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New York City theatre and opera programs

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  1. New York City theatre and opera programs, 1899-1927.

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  1. Scrapbook with programs for various New York City theatrical, dance, classical music, and opera productions. Includes items from the 44th Street, 48th Street, Ambassador, Astor, B. F. Keith's Palace, Bandbox, Belasco, Belmont, Biltmore, Bijou, Booth, Broadhurst, Candler, Carnegie-Lyceum, Casino, Century, Circle, Civic Repertory, Cohan and Harris, Colonial, Cort, Daly's, Eltinge, Empire, Fulton, Gaiety, George M. Cohan's, Globe, Greenwich Village, Harlem Opera House, Hammerstein's Victoria, Harris, Henry Miller's, Hippodrome, Hudson, Klaw, Keith and Proctor's 5th Avenue, Jolson's, Knickerbocker, Liberty, Lincoln Square, Little, Longacre, Lyceum, Lyric, Majestic, Manhattan, Manhattan Opera House, Mayfair, Maxine Elliott's, Morosco, Murray Hill, Music Box, National, Neighborhood Playhouse, Nora Bayes, New Amsterdam, Orpheum, Playhouse, Plymouth, Provincetown, Punch and Judy, Republic, Ritz, Royale, Savoy, Sam S. Shubert, Selwyn, Stuyvesant, Theatre Guild, Theatre Masque, Theatre Republic, Times Square, Vanderbilt, Waldorf, Wallack's, West End, Windsor, and Winter Garden Theatres, as well as the Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Lyceum, Century Opera Company, Metropolitan Opera House, and the Zuro Grand Opera Company.
  2. Noted performers include Maude Adams, Blanche Bates, Dick Bernard, Sam Bernard, Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Barrymore, Holbrook Blinn, Mary Boland, Irene Bordoni, Donald Brian, Ferruccio Busoni, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Leo Carrillo, Vernon and Irene Castle, Joseph Cawthorne, Ina Claire, William Collier, Benoît-Constant Coquelin, Jane Cowl, William Crane, Henrietta Crosman, Walter Damrosch, Frank Daniels, Elsie De Wolfe, Julia Dean, Leo Ditrichstein, Dorothy Donnelly, Lawarance D'Orsay, John Drew, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, Arthur Dunn, Eleonora Duse, Jeanne Eagels, Virginia Earl(e), Robert Edeson, Gertrude Elliott, Maxine Elliott, Leon Errol, William Faversham, Geraldine Farrar, Elsie Ferguson, Alice Fischer, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Grace George, William Gillette, Charles Gilpin, Etienne Girardot, Lulu Glaser, Charles Grapewin, N. C. Goodwin, John Halliday, Walter Hampden, Charles Hawtrey, Edith Helena, Evelyn Herbert, Raymond Hitchcock, Walter Huston, Margaret Illington, Henry Irving, Joseph Jefferson, Bertha Kalich, Dennis King, Nelson Keys, Tessa Kosta, Wilton Lackaye, Harry Lauder, Anna Laughlin, Gertrude Lawrence, Eva Le Gallienne, Cecil Lean, Beatrice Lillie, Lydia Lopokova, George MacFarlane, Julia Marlowe, Louis Mann, Mary Mannering, the Marx Brothers, John Mason, Cyril Maude, the Metropolitan English Grand Opera Company, Henry Miller, Nazimova, Nance O'Neil, Anna Pavlova, Guy Bates Post, Ada Rehan, Eleanor Robson, Maria Roger-Miclos, George Rosener, Thomas Ross, Elsa Ruegger, Maurice Renaud, Annie Russell, Mary Ryan [Nash], Julia Sanderson, Joseph Schildkraut, Marcella Sembrich, Hassard Short, E. H. Sothern, John Philip Sousa, Emily Stevens, James Henry Stoddart, Fred A. Stone, Basil Sydney, Charles Swain, Laurette Taylor, Ellen Terry, Norman Trevor, Nathaniel Wagner, David Warfield, Weber & Fields, Ben Welch, E. S. Willard, and Francis Wilson.
  3. Programs are primarily for staged plays and musicals by such creators as George Abbott, J. M. Barrie, Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Rachel Crothers, Dorothy Donnelly, Philip Dunning, Clyde Fitch, Gilbert & Sullivan, Otto Harbach, Victor Herbert, Henrk Ibsen, Ferenc Molnar, Eugene O'Neill, Victorien Sardou, William Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Booth Tarkington, and Oscar Wilde, as well as many other prominent playwrights of that period. There are also programs for revues such as Americana, Andre Charlot's Revue, Grand Street Follies, the Passing Show, Hitchy Koo, the Ziegfeld Follies, some vaudeville shows, Tom Thumb's Wedding, and for the motion picture "The Eternal City." Operas represented incude Carmen, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, Faust, Hänsel und Gretel, La Bohème, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Pagliacci, and Rigoletto.
Subject
  1. Abbott, George, 1887-1995
  2. Adams, Maude, 1872-1953
  3. Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
  4. Barrymore, Ethel, 1879-1959
  5. Bates, Blanche, 1873-1941
  6. Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879-1979
  7. Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989
  8. Bernard, Dick
  9. Bernard, Sam, 1863-1927
  10. Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
  11. Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen
  12. Blinn, Holbrook, 1872-1928
  13. Boland, Mary, 1880-1965
  14. Bordoni, Irene
  15. Brian, Donald, 1877-1948
  16. Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924
  17. Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940
  18. Carrillo, Leo, 1880-1961
  19. Carter, Leslie, Mrs., 1862-1937
  20. Castle, Irene, 1893-1969
  21. Castle, Vernon, 1887-1918
  22. Cawthorn, Joseph, 1868-1949
  23. Claire, Ina, 1893-1985
  24. Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942
  25. Collier, William, 1866-1944
  26. Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909
  27. Cowl, Jane, 1884-1950
  28. Crane, William H., 1845-1928
  29. Crosman, Henrietta, 1861-1944
  30. Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958
  31. Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950
  32. Daniels, Frank, 1860-1935
  33. De Wolfe, Elsie, 1865-1950
  34. Dean, Julia, approximately 1878-1952
  35. Ditrichstein, Leo, 1865-1928
  36. Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848. Lucia di Lammermoor
  37. Donnelly, Dorothy, 1880-1928
  38. D'Orsay, Lawrance, 1860-1931
  39. Drew, John, 1853-1927
  40. Drew, Sidney, 1864-1919
  41. Drew, Sidney, Mrs., 1890-1925
  42. Dunn, Arthur
  43. Dunning, Philip, 1890-1968
  44. Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924
  45. Eagels, Jeanne, 1890-1929
  46. Earle, Virginia, 1875-1937
  47. Edeson, Robert, 1868-1931
  48. Elliott, Gertrude, 1874-1950
  49. Elliott, Maxine, 1868-1940
  50. Errol, Leon, 1881-1951
  51. Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967
  52. Faversham, William, 1868-1940
  53. Ferguson, Elsie
  54. Fields, Lew, 1867-1941
  55. Fischer, Alice, 1869-1947
  56. Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 1865-1932
  57. Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909
  58. Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, Sir, 1853-1937
  59. Frederick, Pauline, 1885-1938
  60. Gabrilowitsch, Ossip, 1878-1936
  61. George, Grace, 1879-1961
  62. Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911
  63. Gillette, William, 1853-1937
  64. Gilpin, Charles S. (Charles Sidney), 1878-1930
  65. Girardot, Etienne, 1856-1939
  66. Glaser, Lulu, 1874-1958
  67. Goodwin, Nat. C. (Nathaniel Carll), 1857-1919
  68. Grapewin, Charles, 1869-1956
  69. Halliday, John, 1880-1947
  70. Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955
  71. Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963
  72. Hawtrey, Charles, 1858-1923
  73. Helena, Edith, 1876-1956
  74. Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust
  75. Herbert, Evelyn
  76. Heggie, O. P. (Otto Peters), 1876-1936
  77. Hitchcock, Raymond, 1865-1929
  78. Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921. Hänsel und Gretel
  79. Huston, Walter, 1884-1950
  80. Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
  81. Illington, Margaret, 1879-1934
  82. Irving, H. B. (Henry Brodribb), 1870-1919
  83. Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905
  84. Kalich, Bertha, 1874-1939
  85. Keys, Nelson Waite, 1886-1939
  86. King, Dennis, 1897-1971
  87. Kosta, Tessa, 1893-1981
  88. Lackaye, Wilton
  89. Lauder, Harry, Sir, 1870-1950
  90. Laughlin, Anna, 1885-1937
  91. Lawrence, Gertrude
  92. Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991
  93. Lean, Cecil, 1878-1935
  94. Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919. Pagliacci
  95. Lillie, Beatrice, 1894-1989
  96. Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981
  97. MacFarlane, George, -1932
  98. Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950
  99. Mann, Louis, 1865-1931
  100. Maude, Cyril, 1862-1951
  101. Mannering, Mary, 1876-1953
  102. Mantell, Robert B. (Robert Bruce), 1854-1928
  103. Mason, John, 1858-1919
  104. Miller, Henry, 1860-1926
  105. Molnár, Ferenc, 1878-1952
  106. Montgomery, David Craig, 1870-1917
  107. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni
  108. Nash, Mary, 1884-1976
  109. Nazimova, 1879-1945
  110. O'Neil, Nance, 1874-1965
  111. O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
  112. Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931
  113. Post, Guy Bates, 1875-1968
  114. Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Bohème
  115. Rehan, Ada, 1857-1916
  116. Roger-Miclos, Maria, 1860-1950
  117. Ross, Thomas
  118. Ruegger, Elsa
  119. Renaud, Maurice, 1861-1933
  120. Rosener, George, 1879-1945
  121. Russell, Annie, 1864-1936
  122. Sanderson, Julia, 1887-1975
  123. Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908
  124. Sembrich, Marcella, 1858-1935
  125. Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964
  126. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  127. Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
  128. Short, Hassard, -1956
  129. Sothern, E. H. (Edward Hugh), 1859-1933
  130. Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932
  131. Stevens, Emily, 1882-1928
  132. Stoddart, James Henry, 1827-1907
  133. Stone, Fred, 1873-1959
  134. Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
  135. Swain, Charles
  136. Sydney, Basil, 1894-1968
  137. Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
  138. Taylor, Laurette, 1884-1946
  139. Trevor, Norman, 1877-1929
  140. Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Rigoletto
  141. Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Traviata
  142. Wagner, Nathaniel
  143. Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre
  144. Warfield, David, 1866-1951
  145. Weber, Joe, 1867-1942
  146. Welch, Ben
  147. Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
  148. Willard, E. S. (Edward Smith), 1853-1915
  149. Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935
  150. Marx Brothers
  151. Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
  152. Metropolitan English Grand Opera Company
  153. Provincetown Playhouse (Organization : New York, N.Y.)
  154. Theatre Guild
  155. Weber & Fields (Comedy team)
  156. Grand Street follies
  157. Hitchy Koo, 1918
  158. Passing show of 1914
  159. Ziegfeld follies
  160. Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York
  161. Theater -- New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form
  1. Programs.
  2. Scrapbooks.
Call number
  1. MWEZ+ n.c. 30761
Source (note)
  1. Henry E. Lowenstein
Title
  1. New York City theatre and opera programs, 1899-1927.
Source
  1. Gift: Henry E. Lowenstein, 2017.
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