Salsbury, Nathan, 1846-1902
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 1961-005
.21 linear feet (1 box)
Nathan "Nate" Salsbury (1846-1902) was producer and manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, a highly successful show business enterprise that toured the United States, Europe, and elsewhere from the 1880s well into the 20th century, and featured...
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Nathan "Nate" Salsbury (1846-1902) was producer and manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, a highly successful show business enterprise that toured the United States, Europe, and elsewhere from the 1880s well into the 20th century, and featured William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Born in Illinois in 1846, Nathan Salsbury entered the U. S. Army while still in his teens, first as a drummer boy and eventually as a soldier with the 89th Illinois Regiment of Infantry, fighting in Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. After the war, he became an actor in various stock companies, appeared for a time with his own troupe, Salsbury's Troubadours, then retired from performing in 1887. Meanwhile, in 1883, Salsbury had been a key figure in the launch of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, an outdoor extravaganza that dramatized frontier life, built around the personality of onetime soldier, scout and hunter William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917). The show, which also starred sharpshooter Annie Oakley and, for one season, Chief Sitting Bull, was a worldwide success for many years, outlasting its producer and manager Nate Salsbury, who died on Christmas Eve of 1902, at the age of 56. His daughter Rebecca Salsbury James (1891-1968) was an artist who lived for most of her life in Taos, New Mexico. Consists of a typescript of Nate Salsbury's reminiscences, much of which concerns his Civil War experiences, his life as a touring actor, and, briefly, his years with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In addition to Salsbury's memoir, there are four folders of correspondence, mostly written to Rebecca Salsbury, although there is one telegram to Cody and Salsbury from actor Henry Irving. There is one letter dated 1917 to Rebecca's brother Milton Salsbury from actor James O'Neill, and a number of condolence letters to Rebecca upon Milton's death in August 1927, including one from James' son, playwright Eugene O'Neill. There is also a two-page account, written in 1943 by Wild West Show factotum Harry Tarleton, of a musical production Nate Salsbury mounted around 1895 called Black America, which featured an all African-American cast, and toured several cities in the U.S. before it disbanded.
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Tisdale, Phebe Alden
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2998
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Contains miscellaneous writings and correspondence between Tisdale and the Manuscripts Division of the New York Public Library. Also includes photocopies of original manuscripts for "All seasons around the son: a telescopic view of the first...
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Contains miscellaneous writings and correspondence between Tisdale and the Manuscripts Division of the New York Public Library. Also includes photocopies of original manuscripts for "All seasons around the son: a telescopic view of the first centuries," and "Allow for the skeleton (dry though it may be) - and the rest revives: a 2000-year survey.".
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Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple, 1856-1929
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1560
.21 linear feet (1 volume)
Annotated typescript of "Practical Politics: A Study of Government as It Is, With some Consideration of What It Ought to Be" by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Ph. D., Professor of Political and Social Institutions, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1892
Juliusburger, Otto, 1867-1952
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1609
.21 linear feet (1 box)
Otto Juliusburger was born in Breslau, Germany in 1867 and became a psychiatrist in Berlin. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1941, living there until his death in 1952. This collection contains typescripts of six articles written by...
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Otto Juliusburger was born in Breslau, Germany in 1867 and became a psychiatrist in Berlin. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1941, living there until his death in 1952. This collection contains typescripts of six articles written by Juliusburger between 1937 and 1941 on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, including two about Schopenhauer's relation to the field
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Bremser, Bonnie, 1939-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 382
.17 linear feet (1 volume)
Typescript (mostly carbon), dated 1963-1964, of "Troia, or Memoirs of a Curious Courtesan" by Bonnie Bremser. This work was published as "Troia: Mexican Memoirs" in 1969
Prey, Deirdre Hurst du, 1906-
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2002-012
1.5 linear feet; 3 boxes
Michael Chekhov was an actor, director, author, and teacher, whose theories on acting and directing continue to be influential. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 29, 1891, Michael Chekhov was the nephew of author and playwright Anton...
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Michael Chekhov was an actor, director, author, and teacher, whose theories on acting and directing continue to be influential. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 29, 1891, Michael Chekhov was the nephew of author and playwright Anton Chekhov. He showed early promise as an actor, and in 1912 he was invited by Constantin Stanislavsky to join the Moscow Art Theatre. After sixteen years with the group, during which he worked as both an actor and director, Chekhov left Russia and worked in Germany, France, Latvia, and Lithuania. In 1935 at the invitation of actress Beatrice Straight, Chekhov established the Chekhov Theatre Studio at Dartington Hall in Devonshire, England, assisted by Deirdre Hurst du Prey, an acting student who helped him learn English. In 1939 the war forced the studio to move overseas to Ridgefield, Connecticut. The group eventually disbanded in 1942, when many of its actors were drafted into the armed forces. Chekhov moved to California and continued to teach, lecture, and act in motion pictures such as Alfred Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND (1945), ABIE'S IRISH ROSE (1946), and RHAPSODY (1954). He wrote a book TO THE ACTOR: ON THE TECHNIQUE OF ACTING, later revised. Michael Chekhov died on Sep. 30, 1955, in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 64. In 1962 MICHAEL CHEKHOV'S TO THE DIRECTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT was published, based on lecture notes. Deirdre Hurst du Prey edited two additional books based on his ideas. Consists of thirty-two folders of typescript, compiled by Deirdre Hurst du Prey from notes taken between 1936 and 1942, during the active years of the Chekhov Theatre Studio in Devonshire, England, and in Ridgefield, Connecticut. According to Deirdre Hurst du Prey, her record of Michael Chekhov's discussions of acting technique is verbatim and unabridged, and reflects the evolution of his ideas in light of the Studio's theater experiments and productions. A few emendations have been made by hand. Mrs. du Prey's notes served as the basis for Michael Chekhov's book TO THE ACTOR which he completed in 1942. This book was first published in the 1950s in a heavily edited edition, then in a more comprehensive edition in 1991. The source material was copyrighted in 1977. In the Appendices are several related items, including a photocopy of a 1948 letter of reference written by Michael Chekhov on behalf of Deirdre Hurst du Prey, a copy of a 1969 letter to Deirdre Hurst du Prey from Michael Chekhov's widow Xenia, two typescript memoirs of Michael Chekhov, each five pages, written in 1976 by Beatrice Straight and Deirdre Hurst du Prey, a 1926 essay by Chekhov entitled "The Path of the Actor" translated from the original Russian into English in 1936, the transcript of an interview with Deirdre Hurst du Prey conducted in spring 1999 when she was 93 years old, and other documents pertaining to Michael Chekhov and his studio classes.
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Lothar, Minda
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2001-032
.21 linear feet. (1 box)
Minda Lothar, author of RAGE OF JOY: THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT (1968), a novel based on the life of actress Sarah Bernhardt, also wrote a paper analyzing what she termed the Avante-garde Woman personality type, primarily drawing upon women...
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Minda Lothar, author of RAGE OF JOY: THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT (1968), a novel based on the life of actress Sarah Bernhardt, also wrote a paper analyzing what she termed the Avante-garde Woman personality type, primarily drawing upon women associated with the theater as her models for discussion. The typescript and notes for Minda Lothar's The Avante-garde Woman consist of 12 folders, each containing one section of the work. Textual evidence suggests that Lothar wrote this paper in 1957, but it appears never to have been published. The first chapter features analysis of the Avant-garde type as represented by fictional women, such as Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Henrik Ibsen's Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler, Arthur Wing Pinero's Paula Tanqueray, and Tennessee Williams' Blanche Du Bois. In the second chapter, Lothar discusses real life actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, Gertrude Lawrence, and Tallulah Bankhead, as well as the French novelist George Sand. In the third and final chapter, Lothar examines the different ways these women dealt with the challenges each faced in their lives. Also included is an outline for the paper.
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White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3313
.21 linear feet (1 volume)
Typescript carbon copy of They were expendable by William Lindsay White, showing author's corrections and censored deletions.
Cass, Eleanor Baldwin
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 488
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Typescript of The Book of Fencing by Eleanor Baldwin Cass. The book was published in 1930 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
Gaither, Frances, 1889-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4394
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Typescripts and correspondence relating to both published and unpublished works of American author Frances Ormond Gaither and her husband, journalist Rice Gaither. Material includes correspondence and literary notes relating to The Red Cock Crows...
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Typescripts and correspondence relating to both published and unpublished works of American author Frances Ormond Gaither and her husband, journalist Rice Gaither. Material includes correspondence and literary notes relating to The Red Cock Crows and Double Muscadine; a typescript and collateral correspondence for the unpublished short story "Kate Phillips and the Spanish Stranger;" a typescript and collateral correspondence for the unpublished short story "Venus and the Bishop;" working notes for an unnamed, incomplete novel; and a typescript for an unpublished short story by Rice Gaither titled "The River Swamp."
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Gale, Zona, 1874-1938
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4395
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Correspondence between American author and playwright Zona Gale and William G. Chapman of the International Press Bureau concerning second serial rights to her short stories, with additional correspondence with Paul Palmer, and an untitled,...
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Correspondence between American author and playwright Zona Gale and William G. Chapman of the International Press Bureau concerning second serial rights to her short stories, with additional correspondence with Paul Palmer, and an untitled, undated typescript with emendations
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Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4197
.2 linear feet (1 oversized folder, 1 folder)
Dr. Victor Hugo Paltsits (1867-1952) was an archivist, librarian, and New York State Historian who served as Keeper of Manuscripts for the New York Public Library from 1914 to 1941. Collection consists of correspondence of both a professional and...
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Dr. Victor Hugo Paltsits (1867-1952) was an archivist, librarian, and New York State Historian who served as Keeper of Manuscripts for the New York Public Library from 1914 to 1941. Collection consists of correspondence of both a professional and personal nature; greeting cards to and from Paltsits; a certificate from the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition; drafts of an address on public records; drafts of writings; clippings and biographical material; a typescript copy of his address, "The Beginnings of Presbyterianism in Albany," and related ephemera. The professional correspondence largely relates to his work as New York State historian, 1909 to 1911.
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James, Henry, 1879-1947
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4465
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Partial typescript draft and notes of a history of foundations, focusing on their growth and development in France, by American author and biographer Henry James. In English and French
Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3757
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Winthrop Ames, an American theatrical producer and theater manager, wrote this short story, "Mark XXM," under the pseudonym Martin P. Foley. Typescript, with manuscript corrections
Wotherspoon, G. (George)
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2002-024
(1 portfolio)
Consists of an undated 52-page typescript by George Wotherspoon, which appears to have been written in the late 1940s. Entitled "A Lady of Many Amours," Wotherspoon's manuscript is focused primarily on actress Lillie Langtry and her extramarital...
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Consists of an undated 52-page typescript by George Wotherspoon, which appears to have been written in the late 1940s. Entitled "A Lady of Many Amours," Wotherspoon's manuscript is focused primarily on actress Lillie Langtry and her extramarital relationship with a wealthy American sportsman named Frederick Gebhard. Wotherspoon also writes of Langtry's stage career, her reputed relationship with Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, and about the societal mores of the era. Wotherspoon also writes of Langtry's daughter Jeanne. The typescript is labelled "Part 7," which suggests that this text was part of a larger work which does not survive. Included is a pamphlet of biographical information about Lillie Langtry, written by H. T. Porter and issued by the Société Jersiaise in 1973. Also included are three photographs of Lillie Langtry, one of her father, and one of her grave.
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Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3719
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Typescript entitled "Plan Your Next Garage to Hold a Autogyre," by Amelia Earhart. Thirteen pages with editorial corrections, bound with published version
Thomas, Dorothy, 1898-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4644
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
American author Dorothy Thomas (1898-1990), was a prolific short-story writer whose work appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New Yorker, Harper's and The Saturday Evening Post. The collection consists of typescripts of three short...
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American author Dorothy Thomas (1898-1990), was a prolific short-story writer whose work appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New Yorker, Harper's and The Saturday Evening Post. The collection consists of typescripts of three short stories: "Fire Guard," 27 pp., "Happiness Insurance," 15 pp., and "The Parting," 20 pp., the first two with a few manuscript emendations. Also present is a volume containing Thomas' whimsical line drawings of people in scenes imagined or encountered, including some "modern writers." These are sketched in ink in a dummy copy of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wine from These Grapes."
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Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3137
.25 linear feet (1 box)
This collection is comprised of unpublished typescripts of Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer's "History of the City of New York." These include drafts of chapters 1-3, and 24-28, and outlines for projected chapters 32-45
Light, James
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2001-050
(1 portfolio), 28 cm; (1 portfolio), 28 cm
Director James Light (1894-1964) veteran of the Provincetown Players and its offshoot, the Experimental Theatre Company, was best known for his work with Eugene O'Neill, staging the original productions of THE EMPEROR JONES, THE GREAT GOD BROWN,...
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Director James Light (1894-1964) veteran of the Provincetown Players and its offshoot, the Experimental Theatre Company, was best known for his work with Eugene O'Neill, staging the original productions of THE EMPEROR JONES, THE GREAT GOD BROWN, and others. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Light came to New York in 1917, after graduating from Ohio State University, intending to pursue additional studies at Columbia. Through a chance meeting with George Cram Cook, artistic director of the Provincetown Players, Light was cast in a small role in Susan Glaspell's play CLOSE THE BOOK. Soon he left acting behind, and by 1920 was an associate director. He staged the premiere production of Eugene O'Neill's THE EMPEROR JONES that year, and later presented O'Neill's ALL GOD's CHILLUN GOT WINGS and THE GREAT GOD BROWN. James Light also directed E. E. Cummings' HIM, Virgil Geddes' THE EARTH BETWEEN, and Paul Green's IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. He later served as Dean of the Drama Faculty at The New School for Social Research in New York and taught at Yale University. James Light died in New York City on Feb. 11, 1964, at the age of 69. The two James Light typescripts are titled THE PARADE OF MASKS and A NEW MARIONETTE THEATRE. In his 11 page essay THE PARADE OF MASKS, which is undated, Light writes about the the use of masks in various Provincetown Players productions of Eugene O'Neill's plays. A NEW MARIONETTE THEATRE, also undated, is unfinished, ending mid-sentence on Page 7.
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Weber, Ben, 1916-1979
Music Division | JPB 83-317
4 boxes of ms. music, 53 x 43 x 8 cm; 4 boxes of ms. music, 53 x 43 x 8 cm
Breen, Charles, b. 1908
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2001-063
.4 linear feet (1 volume + 1 portfolio)
The Breen family was one of the popular performing families of American show business, playing the stages of America, Australia, and elsewhere during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Patriarch Thomas D. Breen, born of Irish...
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The Breen family was one of the popular performing families of American show business, playing the stages of America, Australia, and elsewhere during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Patriarch Thomas D. Breen, born of Irish immigrants in Massachusetts in 1868, fled his hometown as a teenager with a travelling medicine show. After a brief spell as a blackface minstrel, Breen honed his juggling skills and began touring the vaudeville circuits of the United States and the music halls of Europe. Breen and his first wife had four children, and, after her death, he remarried and had five more, one of whom died in infancy. Seven of the surviving Breen children joined their father in his stage act, either juggling, dancing, doing acrobatics, playing a musical instrument, or some combination of these skills. After the family act broke up around 1921, the younger Breens formed a number of specialty acts, either solo or with partners from outside the family, and continued performing in vaudeville, musical comedy, nightclubs, movies, and in the circus. Consists of a bound typescript written by Charles Breen (b. 1908), the youngest and only non-performing member of the Breen Family, accompanied by a portfolio of photographs of the various Breens. The typescript was apparently written during the late 1980s/early 1990s, completed in 1993, then privately bound under the title MEMOIRS AND STUFF. The text is divided into two sections, the first of which, entitled "The Show Business Breens," gives a general history of the Breens' professional careers, as a group and as solo performers. The first section is 75 pages and ends with a Breen family career chronology. In Book 2, "The Maverick," Charles Breen explains why he chose not to join the family act, and details his own career, first as a jazz musician, later as an electrical engineer. This section consists of 164 pages plus one errata slip. The portfolio of photographs includes pictures of all the performing Breens, and also includes a photo inscribed to the Breens by silent film star Ramon Novarro.
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Cox, Bertha
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 684
.08 linear feet (1 volume)
These paper of Bertha Cox include "My Journey thro' the Interior," her own manuscript account of adventures in 1927-1928, as a missionary to the Indians in the Amazon region of Peru and along the Urubamba River. The papers also include a...
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These paper of Bertha Cox include "My Journey thro' the Interior," her own manuscript account of adventures in 1927-1928, as a missionary to the Indians in the Amazon region of Peru and along the Urubamba River. The papers also include a typescript narrative "Bertha Cox, Missionary," by Arthur Gordon based on Cox's original manuscript, as well as two letters to Gordon from Cox and her daughter
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Miller, Buzz
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 125
7 v, 29 cm; 7 v, 29 cm
Webb, John, 1768-1840
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3251
1 v
John Webb (1768-1840) was a weaver and poet. Typescript copy of his recollections of his ancestry back to 1674; letters to his family and friends; accounts of his travels in England; and comments on contemporary English life, particularly in...
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John Webb (1768-1840) was a weaver and poet. Typescript copy of his recollections of his ancestry back to 1674; letters to his family and friends; accounts of his travels in England; and comments on contemporary English life, particularly in London after 1832, where he set up his own weaving business.
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Millholland, Charles Bruce
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1993
1.09 linear feet (3 boxes)
Charles Bruce Millholland was an American playwright and author best known for his play The Napoleon of Broadway. His papers include typescripts of novels and other writings; diaries; record books; and other personal papers
Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3350
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Francis Wilson was an American actor and author. The Francis Wilson papers include notes, drafts, typescripts, page proofs, and galleys of two of Wilson's books ("Recollections of a Player" and "The Eugene Field I Knew"), as well as a few letters...
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Francis Wilson was an American actor and author. The Francis Wilson papers include notes, drafts, typescripts, page proofs, and galleys of two of Wilson's books ("Recollections of a Player" and "The Eugene Field I Knew"), as well as a few letters and other items relating to Eugene Field
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Hertz, Emanuel, 1870-1940
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1388
1.5 linear feet (2 boxes)
The Emanuel Hertz manuscripts on Abraham Lincoln include a typescript of his book, Abraham Lincoln, A New Portrait (Horace Liveright: New York, 1931), as well as photostat copies of original Lincoln letters used in preparation of the book....
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The Emanuel Hertz manuscripts on Abraham Lincoln include a typescript of his book, Abraham Lincoln, A New Portrait (Horace Liveright: New York, 1931), as well as photostat copies of original Lincoln letters used in preparation of the book. Chapters 28, 30-33, 35-37, and 39-42 of vol. 1 are missing The manuscripts also include a bound volume entitled "Essays on Lincoln." This contains a typewritten copy of "Herndon, Lincoln's Boswell. The vast Herndon-Weik Collection of original Lincoln material, indispensible for a definitive life of the Emancipator" (1934) with manuscript emendations, as well as a typescript of "Lincoln, the Harmonizer" (February 1933) and a typescript of "The Passing of Abraham Lincoln," an address delivered by Hertz at the Manhattan-Washington Lodge, 19, B'nai B'rith, April 13, 1933
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Kellersberger, Getulius, 1821-1900
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4118
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Malvern, Gladys
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2003-029
(1 portfolio)
Gladys Malvern was an author who wrote articles and several books about the theater, including biographies of performers Joseph Jefferson, Katharine Cornell, and Harry Lauder, as well as dancer Anna Pavlova. The majority of the Gladys Malvern...
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Gladys Malvern was an author who wrote articles and several books about the theater, including biographies of performers Joseph Jefferson, Katharine Cornell, and Harry Lauder, as well as dancer Anna Pavlova. The majority of the Gladys Malvern papers consists of an undated and untitled 87-page typescript on the history of world theater, from the Greeks and the Elizabethans to the modern era. The typescript, which is heavily emended, appears not to have been published. Internal evidence suggests that it was written in 1945. Also in the collection is a 12-page typescript of an article about actress Helen Hayes, written during the spring of 1944 and submitted to AMERICAN GIRL magazine. Malvern corresponded with Hayes' secretary prior to writing the piece, and that correspondence is included. Also present are four 2-page pieces apparently written for a radio series which featured celebrated New York restauranteur George Rector, in which Rector reminisces about famous theater people he has known such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eddie Foy. It is unclear whether the pieces were ever broadcast. Three letters written to Malvern during 1957 are also included, and concern her conversion to the Christian Science faith.
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Wellman, Francis L. (Francis Lewis), 1854-1942
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3281
.21 linear feet (1 volume)
Typescript carbon copy of Luck and Opportunity by Francis Lewis Wellman with corrections by the author.