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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2002-008", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1929-1986", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1929/1986"}
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1929
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1986
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1929
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1929
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1986
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{"value"=>"Victor Samrock professional files"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"8.9 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"16 boxes, 13 volumes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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{"id"=>"THE", "value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Victor Samrock (1907-1995) was an American theatrical business manager, active in New York theatre from the mid-1930s to the mid-1980s. From 1938 to 1960 he was the general manager of the Playwrights' Company. The Victor Samrock professional files contain business files pertaining to productions managed by Samrock, the records of the Playwrights' Company, and a small amount of personal correspondence."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Victor Samrock professional files, *T-Mss 2002-008. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Samrock, Victor", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Victor Samrock was born in 1907 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended City College, graduating in 1929. Samrock's fifty year career as a theatrical business manager included more than 150 plays and musicals including Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), Key Largo (1939), There Shall Be No Night (1940), Lost in the Stars (1949), Tea and Sympathy (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), The Pleasure of His Company (1958), The Gazebo (1958), Mary, Mary (1961), The Chinese Prime Minister (1964), Poor Richard (1964), Half a Sixpence (1965), The Homecoming (1967), Absurd Person Singular (1974), Golda (1978), Horowitz and Mrs. Washington (1980), and K2 (1983).</p> <p>Samrock was the General Manager of the Playwrights' Company from its inception in 1938 to its dissolution in 1960. The Playwrights' Company was founded by five prominent playwrights, Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, and Robert E. Sherwood, who wanted to have more artistic control over the productions of their plays. As the Playwrights Company grew, other plays Samrock produced or managed all 72 productions of the Playwrights' Company.</p> <p>Victor Samrock died on September 30, 1995 in New York, New York.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Victor Samrock professional files document the career of American theatrical manager Victor Samrock with Managerial Files and Playwrights' Company Records. Managerial files, arranged alphabetically by show title, contain contracts and agreements with actors, directors, authors, other creative team members, crew members, and theatres; clippings; and business correspondence relating to theatrical productions Samrock managed. The managerial files chronicle every aspect of financial production with budgets, lists of expenses, royalty statements, and investor reports. They occasionally include other production materials, such as programs and photographs from The Birthday Party; a stage manager's script for Cyrano; a stage manager's script and a program for The Homecoming; and photographs, a sound plot, a script, and program from Waters of the Moon. Box office receipts from shows produced by the Playwrights' Company may be found in the Playwrights Company Records. The Playwrights' Company Records document the founding, running, and dissolution of The Playwrights' Company from 1938 to 1963 with a series of twelve volumes and other loose documents. These volumes and documents consist of By-Laws, Articles of Incorporation, Board of Directors meeting minutes, lists of stockholders, stock certificates, box office receipts from Playwrights' Company productions, financial statements, and a general ledger.</p> <p>This collection contains one folder of notes, letters, and cards received by Samrock from friends and colleagues including Robert Anderson, Barbara Bel Geddes, Hume Cronyn, Howard Dietz, Alfred Drake, Lillian Hellman, Garson Kanin, Lynn Fontanne, Archibald MacLeish, Jessica Tandy, and Eli Wallach. The majority of Samrock's correspondence is incoming, but there are a few outgoing letters and a telegram. There is also a document certifying Samrock's 1929 naval service.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Victor Samrock professional files are divided into the following groups: Managerial Files, Playwrights' Company Records, and Correspondence and Other Personal Documents</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Victor Samrock in 1974 and 2002.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Diana Bertolini</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Theatre Division at theatre@nypl.org.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Playwrights' Company records, 1938-1960. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"archref\">Playwrights' Company records, 1938-1961. Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.</span>"}
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combined
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8.9 linear feet (16 boxes, 13 volumes)