Book/Printed Material Collection Theatre programmes

Title

• Theatre programmes

Summary

• Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at Greene's Opera House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Includes programs for performances by Donald Robertson, William MacAuley, E.J. Carpenter, W.B. Patton, Harry Scott Company, Hurtig and Seaman, Julian Mitchell, Henry W. Savage, Willis F. Jackson, Lincoln J. Carter, Rowland & Clifford Amusement Co., Dorothy Turner, R.G. Kingston, Mary Carew, W.E. Nankeville, Elizabeth Kennedy, Annie Mack Berlein, Millner & Powers, Aginita Valdez, The Lyman Twins, Lew Dockstader's Minstrels, L.S. Sire, May Robson, Fred Siegel, W.F. Mann, J.D. Morgan, John Cort, Emma Calve, Brahm van den Berg, Karl Klein, Sam S. and Lee Shubert (Inc.), Minnie Dupre, Lou Streeter, The Morgan Stock Co., J.D. Morgan, Mary Enos, Ralph Riggs, Jos. M. Gaites, Victor Morley, Wagenhals & Kemper Co., Burton Nixon, Alice B. Hawley, Crystal Vizzard, David Bispham, Harold Osborn Smith, James M. Allison, Fitz & Webster, John R. Andrews, Guy Standing, Theodore Roberts, Klaw & Erlanger, Barton & Wiswell (Inc.), Walter Hubbell, Joe Horitz, W.W. Miller, Tim Murphy and Company, H.H. Frazee, George M. Cohan, Scott Welsh, Chas. A. Miller, Archie Boyd, Mort H. Singer, The Princess Amusement Co., Inc., Cornell Oratorio Society and Orchestra, Messrs. Atkinson &Thatcher, J. Dough. Morgan, Liebler & Co., Edith Taliaferro, Frederick Thompson, Mason and Mason, Hines and Remington, Charles Frohman, Marie Doro, Halton Powell, Cario Portello, Max Rogers, The Rogers Brothers, G. Carlton Guy, R.W. Fraser, Willie Dunlay, Robert Gaillard, M. Dixon & Bernard (LaPell Dixon, Nat Bernard), Margaret Ralph, Messrs. Martin & Emery, Wm. H. Crane, Norman Hackett, Samuel E. Rork, C.S. Primrose, Henry B. Harris, Robert Edeson, James J. Corbett, Klimt & Gazzolo, O.E. Wee, North Brothers Company, Chicago Ladies Orchestra, Mr. W.A. Whitecar, Henry Miller, Adelaide Thurston, Francis X. Hope, C.J. Smith, Olga Nethersole, Gertrude Keyes, Donal Robertson, Thomas Jefferson, Chas. J. Smith, Corinne, J.M. Welch Amusement Company, Robert Ober, Al. G. Field's Minstrels, Jack Hoskins, Paul Gilmore, John Drew, Walker Whiteside, Crystal Herne, Charles B. Hanford, Marie Drofnah, Florence Gear, Cedar Rapids Comic Opera Company, Emma Beatrice Brunner, Mary Mannering and others.

Names

• Laurance, Charles A., 1855-1943, donor
• Greene's Opera House (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
• Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1908-1909.

Contents

• Theater programs and playbills, January-February 1909: "Rudolph and Adolph" (Jan. 1) -- "The Richest Girl" (Jan. 2) -- "Yankee Doodle Boy" (Jan. 3) -- "In Panama" (Jan. 5) -- "A Girl at the Helm" (Jan. 6) -- "East Lynne" (Jan. 7) -- "The Cry Baby" (Jan. 9) -- "Lost in the Hills" (Jan. 10) -- "The Honeymooners" (Jan. 12) -- "Strongheart" (Jan. 18) -- Wrestling match "Mon-O-Hof vs. Carl Busch" (Jan. 19) -- "Paid in Full" (Jan. 20) -- "Hans and Nix" (Jan. 21) -- "The King of Tramps" (Jan. 24) -- "The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe)" (Jan. 28) -- "The Revelation" (Jan. 31) -- "Father and the Boys" (Feb. 1) -- "Classmates" (Feb. 3) -- "The Land of Nod" (Feb. 4) -- "Under the Harvest Moon" (Feb. 7) -- "The Call of the North" (Feb. 10) -- "Facing the Music" (Feb. 11) -- "The Well-Known Scottish Songstress Miss Jeanie Fletcher" (Feb. 12) -- "Big Hearted Jim" (Feb. 14) -- "The Flints, Hynotists" (Feb. 15-21) -- "The County Sheriff" (Feb. 15) -- "Molly Bawn" (Feb. 23) -- "Across the Great Divide" (Feb. 24) -- "The Golden Ranch Round-Up" (Feb. 25) -- "Sapho" (Feb. 26) -- "A Fight for a Million" (Feb. 27) -- "In the Shadow of the Gallows" (Feb. 28).
• Theater programs and playbills, March-April 1909: "Married for Money" (March 2) -- "The Lion and the Mouse" (March 3) -- "A Message From Mars" (March 4) -- "The Great Divide" (March 5) -- "The Woman's Hour" (March 6) -- "Sis Perkins" (March 7) -- "The Writing on the Wall" (March 9) -- "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (March 12) -- "The Flower of the Ranch" (March 13) -- "Grand Concert Given by the 53rd Regiment Band, I.N.G." -- "A Curious Mishap" (March 16) -- "Rip Van Winkle" (March 18) -- "A Pair of Country Kids" (March 21) -- "The Thief" (March 24) -- "The Isle of Spice" (March 27) -- "The Road to California" (March 28) -- "The Girls from Berlin" (March 30) -- "Shadows of a Great City" (April 3) -- "Little Dollie Dimples" (April 5) -- "The Wolf" (April 8) -- "Sawyer and his Company of Mediums Demonstating Spirit Power in the Light" (April 11) -- "Ben Hur" (April 12-14) -- "Brewster's Millions" (April 15) -- "Al. G. Field's Minstrels" (April 16) -- "A Texas Ranger" (April 18) -- "Lyman H. How Moving Pictures" (April 19) -- "Wrestling Match: Gotch v. Hokuff, McLeod vs. Bander (April 21) -- "Boys of Company B" (April 21) -- "Jack Straw" (April 30).
• Theater programs and playbills, May-June 1909: "The Melting Pot" (May 1) -- "Fatty Felix" (May 2) -- "The Winter's Tale" (May 4) -- "Marrying Mary" (May 5) -- "H.M.S. Pinafore" (May 14-15) -- "The Morals of Marcus" (May 25) -- "The Independent Miss Gower" (June 2).
• Theater programs and playbills, November-December 1908: "It's All on the Quiet" (Nov. 1) -- "Three Twins" (Nov. 3) -- "Paid in Full" (Nov. 4-5) -- "Lena Rivers" (Nov. 6) -- "Tempest and Sunshine" (Nov. 8) -- "Under Southern Skies" (Nov. 11) -- "Song Recital: David Bispham" (Nov. 13) -- "The Top 'o th' World" (Nov. 14) -- "A Breezy Time" (Nov. 15) -- "The Right of Way" (Nov. 16) -- "The Witching Hour" (Nov. 18) -- "McFadden's Flats" (Nov. 19) -- "A Royal Slave" (Nov. 21) -- "Fritz, the Wandering Musician" (Nov. 22) -- "Cupid and the Dollar" (Nov. 25) -- "A Knight for a Day" (Nov. 26) -- "Forty-five Minutes From Broadway" (Nov. 27) -- "Just a Womans Way" (Nov. 28) -- "Stetson's Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Nov. 29) -- "Shore Acres" (Nov. 30) -- "Three Twins (Dec. 1) -- "Girls" (Dec. 5) -- "A Royal Slave" (Dec. 6) -- "The Boston Belles" (Dec. 7) -- "Honeymoon Trail" (Dec. 8) -- "The Wolf" (Dec. 9) -- "The Messiah" (Dec. 10) -- "Miss Petticoats" (Dec. 12) -- "A Knight for a Day" (Dec. 13) -- "My Little Partner" (Dec. 14) -- "The Ranch King" (Dec. 15) -- "Ruined Lives" (Dec. 16) -- "The Devil" (Dec. 17) -- "Wedded But No Wife" (Dec. 18) -- "Her Fatal Shadow" (Dec. 19) -- "The Man From Home" (Dec. 25-26) -- "A Bunch of Keys, or, The Hotel" (Dec. 27) -- "Polly of the Circus" (Dec. 30-31).
• Theater programs and playbills, September-October 1908: "Comus" (Sept. 22) -- "When We Were Friends" (Sept. 23) -- "Her First False Step" (Sept. 24) -- "The Blockhead" (Sept. 25) -- "Ma's New Husband" (Sept. 26) -- "The Wizard of Oz" (Sept. 27) -- "The Devil" (Sept. 30) -- "The End of the Trail" (Sept. 28) -- "The Flaming Arrow" (Oct. 1) -- "Jane Eyre" (Oct. 2) -- "The Moonshiner's Daughter" (Oct. 3) -- "Human Hearts" (Oct. 4) -- "A Woman of the West" (Oct. 6) -- "Sapho." "In the Vision of Salome" (Oct. 7) -- "The Yankee Drummers" (Oct. 11) -- "Lew Dockstader's Minstrels" (Oct. 13) -- "Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary" (Oct. 14) -- "The Flower of the Ranch" (Oct. 16) -- "The Cow Puncher" (Oct. 17) -- "A Day of Judgment" (Oct. 18) -- "Emma Calve in Concert" (Oct. 19) -- "A Stubborn Cinderella" (Oct. 23) -- "The Road to Yesterday" (Oct. 24) -- "Meadow Brook Farm" (Oct. 25) -- "A Southern Rose" (Oct. 27) -- "Colorado" (Oct. 28) -- "The Old Inventor" (Oct. 29) -- "Ku Klux Klan" (Oct. 30).

Headings

• -  Theater programs--Specimens
• -  United States--Iowa--Cedar Rapids

Genre

• Theater programs--1908
• Theater programs--1909
• Theater programs--Iowa--Cedar Rapids

Notes

• -  Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by John Milton, Joseph Le Brandt, David Edwin, Geo. Fletcher, L. Frank Baum, Paul Tietjens, A. Baldwin Sloane, Franz Molnar, Oliver Herford, William Jossey, Charlotte Bronte, Peter G. Piatti, L.J. Vaughn, Alphonse Daudet, Herbert L. Lyman, Howard C. Lyman, Anne Warner, Jos. E. Howard, James Halleck Reid, Beulah M. Dix, Evelyn G. Sutherland, William M. Hough, Frank Adams, Joseph E. Howard, L.B. Parker, Clarence Sinn, Charles Dickson, Mrs. R. Pacheco, O.A. Hauerbach, Karl Hoschna, Eugene Walter, Beulah Poynter, Lottie Blair Parker, Mark E. San, James O'Dea, Eugene W. Presbrey, Sir Gilbert Parker, August Thomas, E.W. Townsend, Glen MacDonough, Clarence Bennett, Crane Wilbur, Robert Goodman, Charles Jeffrey, Robert B. Smith, Raymond Hubbell, George M. Cohan, Cohan & Harris, Lincoln J. Carter, Sidney W. Pascoe, Harriet Beacher Stowe, James A. Herne, Clyde Fitch, Eugene Walter, G.F. Handel, Neal Twomey, Booth Tarkington, Harry Leon Wilson, Charles B. Hoyt, Margaret Mayo, Chas. A. Newman, Paul Gavault, Michael Morton, Halton Powell, Cario Portello, Sylvester Maguire, Aaron Hoffman, Max Hoffman, Edward Madden, Robt. B. Smith, Mrs. Henry Wood, William C. De Mille, Thos. W. Grady, Franz Lehar, Vicor Leon, Leo Stein, Adrian Ross, Henry Knott, George Ade, Frank R. Adams, Will M. Hough, Joseph E. Howard, George Broadhurst, Stewart Edward White, James Henry Darnley, Beulah E. Poynter, Mr. M.L. Parker, Charles Klein, Richard Ganthony, William Vaughn Moody, Frederick Pauling, William J. Hurlbut, Carlo Goldoni, Dion Boucicault, Washington Irving, Henri Bernstein, Allen Lowe, George E. Stoddard, Paul Schindler, Ben M. Jerome, Frederick Rankin, John J. McNally, William Jerome, Jean Schwartz, C.H. Kerr, Gen. Lew Wallace, Frederic Thompson, Winchell Smith, Byron Ongley, George Barr McCutcheon, Israel Zangwill, Ralph T. Kettering, William Shakespeare, Edwin Milton Royle, Benjamin Harpgood Burt, Silvio Hein, W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, W.J. Locke, Arthur Bouchier, Emma Beatrice Brunner and others.
• -  Program for Feb. 3 bound after Feb. 4 program. Duplicate programs for March 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, 24, April 16, May 1, 2.
• -  Title from spine.
• -  A portion of these items are available online on the Library of Congress website.
• -  Printed inventory card file arranged alphabetically by title available in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division Reading Room: item level control.
• -  LC copy: Gift: Charles A. Laurance, Mar. 17, 1943. Has handwritten list of contents mounted on inside front cover. Detached spine label in envelope accompanying volume.
• -  In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
• -  Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc
• -  Thr. P15

Medium

• 1 v. ([145] items) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• Thr. P15

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo48
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo38
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo78
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo7e
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo7d

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2012656482

Online Format

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2012656482

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