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Herbert M. Prentice papers

Title: Herbert M. Prentice papers, 1925-1960.
Author: Prentice, Herbert M, 1890-
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 75	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 75	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 74	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 74	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 73	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 73	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 72	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 72	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 71	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 70	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 70	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 69	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 69	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 68	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 68	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 67	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 67	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 66	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 66	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 65	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 65	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 64	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 64	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 63	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 63	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 62	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 62	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 61	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 61	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 60	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 60	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 59	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 59	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 58	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 58	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 57	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 57	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 56	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1964-005 Box 56	Offsite

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Description

38 lin ft. (76 boxes).

Summary

The collection is almost entirely bound promptbooks, annotated with notes and cues by Prentice, for the plays he produced.

Subject

Genre/Form

Promptbooks.

Note

Photographs from identified productions and programs have been removed and placed in the Library's Photographs and Programs files.
A complete list of play titles is available in the Theatre Collection's database.

Access (note)

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Source (note)

B.F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd.

Biography (note)

Herbert M. Prentice, British producer, director and designer, staged hundreds of plays during his career including many first productions as well as popular revivals.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available in repository and on Internet

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Cataloged

Call Number

*T-Mss 1964-005

OCLC

NYPW97-A123

Author

Prentice, Herbert M, 1890-

Title

Herbert M. Prentice papers, 1925-1960.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

Herbert M. Prentice, British producer, director and designer, staged hundreds of plays during his career including many first productions as well as popular revivals. His focus was on well known playwrights of his time including James Bridie, Noel Coward, St. John Ervine, Ian Hay, Frederick Lonsdale, W. Somerset Maugham, A. A. Milne, Eugene O'Neill, J. B. Priestley, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. He began his career in 1918 at the Little Repertory Theatre in Sheffield and was associated with the Sheffield Repertory Company, the Festival Theatre, Cambridge and the Repertory Theatre, Northampton before being hired as producer by Sir Barry Jackson for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1932. He was at the Birmingham until 1940 and staged many first productions there. During this period he also produced plays at the Malvern Festivals (1934-1937) including SAINT JOAN with Wendy Hiller on the occasion of George Bernard Shaw's 80th birthday. His first London production was ONCE IN A LIFETIME in 1933. In the 1940s and early 1950s he staged plays at the Sheffield, Southport, Stratford-on-Avon, Birmingham, the Civic Theatre at Chesterfield and the Pitlochry Festival. Prior to his tenure at the Birmingham Rep., Prentice designed most of the settings for his productions. He also wrote a few of the stage adaptations he produced, including one for ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

Indexes

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Research Call Number

*T-Mss 1964-005

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