- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>".5 linear feet (1 box)"}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1998-046", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"21537", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Paul Lovett papers"}
- 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"=>"Paul Lovett was a publisher of souvenir programs. During World War II worked in the Special Services Branch entertaining the troops. His papers consist of materials dealing with his work during World War II."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Paul Lovett Papers, *T-Mss 1998-046, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Lovett, Paul, 1909-1959", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Paul Lovett, publisher of souvenir theatrical programs in New York City beginning in 1935, served with the Special Services branch of the U.S. Army during World War II. He was Entertainment Specialist in the Air Transport Command and directed the Airborne Theatre in Alaska. While in the Army he married Anne Gloria Dunetz in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on July 4, 1944. Lovett also helped organize the Theatre of the Dance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Clients for his program business, Dunetz & Lovett (which he ran with his brother-in-law) included Katharine Cornell, Helen Hayes, John Gielgud and Martha Graham. Lovett died of a stroke on June 23, 1959, aged 49.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection was donated to the Billy Rose Theatre Division by Phyllis Dunetz, the sister-in-law of Paul Lovett, in 1998 and 1999.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection of correspondence, scripts and other writings predominately reflects Lovett's theatrical work while in the Special Services Branch of the U.S. Army during <span class=\"subject\">World War II</span>. It also contains a few personal documents and photographs.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Paul Lovett papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21537#c309898'>Series I: Personal Papers and Ephemera</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1944-1959</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 folder</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of <span class=\"genreform\">marriage certificates</span> (both religious and secular), army papers, marriage and obituary clippings, and a passenger list documenting a trip he and his wife took to Sweden in 1957.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21537#c309900'>Series II: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1944-1967</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>6 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The correspondence consists of letters from Army personnel to or about Paul Lovett, as well as letters that are not war related. A small file of business correspondence, 1954-1955, of the Lovetts concerns the preparation of a guidebook and souvenir program for the American tour of the <span class=\"corpname\">Concertgebouw Orchestra</span> of Amsterdam. There are two personal letters to the Lovetts from the Irish playwright <span class=\"persname\">Padraic Colum</span>, two letters from <span class=\"persname\">Katharine Cornell</span>, a few letters from Lovett to his wife, Anne, and a few letters she received after his death.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21537#c309907'>Series III: Scripts</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1943 and undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>8 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Scripts by Lovett are mostly from the period of World War II. Includes a script from his Army radio show, <span class=\"title\">Let's Linger</span>; a Christmas program for soldiers; a memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and a script set in a displaced persons camp after the war. A couple of undated scripts have no apparent connection to the war. In one, <span class=\"title\">Anfisa</span> by Leonid Andreyev, Lovett served as a translator.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21537#c309916'>Series IV: Other Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1943-1944; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>6 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Other writings include articles by Lovett in Army newspapers, a letter to the editor on the soldier's right to vote, poems he wrote, and a few stories he received from Florence M. Berkson.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21537#c309923'>Series V: Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1943 and undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 folder</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Photographs are mostly personal snapshots of Lovett in uniform and/or with his wife Anne. Includes one photograph of the <span class=\"corpname\">Alaskan Division Airborne Theatre</span>.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is organized in five series: <ul> <li>Series I: Personal papers</li> <li>Series II: Correspondence</li> <li>Series III: Scripts</li> <li>Series IV: Other writings</li> <li>Series V: Photographs</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- 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"=>"1943-1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1943/1967"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1943
- date_inclusive_end
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1967
- acqinfo
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{"accession_number"=>"THE Mss 1998-046"}
{"date"=>"12/31/1998", "materials"=>"papers", "source"=>"Phyllis Dunetz, sister-in-law", "method"=>"gift", "extent"=>".5 o", "value"=>"papers: gift, Phyllis Dunetz, sister-in-law, 12/31/1998"}
- keydate
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1943
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Elisabeth Elkind.</p>"}
- date_start
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1943
- date_end
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1967