Research Catalog

Title

Hedda Gabler programs, 1903-1942.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 bound volume of programs : illustrations, some in color; 25 cm

Subjects

• Benefit performances
• Little theater movement
• World War, 1914-1918 > Theater and the war
• Pasadena Community Playhouse
• War horses
• Dakota Playmakers
• Playbills
• Animal welfare > Societies, etc
• Theater programs
• Stage managers > Women
• Autographs
• Birmingham Repertory Theatre
• Civic Repertory Theatre, Inc
• Marginalia

Genre/Form

• Marginalia.
• Autographs.
• Theater programs.
• Playbills.

Note

• Over fifty programs (1903 - 1942) for Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen almost exclusively in the United States, including revivals, college, university, amateur, and regional productions, with translations by Edmund Gosse and William Archer; Julie Le Gallienne and Paul Leyssac; Ethel Borden and Mary Cass Canfield, documenting performances by a range of actors of the early to mid-20th Century, including Minnie Maddern Fiske; Nance O'Neil; Borgny Hammer in her first performance in the United States, which she also directed; Lenore Shanewise at the Pasadena Community Playhouse; Eva Le Gallienne in a number of productions, some of which she directed for the Civic Repertory Theatre; Blanche Yurka in a number of productions, some of which she directed; Alla Nazimova in a number of productions, some of which she directed; Katina Paxinou. Of note is a benefit performance "under the auspices of The Blue Cross Fund," an animal welfare organization devoted to helping horses injured in World War I combat; Valentine B. Windt's production for the Laboratory Theatre of the University of Michigan; a production by the Dakota Playmakers; Ida Z. Kirk's production at the University of Oklahoma with Josephine Nichols (billed as "Josephine Landsittle").
• The signatures "Carlotta Nillson" within item 1 and "Nazimova" within item 6 have not been authenticated as genuine autographs.
• Some items are stamped as belonging to the Players Collection and the Robinson Locke Collection.
• Maud Gill, reputed to be the first female stage manager in England, is credited in the program for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as an actor and stage manager.
• Thelma Chandler is credited as the stage manager for some of the productions by the Civic Repertory Theatre.
• Glesca Marshall is credited as the stage manager for some of the productions starring Alla Nazimova.
• Compiled and bound by The New York Public Library.

Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 6165

OCLC

989884889

Title

Hedda Gabler programs, 1903-1942.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Material is fragile or printed on brittle paper. Item 1, a program for the Manhattan Theatre, is completely detached from the binding and has been placed in protective mylar. Please handle with deliberate care.

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Research Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 6165