Saint Joan programs
- Title
- Saint Joan programs, 1923-1943.
- Format
- Archival mix
Items in the library and offsite
Displaying 1 item
| Status | Access | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | AccessSupervised use | Call numberMWEZ+ n.c. 6082 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 bound volume of programs : illustrations, some in color; 25 cm
- Donor/Sponsor
- In honor of George Freedley
- Subject
- American Red Cross. - [Browse in index]
- Theatre Guild. - [Browse in index]
- Amateur theater -- United States. - [Browse in index]
- Benefit performances. - [Browse in index]
- Little theater movement. - [Browse in index]
- War relief. - [Browse in index]
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Theater and the war. - [Browse in index]
- Genre/Form
- Theater programs.
- Playbills.
- Call number
- MWEZ+ n.c. 6082
- Language
- English
- Note
- Thirty six programs (1923 - 1943) for Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw in England and the United States, including amateur, college, university, regional, and touring productions. Of note are performances by Winifred Lenihan; Sybil Thorndike; Julia Arthur; Alice Baxter-Mitchell in a production by the Morning Dramaticale; Irma Mangold in a production by The Little Theatre of Dallas; Katharine Cornell; Wendy Hiller; Elena Miranova.
- A number of the programs include Shaw's "Note by the Author."
- Item 1, a program for the Theatre Guild's original production starring Winifred Lenihan, is stamped: "Office Alice Kauser 152 West 42nd Street New York City"
- Item 32 is a program for Erwin Piscator's 1940 production at the Shubert-Belasco Theatre (Washington, D.C.) starring Luise Rainer, a benefit for European War Relief under the auspices of the American Red Cross.
- Compiled and bound by The New York Public Library.
- Type of content
- text
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Lenihan, Winifred, -1964, actor.
- Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976, actor.
- Arthur, Julia, 1869-1950, actor.
- Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974, actor.
- Hiller, Wendy, 1912-2003, actor.
- Rainer, Luise, 1910-2014, actor.
- Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966, director.
- Kauser, Alice, 1872-1945, former owner.