Performing Arts Materials on Microfilm: Papers

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W. A. Henderson was an aspiring journalist closely associated with the Irish literary revival. As Secretary of the National Literary Society of Dublin for more than 15 years, he was in contact with all the central figures, events and trends of the Irish theatre.
His collection of press cuttings, photographs and other literary documents contains much of interest and importance. "The Playboy and What He Did" records in minute detail the notorious riots at the Abbey Theatre's opening night of Synge's Playboy of the Western World. A diverse range of papers chronicling the Abbey's history in the early years of the century includes "1904-07: The Irish National Theatre Movement."

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This scrapbook was compiled by Houdini's good friend Quincy Kilby, a Brookline resident and Boston theater impresario. Materials in this large volume were collected over a twenty-year period and include personal letters, photographs, programs, newspapers clippings, and other unique memorabilia. Knowing that Kilby was amassing this collection, Houdini would send him items specifically for it.

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A devoted theater-goer, Holloway attended the opening night of every professional amateur production in Dublin for almost 50 years. He watched many of the major actors in rehearsal, and his critical responses give an illuminating inside view of the events and personalities of the Irish literary revival.
Yeats considered Holloway a good judge of acting, and his keen observations give insights into many leading figures--from W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, James Stephens and George Moor, to the stimulating new talents of Denis Johnston, Cyril Cusack and Michael MacLiammoir.
The 1916 Easter Rising and the political unrest of the time are vividly conveyed, and the riots that broke out on the first nights of Synge's Playboy of the Western World and O'Casey's Plough and the Stars are described.

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Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of all of Synge's published and unpublished works, and unpublished biography of Synge by his nephew Edward Stephens, Synge family documents, and programs, receipts, and photographs dating from 1890.

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''A vertical file organized under some 10,000 subject headings. Included are newspaper clippings, broadsides, programs, playbills, leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, book reviews, typescripts, menus and other types of ephemera.''
This collection is not currently available (March 2017)

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Merritt Crawford (1880–1945) was one of the film industry’s first historians. In the initial three decades of the 20th century, Crawford’s fascination with the development of film projection and sound-for-film technology brought him into close contact with practically every name of note in the history of early cinema.
Not only did Crawford collect and publish articles about the work of these pioneers and keep their original documents and court and patent records for his files, but he maintained lengthy correspondence with them as well.

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Covering the period from 1897 (the beginning of Griffith’s acting career in Louisville, Kentucky) to 1954 (when several of his intimates shared their memories of Griffith), the D. W. Griffith Papers contains over 50,000 pages of valuable documentation of Griffith’s life and work.

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Literary manuscripts and typescripts of poems and plays including unpublished poems, personal and lecture notes and drafts of works including The Picture of Dorian Gray.
First and rare editions of Wilde's work in English including The Ballad of Reading Gaol; De Profundis; and many others.
Autograph correspondence of Wilde and the Wilde family including his wife Constance, his mother Jane, and his sister-in-law Lilly.

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Series One: The Final State Reports, 1943
This unique material offers the complete texts of the state-by-state reports describing the methods of control, the problems and achievements of the WPA. Panoramic reports for each state detail special regional problems, the economic situation and the nature of unemployment.
Specific reports on each project included:
-Federal Project No.1 (Music, Art, Theater and the Writers Program)
-The Adult Education and Workers Service Programs
-The Recreation Library Service, Public Administration and Research Assistance Programs
-Clothing, Feeding, Health, Child Protection and Miscellaneous Programs
This key series presents, in their entirety, the general reports for each state.
Part One: Final Reports of the State Program. 6 reels
Part Two: Final State Reports for the Federal Music Program, the Federal Art Program, the Federal Crafts Program, the Museum and Visual Aids Program, the Federal Theater Program and the Federal Writers Program. 7 reels