Book/Printed Material Collection Greene's Opera House programmes, 1902, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Title

• Greene's Opera House programmes, 1902, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Summary

• Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at Greene's Opera House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa from September 1902 to May 1903. Includes programs for performances by Gideon's Minstrels, P.J. Kennedy, Nelse Erickson, Julia Kingsley, Nelson Lewis, Zeb and Zarrow, Miss Inez Forman, Otis B. Thayer, Blanche Hall, Chas. H. Boyle, Richard Golden, Castle Square Grand Opera Company, Walker Whiteside, Amelia Bingham, Miss Effie Ellsler, Andrew Robson, Edith Richardson, Sullivan and Mack, Mazie Trumbull, Joe W. Spear's Comedians, Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon, The Original Bostonians, Mason and Mason, Harry Beresford, Gertrude Coghlan, Louis James, Frederick Warde, Stuart Robson, "Happy" Ward & Harry Vokes, Margaret Daly Vokes, Mrs. Herbert L. Flint, Elizabeth Kennedy, Frank L. Perley's Famous Singing Comedians, Jefferson De Angelis, Ezra Kendall, Mr. Tim Murphy, Harry Gilfoil, Klaw & Erlanger's Troubadours, Lewis Morrison, Otis Skinner, Katherine Willard, Miss Percy Haswell, Grace Cameron Opera Company, Knute Erickson, Isabel Irving, Miss Bessie Clifton, Geo. Sidney, Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., Edward Carvie, J.C. Lewis, Richard & Pringle's Famous Georgia Minstrels, Herrmann, the Great, Mr. Charles B. Hanford, Miss Marie Drofnah, Miss Blanche Walsh, Charles Dalton, Thos. B. Alexander, Eloise Elliston, Mary Elizabeth Forbes, Miss Sylvia Lynden, Louis Donazetta's Company, Joseph Jefferson, Jr., William W. Jefferson, Kyrle Bellew, Margurita Sylva, Mr. Willard Simms, Miss Adelaide Thurston, David Warfield, Capt. Richmond P. Hobson, Rose Coghlan, The Kirke La Shelle Comic Opera Company, Elizabeth Kennedy, Theodore Babcock, Jaroslav Kocian, Julie Geyer, Henrietta Crossman, James O'Neill, Mr. Francis Wilson, The Lyman Twins, Mann, Buhler & Co., Sam J. Burton, Richard Mansfield, Murray Comedy Company, Bogea Oumiroff, Milada Cerny, Edna Earlie Lindon Company, Mr. N.C. Goodwin, Chase-Lister Theatre Company 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

• 1902-1903.

Contents

• Theater programs April 1903: "Zig-Zag Alley" (April 1) -- "The Manxman" (April 4) -- "The Toreador" (April 7) -- "A Merry Chase" (April 8) -- "The Moonshiner's Daughter" (April 11) -- "A Millionaire Tramp" (April 15) -- "Si Perkins" (April 16) -- "A Little Outcast" (April 17) -- "Julius Caesar" (April 21) -- "Song Recital by ... Bogea Oumiroff, assisted by Milada Cerny" (April 22) -- "Cinderella" ([April 25]) -- "Nature's Nobleman" (April 27) -- "The Blue and the Gray" (April 28) -- "A Man of Mystery" (April 29) -- "A Southern Romance" (April 30).
• Theater programs December 1902: "A Foxy Boy" (Dec. 1) -- "David Harum" (Dec. 2) -- "In Old Kentucky" (Dec. 3) -- "The Power Behind the Throne" (Dec. 4) -- "A Royal Family" (Dec. 8) -- "A Normandy Wedding" (Dec. 9) -- "The Evil Eye" (Dec. 10) -- "The Man From Sweden" (Dec. 11) -- "The Crisis" (Dec. 12) -- "Sporting Life" (Dec. 16) -- "A Hoosier Daisy" (Dec. 17) -- "Busy Izzy" (Dec. 18) -- "Stetson's Big Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Dec. 19) -- "Way Down East" (Dec. 25) -- "The Show Girl, or, The Cap of Fortune" (Dec. 26) -- "Mr. Jolly of Joliet" (Dec. 27) -- "Over the Fence" (Dec. 29) -- "The Convict's Daughter" (Dec. 30) -- "Si Plunkard" (Dec. 31).
• Theater programs February 1903: "San Toy" (Feb. 2) -- "The Gay Lord Quex" (Feb. 3) -- "The Rivals" (Feb. 5) -- "The Span of Life" (Feb. 6) -- "A Gentleman of France" (Feb. 7) -- "Foxy Grandpa" (Feb. 9) -- "Just Struck Town" (Feb. 10) -- "The Strollers" (Feb. 11) -- "The Suburban" (Feb. 13) -- "Pickings from Puck" (Feb. 14) -- "At Cozy Corners" (Feb. 16) -- "The Auctioneer" (Feb. 18) -- "The American Navy: Its Traditions and its Victories" (Feb. 20) -- "The Christian" (Feb. 23) -- "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" (Feb. 24) -- "The Princess Chic" (Feb. 25) -- "King Dodo" (Feb. 28).
• Theater programs January 1903: "Richard & Pringle's Famous Georgia Minstrels" (Jan. 1) -- "Herrmann, the Great" (Jan. 3) -- "On the Stroke of Twelve" (Jan. 6) -- "The Prince of Pilsen" (Jan. 8) -- "The Fatal Wedding" (Jan. 9) -- "The Taming of the Shrew" (Jan. 10) -- "Much Ado About Nothing" (Jan. 10) -- "The Old Guard" (Jan. 10) -- "Are You a Mason?" (Jan. 13) -- "The Heart of Maryland" (Jan. 14) -- "The Daughter of Hamilcar" (Jan. 15) -- "The Prisoner of Zenda" (Jan. 21) -- "Tracy the Outlaw" (Jan 23) -- "Le Voyage en Suisse" (Jan. 24) -- "Sign of the Cross" (Jan. 27) -- "Florodora" (Jan. 29) -- "Barbara Frietchie" (Jan. 31).
• Theater programs March 1903: "Hunting for Hawkins" (March 6) -- "A Breezy Time" (March 7) -- "Capt. Jinks" (March 10) -- "The Chaperons" (March 12) -- "A Royal Slave" (March 13) -- "The Emerald Isle" (March 14) -- "Railroad Jack" (March 17) -- "The White Slave" (March 19) -- "Younger Brother Bank Robbers" (March 20) -- "A Night on Broadway" (March 21) -- "Hi Henry's Big Minstrel Sensation" (March 24) -- "Sally in Our Alley" (March 25) -- "Chas. H. Yale's Everlasting Devil's Auction" (March 26) -- "Kidnapped in New York" (March 28) -- "Kocian, Bohemian Violin Virtuoso" (March 27) -- "The Sword of the King" (March 30).
• Theater programs May 1903: "Miss Hursey from Jersey" (May 1) -- "John Martin's Secret" (May 2) -- "Little Red Riding Hood" ([May 2]) -- "Nature's Nobleman" (May 5) -- "The Blue and the Gray" (May 6) -- "A Man of Mystery" (May 7) -- "A Southern Romance" (May 8) -- "Miss Hursey from Jersey" (May 9) -- "A Parisian Princess" (May 14) -- "Woman Against Woman" (May 15) -- "True Irish Hearts" (May 16) -- "The Altar of Friendship" (May 20).
• Theater programs November 1902: "Alice of Old Vincennes" (Nov. 1) -- "The Tempest" (Nov. 3) -- "The Comedy of Errors" (Nov. 4) -- "The Head Waiters" (Nov. 5) -- "The Flints" (Nov. 10) -- "The Vinegar Buyer" (Nov. 17) -- "Old Innocence" (Nov. 18) -- "The Liberty Belles" (Nov. 20) -- "Faust" (Nov. 26) -- "Lovers' Lane" (Nov. 27) -- "Lazarre" (Nov. 29).
• Theater programs October 1902: "Foxy Quiller" (Oct. 1) -- "The Sultan of Sulu" (Oct. 2) -- "Richard III" (Oct. 3) -- "A Modern Magdalen" (Oct. 4) -- "When Knighthood Was in Flower" (Oct. 6) -- "Richard Carvel" (Oct. 10) -- "The Missouri Girl" (Oct. 11) -- "The Irish Pawnbrokers" (Oct. 14) -- "Sherlock Holmes" (Oct. 15) -- "The New Robin Hood" (Oct. 16) -- "Rudolph and Adolph" (Oct. 17) -- "Lost in New York" (Oct. 18) -- "The Silver Dagger" (Oct. 20) -- "The Stork" (Oct. 22) -- "The Wizard of Oz" (Oct. 24) -- "The Wrong Mr. Wright" (Oct. 25) -- "The Christian's Son" (Oct. 30) -- "The Secret Dispatch" (Oct. 31).
• Theater programs September 1902: "Gideon's Minstrels" (Sept. 16) -- "A Gambler's Daughter" (Sept. 17) -- "Yon Yonson" (Sept. 18) -- "Caught in the Web" (Sept. 19) -- "James Boys in Missouri" (Sept. 20) -- "Along the Mohawk" (Sept. 22) -- "Zig Zag Alley" (Sept. 23) -- "A Jolly American Tramp" (Sept. 25) -- "East Lynne" (Sept. 26) -- "Sweet Clover" (Sept. 27) -- "The Star Boarder" (Sept. 29-30).

Headings

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

Genre

• Theater programs--1902
• Theater programs--1903
• Theater programs--Iowa--Cedar Rapids

Notes

• -  Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by J.M. Ward, R.L. Crescy, James M. Martin, Nelson Lewis, James Gorman, Edward E. Kidder, Mrs. Henry Wood, Pauline Phelps, Marion Short, Reginald De Koven, Harry Bache Smith, George Ade, Alfred G. Wathall, William Shakespeare, Paul Kester, Charles Major, Winston Churchill, E.E. Rose, Fred Raymond, Edgar Selden, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gillette, Charles Newman, Mark B. Swan, Richard Carle, Guy F. Steely, Frederic Chapin, L. Frank Baum, Paul Tietjens, George H. Broadhurst, Hall Caine, Chas. W. Chase, David Higgins, Edward E. Rose, Maurice Thompson, Edmund Day, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Edward German, Capt. Basil Hood, Herbert Hall Winslow, J.W. von Goethe, Otis Skinner, Aubrey Boucicault, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Clyde Fitch, Edward Noyes Westcott, C.T. Dazey, Theodore Kremer, Friedrich Schiller, Capt. R. Marshall, J. Cheever Goodwin, William Furst, Sidney R. Ellis, Chas. H. Yale, Cecil Raleigh, Seymour Hicks, John A. Fraser, Lottie Blair Parker, H.L. Heartz, E.W. Corliss, D.K. Steven, J.A. Frazer, Joseph LeBrandt, Frank S. Pixley, Gustav Luders, Leo Ditrichstein, Laufs & Kratz, David Belasco, Anthony Hope, Wilson Barrett, Owen Hall, Leslie Stuart, Augustin Daly A.W. Pinero, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sutton Vane, Harriet Ford, Stanley Weyman, Lawrence Russell, George W. Lederer, Clarence Sinn, Theo. Morthrup, Pauline Phelps, Marion Short, Lee Arthur, Charles Klein, Kirk La Shelle, Julian Edwards, Guy F. Steeley, Bartley Campbell, Ernest Stout, Ben H. Atwell, George W. Hobart, Ludwig Englander, George Edwardes, Arda La Croix, E.J. Carpenter and Madeleine Lucette Ryley and others.
• -  Spine title.
• -  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 on inside front cover and bookplate: "This package contains printing from the Laurance Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa" with signature "Chas. A. Laurance, Cedar Rapids, Iowa" mounted on sheet on front free endpaper. Some duplication of programs. Programs for March 7-14, 1903 bound between programs from Nov. 10-17, 1902.
• -  In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
• -  Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc
• -  Thr. P13

Medium

• 1 v. ([155] items) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• Thr. P13

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo42
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo02
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo73
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo62
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo33
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo13
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo22
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo63
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo93

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2012656458

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2012656458

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