{"value"=>"<p>This series contains correspondence, programs, publicity materials, and clippings relating to Richard and Edith Barstow. The correspondence concerns professional activities and includes letters to and from the Barstows, both together and individually. There are notes from Fred Allen, Vivian Blaine, Dave Garroway, Arthur Godfrey, Phyllis McGuire, Eileen and Ole Olsen, and Harry Ruby.</p> <p>The programs and clippings span the Barstows’ careers: from their earliest days in the family vaudeville act, The Five Barstows, then as a dance team touring the U.S., Europe, and Australia, to directing and choreographing in the 1960s. (Specific productions in which Richard and Edith Barstow appeared are filed in the Productions series.) Of particular note is the two-part profile of Richard Barstow in <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span> (April 20 and April 27, 1957).</p> <p>Included in this series are a number of papers on Richard Barstow, such as writings, drawings and sketches by and of Richard Barstow, awards, a list of music copyrights, a transcript of a radio interview with Ruth Moss in 1937, and papers from Barstow’s U.S. Army tour of duty at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. At Camp McCoy, Barstow co-authored a newspaper column, as well as a radio program, <span class=\"title\">It’s the McCoy</span>, that helped raise money during World War II.</p>"}