Book/Printed Material Collection [Charles LaHood scrapbook of theater programs] Scrapbook

Title

• [Charles LaHood scrapbook of theater programs]

Other Title

• Scrapbook

Summary

• Scrapbook of theater programs, playbills, souvenir programs and newspaper clippings compiled by Mr. Charles LaHood of performances at Washington, D.C. theaters in the 1920's. Also includes programs for performances at other theaters in Atlantic City, N.J., Boston, Mass, Terre Haute Indiana and the National Theatre, Poli's Theatre, Shubert-Belasco, Shubert-Garrick, B.F. Keith's, President and Fox Theatres in Washington, D.C., from 1922-1932.

Names

• LaHood, Charles G. (Charles George), 1922- donor
• B. F. Keith's Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
• Fox Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
• National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.)
• Poli's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
• Roxy Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
• Shakespeare Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
• Shubert-Belasco Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
• Shubert-Garrick Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
• Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1922-1932.

Contents

• Theater programs and playbills: B.F. Keith's Theatre, Washington, D.C.: Vaudeville program (week of July 23, 1923).
• Theater programs and playbills: Fox Theatre, Washington, D.C.: Gala Roxy Program. Paid to Love (week of Sept. 25, 1927).
• Theater programs and playbills: Indiana Theatre [Terre Haute, Indiana?] Indiana News of the World. Modern Music Master. Maurice. Tokio Blues. Hard Boiled Haggerty (week of Sept. 24, 1927).
• Theater programs and playbills: National Theatre, Washington, D.C.: Music Box Revue (week of Feb. 26, 1923) -- Sally (week of Nov. 26, 1923) -- So This is London (week of Oct. 28, 1923) -- No, No, Nanette (week of March 29, 1926) -- Tip-Toes (week of Nov. 24, 1925) -- The Best People (week of April 6, 1925) -- These Charming People (week of March 8, 1926) -- Young Woodley (week of Oct. 25, 1926) -- The Constant Wife (week of Nov. 22, 1926) -- Diplomacy (week of Feb. 6, 1928) -- Lulu Belle (week of March 5, 1928) -- She Stoops to Conquer (week of March 19, 1928) -- Porgy (week of April 23, 1928) -- Craig's Wife (week of May 21, 1928) -- Six Cylinder Love (week of June 18, 1928) -- The Passing of the Third Floor Back (week of June 25, 1928) -- Interference (week of July 2, 1928) -- Strange Interlude (week of Dec. 23, 1928) -- Marco Millions (Oct. 7-12, 1929) -- Volpone (Oct. 14-19, 1929) -- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Oct. 21-26, 1929) -- Caprice (Nov. 11-16, 1929) -- Wings Over Europe (Nov. 25-30, 1929) -- Sherlock Holmes (Jan 6-11, 1930) -- Papa Juan (Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 1930) -- Sari (Feb. 17-22, [1930]) -- A Midsummer-Night's Dream (week of March 3, 1930) -- A Month in the Country (week of March 10, 1930) -- The Honor of the Family (week of April 21, 1930) -- The Rivals (May 11, 1930) -- The Apple Cart (week of Dec. 1, 1930) -- In the Meantime (week of Dec. 8, 1930) -- Pagan Lady (week of Sept. 22, 1930) -- It's a Wise Child (week of Dec. 29, 1930) -- Strictly Dishonorable (week of Feb. 15, 1931) -- The Lonely Way (week of Feb. 23, 1931) -- Elizabeth the Queen (week of March 23, 1931) -- As Husbands Go (week of Nov. 16, 1931) -- Reunion in Vienna (week of Nov. 9, 1931) -- The Merchant of Venice (week of Dec. 15, 1931) -- Green Grow the Lilacs (week of Jan. 19, 1931).
• Theater programs and playbills: Nixon's Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City, N.J.: La Tendresse (week of Sept. 18, 1922).
• Theater programs and playbills: Poli's Theatre, Washington, D.C.: Dog Love (week of April 24, 1922) -- The Breaking Point (June 25, 1923) -- Bailieffs Chauve-Souris (week of Nov. 11, 1923) -- Annual tour of Sir Harry Lauder (week of Feb. 25, 1924) -- Cyrano de Bergerac (week of Nov. 3, 1924) -- The Chocolate Soldier (July 28-Aug. 3, 1924) -- Robin Hood (week of June 23, 1924) -- Erminie (July 7-13, 1924) -- The Dream Girl (week of May 10, 1925) -- Abie's Irish Rose (week of May 13, 1928) -- Ned McCobb's Daughter. The Doctor's Dilemma. John Ferguson (week of March 11, 1929) -- The Doctor's Dilemma. John Ferguson (week of March 11, 1929) -- Good News (week of March 31, [1929]) -- The Age of Innocence ([1929]) -- As You Like It (Feb. 15, [1930]) -- The Love Duel (week of Feb. 24, 1930) -- Journey's End ([1930]).
• Theater programs and playbills: President Theatre, Washington, D.C.: Rain (March 1-7, 1925).
• Theater programs and playbills: Roxy Theatre, New York, N.Y.: Common Clay (week of Aug. 8, 1930).
• Theater programs and playbills: Shubert-Belasco Theatre, Washington D.C.: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (week of Nov. 18 [1923]) -- The Fool ([1923]) -- Candida (week of May 25, 1925) -- Ghosts (week of Dec. 27, 1926) -- Charm (week of Feb. 22, 1926) -- The Green Hat (week of Nov. 15, 1926) -- Pickwick (week of Feb. 14, 1927) -- Pickwick, centennial program (Feb. 14, 1927; premiere) -- What Every Woman Knows (week of Feb. 7, 1927) -- The Wild Man of Borneo (week of Jan. 24, 1927) -- The Legend of Leonora (week of March 14, 1927) -- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (week of Nov. 14, 1927) -- Saturday's Children (week of Jan. 30, 1928) -- Escape (week of May 14, 1928) -- Baliff's Chauve-Souris (week of April 28, 1929) -- Candle-Light (Sept. 16-21, 1929) -- Passions of Jealousy (Nov. 3-9, 1929) -- Bird In Hand (Dec. 25-Jan. 3, 1931) -- Ruth Draper in her Original Character Sketches (week of Jan. 26, 1931).
• Theater programs and playbills: Shubert-Garrick Theatre, Washington, D.C.: The Sea Woman (week of Jan. 15, 1923) -- The Moon Flower (week of Jan. 16, 1924).
• Theater programs and playbills: Shubert-Majestic Theatre, Boston: Rose-Marie ([May, 1926]).
• Theater programs and playbills: The Shakespeare Society of Washington: Good Theatre (Oct. 6, 1930) -- As You Like It (Dec. 1, 1930).
• Theater programs and playbills: Theatre unknown or fragment: The Conflict (vaudeville debut of Ruth Chatterton), marked "Keiths"; The Twelve Pound Look (n.d.).

Headings

• -  Theater programs--Specimens
• -  United States--District of Columbia--Washington, D.C

Genre

• Clippings--Washington (D.C.)
• Theater programs--1922
• Theater programs--1923
• Theater programs--1924
• Theater programs--1926
• Theater programs--1927
• Theater programs--1928
• Theater programs--1929
• Theater programs--1930
• Theater programs--1931
• Theater programs--1932
• Theater programs--Indiana--Terre Haute
• Theater programs--Massachusetts--Boston
• Theater programs--New Jersey--Atlantic City
• Theater programs--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  Arranged roughly in chronological order. Some items are loose and laid in. Most loose items removed and housed separately.
• -  Includes newspaper clippings with reviews of Balieff's Chauve-Souris, Elsie Ferguson in "The Moon Flower," "The Fool" at the Shubert-Belasco, "Candida" with Ernest Cassart and Elizabeth Patterson, Fay Bainter in "The Dream Girl" at the Poli's Theatre, Katherine Cornell in "The Green Hat", Ethel Barrymore in "The Constant Wife," "Pickwick" at the Shubert-Belasco Theatre, "What Every Woman Knows" with Helen Hayes, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Lulu Belle" with Lenore Ulric, "Ned McCobb's Daughter", "The Doctor's Dilemma," "John Ferguson," "The New York Theater Guild Soon Comes To Washington," "Candle Light," "Marco Millions," "Wings over Europe" with Ernest Lawford, "Sherlock Holmes" with William Gillette, "Journey's End" with Richard Bird, Robert Nobel, Henry Stephenson and G.P. Huntley, Jr., "The Rivals,". Includes clippings with portraits of Ernest Cassart, Elizabeth Patterson, Katherine Cornell, Ethel Barrymore, Mr. Jingle, Helen Hayes, Gregory Kelly, Holbrook Blinn, John Drew, Mrs. Fiske, Otis Skinner, Henrietta Crosman, Ernest Lawford, Fay Bainter, William Gillette, Otis Skinner, Richard Bird, Robert Nobel, Henry Stephenson, G.P. Huntley, Jr. and Norma Shearer.
• -  Includes programs for performances by Henry Miller, Ruth Chatterton, William Hodge, Marilyn Miller, Leon Errol, Julian Sanderson, Donald Brian, Frank Crumit, Ona Munson, Margaret Anglin, Cliffor & Grey, Ryan, Weber & Ryan, Fortunello & Cirillino, Olga Cook, Hugh Herbert, all & Dexter, Theodore Stepanoff, Frank Hurst & Eddie Vogt, Ruth Harvard, Wynfred & Bruce, Lon Chaney, Walter Hampden, De Wolf Hopper, Elsie Ferguson, Sidney Blackmer, Fay Bainter, Walter Woolf, Mrs. Fiske, Elizabeth Patterson, Cyril Maude, Glenn Hunter, Katharine Cornell, John Cumberland, Helen Hayes, Grace George, Bruce McRae, Milton Sills, Holbrook Blinn, June Walker, Mrs. Fiske, Otis Skinner, Henrietta Crosman, Ruth Gordon, Lenore Ulric, Leslie Howard, Pauline Lord, Gertrude Lawrence, Ernest Lawford, Melvyn Douglas, William Gillette, Otis Skinner, Fritz Leiber, Ethel Barrymore, Mitzi, Stratford-Upon-Avon Festival Company, Ruth Draper, Maude Adams and others.
• -  Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by Henry Bataille, Irving Berlin, William Hodge, Clifford Grey, Guy Bolton, Jerome Kern, Arthur Goodrich, Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach, Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans, Willard Robertson, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Victor Hugo, Edmond Rostand, Zoe Akins, Lazos Biro, Reginald DeKoven, Harry B. Smith, Channing Pollock, Otto Harbach, Claxton Bellamy, Harry Paulton, E. Jakobowski, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd, Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, W. Somerset Maugham, John Colton, Clemence Randolph, Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, David Gray, Avery Hopwood, Henrik Ibsen, John Kirkpatrick, Michael Arlen, John Van Druten, J.M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Cosmo Hamilton, Frank C. Reilly, Marc Connelly, H.J. Mankiewicz, Harry Carr, P.G. Wodehouse, Ferenc Molnar, Anita Loos, John Emerson, William Shakespeare, Maxwell Anderson, Victorien Sardou, Edward Sheldon, Charles MacArthur, Oliver Goldsmith, Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, Anne Nichols, John Galsworthy, George Kelly, Wm. Anthony McGuire, Jerome K. Jerome, Roland Pertwee, Harold Dearden, Eugene O'Neill, John Ervine, Lawrence Schwab, Edith Wharton, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Stefan Zeig, Ruth Langner, Karel Capek, Sil-Vara, Phillip Moeller, Robert Nichols, Maurice Brown, Lili Hatvany, Zoe Akins, Turgenev, Balzac, R.C. Sherriff, Christopher Morley, Richard Brindsley Sheridan, Claire and Paul Sifton, William DuBois, Laurence E. Johnson, John Drinkwater, Preston Sturges, Arthur Schnitzler, Lew Leslie, Rachel Crothers, Robert E. Sherwood, Lynn Riggs and others.
• -  LC copy accompanied by loose collection of playbills, programs, souvenir programs and newspaper clippings laid in.
• -  Title devised by Library staff.
• -  LC copy: Gift: Mr. Charles LaHood, June 29, 1983.
• -  In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
• -  Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc

Medium

• 1 v. (ca. 135 items) : ill. ; 32 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• PN2093 .L34 1922

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brbf86

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2012658443

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• https://lccn.loc.gov/2012658443

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