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Modern Dance Demonstration (May 11, 1956), Lindenwood College

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Event program for the Modern Dance Demonstration (May 11, 1956).

Program For The Stage Production Charley's Aunt, Curtain Club

Theater Production Programs

This thirty-five-page program details the Curtain Club of Ursinus College’s production of Charley's Aunt, held May 10, 11 and 12, 1956 in Thompson-Gay Gymnasium. It includes information about the directors, cast, production of the show, a scene synopsis, and local advertisements.

Blockprint May 7, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 7, 1956 issue features articles on a student exhibition, the polio vaccine, end of year news, student and faculty achievements, sporting events, and social events; student and faculty profiles; a student opinions column.

Ladies In Retirement (May 4, 1956), Edward Percy, Reginald Denham

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Ladies in Retirement (May 4, 1956).

To view the photos from this production of Ladies in Retirement , please click here.

Spectrum May 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from May 1956 features essays written by professional photographers on the theme of "photography as a visual art form." Guest essayists include Lyle Mayer, Beaumont Newhall, Jacob Deschin, Barbara Morgan, and Aaron Siskind. Two RISD students, Emilio Grossi and Ronald Binks also contribute. This issue additionally includes photographic plates by Lyle Mayer, Ronald Binks, Aaron Siskind, Howard Dearstyne, Emilio Grossi, Edward Weston, and Minor White.

Blockprint April 30, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 30, 1956 issue features articles on end of year news, student and faculty achievements, sporting events, and social events; student and faculty profiles; a student opinions column.

Blockprint April 23, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 23, 1956 issue features a faculty profile of Edna Lawrence, and articles on campus lectures, sporting events, a student opinions column, and social events.

Blockprint April 17, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 17, 1956 issue features articles on RISD's future, faculty appointments, campus lectures, sporting events, a student opinions column, student and faculty profiles, and social events.

Ua68/6/2 Voices, Vol. I, No. 2, Western Writers

Student Organizations

Magazine produced by the Western Writers, a group of student readers and writers devoted to good writing and determined to encourage those interested in creative work. It presents members' best efforts in other than class-assigned papers.

Blockprint March 26, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 26, 1956 issue features articles on campus lectures, sporting events, a student opinions column, student and faculty profiles, and social events.

Blockprint March 19, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 19, 1956 issue features articles on the Autherine Lucy case, campus lectures, sporting events, a student opinions column, the drama club, student and faculty profiles, and social events.

Blockprint March 12, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 12, 1956 issue features articles on campus lectures, beauty pageants, sporting events, a student opinions column, the drama club, and social events.

Twelve Angry Women (March 9, 1956), Sherman L. Sergel

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Twelve Angry Women (March 9, 1956).

To view the photos from this production of Twelve Angry Women, please click here.

The Importance Of Being Earnest, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

The Importance of Being Earnest, written in 1895, was originally a three-act drama. It has recently been condensed into the one-act version. Mr. Wilde, using subtle humor to near perfection, wrote the play as a satire on the English aristocracy. Today it is recognized as an outstanding melodrama of the modern theatre.

Blockprint March 5, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 5, 1956 issue features articles on campus lectures, new museum exhibitions, sporting events, a student opinions column, and social events.

Blockprint February 27, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 27, 1956 issue features articles on the death of John Howard Benson, new museum exhibitions, faculty and student profiles, a student opinions column, cartoons, and social events.

Time Out For Ginger, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

According to the Herald-Tribune: "[The story] starts us out with a fairly staid banker who needs some sort of creative release and finds it in lecturing to local high-school classes on the need for self-fulfillment…It quickly develops however, that one of [the banker's] daughters—the youngest of three—has been very much impressed by her father's exhortations. She has further decided that her own true fulfillment can best be realized by going out for the football team." Any number of complications result: The father's job is jeopardized because the bank president doesn't approve; the girl's elder sisters insist that their social life …

Blockprint February 21, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 21, 1956 issue features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, a faculty profile, a student opinions column, and social events.

Campus Lights 1956, Murray State College

Campus Lights

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Blockprint February 13, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 13, 1956 issue features articles on voting for the Take-A-Break Weekend Queen, film screenings around campus, Take-A-Break Weekend performers like the Dixieland Band and Richard Hayman, a sophomore winning a steak knife design competition, guest faculty member Kaj Franck, and other events and notices.

Blockprint February 6, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 6, 1956 issue features articles on RISD professors, campus lectures, a faculty profile, a student opinions column, and social events.

Blockprint January 16, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 16, 1956 issue features articles on nominating a Take-A-Break Queen, an upcoming talk by theater design curator Dr. William B. Van Lennep, an upcoming talk by RISD Museum director Dr. John Maxon, a past talk by James Sweeney, the student magazine "Spectrum," modern art criticism, a RISD student who was an Estonian refugee, and other events and notices.

Blockprint January 9, 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 9, 1956 issue is the first Blockprint issue of the year, and features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, a grant from the Ford Foundation, new exhibitions at RISD Museum, an upcoming lecture by James Sweeney on modern art, Carr House, the new publication "Spectrum," modern art criticism, a new honor code at Brown, and other events and notices.

Androcles And The Lion

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s 1956 performance of Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw.

Androcles and the Lion is the story of a Christian in early Rome named Androcles, who helps a Lion that later comes to his aid when Androcles is captured and brought to the Colosseum for torture and death.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1955-1956, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1955-1956 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding field trips and activities of members.

• The Male Animal, 1955
• Long Voyage Home, 1955
• The Emperor's New Clothes, 1956
• Of Thee I Sing, 1956
• Medea, 1956

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1956, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1956 summer season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Three for Tonight
• The Silver Cord
• Jubilee
• Mary of Scotland

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1956, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1956 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Three for Tonight
• The Silver Cord
• Jubilee

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1955-1956, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1955-1956 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding the WKU Debate Team and clippings regarding Russell Miller.

• The Male Animal, 1955
• Long Voyage Home, 1955
• The Emperor's New Clothes, 1956
• Of Thee I Sing, 1956
• Medea, 1956

Spectrum January 1956, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from January 1956 features essays written by scholars from around New England on the theme of form in the arts, including visual communication, music, and poetry. It also features visual and written creative work submitted by students, faculty, and external scholars.

Problems For The High School Actor, Greydon Pierce Milam

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

”Problems for the HIgh School Actor” has been prepared so that the teacher and the student have been given a certain degree of flexibility in its use. The order of presentation of the various problems, the amount of time spent on any one time, and the focusing on the major amount of emphasis may vary from class to class and from year to year as the interests, needs, and skills of the enrollee vary. The most educationally worthwhile method can be used to meet these varying situations.

This study has been developed so as to make possible further study of …