- Call number
- *T-Vim 2012-022
- Physical description
- 4 boxes (ca. 190 drawings)
- Preferred Citation
- Jones and Green (A. L. Jones and Morris Green) collection, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Original costume and set designs, mostly color, and mostly for unidentified shows produced by A.L. Jones and Morris Green. The costume designs are by Henriette Dallett, Earle Payne Franke and Mark Mooring, some possibly for the musical revue, Greenwich Village follies, 1924 or 1925. Several of Franke's costume designs are possibly for Green's production of the musical No other girl, Morosco Theatre, 1924. There are also several set designs signed by Arthur T. Thygeson for Mother and son, undated, as well as 2 pencil sketches for either a poster or ad for the musical Rain or shine (book by James Gleason and Maurice Marks; music by Owen Murphy and Milton Ager; lyrics by Jack Yellen), George M. Cohan's Theatre, 1928.
Biographical/historical information
Born in Kansas, ca. 1880, theatrical producer and theater ticket broker, A. L. (Alexander L.) Jones attended Columbia University. Among his productions are Rain or shine, 1928; with Morris Green (ca. 1890-1963), Jones produced editions of the Greenwich Village follies, 1919, 1924, 1925, and the two were also associated with several of Eugene O'Neill's plays in the 1920s. President of the Broadway Theatre Ticket Corporation at the time of his death, Jones died in Phoenix, Arizona in 1943, at the age of 63. Morris Green worked as an advance and booking agent for vaudeville acts and bands in addition to his producing career. At the time of his death, he was an executive of Sound Studios in New York City, where he died in May 1963, at the age of 73.
Morris Green worked as an advance and booking agent for vaudeville acts and bands in addition to his producing career. At the time of his death, he was an executive of Sound Studios in New York City, where he died in May 1963, at the age of 73.
Administrative information
Related Material
Related materials may be found under Greenwich Village follies in The Billy Rose Theatre Division
Using the collection
Location
Billy Rose Theatre DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor