Early Actors and Actresses, about 1915-1950, bulk 1915-1925
Scope and Contents
Mainly mounted image clippings, some death notices, theater advertisements, clippings are mainly early, about 1915-1925.
Large image of Jean Harlow with death notice at bottom (1937); news articles about death of Philip Merivale (1946), Olive Tell (1951), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1943), William Gillett (1937), Sir James M. Barrie (1937), Marie Wainwright (1923), Dodson Lomax Mitchell (1939), Margaret Campbell (1939), Winchell Smith (1933), Harry Irvine (1951); small death notices for George Arliss (1946), Frieda Hempel (1955), William O. Mortimer (1921); short death notices for George McKay (1945), Harry Irvine (1951); hand-typed death notices for Grant Steward (1929), Peter Lang (1932).
Programs for performances at the Lyceum Theatre in Ithaca, NY, the Cohan and Harris Theatre, 1919-1920; program for performance of Jan Kubelik at Bailey Hall, Cornell University, 1921.
Stage and screen actors and actresses represented include Eva Le Gallienne, Ethel Barrymore, Madge Bellamy, Lynn Overmann, Walter Hampden.
Pages are numbered 252-261 at the top.
Dates
- about 1915-1950, bulk 1915-1925
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