- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>".75 linear feet (2 boxes)"}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1944-003", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"21479", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"New Theatre League records"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division."}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The New Theatre League, a national non-profit federation of little theaters and amateur theatrical groups, was organized in 1935 to stimulate the writing and production of progressive social drama. The collection contains administrative files of the Play Department."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>New Theatre League Records, *T-Mss 1944-033, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"New Theatre League", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"corpname\">New Theatre League</span>, a national non-profit federation of little theaters and amateur theatrical groups, was organized in 1935 to stimulate the writing and production of progressive social drama. It was both a publisher and a producer of plays promoting the aims of organized labor and peace and against racial discrimination and oppression. Its annual play contests led to the discovery and sponsorship of Clifford Odets who won for <span class=\"title\">Waiting for Lefty</span> in 1935, Irwin Shaw, 1936 winner, with <span class=\"title\">Bury the Dead</span>, Marc Blitzstein who won in 1937 with <span class=\"title\">The Cradle Will Rock</span> and Ben Bengal, 1938 winner, with <span class=\"title\">Plant in the Sun</span>. Through its schools across the United States, the League sought to train actors, directors, technicians, playwrights, teachers and theater organizers to build a people's theater.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>This small collection may have found its way to the Billy Rose Theatre Division in a transfer from the Manuscripts Division of the New York Public Library because the latter retains a much larger portion of the records of the New Theatre League. Their material was a gift of the Jefferson School Library in 1944.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains administrative files of the Play Dept.: primarily correspondence, financial papers concerning royalty payments and publicity for its play contests; and manuscripts: scripts, songs and reports. There is a small amount of printed material, mostly from related organizations. The collection reflects the concerns and the workings of the New Theatre League.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The New Theatre League records are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21479#c306001'>Series I: Administrative Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>ca. 1935-1937</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>11 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> This series consists of correspondence reflecting the workings of the Play Dept. including letters on its publication plans, invoices with accompanying correspondence concerning royalty payments, and publicity and correspondence concerning the play contests it sponsored. It also contains a small amount of minutes of meetings, general press releases and publicity, sample contracts and forms, lists of plays in their catalog, a notebook of titles borrowed, address lists of members and organizations, and miscellaneous notes.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21479#c306013'>Series II: Manuscripts</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>ca. 1932-1942</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>26 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is predominately scripts and songs submitted to the New Theatre League, but also contains a few reports pertaining to the organization.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21479#c306042'>Series III: Printed Materials (mostly from related organizations)</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>ca. 1933-1942</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains programs, publicity and pamphlets from other political organizations including the <span class=\"corpname\">American Peace Mobilization</span>, the <span class=\"corpname\">National Federation for Constitutional Liberties</span>, the <span class=\"corpname\">International Workers Order</span> and the <span class=\"corpname\">National Negro Congress</span>. Of interest is a reprint of a speech given by <span class=\"persname\">Theodore Ward</span> at the opening of the <span class=\"corpname\">Negro Playwrights' Theatre</span> in Harlem in 1940. The series also contains a few miscellaneous clippings.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Series I: Administrative Files</li> <li>Series II: Manuscripts <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Reports</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Scripts</li> <li>Sub-series 3 - Songs</li></ul></li> <li>Series III: Printed Materials, mostly from related organizations</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>A larger collection of New Theatre League Records (20 linear feet in 38 boxes) is held by the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Photocopying prohibited.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1932-1942", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1932/1942"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1932
- date_inclusive_end
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1942
- acqinfo
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{"materials"=>"Records", "source"=>"Manuscripts Division", "method"=>"Transfer?", "extent"=>".75 o", "value"=>"Records: Transfer?, Manuscripts Division"}
- keydate
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1932
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Elisabeth Elkind.</p>"}
- date_start
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1932
- date_end
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1942