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1. 1 volume

Summary

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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Research call number

1. MWEZ+ n.c. 30761