Found 2 collections related to Bickerton,%20Joseph%20P.,%201878-1936

Joseph P. Bickerton, Jr. (1878-1936), an attorney in New York City who specialized in theatrical cases, served as an arbiter of disputes between members of the Dramatists Guild of America and producers. He also helped to produce Broadway shows. Collection consists of correspondence, theater reviews, publicity articles, and financial papers of Bickerton. Correspondence relates to real estate matters in Massachusetts and Long Island, New York. Theatre materials include notices of production and publicity articles. Also, canceled stock shares. less

The item is a printed power of attorney form issued by The Dramatists' Guild of The Authors' League of America, Inc., signed by Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright Langston Hughes and Martin Jones for Marjones Productions, Inc., on September 2, 1935. Martin Jones (Martin B. Jones, 1902-1983) was a theatrical producer. The document appoints Joseph P. Bickerton Jr., Arbiter, as attorney-in-fact to carry out the terms of the Minimum Basic Agreement between The Dramatists' Guild, and producing managers Langston Hughes (Author) and Marjones Productions, Inc. (Manager), for the negotiation of motion picture rights. The play's title is left blank, but extant documents signed by the parties that day identify Langston Hughes's play Mulatto, which opened on Broadway in 1935 less