequins | |||||||||
| 7 | 8 | Carle, Richard | |||||||||
| 7 | 9 | Carlin, George | |||||||||
| 7 | 10 | Carmichael, Hoagy | |||||||||
| 7 | 11 | Carpenter, Thelma | |||||||||
| 7 | 12 | Carus, Emma | |||||||||
| 7 | 13 | Cavanaugh, Hobart | |||||||||
| 7 | 14 | Chang, Anna | |||||||||
| 7 | 15 | Chaplin, Charlie | |||||||||
| (see also: Reeves, Alf and Billy) | |||||||||||
| 7 | 16 | Chaplin, Sydney | |||||||||
| 7 | 17 | Chase, Chaz (Chaz Chase) | |||||||||
| 7 | 18 | Chase, Charley | |||||||||
| 7 | 19 | Chevalier, Albert | |||||||||
| 7 | 20 | Chevalier, Maurice | |||||||||
| 7 | 21 |
Cirque de Sade ( Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson) | |||||||||
| 7 | 22 | Claire, Ina | |||||||||
| 7 | 23 | Clark, Bobby | |||||||||
| 7 | 24 | Clayton, Ethel | |||||||||
| 7 | 25 | Clinger, Will | |||||||||
| 7 | 26 | Coca, Imogene | |||||||||
| 7 | 27 | Cohen, Myron | |||||||||
| 7 | 28 |
Cole & Johnson ( Bob Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson; and James Weldon Johnson) | |||||||||
| 7 | 29 | Collier, William(William, Sr. and William, Jr.) | |||||||||
| 7 | 30 | Collins, José (Josephine) | |||||||||
| 7 | 31 | Connor, Chris | |||||||||
| 7 | 32 | Cook, Joe | |||||||||
| 7 | 33 | Cooper, Gary | |||||||||
| 7 | 34 | Cornell, Katherine | |||||||||
| 7 | 35 | Covan, Willie | |||||||||
| 7 | 36 | Crabtree, Lotta (Lotta La Petite; Little Lotta) | |||||||||
| 7 | 37 |
Curran, Sean (
Sean Curran Company ) | |||||||||
| 7 | 38 | Dailey, Peter F. | |||||||||
| 7 | 39 | D'Arville, Camille | |||||||||
| 7 | 40 | Davenport Sisters | |||||||||
| 7 | 41 | Davis, Joan, and Haley, Jack | |||||||||
| 7 | 42 | Davis, Sammy, Jr. | |||||||||
| 7 | 43 | DeMarco, Tony, and DeMarco, Sally | |||||||||
| 7 | 44 | Deslys, Gaby | |||||||||
| 7 | 45 | Douglas, Melvyn | |||||||||
| 7 | 46 | Doyle, Patsy (Patrick) | |||||||||
| 7 | 47 | Draper, Paul | |||||||||
| 7 | 48 | Draper, Ruth | |||||||||
| 7 | 49 | Dressler, Marie | |||||||||
| 7 | 50 |
Duffy, Patrick (
Marlo & Duffy ) | |||||||||
| 7 | 51 | Dumont, Margaret | |||||||||
| 7 | 52 |
Duncan Sisters ( Rosetta Duncan and Vivian Duncan) | |||||||||
| 7 | 53 |
Duo Arnedis ( Arne Ellingstad and Marina Ellingstad) | |||||||||
| 7 | 54 | Durante, Jimmy | |||||||||
| Performers E - Go | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 |
Eddie & Lorraine (The Aristocrats of Tiny Wheels) | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Edwards, Cliff | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Edwards, Gus | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Elen, Gus | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | Ellington, Duke | |||||||||
| 8 | 6 | Elliott, G.H. (George Henry) | |||||||||
| 8 | 7 | Elton, Lily | |||||||||
| 8 | 8 | Emery, Winifred | |||||||||
| 8 | 9 | Fagan, Noodles, and Fagan, Paxton | |||||||||
| 8 | 10 | Farrar, Geraldine | |||||||||
| 8 | 11 | Farrell, Eileen | |||||||||
| 8 | 12 | Fernandel ( Fernand-Joseph-Désiré Contandin) | |||||||||
| 8 | 13 | Fetchit, Stepin ( Lincoln Perry) | |||||||||
| 8 | 14 | Fields, Gracie | |||||||||
| 8 | 15 |
Fink's Mules | |||||||||
| 8 | 16 | Fitzgerald, Ella | |||||||||
| 8 | 17 | Flagstad, Kirsten | |||||||||
| 8 | 18 | Flavin, Margaret ( Margaret Flavin Sheehan), and Watson, Billy | |||||||||
| 8 | 19 | Fletcher, Dusty (Clinton Fletcher, 1897-1954) | |||||||||
| 8 | 20 | Flippen, Jay C. | |||||||||
| 8 | 21 | Foley, Joe, and Kenney, Joseph | |||||||||
| 8 | 22 |
Ford Sisters ( Dora Ford and Mabel Ford) | |||||||||
| 8 | 23 | Forde, Florrie | |||||||||
| 8 | 24 |
Four Step Brothers ( Maceo Anderson, Al Williams, Red Walker, Sherman Robertson) | |||||||||
| 8 | 25 | Fox, Della | |||||||||
| 8 | 26 | Foy, Eddie | |||||||||
| 8 | 27 | Friganza, Trixie | |||||||||
| 8 | 28 | Frost & Morrison | |||||||||
| 8 | 29 |
Gartelle Brothers | |||||||||
| 8 | 30 | Genée, Adelina | |||||||||
| 8 | 31 | Gilbert, William Schwenck | |||||||||
| 8 | 32 | Gilder, George | |||||||||
| 8 | 33 | Gillette, William | |||||||||
| 8 | 34 | Gilmore, Charles "Mike" | |||||||||
| 8 | 35 | Gilson, Lottie | |||||||||
| 8 | 36 | Glose, Augusta | |||||||||
| 8 | 37 | Glover, Savion | |||||||||
| 8 | 38 | Goodner, Lillian | |||||||||
| 8 | 39 | Goodwin, Nat | |||||||||
| 8 | 40 | Gordon, Bert | |||||||||
| 8 | 41 | Gordon, Ruth | |||||||||
| Performers Gr - J | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Betty Grable | |||||||||
| 9 | 2 | Le Grand David (magic show) | |||||||||
| 9 | 3 |
The Great Raymond ( Maurice Saunders) | |||||||||
| 9 | 4 |
Great Small Works | |||||||||
| 9 | 5 | Green, Mitzi | |||||||||
| 9 | 6 | Greenwood, Charlotte | |||||||||
| 9 | 7 |
Grey & Byron ( Mildred "Dolly" Grey and Bert Byron) | |||||||||
| 9 | 8 | Grey, Lizzie/Lissie (Lizzie/Lissie Gray; Elizabeth (Ganssler) Wilson) | |||||||||
| 9 | 9 | Grock ( Charles Adrien Wettach) | |||||||||
| 9 | 10 | Guilbert, Yvette | |||||||||
| 9 | 11 | Hall, Adelaide | |||||||||
| 9 | 12 |
Harmonica Rascals ( Borrah Minevitch) | |||||||||
| 9 | 13 | Harper, Leonard | |||||||||
| 9 | 14 |
Harrigan & Hart ( Edward "Ned" Harrigan and Tony Hart) | |||||||||
| 9 | 15 | Harris, Julie (correspondence) | |||||||||
| 9 | 16 | Harry, Deborah, and McGill, Everett | |||||||||
| 9 | 17 | Havoc, June | |||||||||
| 9 | 18 | Henlere, Herschel | |||||||||
| 9 | 19 |
Hindu Belles | |||||||||
| 9 | 20 | Hines, Gregory | |||||||||
| 9 | 21 | Hitchcock, Raymond | |||||||||
| 9 | 22 | Hoen, Max, Cora, and Ed | |||||||||
| 9 | 23 | Hoffmann, Gertrude | |||||||||
| 9 | 24 | Holiday, Billie, and Armstrong, Louis | |||||||||
| 9 | 25 | Hope, Bob | |||||||||
| 9 | 26 | Houdini, Harry | |||||||||
| 9 | 27 | Howard, Willie, and Howard, Eugene | |||||||||
| 9 | 28 | Humes, Helen | |||||||||
| 9 | 29 | Hunter, Alberta | |||||||||
| 9 | 30 | Huntington, Agnes | |||||||||
| 9 | 31 | Hutton, Betty | |||||||||
| 9 | 32 |
International Sweethearts of
Rhythm | |||||||||
| 9 | 33 | Irving, Henry, Sir | |||||||||
| 9 | 34 | Irwin, Bill | |||||||||
| 9 | 35 | Ito, Michio | |||||||||
| 9 | 36 | Janis, Elsie | |||||||||
| 9 | 37 | Jefferson, Joe | |||||||||
| 9 | 38 | Johns, Brooke | |||||||||
| 9 | 39 | Johnstone, Sibyl | |||||||||
| 9 | 40 | Jolson, Al | |||||||||
| 9 | 41 | Joy, Leatrice | |||||||||
| Performers K - Man | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | Kaye, Danny | |||||||||
| 10 | 2 |
Karamazov Brothers (aka: The Flying Karamazov Brothers) | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | Keaton, Buster | |||||||||
| (see also: The Keaton Chronicle, in Periodicals) | |||||||||||
| 10 | 4 |
Kelly & Galvin ( Phil Kelly and Joe Galvin - The Actor & The Italian) | |||||||||
| 10 | 5 | Kelly, J.W. (Rolling Mill Man) | |||||||||
| 10 | 6 | Kelly, Patsy | |||||||||
| 10 | 7 | King, Hetty | |||||||||
| 10 | 8 | Kitt, Eartha | |||||||||
| 10 | 9 | Lackaye, Wilton | |||||||||
| 10 | 10 | Lahr, Bert | |||||||||
| 10 | 11 | Lamarr, Hedy | |||||||||
| 10 | 12 | Langdon, Harry | |||||||||
| (see also: Wild About Harry, in Periodicals) | |||||||||||
| 10 | 13 | Las-Cellas, Sarah | |||||||||
| 10 | 14 |
Laurel & Hardy ( Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy) | |||||||||
| 10 | 15 |
Lavelle - Ross | |||||||||
| 10 | 16 | Lea, Barbara | |||||||||
| 10 | 17 | Leguizamo, John (Mambo King of Comedy) | |||||||||
| 10 | 18 | Leno, Dan | |||||||||
| 10 | 19 | Lenya, Lotte | |||||||||
| 10 | 20 | Leonar, Eddie (Our Minstrel) | |||||||||
| 10 | 21 | LeRoy, Hal (CIGAR) | |||||||||
| 10 | 22 | Lewis, Furry ( Walter E. Lewis) | |||||||||
| 10 | 23 | Lillie, Beatrice | |||||||||
| 10 | 24 | Limón, José | |||||||||
| 10 | 25 | Lindfors, Viveca | |||||||||
| 10 | 26 | Lippman, Walter | |||||||||
| 10 | 27 | Little Tich | |||||||||
| 10 | 28 | Lloyd, Alice | |||||||||
| 10 | 29 | Lloyd, Harold | |||||||||
| 10 | 30 | Loftus, Cecilia, and Loftus, Marie (mother) | |||||||||
| 10 | 31 | Low, Rowland | |||||||||
| 10 | 32 | Loy, Myrna | |||||||||
| 10 | 33 | Lugosi, Bela | |||||||||
| 10 | 34 | Luke, Keye, and Robert Ito (with Chet Dowling) | |||||||||
| 10 | 35 | Lyons, Carnell | |||||||||
| 10 | 36 | Mack, Frank Guy | |||||||||
| 10 | 37 | Mack, Ollie | |||||||||
| 10 | 38 | Mackenzie, Mary | |||||||||
| 10 | 39 | Mahoney, Will, and Maria Elena (daughter; painter) | |||||||||
| 10 | 40 | Makishi, Stacy | |||||||||
| 10 | 41 | Mankin, Harley | |||||||||
| 10 | 42 | Mantell, Anna | |||||||||
| Performers Marx - N | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 11 | 1 |
Marx Brothers ( Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, and Chico Marx) | |||||||||
| 11 | 2 | McIntyre, Heath (James McIntrye and Thomas K. Heath) | |||||||||
| 11 | 3 | McNulty, Jennie | |||||||||
| 11 | 4 | McRae, Carmen | |||||||||
| 11 | 5 | Menes, Michael | |||||||||
| 11 | 6 | Midler, Bette | |||||||||
| 11 | 7 | Mignon ( Sadie Rosenberg) | |||||||||
| 11 | 8 | Miller, Ann | |||||||||
| 11 | 9 | Mills, Florence | |||||||||
| 11 | 10 |
Miss Broadway | |||||||||
| 11 | 11 |
Mr. Nostalgia ( Bob Cusack) | |||||||||
| 11 | 12 |
Mr. Slim's Goodtime Ragtime Vaudeville
Revival ( R.W. Bacon and L.J. Newton) | |||||||||
| 11 | 13 |
Mitchell and Durant ( Frank Mitchell and Jack Durant) | |||||||||
| 11 | 14 |
Monty Python ( John Cleese) | |||||||||
| 11 | 15 | Moore, Marianne | |||||||||
| 11 | 16 | Moore, Tom | |||||||||
| 11 | 17 |
Moran and Mack ( George Moran and Charlie Mack - "The Two Black Crows") | |||||||||
| 11 | 18 | Moran, Polly | |||||||||
| 11 | 19 | Moreland, Mantan | |||||||||
| 11 | 20 |
Morlacchi, Giuseppina, and
Texas Jack | |||||||||
| 11 | 21 | Morse, Lee | |||||||||
| 11 | 22 | Morton, Jelly Roll | |||||||||
| 11 | 23 | Murray, Ken | |||||||||
| 11 | 24 | Napier, Valantyne, and Napier, Hector (father) | |||||||||
| 11 | 25 | Neagle, Anna | |||||||||
| 11 | 26 | Negri, Pola | |||||||||
| 11 | 27 | Neilson, Julia | |||||||||
| 11 | 28 | Newhart, Bob | |||||||||
| 11 | 29 | Newton-John, Olivia | |||||||||
| 11 | 30 |
Nicholas Brothers ( Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas) | |||||||||
| 11 | 31 | Noble, Venza, and Ogden, Margie | |||||||||
| (Note: there is a single photo of this duo; contains primarily photos of other entertainers, most autographed to Venza Noble, also spelled Noblet, Noblett or Noblette.) | |||||||||||
| 11 | 32 | Norman, Mary, and Norman, Ron | |||||||||
| Performers O - R | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 1 | Oakley, Annie | |||||||||
| 12 | 2 | O'Brien, Pat | |||||||||
| 12 | 3 | O'Day, Anita | |||||||||
| 12 | 4 |
Oliver Band | |||||||||
| 12 | 5 | Oliver, Richard | |||||||||
| 12 | 6 | Olivier, Laurence | |||||||||
| 12 | 7 |
Palace Music Hall Girls | |||||||||
| 12 | 8 | Patton, Frank | |||||||||
| 12 | 9 | Pavlova, Anna, and Mordkin, Mikhail | |||||||||
| 12 | 10 |
The Payton Trio (Lew, Hattie, and Clifton) | |||||||||
| 12 | 11 |
Peters Sisters | |||||||||
| 12 | 12 | Piaf, Edith | |||||||||
| 12 | 13 | Pickford, Mary | |||||||||
| 12 | 14 | Pitts, ZaSu | |||||||||
| 12 | 15 | Pollard, Daphne, and Stanley, Katherine | |||||||||
| 12 | 16 | Potts, Ernie, & Company | |||||||||
| 12 | 17 | Powell, Eleanor | |||||||||
| 12 | 18 | Raft, George | |||||||||
| 12 | 19 | Rainey, Ma | |||||||||
| 12 | 20 | Rand, Sally | |||||||||
| 12 | 21 |
Ravel Troupe (François, Gabriel, Jean, and others) | |||||||||
| 12 | 22 | Raye, Martha | |||||||||
| 12 | 23 |
Reed Sisters ( Melva Reed and Bonnie Reed) | |||||||||
| 12 | 24 | Reeves, Al | |||||||||
| 12 | 25 | Reeves, Alf, and Reeves, Billy | |||||||||
| 12 | 26 | Renault, Francis | |||||||||
| 12 | 27 | Rice, Fanny | |||||||||
| 12 | 28 | Richman, Harry | |||||||||
| 12 | 29 | Ring, Blanche | |||||||||
| 12 | 30 |
Rio Brothers (Ed and Joe) | |||||||||
| 12 | 31 |
Ritz Brothers (Stage names: Al, Jimmy and Harry; given names Abraham, Samuel and Herschel Joachim) | |||||||||
| 12 | 32 | Roach, Hal | |||||||||
| 12 | 33 | Robert, Joe | |||||||||
| 12 | 34 | Robeson, Paul | |||||||||
| 12 | 35 | Robey, George | |||||||||
| 12 | 36 | Robins, Adolph | |||||||||
| 12 | 37 | Robinson, Bill | |||||||||
| 12 | 38 |
Robinson, John -
John Robinson's Circus | |||||||||
| 12 | 39 |
Rogers Brothers (Stage names: Max and Gus Rogers; given names Max and Gus Soloman) ( Joe Weber and Lew Fields) | |||||||||
| (see also: Weber and Fields) | |||||||||||
| 12 | 40 | Rogers, Will | |||||||||
| 12 | 41 | Rose Marie (Guy) | |||||||||
| 12 | 42 |
Ross and Fenton ( Charles J. Ross and Mabel Fenton) | |||||||||
| 12 | 43 | Ross, Hope | |||||||||
| 12 | 44 | Roventini, Johnny (Philip Morris bellboy) | |||||||||
| 12 | 45 | Rowland, Adele | |||||||||
| 12 | 46 |
Royal Rockets (John Carson, Dorothy Carson Smidt and Paul Smidt) | |||||||||
| 12 | 47 |
Royal Tokyo Japanese Troupe (circa 1910) | |||||||||
| 12 | 48 | Rubin, Benny | |||||||||
| 12 | 49 | Rubinstein, Arthur | |||||||||
| 12 | 50 | Russell, Jane | |||||||||
| 12 | 51 | Russell, Lillian | |||||||||
| Performers S - T | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 1 | Samuels, Rae | |||||||||
| 13 | 2 | Santoro, Margaret | |||||||||
| 13 | 3 | Savo, Jimmy | |||||||||
| 13 | 4 | Scheerer, Robert | |||||||||
| 13 | 5 | Seeley, Blossom, and Fields, Benny | |||||||||
| 13 | 6 | Semon, Larry | |||||||||
| 13 | 7 | Short, Bobby | |||||||||
| 13 | 8 | Sidney, Sylvia | |||||||||
| 13 | 9 | Skinner, Otis | |||||||||
| 13 | 10 | Slate Brothers | |||||||||
| 13 | 11 | Smith, Bessie | |||||||||
| 13 | 12 | Smith, Joe, and Bale, Chas | |||||||||
| 13 | 13 | Smith, Kate | |||||||||
| 13 | 14 | Smith, Maggie | |||||||||
| 13 | 15 | Spacek, Sissy, and Roberts, Eric | |||||||||
| 13 | 16 | Sparks, Ned | |||||||||
| 13 | 17 | St. Denis, Ruth, and Shawn, Ted | |||||||||
| (see also: Photographs, Box 22) | |||||||||||
| 13 | 18 | Stathos, Margaret Moreland | |||||||||
| 13 | 19 | Storch, Larry | |||||||||
| 13 | 20 | Stritch, Elaine | |||||||||
| 13 | 21 | Suratt, Valeska | |||||||||
| 13 | 22 | Swanson, Gloria | |||||||||
| 13 | 23 | Tabor, Baby Doe ( Elizabeth McCourt Tabor) | |||||||||
| 13 | 24 | Talma, LeRoy, and Bosco, Mirth | |||||||||
| 13 | 25 | Tan, Margaret Leng | |||||||||
| 13 | 26 | Tanguay, Eva | |||||||||
| 13 | 27 | Tempest, Marie | |||||||||
| 13 | 28 | Templeton, Fay | |||||||||
| 13 | 29 | Thompson, Lydia | |||||||||
| 13 | 30 |
Three Musical Moods | |||||||||
| 13 | 31 |
The Three Stooges ( Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Joe DiRita) | |||||||||
| 13 | 32 |
Three X Sisters (Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce; Pearl Santos, Vi Hamilton, and Jessie Fordyce) | |||||||||
| 13 | 33 | Tilly, Vesta | |||||||||
| 13 | 34 | Tip, Tap & Toe (Ray Winfield (leader) with Samuel Green, Ted Fraser and Freddie James) | |||||||||
| 13 | 35 | Tormé, Mel | |||||||||
| 13 | 36 | Tracy, Arthur | |||||||||
| 13 | 37 | Tucker, Sophie | |||||||||
| 13 | 38 | Travato | |||||||||
| 13 | 39 | Tully, May | |||||||||
| 13 | 40 | Turpin, Ben | |||||||||
| Performers U - W | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 1 | Unidentified (various) | |||||||||
| 14 | 2 | Urline, Capitola | |||||||||
| 14 | 3 | Valaida, Snow | |||||||||
| 14 | 4 | Van, Billy B. | |||||||||
| 14 | 5 | Vance, Clarice | |||||||||
| 14 | 6 |
Vardon & Perry ( Frank A. Vardon and Harry H. Perry) | |||||||||
| 14 | 7 | Vaughan, Sarah | |||||||||
| 14 | 8 |
The Vents (Ruth and Ray) | |||||||||
| 14 | 9 | Vesta Victoria ( Victoria Lawrence) | |||||||||
| 14 | 10 | Vidor, King | |||||||||
| 14 | 11 |
Walking Brothers | |||||||||
| 14 | 12 | Warfield, David | |||||||||
| 14 | 13 | Washington, Dinah | |||||||||
| 14 | 14 | Waters, Doris and Waters, Elsie | |||||||||
| 14 | 15 | Watson, Billy | |||||||||
| 14 | 16 |
Watson Sisters (Fanny and Kitty) | |||||||||
| 14 | 17 | Wayburn, Ned | |||||||||
| 14 | 18 | Weber, Joe, and Fields, Lew | |||||||||
| 14 | 19 | Weeks, Larry | |||||||||
| 14 | 20 | Weill, Kurt | |||||||||
| 14 | 21 | Welles, Orson ( Citizen Kane) | |||||||||
| 14 | 22 | Westfield, Catherine | |||||||||
| 14 | 23 | Wethersby, Emma | |||||||||
| 14 | 24 |
Wheeler & Woolsey ( Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey - Mummy's Boys, 1936) | |||||||||
| 14 | 25 | Whiting, Margaret | |||||||||
| 14 | 26 |
Wiere Brothers ( Harry Wiere, Herbert Wiere, and Sylvester Wiere) | |||||||||
| 14 | 27 | Williams, Herb | |||||||||
| 14 | 28 | Williams, Joe | |||||||||
| 14 | 29 | Williams, Marion | |||||||||
| 14 | 30 | Wilson, Wesley | |||||||||
| Performers (oversize) | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 1 | Dardanelle ( Dardanelle Hadley) | |||||||||
| 15 | 2 |
Fanchon & Marco ( Fanny Wolff and Mike Wolff) | |||||||||
| 15 | 3 | Fields, W.C. | |||||||||
| 15 | 4 |
Frost and Morrison | |||||||||
| 15 | 5 | Gielgud, John, Sir | |||||||||
| 15 | 6 | Gish, Lillian | |||||||||
| 15 | 7 | Graham, Martha | |||||||||
| 15 | 8 | Horne, Rudy | |||||||||
| 15 | 9 | Valliere, Geraldine | |||||||||
| 15 | 10 | Waters, Ethel | |||||||||
| 15 | 11 | Weber, Joe (and Lew Fields) | |||||||||
| 15 | 12 | West, Mae | |||||||||
| 15 | 13 | Wynn, Ed | |||||||||
| 15 | 14 | Zaloom, Paul | |||||||||
| Series V: Obituaries , .25 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, many of them originally glued onto scrapbook pages; they are generally provided as photocopies. They are organized alphabetically by surname or stage name. The subjects include a broad range of singers, dancers, actors, comedians, and other personalities, including some outside the realm of entertainment. | |||||||||||
| Obituaries are also located in the Performers files, when there is other material about that performer. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 1 | Obituaries A - C | |||||||||
|
Abbott, George
Alinsky, Saul
Allen, Dayton
Anderson, Maceo
Atkins, Cholly (Charles)
Barnes, Binnie (
Gittel
Enoyce)
Bates, Clayton (Peg Leg Bates)
Bird, Billie (
Billie Bird
Sellen)
Bogue, Merwyn
Borge, Victor
Bricktop (
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise
Virginia Smith)
Brown, Johnny Mack
Bruce, Lenny
Cage, John
Carney, Art
Churchill, Marguerite
Clyde, Andy
Coogan, Jackie
Cook, Elisha
Corio, Ann
Cornell, Katharine
Cotten, Elizabeth
Crawford, Joan
Cronyn, Hume
Cukor, George
Cummings, Constance
Cunningham, Merce
| |||||||||||
| 16 | 2 | Obituaries D - F | |||||||||
|
Dale, Charles (of Joe Smith and Charlie Dale)
Daniels, Bebe (Phyllis)
Darwell, Jane
Dawn, Dolly (
Theresa Maria
Stabile)
Delmar, Kenny
Devine, Andy
Dietz, Howard
Dooley, Ray (
Rachel Rice
Dooley)
Douglas, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, William O.
Dove, Billie (
Lillian Bohny)
Downey, Morton
Dresser, Louise
Farina, Richard
Farlow, Talmage "Tal" Holt
Farrell, Glenda
Fealy, Maude
Feldman, Marty
| |||||||||||
| 16 | 3 | Obituaries G - I | |||||||||
|
Gardiner, Reginald
George, Dan, Chief (
Geswanouth Slahoot)
Gingold, Hermione
Gish, Dorothy
Goman, Charles Raymond
Goodman, Ace (
Goodman
Aiskowitz)
Gorcey, Leo
Gosden, Freeman (of "Amos 'n' Andy")
Griffith, Corinne
Guinness, Alec
Hairston, Jester
Haley, Jack
Halop, Billy
Hammond, John
Haney, Carol
Harding, Ann
Hawthorne, Nigel
Hayes, Roland
Hickson, Joan
Hildegarde (
Hildegarde Loretta
Sell)
Homolka, Oscar
Hopkins, Miriam
Hughes, Russell Meriweather
Hulbert, Jack
Huntz, Hall
| |||||||||||
| 16 | 4 | Obituaries J - L | |||||||||
|
Jackson, Eddie (of Clayton, Jackson and Durante)
Jaffe, Sam
Jenkins, Allen
Johnson, Nunnally
Kane, Helen
Keeler, Ruby
Keller, Greta
Kelly, Emmett
Kelly, Fred
Koestler, Arthur
Laye, Evelyn
Le Gallienne, Eva
Lindquist, John
Loudon, Dorothy
Lukas, Paul
Lunt, Alfred
Lupescu, Magda (Elena)
| |||||||||||
| 16 | 5 | Obituaries M - P | |||||||||
|
Maracci, Carmelita
Mason, James
Matthau, Walter
Mayo, Virginia
McHugh, Frank
Mercer, Johnny
Merman, Ethel
Miscellaneous from
Variety (
Buddy Rogers,
Ellen Corby,
Señor Wences,
L.C. "Speedy"
Huggins)
Mitchell, Jimmy "Sir Slyde" (
James Titus
Godbolt)
Monk, Thelonious
Moore, Dudley
Morley, Robert
Morse, Ella Mae
Murray, Mae
Nelson, Portia
Nesbitt, Cathleen
Nielsen, Asta
Oakie, Jack
Parker, Dorothy
Pollard, Harry (Keystone Kop)
Powell, William
| |||||||||||
| 16 | 6 | Obituaries Q - S | |||||||||
|
Quayle, Anthony, Sir
Rambova, Natacha (second wife of
Rudolph
Valentino)
Reed, Leonard
Renoir, Jean
Richardson, Ralph
Ritchard, Cyril
Ritter, Thelma
Rogers, Ginger
Roth, Lillian
Russell, Nipsy
Rutherford, Maude
Ryan, Peggy (Margaret O'Rene)
Scott, Hazel D.
Señor Wences (
Wenceslao
Moreño)
Sheridan, Ann
Simone, Nina
Sokolow, Anna
Stevenson, Adlai
Strauss, Robert
Syms, Sylvia
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| 16 | 7 | Obituaries T - Z | |||||||||
|
Trevor, Claire
Turner, Daisy
Ulanova, Galina
Valois, Ninette de
Ward, Aida
Warren, Earl
Webb, Clifton
Welch, Elisabeth
Wilder, Billy
Wilder, Marshall P.
Wiley, Lee
Williams, Marion
Wilson, Edith (Aunt Jemima)
Winwood, Estelle
Wray, Fay
Wright, Richard
Young, Gig (
Byron Elsworth
Barr)
Young, Loretta (Gretchen)
| |||||||||||
| Series VI: Theatres, ca. 1894-2007, 1.5 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series encompasses four subseries: | |||||||||||
|
Subseries 1: Theatre Postcards, Photographs, and Ephemera,
ca. 1894-2004
Subseries 2: Theatre Programs,
1892-2007
Subseries 3: Souvenir Programs,
1899-ca. 2003
Subseries 4: Boston Theatre Programs,
ca. 1920-1952
| |||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Theatre Postcards, Photographs, and Ephemera, ca. 1894-2004 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This subseries consists primarily of postcards depicting entertainment theatre buildings, mostly in the United States. Other materials include admission tickets, announcements, photographs, and commemorative booklets. There are a few postcards of non-theatre subjects. The series is organized alphabetically by state, with a miscellaneous grouping at the end. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 17 | 1 | California | |||||||||
|
Fox Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.) - photograph
Movieland Wax Museum (Buena Park, Calif.)
Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.)
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| 17 | 2 | Illinois | |||||||||
|
Gaiety Theatre (Galesburg, Ill.)
Majestic Theatre (Chicago, Ill.)
Maxwell Street Market (Chicago, Ill.)
Orpheum Theatre (Chicago, Ill.)
Rialto Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) - miniature program
Vaudeville Theatre, formerly the Iroquois Theatre (Chicago,
Ill.)
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| 17 | 3 | Maryland | |||||||||
|
Maryland Theatre and Hotel Kernan (Baltimore, Md.) - 2
views
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| 17 | 4 | Massachusetts | |||||||||
|
Adam's House and Keith's Theatre (Boston, Mass.)
1924 - 2 versions
B.F. Keith's New Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - booklet, 44 p.,
ca. 1894
Boston Music Hall (Boston, Mass.) - tickets from "All Star
Vaudeville",
1905
Colonial Theatre (Onset, Mass.)
Cordon's Theatre (Chelsea, Mass.)
Gaiety Theatre Building (Boston, Mass.)
Happyland Vaudeville (Boston, Mass.) - admission
ticket
Keith's Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - King's Booklets, a
souvenir of Keith's Boston Theatre,
ca. 1900
Keith's Vaudeville (Brockton, Mass.)
RKO Keith's (Boston, Mass.)
Tremont Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - 2 versions
| |||||||||||
| 17 | 5 | Michigan | |||||||||
|
Fisher Theatre (Detroit, Mich.) (booklet, 31 p.; Graven
& Mayger, Architects; Theatre Historical Society of America annual, no. 31)
2004
Orpheum Theatre (Detroit, Mich.)
Temple Theatre (Detroit, Mich.) - 2 copies
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| 17 | 6 | Missouri | |||||||||
|
New Orpheum Theatre (Kansas City, Mo.)
Orpheum Theatre (Kansas City, Mo.)
| |||||||||||
| 17 | 7 | Nebraska | |||||||||
|
Burwood Theatre (Omaha, Neb.)
Orpheum Theatre (Lincoln, Neb.)
Orpheum Theatre (Omaha, Neb.)
World Theatre (Omaha, Neb.)
| |||||||||||
| 17 | 8 | New Jersey | |||||||||
|
Boardwalk (Atlantic City, N.J.)
Lyric Theatre (Summit, N.J.)
Waldmann's Theatre (Newark, N.J.)
| |||||||||||
| 17 | 9 | New York | |||||||||
|
B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.) - postcard of
playbill, 1915
B.F. Keith's Vaudeville Theatre (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Bowery (New York, N.Y.)
Club House of the National Vaudeville Artists (New York,
N.Y.)
Harry Hills Variety Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Hippodrome (New York, N.Y.) - 2 postcard views and
photograph
The Lambs (New York, N.Y.) - 73rd consecutive weekly
function - Lambs & M. Corps - Oct. 13, 1943; page from guestbook
Memorial Hall (Gloversville, N.Y.)
On Stage: A Photographic Reminiscence of
New York Theater, 1895-1915; a book of postcards. Museum of the City of
New York, The Byron Collection. (San Francisco: Pomegranate Press,
1999)
Places of Amusement - New York City,
Nov. 1882 - miniature
brochure
RKO Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Shea's Theatre (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Shubert Theatre (Utica, N.Y.)
Temple Theater (Rochester, N.Y.)
Union Square (New York, N.Y.)
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| 17 | 10 | Ohio | |||||||||
|
B.F. Keith Vaudeville (Cleveland, Ohio)
Keith Vaudeville (Columbus, Ohio)
| |||||||||||
| 17 | 11 | Pennsylvania | |||||||||
|
Air Dome (Wilkinsburg, Penn.)
Keith's Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) - postcard, and page
from
Philadelphia Guide
Neumeyer Theatre (Easton, Pa.)
Orpheum Theatre (Allentown, Pa.)
Poli's Theatre (Wilkes Barre, Pa.)
Star Theatre (Monessen, Pa.)
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| 17 | 12 | Rhode Island | |||||||||
|
Ball Room, Vanity Fair (Providence, R.I.)
Imperial Theatre (Providence, R.I.)
| |||||||||||
| 17 | 13 | Miscellaneous | |||||||||
|
Bijou Theatre (Melbourne, Australia)
Bird Cage Theatre (Tombstone, Ariz.) - photograph
Keith's New Theatre (Portland, Me.)
Majestic Theatre (Fort Worth, Tex.)
Palace, Sunderland (Hippodrome, Salford, England)
Palace Theatre (Wis.)
Unidentified theatre (Melbourne, Australia)
| |||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Theatre Programs, 1892-2007 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This subseries is a collection of programs and playbills from theatres across the United States, including B.F. Keith's, Orpheum, and RKO theatres. There are also some theatre publicity materials and arts periodicals, and flyers from music publishing houses and from suppliers of playbills and posters for stage productions. They are organized alphabetically by theatre name. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 1 | The Alex Theatre (Glendale, Calif.) , 2002 | |||||||||
| 18 | 2 | American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, Mass.) , 2004 | |||||||||
| 18 | 3 | B.F. Keith's (Columbus, Ohio) , 1910-1911 | |||||||||
| 18 | 4 | B.F. Keith's New Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) , 1911-1912 1922 | |||||||||
| 18 | 5 | B.F. Keith's New Theatre (Providence, R.I.) , 1899 | |||||||||
| 18 | 6 | B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.) , 1925 | |||||||||
| 18 | 7 | B.F. Keith's Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , , ; souvenir booklet, undated; and playbills (photocopies), 1905 1909-1910 1917 1920-1925 | |||||||||
| 18 | 8 | B.F. Keith's Theatre (Columbus, Ohio),"The Vaudeville Bill" , 1917 | |||||||||
| 18 | 9 | B.F. Keith's Theatre (Portland, Me.) , 1913 | |||||||||
| 18 | 10 | B.F. Keith's Theatre (Providence, R.I.) , 1911 | |||||||||
| 18 | 11 | Big Auditorium (Chicago, Ill.) , ca. 1906 | |||||||||
| 18 | 12 | Bijou Theatre (Bangor, Me.) , 1922 | |||||||||
| 18 | 13 | Boston Arts (Boston, Mass.) - magazine , March 1970 | |||||||||
| 18 | 14 | Boston Arts Festival (Boston, Mass.) - program of events , 1955 | |||||||||
| 18 | 15 | Boston Music Hall (Boston, Mass.) - cover photocopy; , 1901 1904-1905 | |||||||||
| 18 | 16 | Castle Square Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , 1898 1903 | |||||||||
| 18 | 17 | Chase Theatres (Washington, D.C.) , 1903 | |||||||||
| 18 | 18 | Clark Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) or , ca. 1916 1922 | |||||||||
| 18 | 19 | Clunie Orpheum Theatre (Sacramento, Calif.) , 1918 | |||||||||
| 18 | 20 | Colonial Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , , 1910-1911 1919-1921 1958 | |||||||||
| 18 | 21 | Columbia Music Hall (Boston, Mass.) , 1907-1908 | |||||||||
| 18 | 22 | Curran Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.) - "The Playgoer", - "Laugh Time" ( Frank Fay, Ethel Waters, Bert Wheeler), 1943 | |||||||||
| 18 | 23 | Duchess Theatre (London, England) , 1954 | |||||||||
| 18 | 24 | E.F. Albee Theatre (Providence, R.I.) , 1919 ca. 1925 | |||||||||
| 18 | 25 | Federal Theatre / Copley Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - Works Progress Administration , 1936 | |||||||||
| 18 | 26 | Forty-fourth Street Theatre (New York, N.Y.) , 1939 | |||||||||
| 18 | 27 | Gayety Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , 1929 | |||||||||
| 18 | 28 | Geary Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.) - flyer for "The Doughgirls" by Joseph Fields, staged by George S. Kaufman , ca. 1943 | |||||||||
| 18 | 29 | Grand Opera (Minneapolis, Minn.) , 1892 | |||||||||
| 18 | 30 | Hammerstein's Victoria (New York, N.Y.) , 1905 | |||||||||
| 18 | 31 | Hathaway's (Boston, Mass.) , 1906-1907 | |||||||||
| 18 | 32 | Hollis St. Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , 1910 | |||||||||
| 18 | 33 | Koster & Bial's Music Hall (New York, N.Y.) , ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 18 | 34 | Lakewood Theatre (Skowhegan, Me.) , 1932 | |||||||||
| 18 | 35 | Light Opera of New York (New York, N.Y.) - photocopy , 2007 | |||||||||
| 18 | 36 | Manhattan Theatre Colony (Ogunquit, Me.) , 1934 | |||||||||
| 18 | 37 | Maryland Theatre (Baltimore, Md.) , 1919-1920 | |||||||||
| 18 | 38 | National Theatre (Dayton, Ohio) , 1908 | |||||||||
| 18 | 39 | New Palace - RKO Vaudeville (New York, N.Y.) , 1929 | |||||||||
| 18 | 40 | New Victory Theater (New York, N.Y.) , March/April 2004 | |||||||||
| 18 | 41 | Nixon & Zimmerman's Academy of Music (Baltimore, Md.) , 1899-1900 | |||||||||
| 18 | 42 | NY City Center, Encores! (New York, N.Y.) , 2007 | |||||||||
| 18 | 43 | Ocean Road School (Point Pleasant, N.J.) , 1959 | |||||||||
| 18 | 44 | Olympia (San Francisco, Calif.) , 1901 | |||||||||
| 18 | 45 | Open Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Harvard (Cambridge, Mass.) , 1968 | |||||||||
| 18 | 46 | Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.) , 1929 | |||||||||
| 18 | 47 | Orpheum Theatre (South Bend, Ind.) , 1911 | |||||||||
| 18 | 48 | Osbornville School (Brick Township, N.J.) , 1957 1958 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 19 | 1 | Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.) - "Sarah Bernhardt in Vaudeville" , 1912 | |||||||||
| 19 | 2 | Philharmonic Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.) , 1924 | |||||||||
| 19 | 3 | Phoenix Theatre (London, England) , 1953 | |||||||||
| 19 | 4 | Poli's Theatre (Hartford, Conn.) , 1907 | |||||||||
| 19 | 5 | Proctor's Palace Theatre (Yonkers, N.Y.) - photocopy , 1920 | |||||||||
| 19 | 6 | The Repertory Dance Theatre (Salt Lake City, Utah) , 1970 | |||||||||
| 19 | 7 | RKO Albee (Cincinnati, Ohio) , 1949-1950 | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | RKO Palace (Rochester, N.Y.) , 1949 | |||||||||
| 19 | 9 | Royce Hall, UCLA (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo , 1976 | |||||||||
| 19 | 10 | Sam S. Shubert Theatre/Chestnut Street Opera House (New York, N.Y.) , 1923 | |||||||||
| 19 | 11 | Sampliner - advertisements, undated | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Sargent School (North Andover, Mass.?) , 1910 | |||||||||
| 19 | 13 | Selwyn's Park Square Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , 1919 | |||||||||
| 19 | 14 | St. James Theatre (London, England) , 1954 | |||||||||
| 19 | 15 | Strand Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - "Floor Lore, A History of Hip-Hop", The Floor Lords , 2002 | |||||||||
| 19 | 16 | Symphony Space (New York, N.Y.) , 2007 | |||||||||
| 19 | 17 | Theater Offensive (Boston, Mass.) - "Unitard" , 2002 1920 | |||||||||
| 19 | 18 | Tremont Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , 1905 1920 | |||||||||
| 19 | 19 | Vaudeville Theatre (London, England) , ca. 1935 | |||||||||
| 19 | 20 | White Barn Theatre (Westport, Conn.) - "Thirty Years of the White Barn Theatre" , 1978 | |||||||||
| 19 | 21 | Wilbur Theatre (Boston, Mass.) , 1976 | |||||||||
| 19 | 22 | Winter Garden Theatre (New York, N.Y.) , 1934 1936 | |||||||||
| 19 | 23 | Wyndham's Theatre (London, England) , 1954 | |||||||||
| 19 | 24 | Theatre programs - color reproductions | |||||||||
|
B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
The Circle (New York, N.Y.)
Daly's Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Earle Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Gaiety Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Lew Fields Herald Square Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
New Amsterdam Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Orpheum Circuit
Pantages Theatre (Sacramento, Calif.)
White House lawn, Jenny Lind concert (President and Mrs. M.
Fillmore)
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| Subseries 3: Souvenir Programs, 1899-ca. 2003 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This subseries comprises souvenir programs from revues, Broadway shows, musicals, and plays. They are organized alphabetically by production title, or in some cases by another cover title when there is no evident production title. The earliest is an 1899 program from Koster & Bial's Music Hall in New York. There are two Hippodrome souvenir programs (1918 and 1924) and a Ziegfeld Follies program (1942-43). Productions include "Showtime" with George Jessel (1943) and "Tobacco Road" with James Barton (1936). | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 20 | 1 | "As the Girls Go" ( Bobby Clark, Irene Rich) , 1948 | |||||||||
| 20 | 2 | B.F. Keith's New York Hippodrome, "Novelties from All Parts of the Earth" - Bill of International Artists , , Aug. 1924 Oct. 1924 Feb. 1925 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | "Big Time" ( Ed Wynn) , 1921 | |||||||||
| 20 | 4 | "The Biggest Show of '51" ( Duke Ellington, Nat "King" Cole, Sarah Vaughan, etc.) , 1951 | |||||||||
| 20 | 5 | "Bless You All" ( Jules Munshin, Mary McCarty, Pearl Bailey, etc.) , 1950 | |||||||||
| 20 | 6 | "Curtain Time" ( Chico Marx, Connee Boswell, etc.) , 1945 | |||||||||
| 20 | 7 | George Jessel's "High Kickers" with Sophie Tucker, Chaz Chase, York and King. , 1941 | |||||||||
| 20 | 8 | Hippodrome Souvenir Book, Charles Dillingham presents "Everything", a Mammoth Musical Spectacle , 1918 | |||||||||
| 20 | 9 | "Hold Your Horses" ( Joe Cook) , 1933 | |||||||||
| 20 | 10 | "Holiday on Ice of 1955""Holiday on Ice of 1961" | |||||||||
| 20 | 11 | Horace Heidt, "Stars on Parade" , 1950 | |||||||||
| 20 | 12 | James Barton in "Tobacco Road" , 1936 | |||||||||
| 20 | 13 | John Murray Anderson's "Almanac" ( Hermione Gingold, Billy De Wolfe, Harry Belafonte, Orson Bean) , 1953-54 | |||||||||
| 20 | 14 | "Jumbo" ( Billy Rose production at the Hippodrome) , 1935 | |||||||||
| 20 | 15 | Koster & Bial's Music Hall (New York) ( Sadie Probst, The Meeker-Baker Trio, Zelma Rawlston, etc.) , 1899 | |||||||||
| 20 | 16 | "Let's Face It!" ( Danny Kaye; Cole Porter songs) , 1941 | |||||||||
| 20 | 17 | Lew Brown's Musical Comedy "Yokel Boy" ( Buddy Ebsen, Judy Canova, and Phil Silvers, etc.) , 1940 | |||||||||
| 20 | 18 | " Maurice Chevalier at 77" (Nine O'Clock Theatre series) , 1965 | |||||||||
| 20 | 19 | "Mrs. Steinberg and Byker Boy" , 1999 | |||||||||
| 20 | 20 | "The New B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre" (Boston, Mass.) , 1928 | |||||||||
| (and letter to the editor by Frank Cullen, Boston Sunday Herald, Feb. 26, 1995) | |||||||||||
| 20 | 21 | "Oklahoma!" (Los Angeles Civic Light Opera) , 1959 | |||||||||
| 20 | 22 | "Priorities of 1942" ( Lou Holtz, Willie Howard, Hazel Scott, Ben Bernie, Paul Draper, etc.) , 1942 | |||||||||
| 20 | 23 | "Show Time" ( George Jessel, Jack Haley, Ella Logan, The De Marcos, etc.) , 1943 | |||||||||
| 20 | 24 | "Sugar Babies", The Burlesque Musical ( Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller Mickey Deems) ) , 1979 | |||||||||
| 20 | 25 | Todd Robbins' "Carnival Knowledge", Soho Playhouse , ca. 2003 | |||||||||
| 20 | 26 | Victor Herbert's "The Red Mill" ( Eddie Foy Jr., Jack Whiting, etc.) , 1945 | |||||||||
| 20 | 27 | "West Side Story", A New Musical (directed by Jerome Robbins) , 1957 | |||||||||
| 20 | 28 | "Ziegfeld Follies" ( Milton Berle, Ilona Massey, Arthur Treacher) , 1942-43 | |||||||||
| Subseries 4: Boston Theatre Programs, ca.1920-1952 | |||||||||||
| The items in this subseries were donated to the American Vaudeville Museum collection by G. M. Sanborn of the Massachusetts State Transportation Library. | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| These programs are organized alphabetically by theatre, with featured programs indicated. Multiple programs for a given theatre are listed chronologically. They include the "Ziegfeld Follies" (1922) at the New Amsterdam Theatre and "Candida" (1925) at the Plymouth Theatre. A few are from New York rather than Boston theatres; those are indicated as such. Some theatre-related publications other than programs are also located here. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 21 | 1 | Boston Opera House | |||||||||
|
"The Miracle"
1925
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| 21 | 2 | The Capitol, A Publix Theatre | |||||||||
|
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
1929
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| 21 | 3 | Colonial Theatre | |||||||||
|
"Stepping Stones"
1925
"Three Cheers"
1929
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| 21 | 4 | Community Service of Boston Inc. | |||||||||
|
"Community Songs" (not a theatre program)
undated (after 1920)
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 5 | Copley Theatre | |||||||||
|
"The Bellamy Trial"
1928
"The Wrecker"
1928
"The Ringer"
1929
"The Whispering Gallery"
1929
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| 21 | 6 | Cort Theatre (New York) | |||||||||
|
"Only 38"
1921
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 7 | Dollhouse Theatre | |||||||||
|
"Medea"
1999
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 8 | Film Guild Cinema (New York) | |||||||||
|
"The House of Shadow Silence"
1929
"Waterloo"
1929
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 9 | George M. Cohan Theatre (New York) | |||||||||
|
"Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson"
1930
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| 21 | 10 | Greenwich Village Theatre (New York) | |||||||||
|
"The Beggar's Opera"
1920
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| 21 | 11 | Hollis Street Theatre | |||||||||
|
"Peter Pan" (Civic Repertory Theatre, New York, tour)
1926
"Marco Millions"
1928
"Porgy"
1928
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| 21 | 12 | Majestic Theatre | |||||||||
|
"Cavalcade"
1933
"White Lilacs"
1929
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| 21 | 13 | Metropolitan | |||||||||
|
"Three Sinners"
1928
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 14 | New Amsterdam Theatre | |||||||||
|
"Ziegfeld Follies"
1922
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 15 | New York Amusements (New York) week of , Apr. 8, 1929 | |||||||||
|
"The Love Duel" -
Ethel Barrymore,
at the Barrymore Theatre (on cover)
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 16 | New Park Theatre | |||||||||
|
"The Dark"
ca. 1927
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 17 | Plymouth Theatre | |||||||||
|
"Candida"
1925
"Applesauce"
1926
"The Play's the Thing"
1928
"The Command to Love"
1929
"Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens"
ca. 1952
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| 21 | 18 | Publix Theatres | |||||||||
|
"The Vagabond King" (promotional booklet for motion
picture)
1930
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 19 | Repertory Theatre of Boston | |||||||||
|
"Heartbreak House"
1926
"R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots)
1926
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 20 | Shubert-Plymouth Theatre | |||||||||
|
"The Command to Love"
ca. 1929
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 21 | Shubert Theatre | |||||||||
|
"George White's Scandals"
ca. 1928
"Greenwich Village Follies"
ca. 1921-26
"Dark of the Moon"
1945
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (
Carol Channing)
1952
"Paris '90" (
Cornelia Otis
Skinner)
1952
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| 21 | 22 | Shubert-Majestic Theatre | |||||||||
|
"Good News"
ca. 1925
"A Connecticut Yankee"
ca. 1927
| |||||||||||
| 21 | 23 | Shubert-Wilbur Theatre | |||||||||
|
"The Road to Rome"
1927
"The Trial of May Dugan"
1929
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| 21 | 24 | Tributary Theatre of Boston | |||||||||
|
Flyer
ca. 1945
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| 21 | 25 | Wilbur Theatre | |||||||||
|
"The Royal Family"
1929
"Dunnigan's Daughter"
1945
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| Series VII: Photographs, 1906-1961, bulk ca. 1910s-1940s 1 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of miscellaneous photographs, mostly 11 x 14 inches; some are offset reproductions rather than actual photographic prints. Many more photographs can be found in the Performers files and the individual collections. | |||||||||||
| There are two general categories. The first group consists primarily of publicity portraits of entertainers. The photographs are listed here in alphabetical order by subject's surname. The second group consists of movie stills, mostly 11 x 14 inches. Many of them are from an unidentified 1940 movie, with image numbers SMC- . | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 22 | 1 | Photographs: Portraits, identified | |||||||||
|
Jeanette Alabassi, by Strand (N.Y.)
Phil Baker in "Pleasure Bound", Majestic Theatre, by George
Maillard Kesslere (N.Y.)
Ray Bolger, by Vandamm Studio (N.Y.)
Ray Bolger [in "Sunny"] - 2 photos
Walter Clinton, by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Joe Frisco, by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Joe E. Lewis, by Bloom (Chicago)
Flourney Miller - formerly of Miller & Lyles, "Blackbirds
of 1930", by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Mae Murray, by Bloom (Chicago)
Valerie Parks, by Bruno (Hollywood)
Julia Rooney, by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Rosita Royce, by Bruno (Hollywood)
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| 22 | 2 | Photographs: Ruth St. Denis | |||||||||
| (photomechanical process) | |||||||||||
|
Ruth St. Denis as "Radha", 1906, by Marcus Blechman
Ruth St. Denis in "Black Nautch", 1927, by Marcus
Blechman
[Ruth St. Denis in] "White Jade", 1927, by Marcus
Blechman
Ruth St. Denis in "Tagore Poem", 1929, by Marcus
Blechman
The Spirit of Ruth St. Denis, 1950, by Phil Baribault
Photo of Ruth St. Denis in foyer of the Museum of the City of
New York, 1961, by Marcus Blechman
| |||||||||||
| 22 | 3 | Photographs: Miscellaneous | |||||||||
|
"Going to Town" [burlesque revue], by Canell (N.Y.)
[unidentified woman holding black gauze fabric]
[unidentified woman draped in swirling-pattern gauze
fabric]
[unidentified couple in straw and bowler hats, stage role],
by Cadia? (N.Y.)
[unidentified female portrait, bleached]
[Yiddish theater façade and street scene]
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| 22 | 4 | Movie stills: "The Flame of New Orleans", 1941 (Marlene Dietrich and Mischa Auer) - 2 photos | |||||||||
| 22 | 5 | Movie stills: "Sunny" (Anna Neagle and John Carroll) - 5 photos | |||||||||
| 22 | 6 | Movie stills: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (Gene Raymond, Robert Montgomery, Carole Lombard) - 2 photos | |||||||||
| 22 | 7 | Movie stills: Unidentified film - 18 photos | |||||||||
| 22 | 8 | Movie stills: Miscellaneous | |||||||||
|
Merle Oberon
Emily Smith, as Peas, in Shine On Harvest Moon. A Warner
Bros. First National Picture
[still from "The Maltese Falcon" - Humphrey Bogart, Mary
Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet]
[still from silent? film - couple holding hands by window,
locomotive approaching]
| |||||||||||
| Series VIII: Posters and Oversize Items, ca. 1850s-1980s 4 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises vintage and reproduced posters and display boards. In addition, there is a cut-out toy figure, a group of photos matted together, a portfolio cover, and a newspaper article, housed here for reasons of size. Four oversize photographs from the Dixon-Freeman collection are also stored here. Larger posters are housed separately in oversize storage. | |||||||||||
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| "Argentine Nights, starring The Ritz Brothers and…The Andrews Sisters", 1940 poster, Realart Pictures | |||||||||||
| " Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi in Son of Frankenstein", poster (reproduction), 1939 | |||||||||||
| "Bloolips in London's Finest Comedy, Teenage Trash", 1987 | |||||||||||
| " Carl Laemmle presents Dracula, the vampire thriller", poster (reproduction), 1931 | |||||||||||
| Dixon-Freeman collection - photographs | |||||||||||
|
[
Jessica Dixon], by
Witzel (L.A.)
[
Frank
Freeman]
[
Jessica Dixon in
Mexican costume]
[
Jessica Dixon with
Mexican ensemble], by Stagg
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| Duncan Sisters, 2 photographs and newspaper image, 1920s-1950s, matted together | |||||||||||
| "F.B.O. presents Fred Thompson and his remarkable horse Silver King in…'Thundering Hoofs'", poster, Film Booking Offices (color photocopy), 1924 | |||||||||||
| " Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks", cut-out figure, , 16 in., with Tums ad and instructions on verso, 1950 | |||||||||||
| "The Four Step Brothers, America's foremost dancing quartet…", Marcus Glaser, Charles Hogan Agency, Chicago | |||||||||||
| "Harry Qubey's Dog Circus" (reproduction) | |||||||||||
| "Hellzapoppin'" starring Olsen and Johnson with Martha Raye, (modern reproduction), 1941 | |||||||||||
| (from the Olsen and Johnson collection) | |||||||||||
| "The Jewess! Or, The Council of Constance." , Boston Museum playbill, approx. 19 x 9 in., ca. 1850s | |||||||||||
| Minstrel show sign - no text | |||||||||||
| "The New Ravel, Humpty-Dumpty", , cardboard poster, ca. 1900 | |||||||||||
| " Orson Welles, Citizen Kane", poster (reproduction), 1941 | |||||||||||
| " Paul Wenzel, producing original, clown-walk-arounds", Charles Hogan Agency, Chicago | |||||||||||
| Standard Theatre program (New York, week ending ), Apr 20, 1889 | |||||||||||
| "Twelve new Gibson Girls, hitherto unpublished", red portfolio cover, lacking original print contents | |||||||||||
| (received with Dixon-Freeman collection) | |||||||||||
| "The 'Two Black Crows': pitiful end of one of the Moran and Mack team of popular merrymakers recalls some of the jokes and funny dialogues which amused Americans for many years." ( American Weekly article, 1937) | |||||||||||
| "Vaudeville's High-Water Mark - All-Star Bill…Houdini…Frank McIntyre…Joe Cook…", playbill, 1922 | |||||||||||
| "Willie, West & McGinty", , George A. Hamid and Son, 1940s | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 24 | Mae West, , Paramount poster mounted on particle board, 26.5 x 20 in., 1931 | ||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| Oversize Storage | Color lithograph posters, , approx. 40 x 80 in. each, 1907-08 | ||||||||||
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Clown heads (2 posters)
Dancing girls (3 posters)
Somersaulting bicycle act (1 poster)
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| Oversize Storage | Posters | ||||||||||
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"George Primrose and His Minstrels / Olsen & Johnson /
…", Crystal playbill, 42 x 14 in.
"'Skipper' Don Mills … / The Four Gondoliers / Blib and Blob
/ …",
1934 playbill, 3 ft. 6 in. x 2 ft. 4
in.
(received as part of the Gondoliers/Ricci collection)
"Pat Rooney, Jr. / George & Dixie, Radio Stars / other
big acts - screen: Sailors On Leave",
ca. 1941 playbill
"Salem Paramount / Salem Empire, New Year's Eve … Mammoth",
ca. 1940 playbill
"Vaudeville Revue featuring Follies stars Buster West &
Co.",
ca. 1940 playbill
"Fort Massacre, starring Joel McCrea",
1958 movie poster
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| Series IX: Sheet Music, 1859-1945 (bulk 1905-1935) 2 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series encompasses popular sheet music from the late 1890s to the mid-1940s, as well as two opera librettos from 1859 and the 1920s. Most are the original item; a few are color photocopies. They are arranged alphabetically by title. Several are associated with shows such as the Ziegfeld Follies. Each features images of one or more performers on the cover. | |||||||||||
| Sheet music can also be found in the Performers files and in individual or family collections, particularly the Dixon-Freeman collection. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 1 | Librettos | |||||||||
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Norma, composed by
[Vincenzo]
Bellini (Ditson & Co.'s standard opera libretto, 28 pp.)
1859
Die Walküre, a musical drama in three acts, by
Richard Wagner;
English version by Charles
Henry Meltzer; pub.
by Fred. Rullman, Inc. (New York); libretto, for Metropolitan Opera House Grand
Opera
ca. 1920s
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| 25 | 2 | Sheet Music, A | |||||||||
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After All (Lee S. Roberts, lyric J. Will Callahan)
1919
After the Ball (Charles K. Harris)
1920
Ain't She Sweet? (Milton Ager, lyric Jack Yellen)
1927
Album of Bert Williams Famous Song Hits
1905, 1932 - 2 copies
All Alone Monday from The Ramblers (Harry Ruby, lyric Bert
Kalmar)
1926
All She Does Is Follow them Around (Maurice Abraham, lyric
Grant Clarke)
1914
All I Want Is You (Benny Davis, Sidney Clare, Harry Akst)
1927
Alma (Jean Briquet, English lyric George V. Hobart -
translated from Alma, Where Do You Live? Alma Wo Wohnst Du, German lyric Adolf
Philipp)
1910
Along the Rocky Road to Dublin (Bert Grant, lyric Joe Young)
1915
Always Be Honey to Me (Jeff Branen, Arthur Lange, Max Prival)
1915
Always in My Heart [Forever on My Mind] (J. Fred Coots, lyric
Roy Turk)
1932
Am I Blue? (Harry Akst, lyric Grant Clarke) from On with the
Show
1929
And Then (Herman Paley, lyric Alfred Bryan)
1913
Are You Sorry? (Milton Ager, lyric Benny Davis)
1925
Are You Lonesome To-night? (Roy Turk and Lou Handman)
1927
Arizona Stars Song (Carl Rupp, lyric George Little)
1923
At Sundown [When Love Is Calling Me Home] (Walter Donaldson)
1927
At the End of the Broken Down Trail (Fred Rose)
1931
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| 25 | 3 | Sheet Music, B - D | |||||||||
|
Back in the Old Sunday School (Phillips H. Lord, May Singhi
Breen, Peter DeRose)
1932
Back in Your Own Back Yard (Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Dave
Dreyer)
1928
Beside an Open Fireplace (Paul Denniker, Will Osborne)
1929
Boogie Woogie on W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues (Earl Hines)
1914, 1942, 1945
Boston Town (Felix Rice, John Rehauser, lyric Wilbur Mack)
1907
Breezin Along with the Breeze (Haven Gillespie, Seymour
Simons, Richard A. Whiting)
1926
By the River Sainte Marie (Harry Warren, lyric Edgar Leslie)
1931
Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear (Sag Mir
Darling, English lyric Dorothy Dick)
1931 (German music and lyric Bert Reisfeld,
Mart Fryberg, Rolf Marbot)
Cheerful Little Earful from Sweet and Low (Harry Warren,
lyric Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose)
1930
Cross My Heart, Mother [I Love You] (Jack McCoy, Sam
Williams, lyric Al Piantadosi)
1925
Crying for You (Ned Miller, Chester Cohn)
1923
Dinah (Harry Akst, lyric Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young)
1925
Dreamy Melody (Ted Koehler, Frank Magine, C. Naset)
1922
Drifting (Gertrude Lincoff, lyric Max Siegel)
1930
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| 25 | 4 | Sheet Music, E - F | |||||||||
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Eddie Cantor Song and Joke Book for
1934
Feather Your Nest [Emplumez le Nid] (Kendis Brockman, Howard
Johnson, French lyric A. Bollaert)
1920
Five Salted Peanuts (Charlie Abbott)
1945
Follow the Swallow (Ray Henderson, lyric Billy Rose, Mort
Dixon)
1924
Footlight Favorites (Frank Banta)
1897
Forgetting (Ray Mitchell)
1927
Forgive Me (Milton Ager, lyric Jack Yellen)
1927
Forgive Me (Milton Ager, lyric Jack Yellen)
1927 (different cover)
Francis & Day's Album of Harry Lauder's Popular Songs
1905
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| 25 | 5 | Sheet Music, G - H | |||||||||
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The Gaby Glide (Louis A. Hirsh, lyric Harry Pilcer)
1911
Garden of My Dreams, from Ziegfeld Follies (Louis A. Hirsh,
Dave Stamper, lyric Gene Buck)
1918
The Gem Dance Folio for 1932 (Elliot Shapiro)
1932
Gloomy Moon (Harry Geise)
1924
Go As Far As You Like, Kid (W. Percival Kelgard, lyric Will
H. Smith)
1909
Good-night My Own Love (Jean Schwartz, lyric Stanislaus
Stange and William Jerome), from The Musical Gems of F.C. Whitney's Piff! Paff!
Pouf! A Musical Cocktail
1904
Good Night Nurse (W. Raymond Walker, lyric Thomas J. Gray)
1912
Gypsy Fiddles (Allie Wrubel)
1933
Half a Moon [Is Better Than No Moon], from Honeymoon Lane
(Herbert Reynolds, Eddie Dowling, James F. Hanley)
1926
Hasta Manana [Until Tomorrow] (Al Hegbom, Egbert Van Alstyne,
lyric Haven Gillespie)
1924
Hello My Dearie, from Ziegfeld Follies (Dave Stamper, lyric
Gene Buck)
1917
Hello Evening Star (Jack Scholl, Henry Lodge, Emil Seidel)
1932
Here I Am (Ray Henderson, lyric B.G. de Sylvia, Lew Brown)
1926
Honolulu Eyes (Violinsky, lyric Howard Johnson)
1921
The Hours I Spent with You (Little Jack Little, lyric Stan
Lewis, Joe Young)
1927
Hush-a-Bye (Robert E. Spencer, lyric Frank X. Galvin)
1926
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| 25 | 6 | Sheet Music, I | |||||||||
|
I Can't Give You Anything But Love [Baby], from Lew Leslie's
Blackbirds of 1928 (Jimmy McHugh, lyric Dorothy Fields)
1928 (lacks insert leaf, only has last page
of the score)
I Love a Lassie [Ma Scotch Bluebell] (Harry Lauder, Gerald
Grafton)
1906
I Love Me - I'm Wild About Myself (Will Mahoney)
1923
I Love You - That's One Thing I Know (L. Wolfe Gilbert,
Anatol Friedland)
1915
I Miss a Little Miss [Who Misses Me in Sunny Tennessee] (J.
Fred Coots, lyric Tot Seymour)
1930
I Wonder Who's Dancing with You To-Night (Ray Henderson,
lyric Mort Dixon, Billy Rose)
1924
If I Could Be with You (Henry Creamer, Jimmy Johnson)
1926
If My Love Could Talk (Harry Kogen, lyric Lou Holzer)
1935
If You Had All the World and Its Gold (Albert Piantados,
lyric Bartley Costello, Harry Edelheit)
1916
I'll Keep On Loving You (Joseph B. Carey)
1916
I'm a Lonesome Melody (George W. Meyer, lyric Joe Young)
1915
I'm As Happy As Can Be (Hazel Graves, lyric Tell Taylor)
1926
I'm Crazy 'Bout the Turkey Trot (George W. Meyer, lyric Joe
Goodwin)
1911
I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry (Charles R. McCarron, Carey
Morgan)
1918
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover (Harry Woods, lyric Mort
Dixon)
1927
I'm Sorry That I Let That Gentleman In (Wilfred Herbert,
lyric Jean Charez)
1902 (color photocopy)
I'm Through [Shedding Tears Over You] (Edwin J. Weber, lyric
Karyl Norman)
1922
I'm Waiting in Dreamland for You (W.R. Williams)
1921
In a Little Spanish Town (Mabel Wayne, lyric Lewis and Young)
1926
In My Hide-Away (K. L. Binford)
1932
In My Indiana Home (Larry Shay, lyric Harry Harris)
1929
An Innocent Young Maid, from In Wall Street (Richard Carle,
Maurice Levi, lyric Richard Carle)
1899
It All Depends On You (B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray
Henderson)
1926
It Had to Be You (Isham Jones, lyric Gus Kahn)
1924
It's Never Too Late to Be Sorry (Jos. A. Burke, lyric James
E. Dempsey)
1918
I've Got Rings on My Fingers (Maurice Scott, lyric Weston and
Barnes)
1909
I've Got Everything I Want But You (Henry I. Marshall, lyric
Marion Sunshine)
1913
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| 25 | 7 | Sheet Music, J - L | |||||||||
|
Jigs and Reels, in two volumes, vol. I, academic edition
undated
Jimmy Valentine (Gus Edwards, lyric Edward Madden)
1910
Just an Old Bouquet [of a Bye-Gone Day] (Lew Porter, Harry
Edelbert, Mel Ball)
1928
Just Cause I Lub Yo (Charles F. Gall, lyric Kate Thyson Mann)
1908 [color photocopy]
Laugh! Clown! Laugh! (Ted Fiorito, lyric Lewis and Young)
1928
Let Me Spend the Journey's End with You (Billy Baskette)
1926
Let Us Waltz As We Say Goodbye (Art L. Beiner)
1925
Limehouse Blues (Philip Braham, lyric Douglas Furber)
1922
Little Brown Hut in the Hills (Ethwell "Eddie" Hanson)
1926
Little Darling Marguerite (Eliza Doyle Smith)
1919
Little Rag Baby Doll (Lewis F. Muir, lyric L. Wolfe Gilbert)
1913
Log Cabin Lullaby (Cal De Voll)
1926
London Bridge Is Falling Down on the Isle of Childhood Dreams
(Harry I. Robinson, lyric Louis Robinson)
1923
Lonesome [for You] (Earl Smith, Tell Taylor)
1925
Long, Lean, Lanky Letty (Sydney Grant)
1914
Looking at the World Thru Rose Colored Glasses (Tommy Malie
and Jimmy Steiger)
1926
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| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 26 | 1 | Sheet Music, M | |||||||||
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Madeira (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, M. K. Jerome)
1925
Make-Believe, from Show Boat (Jerome Kern, lyric Oscar
Hammerstein)
1927
Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose (Richard A. Whiting, lyric
Raymond Egan)
1916
Mammy's Lullaby (Pete Bontsema, Julius Peto, Marty Jacobi,
lyric Al Cameron, Julius Seidor)
1929
Marta, Rambling Rose of the Wildwood (Moises Simons, arr.
Rosamond Johnson, English lyric L. Wolfe Gilbert [also in Spanish]
1931
Martha: Just a Plain Old Fashioned Name (Joe L. Sanders)
1922
Mem-o-ries (Harry H. Williams, lyric Morgan Brown)
1914
Mickey (Neil Moret, lyric Harry Williams)
1918
Mister Five by Five (Don Raye, Gene De Paul)
1942
Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean, from Ziegfeld Follies 1922
(Ed Gallagher, Al Shean)
1922
Moments with You (Nat Shilkret, lyric Jack Yellen)
1928
Momsy (Jack Yellen, Ed "Nemo" Roth, Dave Ringle)
1927
Moonbeam Kiss Her for Me (Harry Woods, lyric Mort Dixon)
1927
Moonlight and Roses [Bring Mem'ries of You] (Edwin H. Lemare,
Ben Black, Neil Moret)
1925
My Isle of Golden Dreams (Walker Blaufuss, lyric Gus Kahn)
1919
My Sin (B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)
1929
My Song of the Nile (Al Bryan, George W. Meyer)
1929 (with 15 other songs; untitled
compilation with star portraits)
My Twilight Queen (Lou Hirsh, lyric Jean Havez)
1907
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| 26 | 2 | Sheet Music, O - R | |||||||||
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Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee! You're the Only Girl for Me (Albert
Von Tilzer, lyric Lew Brown)
1919
Oh, Donna Clara (J. Petersburgski, lyric Beda; English
version Irving Caesar)
1930
Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, Oh! Golly I'm in Love, from Zeigfeld
Follies (Ernest Brener, lyric Olson and Johnson)
1923
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh (Abe Olman, lyric Ed Rose)
1917 [Olman portrait on the cover]
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh (Abe Olman, lyric Ed Rose)
1917 [different edition, flapper on the
cover]
Only a Rose You Once Gave Me (H.C. Weasner)
1926
Only a Weaver of Dreams (Ethwell Eddie Hanson)
1924
Pal of My Cradle Days (Al Piantadosi, lyric Marshall
Montgomery)
1925
Peg O' My Heart (Fred Fischer, lyric Alfred Bryan)
1913
Poor Butterfly, from The Big Show at the New York Hippodrome
(Raymond Hubbell, lyric John L. Golden)
1916
Put Away a Little Ray of Golden Sunshine for a Rainy Day
(Fred E. Ahlert, lyric Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young)
1924
Put Away a Little Ray of Golden Sunshine for a Rainy Day
(Fred E. Ahlert, lyric Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young)
1924 (different edition)
Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey [I Never Knew Any Girl Like
You] (Albert Von Tilzer, lyric Junie McCree)
1910
Rae! Rae! Rae! (John C. Rundback) music section, New York
American and Journal
July 8, 190[6] [color
photocopy]
Reaching for the Moon (Benny Davis, Jesse Greer)
1926
Rememb'ring, from Topsy and Eva (Duncan Sisters)
1923
River, Stay 'Way from My Door (Harry Woods, lyric Mort Dixon)
1931
Roam On My Little Gypsy Sweetheart (Francis Wheeler, Irving
Kahal, Ted Snyder)
1927
Rocky Mountain Rose (M. K. Jerome, lyric Joan Jasmyn, Wm.
Tracey)
1931
Roll Along Prairie Moon (Ted Fierito, Harry MacPherson,
Albert Von Tilzer)
1935
A Rose and a Kiss, from La Paloma (Mabel Wayne, lyric Bennée
Russell)
1931
Rose of Washington Square (James F. Hanley, lyric Ballard
Macdonald)
1920
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| 26 | 3 | Sheet Music, S | |||||||||
|
Save Your Sorrow [for To-morrow] (Al Sherman, lyric B.G. De
Sylva)
1925
Shanghai Honeymoon (Wm. L. Shockley, Chas. J. Hausman, Lester
Melrose)
1926
Side by Side (Harold Dixon, lyric Claude Sacre)
1922
Side by Side (Harry Woods)
1927
A Smile Will Go a Long Long Way (Benny Davis, Harry Akst)
1923
Soft Boiled Ballads: A Collection of Heart-wrecking Songs (H.
W. Hanemann)
1931
Some of These Days (Shelton Brooks)
1922
Somebody's Sweetheart I Want to Be (Cobb and Edwards)
1905
Someday Soon (Edna Fischer, lyric Rosetta and Vivian Duncan)
1929
Someday Sweetheart (John C. Spikes, Benjamin Spikes)
1924
Sorry and Blue (Bob Elbel, Don Elbel)
1925
Swanee River Dreams (Wendell Words Hall, Carson J. Robison)
1924
Sweet Southern Love (Howard Johnson, Irving Bibo, Joe Darcy)
1925
Sweet Sue - Just You (Victor Young, lyric Will J. Harris)
1928
Sweet Varsity Sue from Life Begins in College (Charles
Tobias, Al Lewis, Murray Mencher)
1937
Sweetheart I'm Sorry [That I Made You Cry] (Frank Westphal,
lyric Charley Newman)
1928
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| 26 | 4 | Sheet Music, T - V | |||||||||
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Take Me to the Midnight Cake Walk Ball (Eddie Cox, Arthur
Jackson, Maurice Abraham)
1915
Talking to the Moon (Billy Baskette, George A. Little)
1926
That's Some Love (George M. Cohan)
1908
That's Why You Make Me Cry (Joe Verges, Henri Therrien, Irwin
LeClere)
1923
There's Something Nice About Everyone But There's Everything
Nice About You (Pete Wendling, lyric Arthur Terker, Alfred Bryan)
1927
This Is My Love Song (Joe Burke, lyric Al Dubin)
1931
This Is the Life (Irving Berlin)
1914
To Think I Thought So Much of You and You Thought So Little
of Me (Jack Little, lyric Tommie Malie)
1924
To-Night You Belong to Me (Lee David, lyric Billy Rose)
1926
Trading Smiles (Don Ramsay)
1907
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream (Rennie Cormack, lyric John J.
O'Brien, Al Dubin)
1916
Under the Moon (Ev. E. Lyn, Francis Wheeler, Ted Snyder)
1927
Underneath the Stars with You (Nick Lucas, lyric Sam H.
Stept)
1927
The Victor Dance Folio, no.3
1907
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| 26 | 5 | Sheet Music, W - Y | |||||||||
|
Waitin' for the Evenin' Mail [Sittin' On the Inside, Lookin'
at the Outside] (Billy Baskettee)
1923 (2 copies)
Waitin' for the Moon (Sam Lerner, lyric Joe Brown)
1925
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry? (Walter Donaldson, Abe
Lyman)
1926
When I Was the Dandy and You Were the Belle (Lou Handman and
Dave Dreyer, lyric Herman Ruby)
1924
When I Wore My Daddy's Brown Derby [and You Wore Your
Mother's Blue Gown] (Max Rich, lyric Harry Pease, Chas O'Flynn)
1931
When It's Apple Blossom Time in Normandy (Mellor Gifford and
Trevor)
1912
When It's Lamp Lightin' Time in the Valley (Joe Lyons, Sam C.
Hart, The Vagabonds (Harold - Dean - Curt)
1933
When the Chapel Bells Were Ringing (Clarence Gaskill, lyric
Cal De Voll)
1931
When You Come to the End of the Day (Frank Westphal, lyric
Gus Kahn)
1929
When You're in Love (Walter Donaldson, Walter Blaufuss)
1926
Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?
(George W. Meyer, lyric Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young)
1916
Where the Mill Stream Winds Its Way (Harold Dixon, lyric
Claude Sacre)
1923
Where the Song Birds Sing "Good Mornin' (Ed East, W.R.
Williams)
1931
Where the Shy Little Violets Grow (Gus Kahn, Harry Warren)
1928
Wonderful One (Paul Whiteman, Ferdie Grofé, adapted from a
theme by Marshall Nielan; lyric Dorothy Terriss)
1923
Wait You Believe in Me (Lester Palmer, Jess Williams)
1926
With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming (Mack Gordon, Harry
Revel)
1934 (photocopy)
Would You Take Me Back Again? (Peter De Rose, Alfred Solman)
1931
You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me (Egbert Van Alstyne, lyric
Paul Cunningham)
1923
You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Baby (A. Seymour Brown)
1916
You're Lucky to Me, from Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930
(Eubie Blake, lyric Andy Razaf)
1930
You're Tired of Me (Don York, Jack Sadler, Pauline Brown)
1931
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| Series X: Periodicals, 1894-2007 7.75 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises primarily magazines, with some other items such as calendars and catalogues grouped here due to similar format. The titles are loosely grouped in pre-1950 and post-1950 sections, with titles represented by single or a few issues presented first and organized alphabetically by title. The groupings are based in part on size; the last two boxes are larger-format titles. Within each title, the issues are organized chronologically. There are also some tear sheets and an oversize article. | |||||||||||
| Some periodicals can also be found in the Performers files. | |||||||||||
| Periodicals, pre-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 27 | 1 | Conkey's One-to-fill of (photocopy), 1920 | |||||||||
| 27 | 2 | Conkey's One-to-fill of (photocopy), 1921 | |||||||||
| 27 | 3 | Conkey's One-to-fill of (photocopy), 1923 | |||||||||
| 27 | 4 | Liberty (lacks cover; half of p.33-34 cut out), Nov 16, 1929 | |||||||||
| 27 | 5 | The Official Vaudeville Guide, v.3, no.2 , (1927) | |||||||||
| 27 | 6 | Radio Stars , Jan. 1931 | |||||||||
| 27 | 7 | Theatre Arts , , Sep. 1940 Dec. 1940 Jan. 1951 | |||||||||
| Periodicals, pre-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 1 | Loose tearsheets, reproductions , ca. 1916-1960s | |||||||||
| 28 | 2 | "The future of vaudeville" by Newman Levy; "The composer of 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'" by Irving Berlin, as told to Russel Crouse (first page only). Unidentified magazine ( ), pp. 75-80., 1911 | |||||||||
| 28 | 3 | The Billboard: the theatrical digest and show world review | |||||||||
|
Oct. 13, 1928
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| The Billboard: the world's foremost amusement weekly | |||||||||||
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Feb. 26, 1938 - cover
Fred Allen
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| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 4 | Broadway Weekly | |||||||||
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Sep. 21, 1904 -
special vaudeville number
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| 28 | 5 | The Dance Magazine: glorifying the dance | |||||||||
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Nov. 1927 - cover Maryon
Vadie
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| 28 | 6 | The Fra: a journal of affirmation | |||||||||
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v.5, no.3 (
June 1910) - the
vaudeville number
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| 28 | 7 | Gallery of Players, from The Illustrated American | |||||||||
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no.2 (
1894), ed. Charles Fdc. Nirdlinger
no.3 (
1894), ed. Marwell Hall
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| 28 | 8 | Paris Qui Chante | |||||||||
|
, 4e année, no. 189 (
Sept. 2, 190-)
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| 28 | 9 | Pictures of Movie Stars, with stories by Mae Tinée (Racine: Whitman Pub. Co., ), 1937 | |||||||||
| 28 | 10 | The Player: The official organ of The White Rats of America, Inc. | |||||||||
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v.1, no.14 (
Mar. 11, 1910)
v.2, no.34 (
July 29, 1910)
v.4, no.33 (
July 21, 1911)
Anniversary & Christmas number (
Dec. 22, 1911)
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| Periodicals, pre-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 29 | 1 | Stage: the magazine of after-dark entertainment | |||||||||
|
Dec. 1936 - cover
Fanny Brice
Jan. 1938 - cover
Ed Wynn
Mar. 1938 - cover
Beatrice
Lillie
Dec. 1940
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| 29 | 2 | The Theatre (pub. by Meyer Bros. & Co., New York) | |||||||||
|
v.5, no.49 (
Mar. 1905) - cover
Dustin Farnum as
"The Virginian"
v.5, no.52 (
June 1905) - cover
Miss Eleanor
Robson, in "She Stoops to Conquer"
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| 29 | 3 | Theatre Magazine: for the lovers of stage and screen ( ), Mar. 1927 | |||||||||
| 29 | 4 | Variety Daily: News of the show world (published in Hollywood) | |||||||||
|
v.33, no.38, sec. 2 (
Oct. 29, 1941)
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| 29 | 5 | New York Star | |||||||||
|
v.15, no.26, whole no.390 (
Mar. 22, 1916)
v.16, no.16, whole no.406 (
July 12, 1916)
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| The Vaudeville News | |||||||||||
|
v.9, no.25 (
Dec. 26, 1924)
| |||||||||||
| The Vaudeville News and New York Star | |||||||||||
|
v.18, no.16 (
Oct. 13, 1928)
v.19, no.4 (
Jan. 19, 1929)
v.19, no.6 (
Feb. 2, 1929)
v.19, no.22 (
May 25, 1929)
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| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 29 | 6 | Wirth and Hamid, Fair Booking Inc. - world's greatest attractions , ca. 1932 | |||||||||
| Periodicals, pre-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 30 | The Illustrated London News | ||||||||||
|
Oct. 26, 1901
Apr 11, 1903 (lacks
front cover)
Apr. 16, 1904
Oct. 1, 1904;
Oct. 8, 1904;
Oct. 22, 1904
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| The New York Dramatic Mirror | |||||||||||
| Note: not available for viewing - extremely fragile, and most issues are partial rather than complete. | |||||||||||
|
May 1890 (pp. 7-10
only)
Jan. 8, 1898;
Jan. 15, 1898;
Jan. 22, 1898;
Jan. 29, 1898
Feb. 5, 1898;
Feb. 12, 1898;
Feb. 19, 1898;
Feb. 26, 1898
Mar. 5, 1898;
Mar. 12, 1898;
Mar. 19, 1898;
Mar. 26, 1898
Apr. 2, 1898;
Apr. 9, 1898;
Apr. 16, 1898
June 18, 1898
July 16, 1898;
July 23, 1898
July 30, 1898
Nov. 15, 1902;
Nov. 22, 1902 (1 sheet
from each only)
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| Variety (published in New York) | |||||||||||
|
v.10, no.3 (
Mar. 28, 1908)
v.10, no.4 (
Apr. 4, 1908)
v.10, no.8 (
May 2, 1908)
v.10, no.13 (
June 6, 1908)
v.11, no.1 (
June 8, 1908)
v.11, no.3 (
June 27, 1908)
v.14, no.7 (
Apr. 24, 1909)
v.15, no.7 (
July 24, 1909)
v.15, no.8 (
July 31, 1909)
v.18, no.13 (
June 4, 1910)
v.19, no.2 (
June 18, 1910)
v.23, no.4 (
July 1, 1911)
v.23, no.12 (
Aug. 26, 1911)
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| Variety (published in New York) | |||||||||||
|
v.49, no.7 (
Jan. 11, 1918)
v.50, no.7 (
Apr. 12, 1918)
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| Periodicals, post-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 31 | 1 | Loose article: "Fabulous Fanny" [ Fanny Brice], by Norman Katkov. Ladies' Home Journal ( ), pp. 48-49,123-129., Jan. 1953 | |||||||||
| 31 | 2 | Loose article: "Refugee from Burlesque" [ Phil Silvers], by Stanley Frank. The Saturday Evening Post ( ), pp. 40-41,146-150., Jan. 1953 | |||||||||
| 31 | 3 | Bloody Beautiful | |||||||||
|
issue 1 (
2000) - includes 7-inch red vinyl album of
songs from 1916, performed in 1967/1972 by
Ian Whitcomb
issue 2 (
2001?)- includes 10-inch blue vinyl
marbleized album of songs by
Al Bowlly,
Lilian Harvey
&
Willie Firtsch,
Sophie Tucker, and
Durium Dance Band
/ Fred Douglas (1928-36) | |||||||||||
| 31 | 4 | Life | |||||||||
|
Oct. 23, 1950 - cover
"TV gets top comics -
Ed Wynn"
Mar. 18, 1957 - cover
"
Beatrice Lillie,
girls from New Ziegfeld Follies"
Apr. 18, 1969 - cover
"
Mae West going strong
at 75"
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| 31 | 5 | Life | |||||||||
|
Feb. 19, 1971 - cover
"Everybody's just wild about…nostalgia"
Dec. 31, 1971 - cover
"The year in pictures 1971"
Feb. 1980 - cover
"Whatever became of Mary Astor and other lost stars?"
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| 31 | 6 | Look | |||||||||
|
Apr. 10, 1951- cover
"TV's old-new stars prove that laughs begin at 40"
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| 31 | 7 | Paris Match | |||||||||
|
Jan. 15, 1972- cover
"Chevalier: 30 pages"
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| Periodicals, post-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 32 | 1 | Bijou | |||||||||
|
Apr. 1977
| |||||||||||
| 32 | 2 | The Call Boy: The official journal of the British Music Hall Society | |||||||||
|
v.34, no.1 (
spring 1997)
v.36, no.1 (
winter 1999) - v.39, no.4 (
winter 2003)
| |||||||||||
| 32 | 3 | The Call Boy: The official journal of the British Music Hall Society | |||||||||
|
v.40, no.1 (
spring 2003) - v.44, no.1 (
spring 2007)
| |||||||||||
| 32 | 4 | Dance Magazine | |||||||||
|
Sep. 1966
| |||||||||||
| 32 | 5 | Juggle: the official magazine of the International Jugglers' Association | |||||||||
|
July/Aug.
2000
Mar./Apr.
2001
Nov./Dec. 2006
(complete and partial copies)
| |||||||||||
| and related correspondence to Frank Cullen | |||||||||||
| 32 | 6 | The Keaton Chronicle | |||||||||
|
v.3, issue 2 (
spring 1995)
v.4, issue 2 (
spring 1995), issue 3 (
summer 1996), issue 4 (
autumn 1996)
v.5, issue 1 (
spring 1995), issue 2 (
spring 1997), issue 3 (
summer 1997)
v.6, issue 1 (
spring 1995), issue 2 (
spring 1998), issue 4 (
autumn 1998)
v.7, issue 1 (
winter 1999), issue 2 (
spring 1999), issue 3 (
summer 1999)
v.7, issue 4/v.8, issue 1 (
autumn 1999/winter 2000)
v.8, issue 2 (
spring 2000)
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| 32 | 7 | Liberty: the nostalgia magazine | |||||||||
|
v.1, no.4 (
spring 1972), no.7 (
winter 1972)
| |||||||||||
| 32 | 8 | Lompoc Picayune-Intelligencer: the official newsletter of the W.C. Fields Fan Club | |||||||||
|
issue no.8 (
spring 1996)
issue no.9 (
summer 1996)
issue no.10 (
fall 1996/winter 1997)
issue no.11 (
spring 1997)
issue no.12 (
winter 1998)
issue no.15 (
winter 2000)
issue no.16 (
winter/spring 2001)
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| 32 | 9 | Mad | |||||||||
|
no.430 (
June 2003) - special
edition: Boston Comedy & Movie Festival
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| 32 | 10 | Marquee: the journal of the Theatre Historical Society | |||||||||
|
v.9, no.2 (2nd quarter
1977) - reproduction of
Balaban & Katz Magazine,
v.1, no.23 (
Aug 17, 1925),
featuring the Uptown Theatre in Chicago (photocopy)
v.35, no.4 (4th quarter
2003)
v.36, no.1 (1st-4th quarters
2004), and supplement to no. 2
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| 32 | 11 | Modern Maturity | |||||||||
|
July/Aug.
2001
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| 32 | 12 | Movie Crazy: a newsletter for people who love movies | |||||||||
|
issue no.17 (
summer 2006)
issue no.18 (
autumn 2006)
issue no.19 (
winter 2007)
issue no.20 (
spring 2007)
Back issues available as of Autumn, 2006 (flyer)
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| Periodicals, post-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 33 | 1 | Nostalgia Illustrated: the pleasures of the past | |||||||||
|
v.2, no.4 (
Apr. 1973) - lacks
cover
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| 33 | 2 | Old News | |||||||||
|
Free sample copy
Mar.-Nov.
1999
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| 33 | 3 | Old News | |||||||||
|
Jan./Feb.-Dec.
2000
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| 33 | 4 | Old News | |||||||||
|
Jan./Feb.-July/Aug.
2001
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| Periodicals, post-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 34 | 1 | On Tap: a publication of The International Tap Association | |||||||||
|
v.15, no.5 (
Apr./May/June
2005)
v.16, no.1 (
July/Aug.
2005)
| |||||||||||
| 34 | 2 | The Passing Show: newsletter of the Shubert Archive | |||||||||
|
v.22, no.2 (
2002)
v.23 (
2003)
v.24 (
2004/2005)
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| 34 | 3 | Past Times: the nostalgia entertainment newsletter | |||||||||
|
no.30 (
Jan.? 1998)
no.31 (
Apr.? 1998)
no.33 (
Nov.? 1998)
no.34 (
Apr.? 1999)
no.35 (
June? 1999)
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| 34 | 4 | Puppetry International: the puppet in contemporary theatre, film & media | |||||||||
|
issue 15 (
spring/summer 2004)
issue 16 (
fall/winter 2004)
issue 17 (
spring/summer 2005)
issue 18 (
fall/winter 2005)
issue 19 (
spring/summer 2006)
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| 34 | 5 | SooNipi Magazine | |||||||||
|
summer 2007
| |||||||||||
| 34 | 6 | Theatre: 1983 engagement calendar; based on pictures from the Harvard Theatre Collection (New York: Abbeville Press) | |||||||||
| 34 | 7 | This Was Show Business | |||||||||
|
unnumbered (
1956)
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| 34 | 8 | The Whole Forty Year Old Hippie Catalog | |||||||||
|
unnumbered (
1978)
| |||||||||||
| 34 | 9 | Wild About Harry: the quarterly newsletter of The Harry Langdon Society | |||||||||
|
v.1, no.1 (
Dec 1996)- no.4 (
Sep 1997)
v.2, no.1 (
winter 1998-98)- no.4 (
winter/spring 1999)
v.3, no.1 (
Nov. 1999)
| |||||||||||
| And the Two of Us...Are Horses!: annual journal of the Harry Langdon Society | |||||||||||
|
1998, 1999
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| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 34 | 10 | The World of Yesterday | |||||||||
|
no.29 (
Dec. 1980)
| |||||||||||
| Periodicals, post-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 35 | 1 | After Dark: magazine of entertainment | |||||||||
|
v.10, no.3,5-8 (
July, Sep.-Dec.
1968)
| |||||||||||
| Note: Dec issue lacks cover and first/last few pages | |||||||||||
| 35 | 2 | After Dark: magazine of entertainment | |||||||||
|
v.10, no.11-12 (
Mar.-Apr.
1969)
v.11, no.2, 4-8 (
June, Aug.-Dec.
1969)
| |||||||||||
| 35 | 3 | After Dark: magazine of entertainment | |||||||||
|
v.11, no.11-14 [sic] (
Mar.-June
1970)
v.12, no.3 (
July 1970)
| |||||||||||
| Note: Mar. issue lacks pp.35-42 | |||||||||||
| 35 | 4 | After Dark: magazine of entertainment | |||||||||
|
v.12, no.4-6 (
Aug.-Oct.
1970)
v.13 [sic], no.7-8 (
Nov.-Dec.
1970)
| |||||||||||
| 35 | 5 | After Dark: magazine of entertainment | |||||||||
|
v.3 [sic], no.9-12 (
Jan.-Apr.
1971)
v.4, no.1-2, 7 (
May-June, Nov.
1971)
| |||||||||||
| Periodicals, post-1950 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 36 | 1 | After Dark: magazine of entertainment | |||||||||
|
v.6, no.2, 8 (
June, Dec.
1973)
v.7, no.1, 6, 8 (
May, Oct., Dec.
1974)
| |||||||||||
| 36 | 2 | After Dark: magazine of entertainment | |||||||||
|
v.8, no.2, 4, 8 (
June, Aug., Dec.
1975)
v.10, no.4 (
Aug. 1977)
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| 36 | 3 | Films of the Golden Age | |||||||||
|
no.1-7 (
summer 1995 - winter 1996/1997)
| |||||||||||
| 36 | 4 | Films of the Golden Age | |||||||||
|
no.8-13 (
spring 1997 - summer 1998)
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| box | |||||||||||
| 37 | Periodicals, post-1950 | ||||||||||
| Classic Film/Video Images: the magazine for film and video enthusiasts | |||||||||||
| (formerly Classic Film Collector) | |||||||||||
|
no.61 (
winter 1978)
| |||||||||||
| Classic Images | |||||||||||
| (formerly Classic Film Collector) | |||||||||||
|
no.83 (
May 1982)
no.228-231, 233-234 (
June-Sep.,
Nov.-Dec. 1994)
no.235-246 (
Jan.-Dec.
1995)
no.247-280 (
Jan. 1995 - Oct.
1998)
| |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 38 | Periodicals, post-1950 | ||||||||||
| Classic Images | |||||||||||
| (formerly Classic Film Collector) | |||||||||||
|
no.312 (
June 2001)
no.321, 324, 326, 329-330 (
Mar., June, Aug., Nov.-Dec.
2002)
no.331-332, 335, 337-342 (
Jan.-Feb., May, July-Dec.
2004)
| |||||||||||
| Big Reel: movie, video, & Hollywood collectibles | |||||||||||
|
issue 282 (
Nov. 15, 1997)
issue 284 (
Jan. 15, 1998)
| |||||||||||
| Lamparski's Calendar of the Stars, 1984 | |||||||||||
| Series XI: Balasic Family Collection, 1904-1930, 1990s .5 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This collection consists primarily of three albums of text with photocopied and digitally printed images documenting the family's history in variety and vaudeville, 1904 to 1930, assembled by Mark Balasi, the grandson of Victor Sr. and Paula Balasic. Photocopies of sheet music from ca. 1920-1927 that were used by the family in their European and American acrobatic acts, and by Maria Holz in her earlier solo variety act, are included. Most of these are arrangements by S. Geiger, a "kapellmeister" in Vienna. There are also two vintage photographs. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| This series documents the entertainment career of Victor and Paula (Enders) Balasic and their sons Alfred and Victor, Jr. Paula's parents ran the Circus Enders in Hungary until 1905. The Balasic family toured throughout Europe and Russia as a circus and then an acrobatic variety act known as The Great Merkels or The Five Merkels (1904-1915), The Great Enders (1915), and The 5 Balasis (1916-1924). The family toured the United States in 1923 and remained there. Following Victor Sr. and Paula's retirement around 1925, the sons continued to perform along with Alfred's wife, Maria Holz, as the Balasi Trio (1925-1927), and finally as Florence Micareme & Co. (1927-1929), featuring Maria. As the Balasi Trio, the act featured a finger stand by Alfred and a grand finale of a head-to-head vault sequence with Victor as the vaulter, hence their byline "The Boys with the Steel Heads." | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 39 | 1 | Correspondence from Mark Balasi , 1999 | |||||||||
| 39 | 2 | "The Balasis, a Vaudeville Family" - article for the Vaudeville Times , | |||||||||
| 39 | 3 | The Balasi's on Stage , 1990s | |||||||||
| 39 | 4 | The Balasic Family: A Vaudeville Album , 1990s | |||||||||
| 39 | 5 | The Balasic Family Vaudeville Album , 1994 | |||||||||
| 39 | 6 | Balasic Family Vaudeville Album, vol. II: Sheet Music , 1999 | |||||||||
| Series XII: Dixon-Freeman Collection, 1864, 1888-1943 1.75 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| The collection consists of contracts and documents, photographs, programs, correspondence, typescripts, and sheet music related to the performances of Jessica Dixon and her husband, Frank Freeman. Several parts of the collection refer to their "train sketch" production, "A Minute Late." There are numerous publicity photographs of themselves and other vaudeville performers, and glass transparencies used for publicity in theaters. There is also a substantial sheet music collection. | |||||||||||
| A memo booklet includes entries by Jessica Dixon of her tour in Europe in 1919-20, with expenses, songs performed at various camps, names and addresses of some servicemen she met, and a handwritten score for "Keep the home-fires burning", as well as later entries of poetry, lyrics, and inspirational texts, with some entries in a different hand. There are handwritten chronologies for both Dixon and Freeman. There is an interview, clipping, and list of film and television credits for their daughter, the actress Kathleen Freeman. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| This collection documents the careers of Jessica Dixon (b.1888), a soprano singer known as "The Overseas Girl" at the end of World War I as she entertained American troops in England, France and post-war Germany; and Frank Freeman (b.1884), "The Minstrel Man," who headed Freeman's Forty Musical Minstrels in 1918. From 1922 to 1930 they toured together as Dixon & Freeman, described as "The Singer & The Minstrel" or "The Overseas Girl and That Minstrel Fellow", performing musical theater. They performed a form of blackface called "black and tan" (him black, her tan). In the mid-1920s they identified themselves as The Van Gordons. Their young daughter Kathleen (1919-2001) accompanied them on the road, and began performing with them at the age of two. Dixon subsequently taught voice in Los Angeles; Freeman served as president of California Artists' Protective Association. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 40 | 1 | Chronologies | |||||||||
| 40 | 2 | Papers related to Kathleen Freeman | |||||||||
| 40 | 3 | Clippings | |||||||||
| 40 | 4 | Pages from Sacramento Daily Union, March 19, 1864 | |||||||||
| Note: extremely fragile, not to be removed
from Mylar housing; has reference photocopy | |||||||||||
| 40 | 5 | Contracts, 1923-1929 | |||||||||
| 40 | 6 | Correspondence, 1919-1930 | |||||||||
| 40 | 7 | Correspondence, Actors Union of America/American Artists' Federation, 1929 | |||||||||
| 40 | 8 | Documents, 1888-1943 | |||||||||
| 40 | 9 | Maquette for advertising flyer, "A Dark Honeymoon" | |||||||||
| 40 | 10 | Papers, miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 40 | 11 | Periodicals and tearsheets | |||||||||
| 40 | 12 | Programs, 1913-1934 | |||||||||
|
Gamut Auditorium, Wallis School of Dramatic Art (Los Angeles)
- "Cousin Kate",
Sep. 15, 1913
Gamut Auditorium, Wallis School of Dramatic Art (Los Angeles)
- "The Silver Snuff Box",
Dec. 1, 1913
Mason Opera House (Los Angeles),
Sep. 4, 1916
Keel Klub (Long Beach?) - Freeman's 40 Musical Minstrels and
Vodevil,
ca. 1918
Constance Alexandre, mezzo soprano - promotional flyer,
1920
Santa Fe Reading Room (Shopton, Iowa) - "The Philharmonic
Four" (with Jessica Dixon),
Feb. 9, 1920
The Huntington (San Marino, Calif.?) - Sunday Evening Concert
by the Huntington Artist Ensemble,
Mar. 7, 1920
Pantages Broadway Theatre (Los Angeles),
Nov. 1, 1920
Berchel Theater (Des Moines, Iowa) - Second Annual Edition of
Raymond Hitchcock's "Hitchy-Koo",
Nov. 11-13,
1920
Pantages (Los Angeles?), Vaudeville Attractions,
May 14, 1920
Song Recital by Thomas Egan, Scottish Rite Auditorium (San
Francisco),
Sep. 7, 1921
California Theatre (San Francisco) - Sunday Morning Concert,
Sep. 11, 1921
Regent Theatre (San Mateo, Calif.) - Jessica Dixon,
Oct. 3-4,
1921
St. Francis Hotel (San Francisco) - joint recital by Emilie
Lancel and Lincoln S. Batchelder,
Oct. 18, 1921
Cline Theater (Santa Rosa, Calif.),
Jan. 1922
Hippodrome (Los Angeles?), playbill,
Apr. 2, 1922
Auditorium Theatre (Quebec),
Nov. 10, 1924
Ascher's Forest Park Theatre (Forest Park, Ill.),
1925
Hobart Methodist Episcopal Church (Los Angeles), "Five Years
Consular Service in China" and musical program (w/Dixon),
Nov. 6, 1925?
Hippodrome (Los Angeles),
Dec. 27, 1925
Hobart Blvd. Methodist Church (Los Angeles), Concert
(w/Dixon),
Jan. 28, 1926?
Auditorium, Home of Capitol Entertainment (Quebec),
Oct. 1929
Bridgeport Foresters of America Entertainment and Dance,
Pyramid Mosque (Bridgeport, Conn.),
Feb. 8, 1930
Philadelphia Club Entertainers Association, Moose Hall
(Philadelphia),
Nov. 17, 1930
Philharmonic Auditorium (Los Angeles) - First Annual Jamboree
and Vaudeville Frolic,
Oct. 26, 1934 (Frank A.
Freeman production)
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| 40 | 13 | Memo booklet of Jessica Dixon, , later entries dated ; and reference photocopy, 1919-1920 1933-1938 | |||||||||
| 40 | 14 | Scrapbook of Jessica Dixon, 1919-1929 | |||||||||
| 40 | 15 | Scrapbook of Frank Freeman, California Artists' Protective Association, 1932-1935 | |||||||||
| 40 | 16 | Scrapbook of Frank Freeman - loose papers | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 41 | 1 | Handwritten stage script, unidentified | |||||||||
| 41 | 2 | Typescript for "End Men" (2 versions) | |||||||||
| 41 | 3 | Typescript for "A Minute Late" | |||||||||
| 41 | 4 | Typescript for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", adaptation in two acts by Bill Farr | |||||||||
| 41 | 5 | Photographs, of Dixon and Freeman | |||||||||
| 41 | 6 | Photographs, of Dixon and Freeman | |||||||||
| 41 | 7 | Photographs, of Dixon and Freeman | |||||||||
| 41 | 8 | Photographs, of others | |||||||||
| 41 | 9 | Photographs, of Dixon and Freeman (duplicates) | |||||||||
| 41 | 10 | Photographs, of Dixon and Freeman (duplicates) | |||||||||
| Note: four larger photographs from this
collection are stored in Box 23, Posters and Oversize Items. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 42 | 1 | Sheet music, from "A Minute Late" | |||||||||
| 42 | 2 | Instrumental scores in folders, from "A Minute Late" | |||||||||
| 42 | 3 | Sheet music, A - C | |||||||||
|
After Every Party (Arthur Freed and Earl Burtnett)
1922
The Alcoholic Blues (Albert Von Tilzer, lyric Edward Laska)
1919
All Alone (Irving Berlin)
1924
All That I Ask of You Is Love (Herbert Ingraham, lyric Edgar
Selden)
1910
An Einen Boten [To a Messenger] (Frank La Forge)
1909 (trimmed)
The Beck'ning Trail (Frances Mitchell)
1917 (inscribed to Jessica Dixon by the
composer)
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, and My
Lodging Is On the Cold Ground (Sir John Stevenson, lyric Thomas Moore)
190-? (trimmed)
Bert Williams Folio of Ne'er-to-Be Forgotten Songs
(anthology)
1925
Bonnie Wee Thing (Liza Lehmann, lyric Robert Burns)
1912 (trimmed)
Christmas Carols (anthology pub. by Jeffries Transformer Co.,
Los Angeles)
1943
Come, Holy Spirit (C. B. Hawley, lyric Watts; from Choice
Sacred Songs by Famous Composers)
1909
Corals, A Sea Idyll (Bryceson Treharne, lyric Zoë Akins)
1919
Could Be (Walter Donaldson, lyric Johnny Mercer)
1938
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| 42 | 4 | Sheet music, D - I | |||||||||
|
Dawn (Pearl G. Curran, lyric Feril Hess)
1918? (trimmed)
Dawn in the Desert (Gertrude Ross, lyric Faith Boehnke; from
Three Songs of the Desert)
1914
The Doll Dance (Nacio Herb Brown)
1927
He's a Good Man to Have Around (Milton Ager, lyric Jack
Yellen)
1929
Hello, Hello, New York Town (Henry I. Marshall, lyric Stanley
Murphy)
1912 ("Successfully introduced by Freeman
& Dunham")
How Do I Love Thee (Harriett Ware, lyric Elizabeth Barrett
Browning)
1912
I Aint A-Goin' to Weep No More (Harry Von Tilzer, lyric
George Totten Smith)
1900
I Just Keep Wond'rin' (Aubrey Stauffer)
1944
I Lost My Heart in Palm Springs [When I Found You] (Louis
Herscher and Frederick V. Bowers)
1948 - 2 copies
I Love Me [I'm Wild About Myself] (Edwin J. Weber, lyric Jack
Hoins and Will Mahoney)
1923
I Think I Hear a Woodpecker Knocking at My Family Tree
(Joseph E. Howard, lyric Hough & Adams)
1909
I'd Like to Meet Your Father (Jerome D. Kern, lyric M. E.
Rourke)
1907
I'll Always Be in Love with You (Herman Ruby and Green and
Stept)
1929
An Irish Love Song (Margaret Ruthven Lang)
1895
It Takes a Long Tall Brown-Skin Gal to Make a Preacher Lay
His Bible Down (William E. Skidmore, lyric Marshall Walker)
1917
It's Your Move Now If You Want to Play Checkers (Murray
Rubens, lyric Billy Curtis)
1920
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| 42 | 5 | Sheet music, K - O | |||||||||
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Kiss Me Pretty (Edward Nelson, lyric William J. Hart and
William J. Ruger)
1917
Lambeth Walk (Noel Gay, Douglas Furber, and Arthur Rose; from
Me and My Girl)
1937
The Land of "Let's Pretend" (Jerome Kern, lyric Harry B.
Smith)
1914
Lead, Kindly Light (D'Auvergne Barnard)
1909
Little Grey Home in the West (Hermann Löhr, lyric D.
Eardley-Wilmot)
1911
The Little Millionaire (George M. Cohan)
1911
The Lord Is My Light (Frances Allitsen, lyric from Psalm 27)
1897
Louise, A Musical Romance - song, "E'er since the day when
unto thee I gave me" (Gustave Charpentier, trans. Henry Grafton Chapman)
1909 (trimmed)
Marguerita, a California Serenade (Josephine Chapman
Johnston)
1916
The Moon Shines on the Moonshine (Robert Hood Bowers, lyric
Francis De Witt)
1920
My Honolulu Lady (Lee Johnson)
1898
My Lovely Celia (Giles Higgins, lyric George Monro)
1906
'Neath Stars and Stripes (Charles M. Pyke)
1917 (inscribed to "our Dixie" [Jessica
Dixon?] by the composer)
O Death Where Is Thy Sting (Clarence A. Stout)
1918
O Death Where Is Thy Sting (Clarence A. Stout)
1920
Oh, Those Days (Sigmund Romberg, lyric Harold Atteridge; from
Maid in America)
1915
On the Road to Home Sweet Home (Egbert Van Alstyne, lyric Gus
Kahn)
1917
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| 42 | 6 | Sheet music, P - S | |||||||||
|
La Paloma (Yradier, trans. By P.J.H.; from Songs of the
Western Lands)
1910 (trimmed)
A Perfect Day (Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
1910 (trimmed)
The Phrenologist Coon (Will Accooe, lyric Ernest Hogan)
1901
Pinkerton Detective Moon (Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth)
1912
Pray for the Lights to Go Out (Renton Tunnah and Will E.
Skidmore)
1916
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Jean Schwartz,
lyric Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis)
1918
Rosa (F. Paolo Tosti, trans. Th. Baker; from Favorite Songs
by F. Paolo Tosti)
1899? (trimmed)
Rose of My Heart (Hermann Löhr) - handwritten score and parts
undated
Some Sort of Somebody [All of the Time] (Jerome Kern, lyric
Elsie Janis)
1915
Somebody Else - Not Me (James F. Hanley, lyric Ballard
Macdonald)
1920
A Song of Dawn (Frances Allitsen, lyric Ellis Walton)
1899
Sonny Boy (Al Jolson, B. G. de Sylva, Lew Brown, and Ray
Henderson)
1928
A Study for the Fifth Finger (violin lesson compilation;
Supplement to Standard Graded Course of Studies, vol. II)
undated
Sweet Genevieve (Henry Tucker, lyric George Cooper)
1897
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| 42 | 7 | Sheet music, T - Y | |||||||||
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That's My Personality (Albert Von Tilzer, lyric Lew Brown)
1912
Then You'll Remember Me [Tu M'Ami Ah Si!] (M. W. Balfe; from
The Bohemian Girl; Operatic Anthology)
undated
Tip Toe Through the Tulips with Me (Joe Burke, lyric Al
Dubin)
1919
What Aloha Means (Kaimanahila)
1923
When I Gets Out in No-Man's Land [I Can't Be Bother'd with No
Mule] (Will E. Skidmore and Marshall Walker)
1918
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (Ernest R. Bal, lyric Chauncey
Olcott and George Graff, Jr.)
1912 (trimmed)
When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam' (Irving
Berlin)
1912
Within the Garden of My Heart (Alicia Scott, lyric Marshall
Roberts)
1912 (trimmed)
Yoo-Hoo (Al Jolson, lyric B. G. de Sylva)
1921
You Were Meant for Me (Nacio Herb Brown, lyric Arthur Freed)
1929
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| box | |||||||||||
| 43 | Glass transparencies | ||||||||||
| Note: not available for viewing due to
fragility | |||||||||||
| Series XIII: Cato Sells Keith Collection, ca. 1911-1928 1 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises contracts, photographs, handwritten scores, notes and clippings for stage "gags" and dialogues, and stage scripts by Keith and others. The photographs are mostly of Keith and his partner and companion, Maude Parker. There is a scrapbook of script notes and collected clippings of jokes, and several notebooks with script notes. The few handwritten musical scores are for performance "cues." | |||||||||||
| The bulk of the collection consists of stage scripts, some handwritten, most typed, several by public typists in New York City. Most are undated; those with copyright dates noted range from 1911 to 1920. There is a substantial collection of contracts representing the various circuits that Keith and Parker performed on. The collection was given to the American Vaudeville Museum in 2001 by Keith's niece, Betty S. Bannister, whose mother was Keith's sister. She also contributed a biography and a collection inventory. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Cato Sells Keith (1882-1951) was born in Iowa and grew up in Helena, Montana, where his father was newspaper editor. At eighteen he moved to Butte and worked as a reporter. By the 1910s he was in the east pursuing a career in vaudeville, and writing stage scripts either himself or jointly; his most frequent writing collaborators as documented in this collection were Frank L. Whittier and Bessie Warren. During the 1920s he toured various vaudeville circuits with Maude Parker, as "Keith and Parker." When the demand for vaudeville declined, Keith tried unsuccessfully to find work in Hollywood. He and Parker withdrew to a reclusive life in Montana. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 44 | 1 | Biography, collection inventory, by Betty Bannister | |||||||||
| 44 | 2 | Papers, miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 44 | 3 | Clippings, 1914-1927 | |||||||||
| 44 | 4 | Binder and clipping ad of the Rialto (Butte, Montana) | |||||||||
| 44 | 5 | Contracts, 1923-1928 | |||||||||
| 44 | 6 | Photographs | |||||||||
| 44 | 7 | Handwritten scores | |||||||||
| 44 | 8 | Scrapbook - "Lost, Strayed and Stolen Jokes" | |||||||||
| 44 | 9 | Typed stage script page, "Why Did I Do It"; script fragment; "Gags" clippings | |||||||||
| 44 | 10 | Stage script notebooks | |||||||||
| 44 | 11 | Handwritten stage scripts, uncredited - "R. U. Married?" and unidentified | |||||||||
| 44 | 12 | Stage scripts, uncredited - "Duam Nayro" (2 versions) | |||||||||
| 44 | 13 | Handwritten stage script, "My Jim" by Ferdinand Grahame | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 45 | 1 | Handwritten stage script - "Men Be Careful - A Study in Colors" by Cato S. Keith | |||||||||
| 45 | 2 | Handwritten stage scripts - "What Next?" by Cato S. Keith and Bessie Warren; "A Pair of Schemers" by Cato S. Keith | |||||||||
| 45 | 3 | Typed stage scripts, by Cato S. Keith and Bessie Warren - "On the Job", "A Surprise Party" (2 copies) | |||||||||
| 45 | 4 | Typed stage scripts, by Cato S. Keith and Neil E. Schaffner - "Isn't It Killing", "Leave It to Ouija" | |||||||||
| 45 | 5 | Typed stage scripts - "The Greater Duty" by Chas. H. Smith and Cato S. Keith; "Just for Instance" by Cato S. Keith and Ben Barnett | |||||||||
| 45 | 6 | Typed stage scripts - "Mr. Husband and Friend Wife" by Cato S. Keith, "Oh These Men" by Cato S. Keith and E.P. McNamee | |||||||||
| 45 | 7 | Typed stage scripts, by Cato S. Keith and Frank L. Whittier - "A-Tell-Phone", "It Could Happen [The Omen]", "On the Job", "Our Anniversary Dinner" | |||||||||
| 45 | 8 | Typed stage scripts, by Cato S. Keith and Frank L. Whittier - "Men Be Careful" (2 versions); by Cato S. Keith only, "Men Be Careful" (2 copies) | |||||||||
| 45 | 9 | Typed stage scripts, by Cato S. Keith and Frank L. Whittier - "Sherlock the Second [Case for Sherlock]" (2 copies) | |||||||||
| 45 | 10 | Typed stage scripts, by Cato S. Keith and Frank L. Whittier - "Professor Tightwad", "The Weapon", "The White Cat" | |||||||||
| 45 | 11 | Typed stage scripts - "Two of a Kind" by W.L. Lockwood, "Little Miss Santa Claus" by Malcolm Arthur, "The Mysterious Mr. Why" or "The Man from Central Office" by John Arthur Loining, "Spike and Lizzie" (uncredited, partial? script) | |||||||||
| 45 | 12 | Typed stage scripts, unidentified | |||||||||
| Series XIV: Kill Kare Kouple Collection, ca. 1890-1933 .25 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of photocopies and digital printouts of press clippings and photographs describing the lives and careers of John and Winnie Hennings, who performed together as The Kill Kare Kouple from 1908 through the World War I years, and of John Hennings' subsequent work in Hollywood during the 1920s. Some of the clippings and other photocopies relate to an island summer community frequented by vaudeville performers, Put-In Bay, Ohio, on Lake Erie, where the Hennings spent the summers early in their career. There are articles and images related to the band leader Sam Pryor, his son Arthur Pryor who performed with John Philip Sousa, and Winnie Henning's mother, Mary Baker Hamlet. | |||||||||||
| There is also correspondence, a biographical sketch, a list of songs composed by the couple, and an excerpt from a draft of a biography, "Back Drop: A Vaudeville Love Story", all written by their daughter, Nancy (Hennings) Tomlin, who contributed these materials to the American Vaudeville Museum. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| John Hennings (1886-1933) began performing as a young child with his father, John Bernard Hennings, and his sister Mamie; they were known as the Hennings Trio. His mother had performed with her sister as the Lee Sisters; his cousin Bessie McCoy was also an entertainer, the "Yama-Yama girl." As a young man John performed in vaudeville acts with his sister and her husband. | |||||||||||
| Winnie Hamlet (1882-1961) was the daughter of Mary Baker Hamlet and Charles Hamlet. Her mother was a talented instrumentalist who studied with Sam Pryor, a military band leader in St. Joseph, Missouri, where Winnie was born. The family played locally as the Hamlet Family Band, with Winnie on cornet. At sixteen Winnie joined The Navassar Ladies Band as a cornet player, and toured with them for nine years. An offshoot of this group played in vaudeville theaters, and Winnie joined them. She met John Hennings in a vaudeville theater, and they were married in 1908. | |||||||||||
| John and Winnie named themselves the Kill Kare Kouple and developed a popular act that included his trombone, piano and dancing, her cornet and songs, and comic banter. He capitalized on his slender build in a humorous manner that lent him the nickname "The Grasshopper Dancer." In 1913 they toured with the Sarah Bernhardt tour as the top vaudeville act. In 1915 they traveled to London where John performed in a show at the London Hippodrome, "Push and Go!" With the flare-up of war, they performed in hospitals and elsewhere; John also entertained troops in France and Belgium. It is possible that he was affected by poison gas at Ypres, since he suffered chronically from pneumonia after that. They returned to the U.S. and continued to perform in war benefits, including with Lily Langtry. | |||||||||||
| John performed in several musical shows in the early 1920s. Winnie was raising their daughter and missed performing herself, but she contributed a song to John's act in "A Trial Honeymoon" and as a result their infant daughter was included in the act. John then went to Hollywood, and in 1930 he played in his only film, The Poor Millionaire, directed by Richard Talmadge. His health failed and they relocated near extended family in St. Joseph, Missouri, where John died three years later at age forty-seven. Winnie opened a restaurant after that, and died at the age of eighty. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 46 | 1 | Correspondence from Nancy (Hennings) Tomlin | |||||||||
| 46 | 2 | Biography (3 pages) of John and Winnie Hennings, by Nancy (Hennings) Tomlin | |||||||||
| 46 | 3 | Excerpt from draft of biography, Back Drop, by Nancy Tomlin | |||||||||
| 46 | 4 | Papers, miscellaneous | |||||||||
|
Thank-you in "Celtic" style handwriting from
John F. Loyd
(photocopy)
List of films by
Richard Talmadge
(photocopy)
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| 46 | 5 | Mary [Hamlet] - Sam Pryor, Winnie & Navassar Orchestra - pictures (digital and photocopy) | |||||||||
| 46 | 6 | John Hennings - pictures (digital and photocopy) | |||||||||
| 46 | 7 | John and Winnie Hennings - pictures (digital and photocopy) | |||||||||
| 46 | 8 | Press clipping photocopies: Sarah Bernhardt [in "Phedre"], New York, 1913 | |||||||||
| 46 | 9 | Press clipping photocopies: "Push and Go!", London, 1915 | |||||||||
| 46 | 10 | Press clipping photocopies: "Take It From Me", 1923 | |||||||||
| 46 | 11 | Press clipping photocopies: "A Trial Honeymoon", 1924 | |||||||||
| 46 | 12 | Press clipping photocopies: "Dutch Girl", Hollywood, 1925 | |||||||||
| 46 | 13 | Press notices | |||||||||
| 46 | 14 | Press notices (duplicates) | |||||||||
| Series XV: Olsen and Johnson Collection, ca. 1941-1949, 1995-2002 .15 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This collection contains material related to the career of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. It includes signed photographs, playbills, posters and sheet music from Hellzapoppin. It also includes correspondence between Frank Cullen and the daughter of Ole Olsen, Moya Olsen Lear, and his grandson, Stephen Ron Olsen. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Ole Olsen (born John Sigvard Olsen, 1892-1963) and Chic Johnson (born Harold Ogden Johnson, 1891-1962) were originally musical entertainers from the Midwest (Indiana and Illinois) where they met and worked together as band mates. From there they began performing as a vaudeville comedy act. Their revue "Hellzapoppin" became a great success on Broadway in 1938 and a motion picture in 1941. Their comedy act did not translate well or successfully in the Hollywood film setting; they did some television in 1949 and continued to perform in their own revues during the early 1950s in Las Vegas, where they eventually retired. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 47 | 1 | Correspondence | |||||||||
|
Letters from
Moya Olsen Lear to
Frank Cullen,
1995-1999
E-mail from
Stephen Ron
Olsen to
Frank Cullen,
2002
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| 47 | 2 | Articles | |||||||||
|
The Milwaukee Journal - Screen and
Radio, Sunday,
July 23, 1944 (color
original and photocopy)
"Olsen & Johnson, the zaniest of the zanies" by
Charles Stumpf,
Classic Images website, accessed
Dec. 15, 1999
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| 47 | 3 | Publicity photographs, 1943Postcard, "Chic Johnson in Sons of Fun", , photo by W. Eugene Smith (2 copies), 1941 | |||||||||
| 47 | 4 | Programs and sheet music | |||||||||
|
The Playbill for the Winter Garden
(New York)
"Hellzapoppin", beginning Monday,
July 21, 1941
"Sons O' Fun", beginning Sunday,
December 28, 1941
"Laffing Room Only", beginning Sunday,
June 24, 1945
Chicago Stage,
1945 (photocopy)
"Laffing Room Only" (souvenir flyer)
"Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun", souvenir program,
ca. 1943
"Olsen & Johnson in Laffing Room Only", souvenir program,
ca. 1944
"Olsen and Johnson's New Hellzapoppin of 1940", souvenir
program
"G'Bye Now, Olsen and Johnson's New Hellzapoppin of 1941",
sheet music
"Souvenir program, Olsen and Johnson in Funzapoppin",
ca. 1949
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| 47 | 5 | Olsen & Johnson perpetual calendar, signed by Moya Olsen Lear, ca. 1999 | |||||||||
| "Hellzapoppin'" (modern reproduction of poster, for 1941 motion picture) | |||||||||||
| Note: stored in Box 23, Posters and
Oversize Items | |||||||||||
| Series XVI: Sonia Serova Collection, ca. 1917-1925 .1 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises five items related to modern dance, most including musical scores. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Sonia Serova trained in dance at the Wordsworth School in London, and was influenced by ancient Greek sports and vase paintings, as a disciplined approach that countered the then-popular trend for "aesthetic" dancing. Her style of modern dance was known as "nature dancing." She directed the Vestoff-Serova Russian School of Dancing in New York City, along with her husband, Veronine Vestoff,, who studied ballet at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts in Moscow. A film, Sonia Serova Dancers, was produced in 1924. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 47 | 6 | Dance program, Dance of the Witches: group dance for 6 babies, dance arr. by Sonia Serova, Dance of the Witches (reference photocopy), 1922-23 undated | |||||||||
| 47 | 7 | Publications | |||||||||
|
Baby Work by
Sonia Serova,
undated (after 1917)
Nature Dancing: a text-book to perfect
natural movement (cover subtitle: The poetry of motion) by
Sonia Serova,
undated (after 1916)
Talented Tots by
Sonia Serova,
1925
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| Series XVII: Doreen Rae Collection, ca. 1919-1931 .25 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises photographs and two scrapbooks, documenting the career of Pearl (Dorothy Elizabeth) Hoff (1912-2003), whose stage name was Doreen Rae. The scrapbooks contain mostly newspaper clippings, with some photographs and other texts. There are loose photographs and a few clippings, many of them apparently removed from another scrapbook. There is a short biographical sketch written by her daughter, Carolyn Mooney, who contributed these materials. (Note: This collection was originally received organized as part of the Performers files.) | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Pearl Hoff's family came to Long Beach from Toronto. She first performed at age five as "Lil" Miss Long Beach. By age seven she was performing on the Pantages circuit and at Chautauqua shows, in Canada as well as the U.S., with her mother's support. She toured with vaudeville shows along with two other girls who were friends of hers, Patty Kinney and Fredlyn (also spelled Fredlin, Fredline, Fredaline) Singleton. She was part of the Franchon & Marco group, which featured the singer Rose Valyda, and sang and danced as leading soloist in their act "Baby Songs" during a year-long tour. Aida Broadbent, who was then director for Franchon and Marco, gave Pearl dance lessons. Her older sister, Greta (Gretna?) Murray, also performed in a vaudeville comedy act, with her husband Billy Murray, and they ran the Oriental Theater in North Long Beach; she died at age twenty-six. Her brother Gordon died of tuberculosis at age 19, when Pearl was 12. | |||||||||||
| Around 1930 Pearl took on the stage name Doreen Rae. She was still associated with Fanchon & Marco, along with a ukulele playing comedian named Bob (Uke) Henshaw, the trapeze artists Ed and Jennie Rooney, The Four O'Connors, and the Allison Troupe (from Berlin), in a 1931 touring show called "Vaudeville Echoes." | |||||||||||
| Around 1935, at age twenty-three, Pearl stopped touring; she married Robert Leland Mooney and had three children. She continued to perform in the Long Beach area. After her husband's death in the late 1940s she worked at Pacific Press in Los Angeles. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 48 | 1 | Biography | |||||||||
| 48 | 2 | Clippings | |||||||||
| 48 | 3 | Photographs | |||||||||
| 48 | 4 | Scrapbook 1 - Pearl Hoff, ca. 1919-1930 | |||||||||
| 48 | 5 | Scrapbook 2 - Doreen Rae, ca. 1930-1931 | |||||||||
| 48 | 6 | Scrapbook 1 (reference photocopy) | |||||||||
| 48 | 7 | Scrapbook 2 (reference photocopy) | |||||||||
| Series XVIII: Gondoliers-Ricci Collection, 1933-1936 1.25 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This collection comprises papers, photographs, and a scrapbook, documenting the career of Nick Ricci and his musical group in the mid-1930s. There are contracts and business correspondence, a receipt for membership in the Chicago Federation of Musicians in 1936, and a handwritten log of income. The photographs are mostly promotional portraits of the group; there are also some stage shots of them as part of a larger ensemble, including their performance with the Chef Milani show. There is a large poster (3-1/2 by 2-1/3 feet) for the "Skipper" Don Mills show featuring the Four Gondoliers as well as "Blib and Blob" and others, from April 1934, which was originally stored folded in the scrapbook. The collection also includes Nick Ricci's violin. These materials were donated to the American Vaudeville Museum by his sons, Larry Ricci, Paul Ricci and Henry Ricci. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Nick Ricci was part of a Seattle musical group known originally as the Four Gondoliers and later the Three Gondoliers, or simply the Gondoliers. Two other members were Henry Ricci and Al Maletta (b.1914). Nick played violin, and the others played accordion and clarinet / saxophone. A fourth member, Henry Maiorano, also played accordion, but left the group sometime in 1934. Their nicknames were Icky, Wicky, Wacky and Woo. They were still in high school when they began performing. | |||||||||||
| Their first performance that is documented in this collection is the Black Ball Line and Egyptian Theatre radio and stage contest in Seattle, in August 1933. As winners of a McKesson opportunity contest, the Four Gondoliers played in vaudeville acts with Skipper Don Mills, of Portland, around Oregon, northern California, and Washington in early 1934. The act was called Don Mills and His Wonder Stars, and included a dozen other performers. By mid-1934 they were performing with Chef (Joe) Milani's cooking musicale show, in venues including Oakland and Los Angeles. By 1936 they called themselves the Three Ritto Brothers, and were touring the Bert Levey Circuit of Vaudeville Theatres. They also used the name The Three Italian Street Singers. | |||||||||||
| Information about Nick Ricci's later life is not provided. Al Maletta later moved to Yakima and started an accordion studio, according to information from the Yakima Valley Museum. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 49 | 1 | Papers, 1933-1936 | |||||||||
| 49 | 2 | Photographs, 1933-1936 | |||||||||
| 49 | 3 | Scrapbook, 1933-1936 | |||||||||
| 49 | 4 | Scrapbook (reference copy) | |||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| Oversize | Poster, 1934 | ||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 50 | Violin in case with two bows, extra parts (bridge, strings, rosin, etc.) | ||||||||||
| Series XIX: Rooney Collection, ca. 1892-2006, bulk ca. 1910-1940s 3.5 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of materials relating to Julia Rooney (Clinton) (1887-1990), and to a lesser degree to her brother Pat Rooney Sr. (II) (1880-1962), and his son Pat Rooney Jr. (III, or Clarence Patrick Rooney) (1909-1979). There are numerous photographs, mostly autographed publicity photos of entertainers and actors, which were given to the youngest Pat Rooney and his wife, Estelle (Wright) Rooney, and displayed in their beach front restaurant, The Dog House, on Lake Blaisdell, a New Hampshire summer vaudeville colony. There is a short family history written by Estelle Rooney; as well as clippings about Chester (Chet) Wright. Some family photographs are included, as well as two late 19th century cabinet cards of entertainers, and a silhouette cut-out apparently of Walter Clinton. | |||||||||||
| Julia Rooney's materials include a scrapbook containing clippings about her early career with her sister Josie; her solo career from 1910 to the teens; and her duo career with Walter Clinton (1890-1966), whom she married in 1915. Julia Rooney's other sibling performers, Mattie Rooney (Kennedy) (1878-1950), and Pat Sr., are mentioned in the scrapbook clippings. Her papers include the passenger list from the Lusitania from the voyage that she and Josie took upon their return from their first European tour in June 1908, as well as copyright documents, awards and recognitions. Performance programs are included in the scrapbook and printed matter. The collection includes a few items of memorabilia, such as an honorary plaque to Walter Clinton from the Hollywood Comedy Club (1949-1961) and a trophy to Julia Rooney from the Ladies' Comedy Club (1972). | |||||||||||
| Most of the loose clippings, documents, performance programs and other printed matter, and a few of the photographs, relating to Julia Rooney and her family were received stored loose within the scrapbook. The scrapbook pages were mostly detached when received, and include three different page styles and two sets of covers. There is a small autograph-style album containing snapshot photographs, approximately 2-1/4 by 4-1/8 inches, of theaters, many with "Clinton & Rooney" visible on the marquee, and some with locations noted. There are some photographs of Pat Rooney, Sr. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Pat Rooney Sr. and Julia Rooney were two of the children of the original Pat Rooney (1884-1892), a boxer who became famous as a performer, especially for clog dance. Julia Rooney and her siblings began performing as children in the 1890s. Julia and her sister Josie toured as the Rooney Sisters (1903-1910), "daughters of Pat Rooney"; their act split up when Josie married during their second European tour. In the teens Julia became known as "The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs." Julia and the singer and actor Walter Clinton (1890-1966), who performed together as Clinton & Rooney, married on Christmas Day 1915. In the 1920s they toured with an accompanying ten-piece band. With the end of the vaudeville era around 1930 they relocated to Hollywood, where Julia opened a dance school. She performed in Ken Murray's Blackouts from 1942 to 1949, and appeared on television in The Sun City Scandals at the age of 82. | |||||||||||
| Pat Rooney Jr. was the son of Julia’s brother, Pat Sr., a well-known vaudeville and Broadway dancer, and his first wife, the dancer Marion Bent. (Over the decades, the billing names of the male Rooneys changed. Pat Rooney referred originally to the grandfather, Pat Jr. to his son, and Pat III to the grandson. Sometime in the 1930s, after the public memory faded of the original Pat Rooney, his son, Pat II, simply dropped the “Jr.” from his billing and became Pat Rooney, while his son, Pat III, took the name Par Rooney Jr. The Pat Rooneys (ii and III) performed together in the 1930s in a father/son dance act. Pat (II)’s last notable engagement was a featured role in the cast of the original production of Guys and Dolls, 1950-53. Pat III largely retired from dance by 1940; he married Estelle Wright (1916-2006), whose parents, Chester A. Wright and Ola Gay Wright, were traveling wagon-show entertainers. Chet’s acts included trained dogs and birds, and marionettes. Ola sang, danced, and played mandolin and banjo. Estelle performed with her parents on the vaudeville circuit as a child. Pat and Estelle Rooney operated a hot dog stand called The Dog House in Lake Blaisdell, New Hampshire, an area that served as a summer colony for vaudeville performers, for 32 years; it closed in 1984. | |||||||||||
| Pat and Estelle Rooney collection | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 51 | 1 | Papers, miscellaneous, from and concerning Estelle Rooney | |||||||||
| 51 | 2 | Clippings, concerning Chester (Chet) A. Wright | |||||||||
| 51 | 3 | Typescript - 2 fragments, concerning Chet Wright and Ola Gay Wright | |||||||||
| 51 | 4 | Photographs and digital prints, of Chet Wright and The Dog House | |||||||||
| 51 | 5 | Photographs, bulk , 1940s | |||||||||
| 51 | 6 | Photographs, bulk , 1940s | |||||||||
| 51 | 7 | Photographs, bulk , 1940s | |||||||||
| 51 | 8 | Photographs, bulk , 1940s | |||||||||
| 51 | 9 | Photographs, bulk , 1940s | |||||||||
| Julia Rooney collection | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 52 | 1 | Rooney Sisters chronology, ; typed after 1966, 1903-1910 | |||||||||
| 52 | 2 | Correspondence, to Julia Rooney | |||||||||
| 52 | 3 | Copyright materials | |||||||||
| 52 | 4 | Documents | |||||||||
| 52 | 5 | Printed matter | |||||||||
| 52 | 6 | Printed matter | |||||||||
| 52 | 7 | Awards and recognitions | |||||||||
| 52 | 8 | Photographs, (bulk 1910s-1940s), 1910s-1983 | |||||||||
| 52 | 9 | Photocopies and digital image printouts | |||||||||
| 52 | 10 | Clippings, - loose clippings accompanying Julia Rooney scrapbook, 1910s-1920s | |||||||||
| 52 | 11 | Clippings, - loose clippings accompanying Julia Rooney scrapbook, 1930s-1980s | |||||||||
| 52 | 12 | Clippings fragments, from Julia Rooney scrapbook | |||||||||
| 52 | 13 | Julia Rooney scrapbook, part 1 - reference photocopy | |||||||||
| 52 | 14 | Julia Rooney scrapbook, part 2 - reference photocopy | |||||||||
| 52 | 15 | Julia Rooney scrapbook, part 3 - reference photocopy | |||||||||
| 52 | 16 | Julia Rooney album of theater photographs - reference photocopy | |||||||||
| Julia Rooney scrapbook, (bulk 1906-1920s), 1892-1980s | |||||||||||
| Note: Not available for viewing due to
fragility; reference photocopy is in Box 52. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 53 | 1 | Julia Rooney scrapbook, part 1 | |||||||||
| 53 | 2 | Julia Rooney scrapbook, part 2 | |||||||||
| 53 | 3 | Julia Rooney scrapbook, part 3 | |||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 54 | Julia Rooney album of theatre photographs, ca. 1920s | ||||||||||
| Note: Not available for viewing due to
fragility; reference photocopy is in Box 52. | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 55 | Memorabilia - Julia Rooney and Walter Clinton | ||||||||||
|
Engraved copper plate, for Julia Rooney business card
Key chain tab - Ken Murray's "Blackouts", 5th year, El
Capitan Theatre
Plaque for Walter Clinton, honorary life member, Hollywood
Comedy Club, 1961
Trophy for Julia Clinton from Ladies' Comedy Club,
1972
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| box | |||||||||||
| 56 | Photographs - Pat Rooney, Sr. | ||||||||||
| Note: one photograph is partly adhered to
broken glass, must be handled carefully. | |||||||||||
| Series XX: Frank J. Sidney Collection, ca. 1900-1965, bulk ca. 1900-1928 .5 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of photographs, negatives, papers, and an ad printing block, documenting the career of Frank J. Sidney. The photographs depict a circus tour in India as The Great Sidneys, a performance troupe tour in Australia in 1908, troupe portraits in Johannesburg in 1913, and some acrobatic acts. Some of the photographs are annotated. From 1922 to 1925 Frank J. Sidney & Co. appeared in B.F. Keith's and other theatres in Brighton Beach, Jersey City, and Philadelphia. His act at that time was called "A Morning in a Sportsman's Garden", and featured "Zillah the Singing Dog." | |||||||||||
| The papers are mostly theater programs; there is also a copy of Sidney's handwritten 1965 will. There are postcards sent in 1960 and a 1963 portrait of Sidney. The ad printing plate is mounted on wood with a partial page with printed text adhered, advertising a Labor Day event featuring "Frank Sidney and Abe … Clown Cop". The bulk of this collection was originally received as part of the Performers materials. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 57 | 1 | Photographs, ca. 1900-1928 | |||||||||
| 57 | 2 | Photographs, ca. 1900-1928 | |||||||||
| 57 | 3 | Photographs and postcards, , 1960 1963 | |||||||||
| 57 | 4 | Negatives, ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| Note: extremely fragile | |||||||||||
| 57 | 5 | Papers, , 1922-1925 1965 | |||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 58 | Ad block printing plate | ||||||||||
| Series XXI: Leon Errol Collection, 1904-1940s 1.25 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This collection comprises primarily two scrapbooks describing the stage career of the comedian Leon Errol (1881 or more likely, 1876-1951), on the vaudeville circuits in the Northwest and then in New York with the Ziegfeld Follies. There are also later publicity photographs of Errol from Culver Pictures, First National Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Paramount Pictures, including roles from "Sally", "A Lunatic at Large", "Dancing Co-Ed", and "Princess O'Hara." Miscellaneous papers include correspondence from Chet Dowling that accompanies photocopies about the Ziegfeld Follies and the role of Abe Erlanger as a financial backer for Florenz Ziegfeld, as well as information about Errol's career. | |||||||||||
| The first scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings, playbills, programs, and handwritten notes from 1904-1906, documenting the Errol's early career in the Northwest and West Coast as part of the Edward Shields vaudeville company. Its cover has a label for "Gerald and Errol, German Dialect Comedians." There are two pages of handwritten text - one of sailor lyrics, and one of a short stage bit - and a loose sheet of handwritten comedy lines. | |||||||||||
| The second scrapbook documents Errol's career on Broadway, including performances in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1914 along with his wife, Stella Chatelaine. There is a program from August 1910 of their comedy performance "A Complicated Affair" with The New Jersey Lillies; that performance was staged by and largely created by Errol. The bulk of the scrapbook is news clippings. There is also a New York Star cover from October 26, 1912 featuring Errol along with Bert Williams and Ida Adams in a scene from the Ziegfeld Follies; and an undated playbill from The Player for the New Jersey Lilies Co., featuring Leon Errol as principal comedian, Stella Chatelaine as "The Rag Dancer", and others. Leon Errol's time with the Ziegfeld Follies was as a stage director as well as a principal comedian. Errol and Bert Williams (1872-1922) teamed up in four Follies to become the first notable "white and black race" act in mainstream American show business. They wrote the sketches themselves, and Errol portrayed the fumbling master and Williams, the wily servant. It concludes with coverage of his production "Hitchy Koo 1918", sponsored by Raymond Hitchcock, in which he introduced Ray Dooley of vaudeville's "tumbling Dooleys" to Broadway. | |||||||||||
| The scrapbooks were donated to the American Vaudeville Museum by Dale Jones and Valerie Speaks of Long Beach in 2004. The other materials are from a variety of sources. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Leon Errol (1876 or 1881?-1951) was born in Australia, and began performing in college, circus, Shakespeare and light operas while still there. He migrated to the U.S. by 1904 with his dance partner, Stella Chatelaine (1886-1946). He performed cockney songs and eccentric dance in variety saloons and partnered with Pete Gerald as "Gerald and Errol", featuring German ("Dutch") or Irish dialect comedy, ragtime piano, burlesque boxing, and a trained bulldog named Buck. They played alongside Gale Dauvrey and Alf T. Lane in "A Wife's Folly", an Edward Shields Company comedy drama, ca. 1904, in Baker City, Oregon. The trio of Gerald, Errol and Dauvrey performed in Walla Walla, Washington in 1904. Errol was stage manager for the Orpheum Theatre in Portland, Oregon during the 1904-05 season. He also performed in their productions, directing a group known as "Errol's Burlesquers" which includes future Keystone comedian Roscoe Arbuckle. Errol performed in numerous productions at LaVern's Park in Walla Walla, and at Shields' Park in Portland during this time. He and Will Gross, as "Errol and Gross", performed ragtime musicals. In 1906 Errol was traveling with Zinn's Travesty Company, which performed in San Francisco in 1906 and was there when the earthquake hit. | |||||||||||
| Leon Errol and Stella Chatelaine married in 1906. By 1911 they had arrived in New York with their burlesque comedy show, The Lilies or The Jersey Lillies. At Abe Erlanger’s (Ziegfeld’s financial backer) insistence, Leon was soon engaged by Florenz Ziegfeld in his Broadway debut, "The Winsome Widow", and then in the Ziegfeld Follies (1911-1915), in which Stella Chatelaine also performed. He co-produced and performed in two shows of "Hitchy Koo", the second in 1918. Errol was known for his dialect roles, which he originally developed to camouflage his strong Australian accent, as an eccentric dancer-physical comedian and for his comic gait as a "stage inebriate" or other eccentric role. He is especially remembered for his long-running series of short comic films for RKO Radio Pictures, beginning in 1934 and continuing until his death in 1951. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 59 | 1 | Scrapbook 1, 1904-1906 | |||||||||
| Note: fragile; see reference photocopy in
Box 60 | |||||||||||
| 59 | 2 | Scrapbook 2, 1910-1918 | |||||||||
| Note: fragile; see reference photocopy in
Box 60 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 60 | 1 | Papers, miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 60 | 2 | Photographs, ca. 1925-1940s | |||||||||
| 60 | 3 | Film Fan Monthly, no. 109-110 ( ), July-Aug. 1970 | |||||||||
| 60 | 4 | Scrapbook 1, (reference photocopy), 1904-1906 | |||||||||
| 60 | 5 | Scrapbook 2, (reference photocopy), 1910-1918 | |||||||||
| Series XXII: Belle Story Collection, ca. 1914-1920 1 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Provenance | |||||||||||
| This scrapbook was given by Belle Story to Eulalio Estrella, who had lived with her in Winnetka, Illinois from 1968 to 1970, when she sold her house there. He took the scrapbook to Brazil. Three decades later his stepson's fiancée found it there and brought it back to the United States with Estrella's permission; it was donated by her to the American Vaudeville Museum collection around 2000. | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, theater programs and other printed matter, and one photograph, 1914-1920, documenting the career of the soprano singer Belle Story (sometimes spelled Storey). There is also correspondence with biographical information from Belle Story's daughter, and programs (two in photocopy form) provided by her of Belle Story's performances at the Hotel Biltmore and Carnegie Hall. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Belle Story (née Grace Leard, born 1887) was the daughter of a Midwestern Presbyterian minister who encouraged her musical training but not her stage career. She studied voice with Mme. Marcella Sembrich, and traveled to Europe around 1906 with a group to study music. She took her stage name from the maiden name of her mother, which was Storey, but she later shortened it. | |||||||||||
| By 1916 she had toured as a vaudeville singer for several years and performed at theaters including the Hippodrome in New York and the Temple in Boston and Detroit. Songs she was known for at the time included "Chin-Chin Open Your Heart", from Montgomery & Stone's "Chin-Chin, Or A Modern Aladdin" (1914); and "The Flower Garden Ball." She also performed in "Hip Hip Hooray" at the Hippodrome beginning in June 1916. She was featured in a cover article of B.F. Keith's Theatre News in May 1916. That year, at age twenty-eight, she married a Wall Street broker from Chicago, Frederic E. Andrews. | |||||||||||
| In 1917 she focused on a concert career, performing with pianist Leopold Godowsky in a program with the Russian Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and with Enrico Caruso at the Biltmore Musicales. A promotional booklet from that time called her "America's greatest coloratura singer." Her voice was described as sweet, flute-like, and bird-like. According to her daughter, Belle was the first person to sing "Over There" in public, at a Liberty Bond rally, before it was officially published in 1917. In 1918 she performed again at the Hippodrome, as several different characters including "Columbia" in a fifteen-act musical spectacle, "Everything" by R H. Burnside. | |||||||||||
| Aside from her participation in a benefit concert in 1920, there is no later information provided in the scrapbook about Belle Story's career. (An undated loose clipping with no evident relationship to her describes a May Day children's festival in Los Angeles, and mentions a young Martha Graham as mistress of ceremonies.) She retired completely from performance upon remarrying four years after the death of her first husband (ca. 1930), and moved to Texas. | |||||||||||
| Related Material | |||||||||||
| The Hippodrome souvenir book for 1918, which includes the program for "Everything" in which Belle Story performed several roles, is in the Theatres series, subseries 3: Souvenir Programs, Box 20. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 61 | 1 | Note re: scrapbook provenance from Alicia Shirakbari, Correspondence between Frank Cullen and Mrs. Walter Watson, ca. 2000 July 2000 | |||||||||
| 61 | 2 | Programs, from Mrs. Walter Watson | |||||||||
| 61 | 3 | Printed matter, separated from scrapbook | |||||||||
| 61 | 4 | Scrapbook, - reference photocopy, ca. 1914-1920 | |||||||||
| 61 | 5 | Scrapbook, ca. 1914-1920 | |||||||||
| Note: fragile, not available for
viewing | |||||||||||
| Series XXIII: McWatters-Tyson Collection, ca. 1898-1936, bulk 1910s-ca. 1925 .25 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of photographs, printed matter, a newspaper clipping, photocopies, and correspondence documenting the career of Arthur J. McWatters and Grace Tyson. Arthur's surname is sometimes spelled McWaters. There is a color copy of a 1902 document from Herrman the magician, giving McWatters exclusive permission to perform one of his own illusions. A 1903 Saginaw program lists McWatters & Tyson Co. performing "Scenes in a Dressing Room." Most of the photographs are of McWatters and Tyson, but also include other performers. Some of these toured as part of McWatters & Tyson & Co. There are also photographs of Bessie Burton (of Tyler & Burton), Hal David, and Fred Nolan. One color snapshot depicts a poster of McWatters & Tyson in company with John and Ethel Barrymore. A copy of a family photograph from 1936 is included. The correspondence is from Evan S. Williams, the son of McWatters' niece Helen Southgate Williams; he donated the collection to the American Vaudeville Museum in 2004. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Arthur McWatters (1871-1963) grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and returned there throughout his life to hunt and fish in the area. He taught piano and organ there as a young man, and advertised himself as a "tenor balladist" already with several compositions to his name. In the mid-1890s he and three friends went to New York to seek careers there. By around 1900 he and Grace Tyson (d.1942), who became his wife, were appearing together as McWatters & Tyson. They sang, danced, and did comic skits, with Arthur playing guitar and banjo as well as piano. In 1913-14 they toured to South Africa and London. At that time Grace was touted as "the actress whose eyes are insured for £5000." They continued performing in an active tour schedule until at least the mid-1920s. With Grace's death in 1942 at around age sixty, Arthur retired from the stage and managed a chain of movie theaters around Freeport, Long Island, where they had been living. He died at age ninety-two. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 61 | 6 | Correspondence | |||||||||
| 61 | 7 | Papers | |||||||||
| 61 | 8 | Photographs | |||||||||
| Series XXIV: Willie, West & McGinty Collection, ca. 1930s 1 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises photographs, photocopies and other papers, and props related to the career of Willie, West and McGinty, a comedy team sometimes described as “The Comedy Builders.” The props consist of a carpenter’s apron and two large corncob-style pipes. The photocopies include a step-by-step record, attributed to Ted Corradine, of the Willie West and McGinty stage routine and a playbill for Judy Garland and her International Variety Show that includes Willie, West and McGinty, “A Billion Building Blunders.” A poster from this collection is stored separately with the Posters and Oversize Items series, Box 23. . | |||||||||||
| These materials were [apparently] donated to the American Vaudeville Museum by Bill West's granddaughter, Robin Doolan Geoffrion. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Bill Briscoe (1886-1949) began his career as a comic acrobat in a team known as Wild and West, which toured internationally. He and Frank Crossley (ca. 1882-ca. 1942), both from Lancashire, England, developed a carpenter slapstick act as Willie West & McGinty (no comma) around 1900, while en route to perform a gymnast act in Australia, discarding that form in favor of acrobatic comedy. Willie West was played by Briscoe, who later went by the name William, Willie, Bill, or Billy West, Sr. | |||||||||||
| A third unidentified member joined the original two in the role of Mr. Willie while they were still in Lancashire, and the comma was added to the act's name from that time on, though irregularly. This third role was played by Rue Corré from around 1923, prior to their immigration to the U.S.; he also was from Lancashire. | |||||||||||
| The trio moved to the U.S. under the auspices of Florenz Ziegfeld for the Follies of 1923. They performed a skillfully choreographed clumsy carpenter act in worn work clothing, with props including tools, boards, pails, and a ladder. Their routine emphasized physical slapstick rather than verbal exchange. The group continued to be successful through the Depression, touring in London and elsewhere in Europe in the late 1930s, as well as in Australia and South Africa. They appeared in several films (both short and feature-length) in the 1930s, beginning with "Plastered" in 1930. | |||||||||||
| Willie, West & McGinty carried on with second-generation members into the 1950s, and appeared on television, including The Colgate Comedy Hour in 1951. Billy West, Jr. (1909-1971) joined the act in 1929 at age 19, and replaced his father in later years. Frank Crossley's son, Frank Crossley, Jr. (ca. 1910 - ca. 1997) replaced his father as Ted McGinty. Ted Corradine (ca. 1896-1975), also from Lancashire, became McGinty in the early 1940s. Donald Keith was playing the third role by 1958. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 62 | 1 | Papers, miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 62 | 2 | Photocopies | |||||||||
| 62 | 3 | Photographs | |||||||||
| 62 | Work apron | ||||||||||
| 62 | Tobacco pipes (2) | ||||||||||
| Poster - "Willie, West & McGinty", 1940s (George A. Hamid and Son) | |||||||||||
| (stored in Box 23, Posters and Oversize Items) | |||||||||||
| Series XXV: Paul Gerard Smith Collection, ca.1918-1960, ca. 2000-2001 1.25 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| Paul Gerard Smith's materials include correspondence between his grandson, Paul Gerard Smith III, and Frank Cullen (American Vaudeville Museum), and drafts of his biography by Paul Gerard Smith III and Frank Cullen. Also included are a chronology, "Adventures in Show Business"; performer and sketch indexes; and a list of credits compiled by Paul Gerard Smith. There are photocopies of typewritten scripts with handwritten notations from the early 1920s and 1930s. . An album of clippings includes his pre-vaudeville years, beginning in 1918 when he enlisted in the Marines, and mentions his service in Germany where he produced the Sixth Marine Revue for fellow "doughboys" in 1919. Most of the clippings are from the 1920s and 1930s, with the source not generally given; some playbills are included. | |||||||||||
| Biographical Note | |||||||||||
| Paul Gerard Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska on September 14, 1894 and died April 4, 1968 in San Diego, California. He also lived in Chicago, where he met and married Mary Alice Lundgren in 1919. Sometime after 1919 he moved to New York City where he began writing for vaudeville acts, including the Ziegfeld Follies (1924-1925). From 1920 to 1927 Paul Gerard Smith, Inc. also produced and booked over 100 vaudeville acts. He moved to California around 1927, at the request of Buster Keaton, to work on adapting the film "The General." Over the years he wrote or contributed to over 90 film scripts. Most of his work was as a "script doctor" - he would fix scripts and not necessarily receive credit for his work. He served in the Marines during World War I and in the USO during World War II, and wrote various scripts for plays and revues in the postwar years. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 63 | 1 | Correspondence between Paul Gerard Smith III and Frank Cullen, 2000-2001 | |||||||||
| 63 | 2 | "Adventures in Show Business" - chronology, 1918- ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 63 | 3 | Biographical drafts | |||||||||
|
Drafts by Paul Gerard Smith III,
ca. 2000 (2
versions)
Draft by Paul Gerard Smith III and Frank Cullen,
ca. 2000
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| 63 | 4 | Indexes | |||||||||
|
Vaudeville Performer Index
Vaudeville Sketch Index
Vaudeville Acts/Sketches Produced But Not in Files
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| 63 | 5 | Papers, miscellaneous | |||||||||
|
Friars Club program in form of menu, "Paul & Joe's Table
d'hote Frolic", cooked up by Friar
Joe Laurie, Jr.,
and Friar Paul Gerard Smith,
Nov. 28th, 1926
Full-page ad by Paul Gerard Smith,
Variety,
1921 (in 2 pieces)
Photocopies:
Full-page ads (2) by Paul Gerard Smith,
Variety,
1921
"Your Broadway and Mine" column by
Walter Winchell,
text contributed by
Paul Gerard
Smith,
New York Evening Graphic,
July 15, 1927
"Odyssey of a literary vagabond" by David Arlen,
Script (?),
ca. 1936-37, pp. 39-42
(photocopy)
"A thumbnose sketch - Paul G. Smith" by
Joe Laurie, Jr.,
unidentified newspaper,
Nov. 26, 1947
"Famed author recalls years with Broadway greats for Hemet
group" by
Bea Gaines,
The Hemet News (Calif.),
ca. 1960
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| 63 | 6 | Photographs of Paul Gerard Smith, (digital copies and photocopies), ca. 1920s-1930s | |||||||||
| 63 | 7 | Stage and Pictures Credits, 1923-1940s (2 versions, compiled ), 1946-ca. 1947 | |||||||||
| 63 | 8 | Typescripts | |||||||||
|
"Comedy Writer", undated (poem)
"The Unknown Sucker", undated (poem)
"The Suspense Is Terrible",
ca. 1922
"Beautiful - But Dumb": A Skit for Eight Women,
1923
"Beautiful But Dumb" (New Version),
ca. 1923
"Clark & McCullough in Le Grande Cafe",
ca. 1936
"The Yellow Peril",
1926
"Curtain Call",
ca. 1938
Untitled,
ca. 1950-1951
"Hero", undated (film script)
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| 63 | 9 | Clippings (reference photocopies) | |||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 64 | Clippings album, (rehoused ca. 2000), ca. 1918-1932 | ||||||||||
| Series XXVI: Fan Scrapbook Collection, ca. 1897-1914, ca. 1930-1935 2 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This collection comprises four scrapbooks created by unidentified, unrelated collectors, of magazine and newspaper clippings of actresses and actors as well as playbills and program clippings, around the first decade of the twentieth century. | |||||||||||
| Fan scrapbook 1 (1911-1912) comprises primarily clipped reviews of silent films from Bison, Edison, Itala, Kalem, Lux, Nestor, Pathe, Powers, Selig, Solax, Thanhouser, Yankee, and other film companies. There is a program for a chamber concert at Faneuil Hall. There are some tipped-in reproduced portraits, as well as an ad for portraits of "Photo-Player Favorites" from Kalem Company, and one for "Some Notable Vitagraph Players." There is also a handwritten shopping list, and a handwritten summary of theatre programs from January to April 1912, including cast notes. It was apparently assembled by a Boston area resident. | |||||||||||
| Fan scrapbook 2 (ca. 1897-1935, bulk ca. 1900-1907) consists primarily of magazine clippings of stage stars, usually depicted in roles. The subjects include Ethel Barrymore, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lulu Glaser, Ellen Goodrich, Ada Rehan, Blanche Ring, Valeska Suratt ("The Original Gibson Girl"), Ellen Terry, and Edith and Mabel Taliaferro. Some group stage portraits are included. There are a few added loose magazine and newspaper clippings from the 1930s. | |||||||||||
| Fan scrapbook 3 (ca. 1909-1911) is a hand-bound, uniformly presented set of "Photographic Art Studies of Stage Favorites." They are reproductions on glossy paper of photographic portraits, each with an ornate decorative line surround. The portraits range from bust to full-length, generally with elegant dress. There are some posed group stage scenes. Several of the subjects are identified as being in vaudeville. The photographers are White, Sarony, Otto Sarony Co., Frank C. Bangs, and Hall (all of New York); and Jens R. Matzene, Melvin H. Sykes, and Moffett Studio (all of Chicago). There are title pages from several issues of Smith's Magazine, ranging from May 1909 to January 1911, which apparently was the source of all the pages included in this scrapbook. The issues indicated are: | |||||||||||
|
v.9 no.1 (Apr 1909), no.2 (May 1909)
v.10 no.5 (Feb 1910)
v.11 no.3 (Jun 1910)
v.12 no.1 (Oct 1910), no.4 (Jan 1911)
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| Fan scrapbook 4 (ca. 1905-1914) consists of clippings from magazines
and newspapers (predominantly portraits rather than text), as well as playbills
and program clippings. There are some loose clippings and playbills from
1907-1914. Performers documented in this scrapbook include aerialists such as
Charmion, the Sisters Macarte, and the Four Harveys; and stage actors
Dan Crimmons and
Rosa Gore,
George H. Primrose,
O'Brien and Havel , Belle Blanche, May Ward, Catherine Countiss, Eva Tanguay, Emma Francis, Eugenie Fougere, Una Clayton, Louise Le Baron, and Jane Oaker. Some performances recorded here are "The Hurdy Gurdy Girl" (1907) featuring Mae Botti, "The Earl and the Girl", "Wine, Woman and Song" featuring Bonita, "The Man of the Hour" with Lillian Kemble, the Clyde Fitch comedy "Girls" ( 1908), and Christie MacDonald in "Miss Hook of Holland" (1908) and several other plays. | |||||||||||
| This scrapbook is housed in a ledger book on detached pages. Some of the pages are lined, from a separate late-nineteenth-century accounting ledger; their contents are from the first decade of the twentieth century. Although most are numbered in pencil (apparently at a later stage), the original page order is not evident. There are some loose clippings and playbills from ca. 1907-1914 as well, which include portraits of Fanny Stedman, Vera Curtis, Bertie Herron, and Burdella Patterson. There is some indication that the collector lived in Boston and Maine. . The scrapbook was donated to the American Vaudeville Museum by Linda Richards, a Maine resident. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 65 | 1 | Fan scrapbook 1, 1911-1912 | |||||||||
| 65 | 2 | Fan scrapbook 2, (bulk ca. 1900-1907), ca. 1897-1935 | |||||||||
| 65 | 3 | Fan scrapbook 3, ca. 1909-1911 | |||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 66 | Fan scrapbook 4, ca. 1905-1914 | ||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 66 A | Fan scrapbook 5, ca. 1900-1903 | ||||||||||
| Series XXVII: Films, ca. 1930-1947 2.75 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series consists of 16mm films in a variety of lengths. The films with original packaging mostly intact are from Official Films, Inc. The known dates range from ca.1930-1947; one, Charlie Chaplin's Hits of the Past, was originally released in 1914 as The Property Man. The longest of them, Merry-Go-Round of 1938, is notable for the inclusion of two vaudeville/revue routines: "Song of the Woodsman" performed by Bert Lahr, and "River Stay 'Way from My Door" performed by Jimmy Savo. | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 67 | 3-1/2 inch reel | ||||||||||
|
Concert Canteen - Rubinoff (1945;
Music Hall Varieties, from Official Films, Inc., Ridgefield, N.J.; production
no. 20604)
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| 7 inch reels | |||||||||||
|
Charlie Chaplin, Hits of the Past
(An Official Films movie; title on film lead)
News Review of 1947 (Official
Films Inc., News Thrills; title on box)
A Present for Santa Claus (title
on film lead; lacks container)
The Rag Dog,
1935 (Official Films Inc., Merry-Toons
Cartoons; title on box)
Unidentified -
Long - Frees on the R... (written
on film tail; An Official Films movie)
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| box | |||||||||||
| 68 | 7 inch reels | ||||||||||
|
Bismarck Sea Victory,
ca. 1942 (title on
container)
Flowers (title on
container)
Jungle Jinks,
1930 (title on film lead)
Lindbergh (title on
container)
Roosevelt, or
T.R. Himself (title on film
lead)
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| box | |||||||||||
| 69 | 13-3/4 inch reels | ||||||||||
|
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (2
reels)
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| Series XXVIII: Media, ca. 2000-2007 .75 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series includes audio cassettes, compact disks, zip drives, and 3-1/4 inch disks; contents include images, text, and sound. Some are commercially produced works or copies thereof; some were created by donors of other materials to this collection; and some are files created by the American Vaudeville Museum. Printouts have been provided when feasible. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 70 | 1 | Audio cassettes | |||||||||
|
Three X Sisters
- Pearl Santos - Discography Project by Glenn Santos
Clarice Vance, Sweet
Singer of Southern Songs
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| Compact disks | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 70 | 2 | Bindlestiff - Vaudeville Times photos - BFC [Bernard Frank Cullen] | |||||||||
| 70 | 3 | Bobby May (images and text; 2nd disk is duplicate images) | |||||||||
| 70 | 4 | Capt. Anson Graphics (Rosenberg) | |||||||||
| 70 | 5 | Daniel Rosen Photos | |||||||||
| 70 | 6 | Early Theatrical Posters, 1840-1936 (A2ZCDS, 2003; 2,124 images) | |||||||||
| 70 | 7 | Family History, by Margaret Jeanne Ramirez (2001; text and images) | |||||||||
| (Includes biographies of Vaudeville performers Edward Santoro and Margaret Marlow, and their daughter "Baby" Victory Rose Santoro, who married Frank Ramirez; the latter were Margaret's parents) | |||||||||||
| 70 | 8 | Gildemeister, Vaudeville and Circus photos | |||||||||
| 70 | 9 | The Great Tomsini & Co. (images) | |||||||||
| 70 | 10 | Julian Eltinge Compilation Disk, from Mark Berger (images) | |||||||||
| 70 | 11 | Larry Weeks (images) | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 71 | 1 | Levent, Vaudeville at Sea photos, disc #1 - Feb. 2004 | |||||||||
| (Levent & Mickey O'Connor live shots, plus ship photos - Sovereign of the Seas) - original in color | |||||||||||
| 71 | 2 | Levent's Last Di - last photos for VT [Vaudeville Times] | |||||||||
| (New Daniel Rosen headshots / Mickey O'Connor) - original in color | |||||||||||
| 71 | 3 | New York Clipper photos (1858, 1878, 1898 issues) | |||||||||
| 71 | 4 | Pandemonium! Hines, Hines and Dad (sound) | |||||||||
| (originally located with Thematic Subjects: Tap) | |||||||||||
| 71 | 5 | Trixie Really Was a Friganza! (text [WordPerfect] and images) | |||||||||
| 71 | 6 | Vaudeville at Sea - Alan Howard, Jay Johnson photos - some originals in color | |||||||||
| 71 | 7 | Vivace (sound/images) | |||||||||
| 3-1/4 inch disks and zip drives | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 71 | 8 | Balasi Family - Vaudeville Times Balasi history (disk) and images (zip drive) | |||||||||
| (Content of these disks is in the Balasi Family collection) | |||||||||||
| 71 | 9 | Bloolips poster (3 images of same poster on disk) | |||||||||
| (Original poster is in Posters and Oversize Items, Box 23) | |||||||||||
| 71 | 10 | BPL Saloon (zip drive with images - Adobe Photoshop files) | |||||||||
| 71 | 11 | George Brown, speed walker (3 disks of images) | |||||||||
| 71 | 12 | J.W. Kelly - Songster cover; J.W. Kelly stage persona; Maggie Cline, old age; M. Cline - Throw Him Down, McCloskey; Mike Kelly - Slide Kelly Slide (images) | |||||||||
| 71 | 13 | Rooney family - Pat Rooney, clog dancing; Pat Rooney and Marion Bent; Pat Rooney Sr. and Jr. (3 disks of images) | |||||||||
| 71 | 14 | The Royal Rockets - text by Nick Retson (disk) and images (zip drive) | |||||||||
| Series XXIX: Commemoratives, undated .25 linear foot | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises a ribbon, two pins, and an engraved spoon related to vaudeville. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 72 | 1 | Spoon - "Proctor's", engraved with floral design | |||||||||
| 72 | 2 | Pin - Orpheum Circuit "100th Anniversary of Vaudeville" Greater Season | |||||||||
| 72 | 3 | Pin - Vaudeville's 100th Anniversary Greater Keith-Albee Season | |||||||||
| 72 | 4 | Ribbon - Assistance League Vaudeville Flower Committee | |||||||||
| Series XXX: Hippodrome Theatre Actors' Accessories, ca. 1910s 10.75 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series contains wigs, beards and other assorted hair pieces and dressings, wig blocks, numerous curling irons and cork for black-face make-up, used at the Hippodrome Theatre in New York during the World War I era. | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 73 | Costume accessories and aids | ||||||||||
|
Aluminum pan for cork
Bottle of hair oil
Corks (7)
Curling irons (7)
Jars of burnt cork (2)
Metal picks (2)
Wig blocks (2)
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| box | |||||||||||
| 74 | Costume accessories and wigs | ||||||||||
| Black knit skullcap | |||||||||||
| Box of small costume accessories | |||||||||||
|
Black gauze
Corncob pipe
Eyeglasses
Hairpins
Floral pins
Lip rouge
Mascara
Needle threader
Pince-nez and case
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| Collars, starched (4) | |||||||||||
| Wigs | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 75-82 | Wigs | ||||||||||
| Series XXXI: Performance Costumes, undated 2.75 linear feet | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||
| This series comprises seven costumes and two wigs, of unspecified provenance. | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 83 | Coster costume (for singing/dancing stage portrayal of a Cockney fruit peddler) | ||||||||||
| Includes trousers, vest, jacket, hat and spats. Extra loose
buttons were attached at the time of archive processing. | |||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||
| 84 | Other performance costumes | ||||||||||
|
Oriental style dress, in blue, gold and green patterned
silk
Black velvet coat
Black and cream silk dress with bead trim
Black pleated two-piece dress
Shoulderless gown of gold-threaded fabric with tucked bodice,
bead and embroidery decoration, and beaded fringe along hem
Straw-colored two-piece linen dress with tatted trim
Red comic wigs (2)
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| Series XXXII: LP Record Collection, American Vaudeville Museum , 11.3 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: LP records: Blues, Revue, Jazz, and Cabaret - Solo Singers | |||||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||||
| This series consists of record albums documenting 155 solo singers, mostly women. The number of LPs by each singer is given in parentheses. | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 85 | |||||||||||||
| A - Be | |||||||||||||
|
David Allyn (1)
Lorez
Alexandria (3)
Mose Allison
(1)
Ernestine Anderson
(3)
Ivie Anderson/other side
Lena Horne (1)
Andrews Sisters
(4)
Gene Austin
(1)
Charles
Arznavour(3)
Mildred Bailey
(4)
Pearl Bailey
(1)
Belle Baker /other side
Sophie Tucker (1)
Chet Baker (1)
Josephine Baker
(1)
Sweet Emma
Barrett (1)
Dee Bell (1)
Tony Bennett
(2)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 86 | |||||||||||||
| Bo - Cr | |||||||||||||
|
Boswell Sisters
(1)
Connee Boswell
(1)
Fanny Brice
(1)
Stella Brooks
(1)
Ruth Brown (1)
Wini Brown (1)
Cab Calloway
(1)
Larry Carr (2)
Betty Carter
(3)
Ray Charles
(3)
Jeannie (& Jimmy)
Cheatham (1)
June Christy
(3)
Steve Clayton
&
Marlene Ver Planck
(1)
Rosemary
Clooney (2)
Charles Cochran
(1)
Chris Connor
(4)
Barbara Cook
(3)
Ida Cox (3)
Bing Crosby
(3)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 87 | |||||||||||||
| Da - Fa | |||||||||||||
|
Dardanelle (13), some autographed
Blossom Dearie
(8)
Marlene
Dietrich (1)
Bob Dorough
(2)
Anita Ellis
(1)
Cass Elliot (with
Tim Rose &
Jim Hendricks) as
the Big Three (1)
Ruth Etting
(4)
Alice Faye (2)
Frances Faye (6)
incl.
Porgy & Bess with
Mel Tormé
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 88 | |||||||||||||
| Fi - Hol | |||||||||||||
|
Ella Fitzgerald
(11)
Roberta Flack
(3)
Aretha Franklin
(2)
Stan Freeman
(1)
Dave Frishberg
(1)
Helen Grayco
(1)
Lil Green (2)
Adelaide Hall
(1)
Nancy Harrow
(2)
Johnny Hartman
(3), one with
John Coltrane
Dick Haymes
(1)
Jon Hendricks
(2)
Al Hibbler (1)
Billie Holiday
(7)
Libby Holman
(1)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 89 | |||||||||||||
| Hop - King (B.B) | |||||||||||||
|
Linda Hopkins
(1)
Helen Humes
(9)
Alberta Hunter
(3), one with
Lovie Austin
Jackie & Roy
( Jackie Cain and Roy Kral) (3)
Mahalia Jackson (2)
Al Jarreau (2)
Eddie Jefferson
(1)
Lonnie Johnson
(7), one with
Victoria
Spivey
Al Jolson (3)
Etta Jones (1)
Greta Keller
(2)
B.B. King (1)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 90 | |||||||||||||
| King (Morgana) - Lee (Ada) | |||||||||||||
|
Morgana King
(4)
Teddi King (3)
Eartha Kitt
(1)
Irene Kral (2)
Gene Krupa (1)
Cleo Laine (9)
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
(1), one with Joe Williams & Count Basie
Gertrude
Lawrence (1)
Barbara Lea
(11)
Ada Lee (1)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 91 | |||||||||||||
| Lee (Peggy) - McRae | |||||||||||||
|
Peggy Lee (5)
Carol Leigh
(1)
Lotte Lenya
(4)
Katherine Handy
Lewis (1)
Abbey Lincoln
(1)
Dorothy Loudon
(1)
Vera Lynn (3)
Gloria Lynne
(1)
Manhattan Transfer
(2)
Big Maybelle (1)
Carmen McRae
(19)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 92 | |||||||||||||
| McRae - O'Day | |||||||||||||
|
Carmen McRae
Mabel Mercer
(5)
Helen Merrill
(3)
Tony Middleton
(1), with
Ellis
Larkins
Mills Brothers
(1), with Count Basie
Ada Moore (1)
Helen Morgan
(1)
Lee Morse (1)
Anne Marie Moss
(2), one with
Jackie Paris
Gertrude
Niessen /other side
Josephine Baker
(1)
Helen O'Connell
(4)
Anita O'Day (19),
some autographed
| |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 93 | |||||||||||||
| O'Day - Shan | |||||||||||||
|
Anita O'Day
Bernadette
Peters (2)
Esther Phillips
(1)
King Pleasure (1)
Maria Postell
(1)
Josephine
Premice (1)
Arthur Prysock
(1,) with
Count Basie
Ma Rainey (4)
Martha Raye
(1)
Bertice Reading
(1)
Della Reese
(1)
Harry Richman / other side
Sophie
Tucker (1)
Betty Roche
(1)
Eileen Rodgers
(1)
Annie Ross (1)
Jimmy Rushing
(2)
Hugh Shannon
(1)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 94 | |||||||||||||
| Shay - Smith (Bessie) | |||||||||||||
|
Dorothy Shay
(1)
Daryl Sherman
(2)
Bobby Short
(4)
Nina Simone
(3)
Frank Sinatra
(1)
Carol Sloane
(2)
Bessie Smith
(13)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 95 | |||||||||||||
| Smith (Carrie) - To | |||||||||||||
|
Carrie Smith
(3)
Keely Smith
(1)
Valaida Snow
(1)
Victoria Spivey
(3)
Jo Stafford
(2)
Dakota Staton
(1)
Kay Starr (2), one
with
Erroll
Garner
Joan Steele
(2)
Maxine Sullivan
(10), some autographed
Sweet Honey in the Rock
(1)
Sylvia Syms
(4)
Mel Tormé (5)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 96 | |||||||||||||
| Tr - Wash | |||||||||||||
|
Thom Troy (1)
Sophie Tucker
(2)
Big Joe Turner
(2)
Sarah Vaughan
(13)
Frederica Von
Stade (1)
Sippie Wallace
(2)
Fats Waller
(3)
Clara Ward (1)
Dinah
Washington (6)
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| box | |||||||||||||
| 97 | |||||||||||||
| Wat - Whit | |||||||||||||
|
Ethel Waters
(17)
Elisabeth Welch
(2)
Mae West (10)
Georgia White
(1)
Margaret
Whiting (5), one autographed
| |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 98 | |||||||||||||
| Whit - Whyte | |||||||||||||
|
Margaret
Whiting
Lee Wiley (19)
Marion Williams
(7)
Marie Wilson
(1)
Jimmy
Witherspoon (2)
Ronnie Whyte
(1)
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: LP records: Blues, Revue, Jazz, and Cabaret - Compilations | |||||||||||||
| Scope and Content | |||||||||||||
| This series consists of compilations, mostly of songs by women singers. There are multiple singers on 18 blues or jazz LPs - many of them on the Rosetta label. The number in parentheses is the number of LPs on which each of the listed 160 singers performs. No number in parentheses means the singer performs on only one compilation LP. | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 99 | |||||||||||||
| Almost Like Being in Love – Women's Railroad Blues | |||||||||||||
|
Ora Alexandra
Annisteen Allen
Ivie Anderson
Andrews Sisters
Nancy Andrews
Lil Armstrong
(5)
Jim Bailey
Mildred Bailey
(3)
Kaye Ballard
Blue Lou Barker
(3)
Gladys Bentley
(3)
Lucille Bogan
(3)
Hadda Brooks
(2)
Ada Brown
Bessie Brown
Cleo Brown (2)
Sweet Georgia
Brown
Butterbeans & Susie
( Jodie Edwards & Susie Edwards), 3 duets/one Susie solo (4)
Cab Calloway
(2)
Una Mae
Carlisle (2)
Christine
Chatman
June Christy
Rosemary
Clooney
Marilyn Cooper
Martha Copeland
(4)
Ida Cox (4)
Dardanelle
Blossom Dearie
(4)
Gloria De Haven
Johnny Desmond
Phyllis Diller
Mary Dixon
(2)
Tina Dixon
Dorothy Donegan
Warde Donovan
Arizona Dranes
Bernice Edwards
(2)
Edward Earle
Ella Fitzgerald
(4)
Rhonda Fleming
Bea Foote (2)
Helen Forrest
Mozelle France
&
Mae Hopkins (
Bandana Girls
)
Jane Froman
Judy Garland
Cleo Gibson
(2)
Hermione
Gingold
Lillian Glinn
Fannie Mae
Goosby
Eydie Gorme
Lil Green
Harlem Hannah (
Peggy
English)
Rosa Henderson
(2)
Lawrence Harvey
Bertha Chippie
Hill (4)
Mimi Hines
Billie Holiday
(4)
Jennifer
Holliday
Rosetta Howard
(2)
Helen Humes
(5)
Alberta Hunter
Betty Hutton
June Hutton
Bertha Idaho
(2)
Bessie Jackson
Fran Jeffries
Myrtle Jenkins
&
Bumble Bee Slim
Edith Johnson
(3)
Ella Johnson
(2)
Lil Johnson
Margaret Johnson
(2)
Merline Johnson
Stella Johnson
Albennie Jones
Betty Hall
Jones (2)
Etta Jones
Maggie Jones
Madeline Kahn
Laura Kenyon
King Sisters
Nora Lee King
Sara Riva
Krieger
Nancy La Mott
Frances
Langford
Paula Lawrence
Julia Lee (3)
Peggy Lee
Dorothy Loudon
(2)
Nellie Lutcher
Sara Martin
(2)
Mary Ann McCall
Mary McCarthy
(2)
Viola McCoy
Hattie McDaniel
Sarah McLawler
Armelia McQueen
Danny Meehan
(2)
Memphis Minnie (2)
Ethel Merman
Lizzie Miles
(2)
Ann Miller
Rose Mitchell
Monette Moore
(2)
Ella Mae Morse
Helen O'Connell
Anita O'Day
(2)
Bibi Osterwald
Edith Piaf
Billie Pierce
Charlotte Rae
Ma Rainey
John Reardon
June Richmond
Isie Ringgold
Chita Rivera
Lyda Roberti
Betty Roche
Charles Rydell
(3)
Hazel Scott
(2)
Blossom Seeley
Mark Sendroff
Dinah Shore
Ethel Shutta
Arthur Siegel
Bessie Smith
Clara Smith
(2)
Mamie Smith
(2)
Trixie Smith
(2)
O'Neil Spencer
Addie "Sweet
Peas" Spivey (5)
Victoria Spivey
(5)
Jo Stafford
Maureen
Stapleton
Kay Starr (2)
Jo Sullivan
Gloria Swanson
Rosetta Tharpe
(2)
Hociel Thomas
Big Mama
Thornton
Martha Tilton
Henrietta Valor
Sarah Vaughan
Sippie Wallace
(3)
Dinah
Washington
Ethel Waters
(2)
Mae West (2)
Georgia White
(2)
Margaret
Whiting (3)
Addie Williams
Gussie Williams
Joe Williams
Cy Young
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: LP records: British Music Hall and Revue - Solo or Small Revue | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 100 | |||||||||||||
| Coward - Lillie | |||||||||||||
| Noel Coward | |||||||||||||
|
The Noel Coward Album, double
album,
ca. 1965, Columbia MG
30038
Noel Coward &
Gertrude
Lawrence,
We Were Dancing: songs from
Tonight at 8:30 and
Private Lives. Also:
Gertrude
Lawrence with
Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr. in
Moonlight Is Silver; Monmouth
Evergreen MES 7042.
Noel & Gertie & Bea,
EMI Parlophone PMC 7135:
Noel Coward,
Gertrude
Lawrence, &
Beatrice
Lillie
| |||||||||||||
| Joyce Grenfell | |||||||||||||
|
Joyce Grenfell, The New
Collection (double album),
1978, EMI DUO 128
Joyce Grenfell Requests the
Pleasure,
mid-1970s, DRG
SL-5186
George - Don't Do That: Six Nursery
School Sketches,
1977, EMI Starline, SRS-5199
| |||||||||||||
| Gracie Fields | |||||||||||||
|
The Gracie Fields Story
(double album),
mid-1970s, EMI DUO
120
The Golden Years of Gracie
Fields,
1975, WarwickWW-5007
Amazing Gracie Fields,
1976 reissue of 1930s records, Monmouth
Evergreen MES-7079
The World of Gracie Fields,
1970, Decca Records SPA-82
| |||||||||||||
| Stanley Holloway | |||||||||||||
|
The Original Stanley Holloway
(music-hall numbers), EMI Starline MRS-5104
| |||||||||||||
| Elsa Lanchester | |||||||||||||
|
Elsa Lanchester: More Bawdy Cockney
Songs, vol. 2, Tradition Everest Records 2091
| |||||||||||||
| Beatrice Lillie | |||||||||||||
|
Queen Bea: a Musical
Autobiography (double album),
1979, DRG DARC-2-1101
Thirty Minutes with Beatrice
Lillie (10 inch LP), Liberty Music Shops, LMS-1002 A-B
An Evening with Beatrice
Lillie,
1955, London Records LL1373
Beatrice Lillie Sings,
1965, JJC M-3003
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: LP records: British Music Hall and Variety - Compilation Albums | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 100 | |||||||||||||
| Music Hall to Variety - Revue 1919-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Music Hall to Variety: volume 2: First House, World Record Club WRC SH-149 | |||||||||||||
|
Billy Bennett
Nora Blaney &
Gwen Farrer
Douglas Byng
Tom Clare
Mr. Flotsam & Mr. Jetsam
Tommy Handley
Will Hay
Layton & Johnstone
Lily Morris
Charles
Penrose
Leslie Sarony
Harry Tate
Sophie Tucker
| |||||||||||||
| Music Hall to Variety: volume 3, Second House, World Record Club WRC SH-150 | |||||||||||||
|
Crazy Gang:
Flanagan & Allen
, Nervo & Knox , Naughton & Gold
Florence
Desmond
Gracie Fields
Ronald Frankau
Stanley
Holloway
Horace Kenney
Max Miller
Tessie O'Shea
Nellie Wallace
Elsie & Doris
Waters
Western Brothers
Robb Wilton
| |||||||||||||
| Palace of Varieties, London Records LL-297 | |||||||||||||
|
Helen Clare
Rob Currie
Billie Howard
Raymond Newell
Paddy O'Neil
Leslie Sarony
| |||||||||||||
| Noel Coward: The Revues, EMI: SHB 44 | |||||||||||||
|
Noel Coward
Alysia Delysia
Maisie Gay
Doris Hare
| |||||||||||||
| British Tribute to Stage & Screen Royalty, Magna ZZ89 | |||||||||||||
|
Noel Coward
Gertrude
Lawrence
Beatrice
Lillie
Nigel Bruce,
Cedric
Hardwick &
C. Aubrey
Smith
Basil Rathbone
&
Vivien Leigh
Brian Aherne
Greer Garson
Dennis King
| |||||||||||||
| Nostalgia Trip to the Stars 1920s - 1950s, volume 2, Monmouth Evergreen LP MES 7031 | |||||||||||||
|
Gracie Fields
Stanley
Holloway
Elsa
Lanchester
Stanley Laurel
&
Oliver Hardy
Ben Lyon &
Bebe Daniels
Adolphe Menjou
Anna Neagle
Lili Palmer
Walter Pidgeon
Harry Richman
Sophie Tucker
| |||||||||||||
| (British) Revue 1912-1918, EMI Parlophone: PMC 7145 | |||||||||||||
|
Nat D. Ayer &
Louise Leigh
Frank Carter
&
Isabell
D'Armond
Maurice
Chevalier
Fay Compton
Teddy Girard
Robert Hale &
Ida Crisp
Lew Hearne &
Bonita
Elsie Janis &
Basil Hallam
Nelson Keys
Gerald Kirby
Gertrude
Lawrence &
Walter
Williams
Ethel Levey
Gertie Millar
&
A.
Simon-Girard
Unity More
George Robey
&
Violet Loraine
Lee White &
Clay Smith
| |||||||||||||
| (British) Revue 1919-1929, EMI Parlophone: PMC 7150 | |||||||||||||
|
Edythe Baker
Joyce Barbour
Jack Buchanon
&
Trix Sisters
Cicely
Courtneidge
Maisie Gay
Melvin Gideon
Elsa
Lanchester
Alfred Lester
Beatrice
Lillie
Jessie
Matthews &
Henry Lytton
George Metaxa
Herbert Mundin
Jack Smith
Leo White
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| Subseries 5: LP Records: Vaudeville and Early Film Musicals Singers - Compilations | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 100 | |||||||||||||
| Show Biz - Those Wonderful 1930s | |||||||||||||
| Show Biz: Vaude to Video, RCA LOC 1011 | |||||||||||||
|
Gene Austin
Ben Bernie
Fanny Brice
Cab Calloway
Eddie Cantor
Enrico Caruso
Maurice
Chevalier
George M.
Cohan
Bing Crosby
Morton Downey
Jimmy Durante
George
Gershwin
Happiness Boys
( Billy Jones & Ernie Hare)
Hildegarde
George Jessel
Harry Lauder
Beatrice
Lillie
Helen Morgan
Will Rogers
Kate Smith
Joe Smith &
Charlie Dale
Arthur Tracy
Sophie Tucker
Rudy Vallee
Paul Whiteman
and others
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| A Night at the Palace, Take Two, TT108 | |||||||||||||
|
Seven Little Foys
Harry Fox
Irene Franklin
Willie & Eugene
Howard
Eddie Peabody
Georgie Price
Blossom Seeley
&
Benny Fields
Van & Schenck
| |||||||||||||
| Old Curiosity Shop, reissued , RCA LPT 1112, ca. 1950-51 | |||||||||||||
|
John Barrymore
Nora Bayes &
Jack Norworth
Fanny Brice
Enrico Caruso
Maurice
Chevalier
Marlene
Dietrich
De Wolf Hopper
Helen Kane
Helen Morgan
Will Rogers
Sophie Tucker
Gloria Swanson
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| Original Musical Comedy 1909 - 1935, RCA LPV 560 | |||||||||||||
|
Nora Bayes &
Jack Norworth
Fanny Brice
Eddie Cantor
Edith Day
Gallagher & Shean
Louise Groody
&
Charles King
Libby Holman
Elsie Janis
Al Jolson
Helen Morgan
J. Harold
Murray
Cole Porter
Eleanor Powell
Blanche Ring
Noble Sissle
&
Eubie Blake
| |||||||||||||
| Camp, Capitol Records T 2474 | |||||||||||||
|
Andrews Sisters
Harry
Belafonte
Sammy Davis
Nick Lucas
Keely Smith
Rudy Vallee
Glen Gray,
Horace Heidt and
Harry James and
their orchestras
| |||||||||||||
| Great Stars of Vaudeville, Columbia LP CSS 1509 (2 copies) | |||||||||||||
|
Victor Borge
George Burns
&
Gracie Allen
Eddie Cantor
Clayton, Jackson & Durante
Morton Downey
W.C. Fields
Al Jolson
Baby Rose Marie
Arthur Tracy
Rudy Vallee
| |||||||||||||
| Those Wonderful 1930s, volume 1, Decca DEA 7-1 | |||||||||||||
|
Louis
Armstrong
Kenny Baker
Bobby Breen
Bing Crosby
Marlene
Dietrich
Jimmy Durante
Deanna Durbin
Judy Garland
Bob Hope &
Shirley Ross
Al Jolson
Dorothy Lamour
Frances
Langford
Nick Lucas
Tony Martin
James Melton
Grace Moore
Dick Powell
Wini Shaw
Mae West
Pinky Tomlin
| |||||||||||||
| Those Wonderful 1930s, volume 2, Decca DEA 7-2 (2 copies) | |||||||||||||
|
Gene Austin
Cab Calloway
Clayton, Jackson & Durante
Frances Faye
Benny Fields
Jane Froman
Hildegarde
Libby Holman
Walter Huston
George Jessel
Joe E. Lewis
Ted Lewis
Mary Martin
Ethel Merman
Borrah
Minevich & His Harmonica Rascals
Harry Richman
Bill Robinson
Sophie Tucker
Ethel Waters
| |||||||||||||
| Those Wonderful 1930s, volume 3, Decca DEA 7-3 | |||||||||||||
|
Andrews Sisters
Ben Bernice
Boswell Sisters
Eddie Cantor
Bing Crosby
Arthur Godfrey
Al Jolson
Mills Brothers
Kate Smith
Arthur Tracy
Rudy Vallee
Several dance & swing bands
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 6: LP Records: American Vaudeville Performers - Comedians Solo or Duo | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 101 | |||||||||||||
| Bergen - Wynn | |||||||||||||
|
Edgar Bergen & Charlie
McCarthy (Show), radio,
1952, Radiola, MR-1034
Burns & Allen radio show,
Radiola Records, MR-1028
George Burns & Gracie Allen,
radio show, Vol. 1, Garabedian Mark 56, #614 (2 copies)
A Musical Trip with George
Burns,
1972, Buddah Records, BDS-5127
A Date with Eddie Cantor,
Carnegie Hall Concert,
1962, Audio Fidelity AFLP 702
W. C. Fields, Temperance
Lecture, 10 inch LP,
2001, Jay Records
W. C. Fields & Mae West,
Fields' monologues, West's songs, Proscenium 22
Be Frank with Fay, Frank Fay
(songs & patter), Bally Hi-Fi, BAL 12015
Mickey Katz: Star of Broadway's
Borschtcapades, 10 inch LP, Capitol Records H-298
Bert Lahr Radio Broadcasts,
1977, Garabedian Mark 56, #729
Laurel & Hardy; Golden Age of
Hollywood Comedy, United Artists UAG-29676
Frigidaire presents Lum & Abner,
volume 1,
1949, Garabedian Mark 56 #605
Pigmeat Markham: Here Come the
Judge, Chess Records, LPS-1523
Groucho Marx: Hooray for Captain
Spaulding, 10 inch LP,
1952, Decca DL-5405
Harp by Harpo [Marx], 10 inch
LP, RCA Victor LPM-27
Groucho & Chico Marx: When Radio Was
King: You Bet Your Life with Groucho;
Hollywood Agents with Groucho
& Chico, Memorabilia Records, MLP-733
An Evening with Groucho, 2 LP
set, patter & songs/1972 concert, A & M SP-3515
Marx Brothers radio broadcasts
(mostly Groucho), 4 LPs, Murray Hill Records 931680
Moran & Mack (side 1); Smith & Dale (side 2);
unknown label except "TBCSD 1247"
Mae West, Original Voice Tracks from Her
Greatest Movies, Decca DL-79176
Bert Williams, patter songs,
1978 reissue, Sunbeam Records P-506
Ed Wynn: The Fire Chief, 1930s
radio broadcasts, Garabedian Mark 56, #621
Ed Wynn, Grampa Magic at Coney
Island, Riverside/Wonderland RLP-1416
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 7: LP Records: American Vaudeville Performers - Singers Solo or Duo | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 101 | |||||||||||||
| Brice - Seeley | |||||||||||||
|
Fanny Brice Sings the Songs She Made
Famous, Audio Fidelity Records AFKLP-707
John W. Bubbles Back on
Broadway,
1980, Uptown Records UP 27.03
Bubbles, John W That Is. . .,
mid-1960s, Vee-Jay
Records VJ-1109
Al Jolson 1885-1950, Epitaph
Records/VJ International E-4008
The Best of Spike Jones (&
His City Slickers) RCA ANL-1035e
Ted Lewis, Me and My Shadow,
Olympic Records 7127
Helen Morgan Sings, reissue by
Audio Rarities 2330
Rare Originals by Fanny Brice
(side 1)
and Helen Morgan (side 2) RCA
Victor LPV-561
Club Richman (Harry
Richman/Eddie Cantor/Helen Kane), New Torrington Records 432
Blossom Seeley & Benny Fields, Mr.
& Mrs. Show Business, 10 inch LP made in 1952 by Loew's/MGM-E92 to
coincide with release of biopic
Somebody Loves Me
Vaudeville Songs of the Great Ladies of
the Musical Stage, sung by Joan Morris (William Bolcom/piano), 1976,
Nonesuch Records H-71330
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 8: LP Records: American Vaudeville Performers - Compilations | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 102 | |||||||||||||
| Those Wonderful Girls of Stage, Screen and Radio, 1930 (one title) | |||||||||||||
| Those Wonderful Girls of Stage, Screen & Radio, 1930s, 2 LPs, Epic Records BSN-159 | |||||||||||||
|
Boswell Sisters
Marlene
Dietrich
Irene Dunne
Ruth Etting
Alice Faye
Jane Froman
Dorothy Lamour
Frances
Langford
Ella Logan
Mary Martin
Ethel Merman
Grace Moore
Helen Morgan
Gertrude
Niessen
Martha Raye
Kate Smith
Kay Thompson
Ethel Waters
Mae West
Lee Wiley
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 9: LP Records: Broadway Musicals | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 102 | |||||||||||||
| At Home Abroad - Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 | |||||||||||||
|
At Home Abroad (1935), archival
reconstruction by Smithsonian, RCA DPM1-0491, lyrics by Howard Dietz &
music by Arthur Schwartz. Original cast:
Beatrice Lillie,
Ethel Waters,
Eleanor Powell
and
Reginald
Gardiner; recreations by
Cicely
Courtneidge,
Clifford David,
Nancy Dussault
and
Karen Morrow
Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1928,
lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music by Jimmy McHugh (recorded 1932 with original
cast members
Adelaide Hall and
Bill Robinson, and
1930s recreations by
Ethel Waters,
Cab Calloway,
Mills Brothers
, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Don Redman & His Orchestra), reissued 1968, Columbia Records OL-6770
Julius Monk's Plaza Nine Revue: Dime a
Dozen with
Susan Browning,
Jack Fletcher,
Gerry Matthews,
Rex Robbins,
Fredericka
Weber,
Marie Louise
Wilson and pianists
Carl Norman,
William Roy and
Robert Colston,
1963, Cadence Records CLP-25063
Ken Murray's Blackouts, reissued
1975 by Garabedian Mark 59 Records #701
Gilbert & Sullivan
Selections: HMS Pinafore and The Mikado by The D'Oyly Carte Opera
Company, London Records SPC-21010
The Nervous Set, Original
Broadway revue cast, Columbia Records OL-5430
Jerry Herman's Parade, revue
with
Dody Goodman &
Charles Nelson
Reilly, Kapp Records 7005
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 with
Eddie Cantor,
John Steel,
Van & Schenck
and Bert Williams, 1977 reissue by Smithsonian Institution, Columbia Records R-009 / P14272 | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 10: LP Records: Hollywood Musicals | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 102 | |||||||||||||
| Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical - The Kay Thompson Reviews | |||||||||||||
|
Presenting the Golden Age of the
Hollywood Musical (reissue w/pop-up cover 1974) with selections from Gold
Diggers of 1933, Gold Diggers of 1935, 42nd Street, Dames and
Footlight Parade, with
George Raft,
Dick Powell,
Ruby Keeler,
Joan Blondell,
James Cagney and
Wini Shaw, United
Artists Records UAG-2942 (2 copies)
Hooray for Hollywood: The Golden Age of
the Hollywood Musical (with booklet);
Frances
Langford,
Johnny "Scat"
Davis,
Dick Powell,
Bebe Daniels,
Wini Shaw,
Judy Canova,
Lee Dixon,
Joan Blondell,
Rosalind
Marquis,
Ruby Keeler,
Una Merkel,
Ginger Rogers and
Vera Teasdale.
1975 reissue by United Artists
UA-LA361-H-0798
Ladies of Burlesque (compilation
of clips by
Alice Faye,
Grace Bradley,
Glenda Farrell,
Miriam Hopkins,
Ann Sothern,
Virginia
O'Brien,
Marion Martin,
Lucille Ball,
Constance Moore,
Ann Miller,
Iris Adrian,
Barbara
Stanwyck,
Betty Grable,
Marilyn Monroe,
Nita Talbot,
Adele Jergens,
Shelley Winters,
Ann Sheridan,
Jan Sterling,
Kathryn Grayson,
Jane Wyman,
Rita Hayworth,
Joanne Woodward
&
Cara Williams.
Legends Records-1000/2
Stars of the Silver Screen,
1929-1930:
John Boles,
Fanny Brice,
Maurice
Chevalier,
Bebe Daniels,
Dolores Del Rio,
Duncan Sisters
, George Jessel, Helen Kane, Charles King, Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, Everett Marshall, Helen Morgan, Gloria Swanson, Sophie Tucker and Lupe Velez. RCA Victor LPV-538
Nostalgia Trip to the Stars, volume
1:
Tallulah
Bankhead,
Jack Buchanan,
George Burns &
Gracie Allen,
Jackie Coogan,
Bebe Daniels,
Jeanette
MacDonald,
Pola Negri,
Ramon Navarro and
Gloria Swanson.
Monmouth Evergreen MES-7030
Nostalgia Trip to the Stars, volume
2:
Bebe Daniels &
Ben Lyon,
Gracie Fields,
Stanley
Holloway,
Elsa Lanchester,
Laurel & Hardy
, Adolphe Menjou, Anna Neagle, Lilli Palmer, Walter Pidgeon, Harry Richman and Sophie Tucker. Monmouth Evergreen MES-7031
The Kay Thompson Reviews:
Bing Crosby,
Peter Lorre,
Jack Buchanan and others.
Ultimo KAYT 406A
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| Subseries 11: LP Records: Spoken Word Recordings - Classic Actors | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 102 | |||||||||||||
| Great Actors of the Past - Ralph Richardson, Cyrano de Bergerac | |||||||||||||
|
Great Actors of the Past:
cylinder recordings by
Edwin Booth (1890),
Joseph
Jefferson (1903),
Sarah Bernhardt
(1910),
Constant
Coquelin (1897?),
Ellen Terry (1911),
Henry Irving
(1890),
Beerbohm Tree (?),
Julia Nelson &
Fred Terry (1903?),
Alexander
Moissi (?),
Cyril Maude (?),
Lewis Waller (?)
and
Tomasso Salvini
(?);
1977, Decca Argo SW-510
American National Theatre & Academy
, ANTA Album of Stars, volume 2: Katherine Cornell, Brian Ahearn, Julie Harris, Henry Fonda, Marc Connelly, Edith Evans, Torin Thatcher, Ivan Sampson, Tallulah Bankhead, Kent Smith, Eugenia Rawls; 1950s, Decca DL 9009
Command Performance, Night of a Thousand
Stars: 28 June 1956. Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Scofield, Peter
Ustinov, Lawrence Harvey, Jack Benny, Yvonne Larvin, John Mills, Vivien Leigh,
Bob Hope, Tyrone Power, Laurence Olivier, Anna Massey, Sheila Sim, Noel Coward,
Joan Sims, Jean Kent, cie Gray, Brenda Bruce, Peggy Cummins, Beatrice Lillie,
Tallulah Bankhead, Mabel Mercer and Thelma Ruby. (same LP)
Royal Variety Performance: 1952:
Vera Lynn,
Jack Jackson,
Reg Dixon,
Gracie Fields,
Maurice
Chevalier, issued
1977 DRG ArchiveDARC-1-1106
John Barrymore: Great Profile
Speaks, Richard III & movie role excerpts, Shakepox J Bar 42
John Gielgud: Shakespeare's Ages of
Man,
1958-59, Columbia
91A-02055
John Gielgud: Shakespeare's Ages of Man,
part II: One Man in His Time,
1958-59, Columbia
91A-02057
John Gielgud &
Irene Worth,
Men and Women of Shakespeare,
1967?, RCA Victor
VDM-115
John Gielgud & Gina Bachauer, poetry
& music (Debussy & Ravel),
1964, Mercury SR-90391
Edith Evans: An 18th Century Comedy
Album, excerpts: Congreve's Way of the World, Farquhar's The Beaux'
Stratagem and Sheridan's The Rivals and The School for Scandal,
1977, EMI/HMV HLM-7108
Michael MacLiammoir: The Importance of
Being Oscar, Part II,
1961?, CBS Classics
61160
Art of Ruth Draper, volume 2: Church in
Italy & English House Party,
1954, Spoken Arts 798
Art of Ruth Draper, volume 5: Doctors
& Diets, The Actress,
1954, Spoken Arts Records 805
Ralph Richardson: Cyrano de
Bergerac, with
Anna Massey,
Peter Wyngard, 3
LPs,
1965?, Caedmon/Theatre
Recording Society TRS-3068-S
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| Subseries 12: LP Records: Spoken Word Recordings - Miscellany | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 103 | |||||||||||||
| Nonsense Verse of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear – Voices from the Hollywood Past | |||||||||||||
|
Beatrice Lillie,
Cyril Ritchard
&
Stanley
Holloway read
Nonsense Verse of Lewis Carroll and
Edward Lear,
1957, Caedmon Publishers Records
TC-1078
The World of Dorothy Parker, [Dorothy
Parker] Reads Her Short Stories, Verse and a Book Review,
1960s, Verve
V-15029
S. J. Perelman Reads (4 humorous
essays),
1962, Spoken Arts Records 705
An Evening with Quentin Crisp: The Naked
Civil Servant,
1979, DRG-S2L-5188
Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart;
radio broadcasts 1938-1968, Garabedian Mark 56 #703
Movie Stars on Radio (4 LP set):
Bette Davis,
Spencer Tracey,
Rosalind
Russell,
Henry Fonda,
Paulette
Goddard,
Lloyd Nolan,
Walter Brennan,
Cary Grant,
Judy Garland,
Dick Powell,
Gene Kelly,
Marlene
Dietrich,
John Wayne,
Randolph Scott,
Dame May
Whitty,
Edward G.
Robinson,
Vincent Price,
Susan Hayward and
Charles Boyer.
1940-47, issued
1983 by Radiola Records 4MR-1
Prairie Home Companion: Garrison
Keillor, The Family Radio,
1982, PHC Records-606
Old Curiosity Shop,
1951? reissue, RCA
Victor LCT-1112 (dupe LP in Vaudeville Collection)
Supper Club Revue with
Harry Ritz,
Sophie Tucker,
Skinnay Innis & Orchestra, etc., 1950s, reissued
1981, American Entertainment,
AEI-1135
Voices from the Hollywood Past:
Basil Rathbone
(1958),
Buster Keaton
(1960),
Stanley Laurel
(1959),
Harold Lloyd (?),
Walt Disney (1959)
and
Edward G.
Robinson (1964), issued
1975 by Delos Records DEL/F-25412
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 13: LP Records: Spoken Word Recordings - Comedians, Solo or Teams | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 103 | |||||||||||||
| Bryan – Williams | |||||||||||||
|
Bert and I and Other Stories from Down
East,
Robert Bryan &
Marshall Dodge,
1958
George Carlin:
Occupation: Foole,
1973, Little David LD-1005
Cheech & Chong
(self-titled),
1972, ODE Records SP-77010
Cheech & Chong
: Big Bambu, 1972, ODE Records SP-77014
Cheech & Chong
: Out of My Room, 1985, MCA Records-5640
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller,
1962?, MGM/Verve
V6-15062
Stepin Fetchit in Person,
1961, Vee Jay LP-1032
Firesign Theatre
: Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him, 1968, Columbia CS-9518
Firesign Theatre
: Don't Crush that Dwarf; Hand Me the Plyers, 1970, Columbia 30101
An Evening with Mike Nichols &
Elaine May,
1960, Mercury Records OCS-6200
Nichols & May:
Improvisations to Music,
1959, Mercury SR-60040
Best of Nichols & May,
1960s, Mercury
SR-60997
Richard Pryor:
That Nigger's Crazy,
1974, Warner Bros./Reprise Records MS
2241
Lily Tomlin:
Modern Scream,
1975, Polydor Records PD-6051
Robin Williams:
Reality - What a Concept,
1979, Casablanca Records, NBLP-7162
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| Subseries 14: LP Records: Folk Music - Solo Singers or Family Acts | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 104 | |||||||||||||
| Belafonte - Washington | |||||||||||||
|
Harry Belafonte,
Mark Twain & Other Folk
Favorites,
1954, RCA Victor LPM-1022
Oscar Brand,
American Drinking Songs (with
Erik Darling),
1956, Riverside RLP-12-630
Roll Cahn & Eric Von Schmidt
(also name of the LP),
1961, Folkways Records FA 2417
Original and Great Carter
Family, reissued
1962 by RCA Camden CAL-586
Charles River Valley Boys, Bluegrass/Old
Timey Music,
1962, Prestige Folklore-14017
Judy Collins,
In My Life,
1966, Elektra Records, EKS-7320
Bob Dylan (produced by John
Hammond),
1962, Columbia CL-1779
Bob Dylan,
Times They Are A-Changing,
1962-63?, Columbia
CL-8905
Bob Dylan,
Freewheelin',
1963, Columbia CL-1986
Bob Dylan,
John Wesley Harding,
1967, Columbia CL-9604
Bonnie Dobson,
She's Like a Swallow,
1962?, Prestige
International-13021 (2 copies)
Cynthia Gooding,
Languages of Love,
1958, Riverside RLP-12-827
Arlo Guthrie,
Running Down the Road,
1969, Reprise Records 6346
Carolyn Hester (self-titled),
1962, Columbia Records CL-1796
Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band
(also title),
1963, Vanguard, VRS-9139
Ewan MacColl &
A.L. Lloyd,
A Sailor's Garland,
1962?, Prestige
International 13043
Peggy Seeger &
Ewan MacColl,
A Lover's Garland,
1963?, Prestige
International 13061
Ewan MacColl &
Peggy Seeger,
New Briton Gazette,
1962, Folkways Records FW-734
Country Joe
McDonald,
Animal Tracks,
1983, Animus/Feel-1
Geoff Muldaur (
Fritz Richmond,
etc.),
Sleepy Man Blues,
1963, Prestige Folklore 14004
Susan Reed (also title),
1957, Elektra EKL-116
Tom Rush at The Unicorn,
1962, LyCornu Records SA-70 (?)
Tony Saleton,
I'm a Stranger Here,
1962?, Prestige
International INT-13036
Peggy Seeger with
Barbara &
Penny Seeger,
Three Sisters,
1962, Prestige International 13029
Pete Seeger,
Sing Out with Pete,
1961, Folkways Records FA-2455
Mark Spoelstra Recorded at Club
47,
1963, Folkways Records FG-3572
Sister Rosetta
Tharpe,
The Gospel Truth,
1961, Verve, V/V6-8439
Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads & a
Spiritual,
1959, Folkways Records FS-3818
Jackie Washington (also title),
1962, Vanguard VRS-9141
Jackie Washington, volume 2
(with
Fritz Richmond),
1963, Vanguard VRS-9141
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| Subseries 15: LP Records: Folk Music - Compilations | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 104 | |||||||||||||
| Folk Festival at Newport, 1959 – Southern Journey 12: Honor the Lamb | |||||||||||||
|
Folk Festival at Newport,
1959,
Joan Baez &
Bob Gibson,
Barbara Dane,
New Lost City Ramblers
, Odetta, Mike Seeger, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Vanguard, VSD-2054
New Folks, volume 2,
Phil Ochs,
Eric Anderson,
Lisa Kindred,
Bob Jones,
1964, Vanguard VRS-9140
Alan Lomax Field Recordings:
Southern Journey: All Day Singing from
the Sacred Harp,
1959-1960, Prestige
Int'l-25007
Southern Journey 11: Southern White
Spirituals,
1959-1960, Prestige
International-25011
Southern Journey 12: Honor the
Lamb,
1959-1960, Prestige
International-25012
| |||||||||||||
| Subseries 16: LP Records: Instrumentalists - Blues (mostly solos) and Jazz (mostly small combos) | |||||||||||||
| box | |||||||||||||
| 105 | |||||||||||||
| Armstrong – Handy | |||||||||||||
|
Louis
Armstrong:
Louis Armstrong & His All Star in
Concert (2 LPs),
1977, Crescendo GNPS-11001
Louis Armstrong & His Hot
Five, 1925-1927, reissued
1955-60 by Columbia
CL-851
The Great Louis Armstrong (King
Oliver Band, 1923), remastered
1968 Orpheum #105
Satchmo at Pasadena, Louis Armstrong
& the All Stars,
1951, Decca DL-8041
Sidney
Bechet:
Complete Sidney Bechet, volumes 3 &
4,
1941, RCA Jazz Tribune (France)
PM-43262
Bechet of New Orleans, recorded
in USA 1940-41, reissued
1957 &
1980, Pickwick Quintessence
QJ-25411
Genius of Sidney Bechet, 1947,
reissued
1970s/80s by
GHB/Jazzology J-35
Sidney Bechet with Claude Luter &
His Orchestra; volume 25 Concerts: Salle Pleyel, Disques Vogue
LD-554-30
Fabulous Sidney Bechet with
Sidney de Paris
&
Jonah Jones,
1951-53, Bluenote
81207
Sidney Bechet & Mezz
Messrow, 1945-47, reissued
1976, 2 LPS, Classic Jazz, CJ-28
Bunny Berrigan: I Can't Get
Started, 1937-39 on Camden & RCA, reissued
1978 by Pickwick Quintessence
QJ-25081
Scrapper
Blackwell,
Mr. Scrapper's Blues,
1961, Bluesville 1047
Eubie Blake, Rags to Classics,
1971, Eubie Blake Music label,
EBM-2
Wilbur de Paris
& His New Orleans Jazz,
Marchin' and Swingin',
1952, Atlantic 1233
Baby Dodds Trio
, Jazz a la Creole, 1946 & 1951, Circle Records, with James P. Johnson, Albert Nicholas, Pops Foster, Don Ewell & Danny Barker; reissued by George Buck as GHB-50
K.C. Douglas Blues,
late 1950s/early 1960s,
Prestige/Bluesville-1023
Duke Ellington at the Cotton
Club, 1937-38, with
Ivie Anderson,
Swedish reissue: TAX m-8001
The Early Duke Ellington, with
Jimmy Dorsey &
Una Mae
Carlisle, reissued by Everest FS-221
Gershwin by [George] Gershwin,
radio broadcasts 1931-35, 2 LPs, reissued
1973, Mark 56-641
Edmund Hall Quintets
, Celestial Express, 1941 & 1944, Blue Note B-6505, autographed by Edmund Hall & Winnie Hall (his wife)
W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues, St
Louis Blues, sings his compositions and talks, recorded in the
early 1950s; reissued
1975 by Garabedian Mark 56 as #684
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| Hines – Kenton | |||||||||||||
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Earl Hines, Paris Sessions,
piano solos,
1965, reissued in
1981 by Inner City Records IC-1142
Earl Hines in New Orleans,
1977, solo piano, Chiaroscuro Records
CR-200
Earl Hines Quintessential
Continued,
mid-1970s, solo piano,
Chiaroscuro CR-120
[Earl] Hines Comes in Handy,
piano solos of
W.C. Handy's music,
1973, Audiophile AP-112
[Earl] Hines Does Hoagy
[Carmichael], piano solos,
1974, reissue
1982 Audiophile AP-113
Hines: My Tribute to Louis
[Armstrong], piano solos of
1971 issued
1973, Audiophile-AP-111
Shakey Jake: Mouth Harp Blues
with combo,
early 1960s?,
Prestige/Bluesville 1027
Immortal Blind Lemon Jefferson
(volume 1),
1926-29, reissued
1967 Milestone MLP-2004
Immortal Blind Lemon Jefferson
(volume 2),
1926-29, reissued
1968 Milestone MLP-2007
Original James P. Johnson, piano
solos
1943-45, reissued
1973 Folkways Records FJ-2850
Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues
Singers,
1936?, reissued
1970s? Columbia
C-30034
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack,
piano solos,
1981, Clear Cut Records CC-705
Uncollected Stan Kenton, volume
3, radio broadcasts 1943-44, reissued
1979 HindsightHSR-136
Uncollected Stan Kenton, volume
4, radio broadcasts 1944-45, reissued
1979 HindsightHSR-147
Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm,
1952-54?, reissued ? by
EMI-Capitol SM-167
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| Larkins - Mulligan | |||||||||||||
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Ellis Larkins, solo piano,
1980, Island Records/Digital Records,
DBT-101
Leadbelly Sings Folk Songs, with
Woody Guthrie,
Cisco Houston,
Sonny Terry &
Brownie McGhee,
reissued
1962, Folkways Records FA-2488
Leadbelly's Last Sessions, 1953, Part
One, Folkways Records FA-2941 A & B
Leadbelly's Last Sessions, 1953, Part
Three, Folkways Records FA-2942 A & B
Leadbelly's Last Sessions, 1953, Part
Four, Folkways Records FA-2942 C & D
George Lewis in Japan (with
combo),
1963, issued
1965 by George Buck GHB-14
George Lewis Band of New Orleans: Jazz
at Preservation Hall,
1963, Atlantic Records-1411
Loonis [McGlohan] in London,
piano with
Pete Morgan (bass),
1981, Audiophile AP-166
Marian McPartland (piano with
combo),
1981, Bainbridge Records, BT-1045
Wanted!, Marian [piano] & Jimmy
[cornet] McPartland,
1977, Improv Records, -7122
Memphis Willie B.,
Hard Working Man Blues,
harmonica, guitar, vocal,
1961, Bluesville, -1048
Mingus Revisited,
Charlie Mingus
& band,
1960, issued
1965, Trip Jazz TLP-5513
Mingus: Oh Yeah (with combos),
1950s, reissued
1966 by Atlantic Records-1377
Best of Jelly Roll Morton
(combos with
Kid Ory,
Sidney Bechet,
Wilbur de Paris,
Bubber Miley, etc.)
1926-40, reissued
1980, RCA/Deutsche CL-43291
Gerry Mulligan,
Chet Baker (with
combo),
Carnegie Hall Concert, volume
One,
1964, CTI-6054
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| Pierce – Yancy | |||||||||||||
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Billie & De De Pierce,
New Orleans, Legends Live,
late 1950s?, Jazzology
JCE-25
Billie & De De Pierce,
Blues in the Classic Tradition,
1961, Riverside Record RLP-370
Billie & De De Pierce,
Blues & Tonks from the
Delta,
1961, Riverside Record RLP-394
Oscar Peterson,
Digital at Montreux,
1979-80, issued
1980 Pablo Records d2308224
Oscar Peterson & Stephane
Grapelli, 2 LPs,
1973, Prestige P-24041
Jess Stacy,
Blues Notion,
1944, Jazz Piano Heritage Series, volume
40, Jazzology JCE-90
Return of Roosevelt Sykes,
piano/vocals with combo,
1960, Prestige Bluesville-1006
The Blues of Arbee Stidham: Tired of
Wanderin',
early 1960s, Prestige
Bluesville 1021
Tampa Red,
Don't Jive Me, vocals, guitar
& kazoo,
early 1960s, Prestige
Bluesville 1043
Art Tatum Masterpieces, volume 2
(1934 & 1937) and
James P. Johnson plays Fats
Waller (1944 & 1946), 2 LPs, Decca Label/MCA2-4112
The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, volume
11, recorded
1953-55, reissued
1981, Pablo 2310864
Art Tatum Trio (
Tiny Grimes,
Slam Stewart),
1944, reissued 1983 Audiophile Records
AP-88
Golden Horn of Jack Teagarden
with the bands of
Louis Armstrong,
Eddie Condon,
Red Nichols,
Adrian Rollini
and
Eddie Lang &
Joe Venuti's All Stars
, 1929-1953, reissued MCA-227
Jack Teagarden,
Think Well of Me, music of
Willard Robison,
1962, Verve Records V-8465
Henry Townsend,
Tired of Being Mistreated,
vocal/guitar/piano,
1961, Prestige Bluesville-1041
Henry Townsend,
Mule,
1980, Nighthawk Records 201
Mercy Dee
Walton (vocal & piano),
Pity and a Shame,
1961, Prestige Bluesville 1039
Mary Lou
Williams (in trio),
My Momma Pinned a Rose on Me,
1977, Pablo Records-2310-819
Mary Lou Williams Trio
, Free Spirits, 1976, Inner City Records-2043
Mary Lou
Williams
First Lady of the Piano,
recorded
1953, reissued
1979, Inner City IC-7006
Teddy Wilson,
Teddy's Choice,
1975, issued
1981 by Jazzology Piano Heritage, volume
36, JCE-36
Teddy Wilson On Tour with His
Trio,
1961, Charlie Parker Records
PLP-809
Mama Yancey & Little Brother
Montgomery: South Side Blues,
1961, Riverside Chicago Living Legends
Series OBC-508
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| Collectors' History of Classic Jazz – Jazz at Preservation Hall, Volume 3 | |||||||||||||
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Collectors' History of Classic
Jazz (tribal, gospel, ragtime, blues, stride), Murray Hill
927942
New Orleans Jazz: The Flowering,
1950s, bands/combos led
by
Kid Clayton,
Punch Miller,
Billie &
De De Pierce,
Emile Barnes &
Peter Bocage,
Tony Parenti,
Eureka Brass Band
with George Lewis, Folkways Records FA-2465
Heliotrope Bouquet Piano Rags,
played by
William Bolcom,
1971, Nonesuch H-71257
Jazz Piano,
Willie 'The Lion'
Smith,
Charles Bell,
Earl Hines,
Billy Taylor,
Mary Lou
Williams,
1965, RCA Masters PL-42`07
Jazz Giants: The Piano Players,
Mary Lou
Williams,
Beryl Booker,
Erroll Garner,
Johnny
Guarnieri,
1955, Trip Jazz TLP-5504
Keyboard Kings: Errol Garner/Art
Tatum/Oscar Peterson, originally recorded by RCA, Camden, reissued
1976 by Pickwick/Camden ACL-7015
Piano Rags by Scott Joplin
played by
Joshua Rifkin,
volume 1,
1970, Nonesuch H-71248
Piano Rags by Scott Joplin
played by
Joshua Rifkin,
volume 2,
1972, Nonesuch H-71264
Preservation Hall, volume 1,
Eureka Brass Band
/ Peter Humphrey, 1965?, Atlantic 1408
Preservation Hall, volume 2, Jim
Robinson's New Orleans Band (side 1) and Billie & De De Pierce (side 2),
1965?, Atlantic Records
1409
Jazz at Preservation Hall, volume
3,
Paul Barbarin
& His Jazz Band (side 1) and
Punch Miller's Bunch
with George Lewis (side 2), 1965?, Atlantic Records 1410 | |||||||||||||
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