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Early Actors and Actresses, about 1900-1962, bulk 1910-1925

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 2

Scope and Contents

Mainly mounted image clippings of stars, some death notices, musical performance programs, theater advertisements, clippings are mainly early, about 1910-1925.

News articles about deaths of William Boyd (1935), Otis Skinner (1942), Mrs. Sydney Drew (1914), John F. Webber (1943), Richard Walton Tully (1945), Fritzi Scheff (1954), Richard Carle (1941), Louiise Homer (1947), Herbert Witherspoon (1935); small death notices for Albert Gran (1932), Dewitt Jennings (nd), Clarence Eugene Whitehill (1932), Pat Barrett (1939), James C. Marlowe (1926), Paul Althouse (1954); hand typed death notices for Walter C. Percival (1934), Robert Harrison (1953), Herbert Druce (1931); short death notices for Clara Morton (1948), Ivan Christy (1949), Mrs. Maidel Turner Thomas (1953), Daisy Belmore (1954), Jimmy Conlin (1962), Valli Valli (1927), Elizabeth Murray (1946), Florence Moore (1935), William Wade Hinshaw (1947), Daniel Joseph Sullivan (1937), Roger Imhoff (1958).

Programs for The Litchfield County Choral Union at the Music Shed, Norfolk, CT, 1915, 1920; programs for various performances at the Lyceum Theatre in Ithaca, NY, the Astor Theatre, the Majestic Theatre, the Globe Theatre (NYC), the Oakland Orpheum, the Orpheum, the Temple Theatre, the Palace Music Hall, 1898, 1916-1919; Program for Guiomar Novaes and Minerva Komenarski at Bailey Hall (Cornell University), 1919; Various performers at the Strand Theatre, 1915; program for The Royal Lilliputians Revue and Other European Novelties, undated.

Vaudeville and stage stars quite heavily represented including Ethel Barrymore, George Arliss, Otis Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, Lynn Fontanne, Laurette Taylor, Anna Case, Harold Bauer, Maude Fealy, Fritzi Scheff, Charles Winninger, Valli Valli, Louise Homer, and others. A few musicians also represented such as pianist Harold Bauer.

Pages are numbered 237-254 at the top.

Dates

  • about 1900-1962, bulk 1910-1925

Extent

From the Collection: 100 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Series: English

Repository Details

Part of the Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections Repository

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Binghamton NY 13902 USA