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The Importance Of Being Earnest

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1940 performance of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, is a farcical comedy about two men who each take on the personas with the name of Earnest in order to escape the burdens of social obligations.

"Rosemary--For Remembrance"

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1940 performance of “Rosemary—For Rememberance.” A Romantic Drama in Three Acts by Priscilla Wayne and Wayne Sprague.

Peg O' My Heart, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

Peg, a poor Irish girl living in New York, becomes an heiress by the death of her uncle, and is called to England to be reared by an aritocratic aunt. She is like a duck out of water in these surroundings, but she wins her way and also a worthy Englishman named Jerry. An early 20th-century long-running Broadway hit that featured Laurette Taylor in a star-making performance as 'Peg'.

https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/4425/peg-o-my-heart

The Servant In The House Program [1939], Gorham Normal School

Theatre Programs 1910-1939

Written by Charles Rann Kennedy

From the program:

A modern comedy in which the central figure is called by critics a reincarnation of the Christ- a man of mystery, clad in oriental robes, who reads the thoughts of those about him, whose vision extends beyond the walls of the home in which he elects "to serve as a butler.

Forever True

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1939 performance of Forever True by Priscilla Wayne Sprague.

Some Call It Love, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

No abstract provided.

Letter From Advanced Arts Ballets, Inc. To Charlotte Michaud, Richard Pleasant

Correspondence 1922-1938

November 3, 1938: Letter from Richard Pleasant of Advanced Arts Ballets, Inc. sending ballet pamphlets to Charlotte Michaud and thanking her for reaching out.

Also included:

Programs overleaf for the New Mordkin Ballet at the Alvin Theatre, New York, NY.

Printed by the Rudolf Orthwine Corporation

Letter From Surry Theatre To Charlotte Michaud, Janet Marshall

Correspondence 1922-1938

July 25, 1938: Letter from Janet Marshall of Surry Theatre to Charlotte Michaud, thanking Charlotte Michaud for a story she published.

Romeo And Juliet

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1938 performance of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two young lovers from feuding families and how their relationship and deaths reconcile their families.

Letter From Ruth Tremblay To Charlotte Michaud, Ruth Tremblay

Correspondence 1922-1938

May 9, 1938: Letter from Ruth Tremblay to Charlotte Michaud discussing details about a story Michaud will write about their theater performances.

Program For The Stage Production First Lady, Curtain Club

Theater Production Programs

This sixteen-page program details the Curtain Club of Ursinus College’s production of First Lady, held May 7 and 14, 1938 in Thompson-Gay Gymnasium. It includes information about the directors, cast, production of the show, a scene synopsis, and local advertisements.

Certain Aspects Of The Communal Function And Relations Of The Drama In The Middle Ages, William Thomas Schroder

Bachelors’ Theses

Today, such expressions as, "The Community Players", "The Community Play-house", and "The Community Drama", evidence the interest in the revival of the drama as a community enterprise. The drama, in its European infancy, was very decidedly a community affair. It was a community affair from the standpoint both of production and of observation. In this thesis we shall trace the evolution of the Medieval Drama in its popular, social relationships, and endeavor to show how and in what respects it belonged to all of the people.

Tiger House

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1938 performance of “Tiger House.” A novel mystery comedy in three acts by Robert St. Clair.

All three acts take place in the library of “Mystery Manor” a lonely country estate two miles from the nearest village.

Letter From Edouard Duburon To Charlotte Michaud, Edouard Duburon

Correspondence 1922-1938

January 7, 1938: Letter from Edouard DuBuron, concert dancer, to Charlotte Michaud about a visit she made to Boston and plans for DuBuron to visit Lewiston.

Fashion, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

A milliner turned respectable wife of high society, Mrs. Tiffany urges her daughter Seraphina to snag a husband of particular grace and class, the “Count” Jolimaitre, and to ignore the poet Twinkle except as a recipient of patronage. Jolimaitre is a fraud, and recognized as such by the maid Millinette, but nevertheless assumes all the affections of a fashionable gentleman in order to further his interests, much to the chagrin of Adam Trueman, a Yankee, who eschews both Mrs. Tiffany and Jolimaitre from the first introductions – or lack thereof. Trueman attempts to set things straight by confronting Mr. Tiffany, …

The Little Theatre Movement In Louisville., Fred J. Karem

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Letter From Aaron Richmond Concert Direction, Aaron Richmond Concert Direction

Correspondence 1922-1938

October 6, 1937: Letter from Aaron Richmond Concert Direction [signature illegible] to Charlotte Michaud regarding photos and stories he will send to her.

Letter From Lee Ruttle 9/11/1937, Lee Ruttle

Correspondence 1922-1938

Letter from Lee Ruttle to Charlotte Michaud thanking her for her article.

Letter From Dorothy Kornhauser, Dorothy Kornhauser

Correspondence 1922-1938

September 3, 1937: Letter from Dorothy Kornhauser of Aloha Camp in Vermont to Charlotte Michaud thanking her for the article on her performance.

Letter From Edward P. Goodnow To Charlotte Michaud, Edward P. Goodnow

Correspondence 1922-1938

August 25, 1937: Letter from Edward P. Goodnow, Director of the Barnstormers, Tamworth, New Hampshire, to Charlotte Michaud, thanking her for an article she wrote about the theater.

After Wimpole Street Program [1937], Gorham Normal School

Theatre Programs 1910-1939

Written by Wilbur Braun

Directed by Chester H. Sloat

The entire action of the play takes place in the library of the Brownings' villa, Casa Guidi, in Florence, Italy, in the year 1847.

Letter From Hanya Holm Studio, Rebecca Cowan

Correspondence 1922-1938

Letter and photograph from Hanya Holm Studio to Charlotte Michaud, concerning theatre/ dance performances related to a news series Michaud wrote.

The Little Theatre Movement In Wisconsin, Austin Norbert Robert Rodeman

Bachelors’ Theses

The decline of the professional theatre in Wisconsin, and in this country as a whole, has brought with it the rise of what is known as the Little Theatre Movement. This decline of the professional theatre has been brought about by the distraction of modern life, the cost of railroad transportation as it affects traveling companies and especially the diversion of the masses to the motion pictures. With the decline of the commercial trouping companies, many cities found themselves without any spoken drama except the synthetic production, motion pictures, which to the genuine lover of the theatre is, in a …

The Lone Eagle

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1937 performance of The Lone Eagle by Charles E. Roach.

Presented by the Play-Production Class.

The Howling Dog: A Three-Act Mystery Play Program [1937], Gorham Normal School

Theatre Programs 1910-1939

Written by Claudia Harris

Directed by Chester E. Sloat

A!l action occurs deep in the Adirondacks in the lodge of a large estate left by the will of her great uncle to Dorothy Goodwin on the condition she live in it for six months.

Letter From Margaret Lloyd 11/4/1936, Margaret Lloyd

Correspondence 1922-1938

November 4, 1936: Typed letter from Margaret Lloyd to Charlotte Michaud about an article she wrote and discussing future production plans.

Letter From Margaret Lloyd 10/26/1936, Margaret Lloyd

Correspondence 1922-1938

Letter from Margaret Lloyd to Charlotte Michaud discussing articles and books related to dance.

Margaret Lloyd wrote an advice column for the Christian Science Monitor.

Ingomar The Barbarian Program [1936], Gorham Normal School

Theatre Programs 1910-1939

Adapted by Maria Lovell from Frederick Hahn's "Der Sohn der Wildniss"

The Gifts Pageant : Bicentennial Celebration, Gorham, Maine Program [1936], Gorham Normal School

Theatre Programs 1910-1939

Directed by Dorothy Flint, Miram Andrews, Mary Carswell, and Ethyl H. Boothby

Big Brother, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

No abstract provided.