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 Julia Gray, John T. Nicholson, Otis B. Thayer, Edna Robb, Arthur C. Aiston's Company, Augustin Daly Musical Company, Augustin Daly Wilks, Rosabel Morrison, Marie Heath, Louise Dunbar, Walker Whiteside, Lawrence Grattan, Miss Vail DeVernon, Leland Webb and the Dixon Stock Company, The Whitney Opera Co., F.C. Whitney, Dans Desdunes, Skinner Harris, Blanche Walsh, Roselle Knott, M'Cabe & Mack, Mazie Trumbull, Joe W. Spear's Comedians, Wm. A. Brady, Joseph Hart, Carrie De Mar, John P. Lockney, Pauline Fletcher, Hap Ward, Harry Vokes, Margaret Daly Vokes, Vinie Daly, Lucy Daly, Valeska Storbeck, Henry Miller, Margaret Anglin, Louis James, Frederick Warde, Joe Welch, Thomas J. Smith, Harry L. Gillam, Clint and Bessie Robins, Henri Gressitt, Eugenie Blair, S. Miller Kent, Nathaniel Roth, Brandon Tynan, Tim Murphy, Dorothy Sherrod, Jules Murry, Richard Golden, Henry W. Savage, Ada Rehan, Otis Skinner, The Bostonians, Barnabee and McDonald, Katherine Willard, Edwin Caldwell, Clara Bloodgood, Herrmann the Magician, Marie Hermann, The Lasky's, Wm. H. Crane, Charles Frohman, Jed Carlton, Harry Beresford, Gus Bothner, Fred R. Hamlin, Julian Mitchell, Al. W. Martin, Adelaide Thurston, Melville B. Raymond, E.D. Stair, George Sidney, John T. Hall, Charles B. Hanford, Marie Drofnah, Raymond Hitchcock, John Drew, Jane Kennark, Brothers Byrne, The German Lilliputian Co., Charlotte Tittel, Wallace Munro, Fred E. Wright, Edward R. Mawson, William Owen, Homer R. Barton, Samuel Collins, Kirke La Shelle, J.H. Stoddart, Reuben Fax, Joseph Jefferson, Jr., William W. Jefferson, Dodge-Bowman Amusement Co., Elmer Walters, Alberta Gallatin, The Al. G. Field's Greater Minstrels, N.C. Goodwin, Francis Wilson, Marguerita Sylva, Jessie Bartlett-Davis, William Broderick, Clara Belle Terome, Holden's Comedy Co., The Gus Sun American Minstrels, The Leroy J. French Co., Fred Wenzel, William Faversham, The Rogers Brothers Gus and Max, Klaw & Erlanger, John H. Havlin, William Garen, Owen Davis, Ernest Shipman, Florence Gale, North Bros. Comedians, Earl and Martell American Stock 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

• 1903-1904.

Contents

• Theater programs and playbills, January-February 1904: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Jan. 1) -- "Peggy From Paris" (Jan. 2) -- "Polly Primrose" (Jan. 5) -- "Arizona" (Jan. 6) -- "Busy Izzy" (Jan. 7) -- "When Reuben Comes to Town" (Jan. 8) -- "The Merchant of Venice." "Richard III" (Jan. 9) -- "The Yankee Consul" (Jan. 14) -- "The Second in Command" (Jan. 15) -- "Under Two Flags" (Jan. 16) -- "New 8 Bells" (Jan. 18) -- "The Sultan of Sulu" (Jan. 20) -- "Princess Dollieta's Reception." "Happy Hooligan and the Billboard." "The Henpecked Husband" (Jan. 23) -- "The Flints" (Jan. 25-30) -- "Hearts of Oak" (Feb. 1) -- "The Cavalier" (Feb. 2) -- "York State Folks" (Feb. 3, 1904) -- "The Prince of Pilsen" (Feb. 6) -- "The Pride of Jennico" (Feb. 10) -- "Side-Tracked" (Feb. 11) -- "When Louis XI. Was King" (Feb. 12) -- "A Royal Reception" (Feb. 12) -- "A Montana Outlaw" (Feb. 15) -- "The Silver Slipper" (Feb. 16) -- "The Romance of Coon Hollow" (Feb. 20) -- "The Bonnie Brier Bush" (Feb. 23).
• Theater programs and playbills, March-April 1904: "Spotless Town" (March 1) -- "Hoity-Toity" (March 3) -- "The Rivals" (March 4) -- "Dodge & Bowman Co. Moving Pictures and High Class Vaudeville" (March 7-8) -- "A Millionaire Tramp" (March 9) -- "Ghosts" (March 14) -- "Al G. Field's Greater Minstrels" (March 17) -- "A Gilded Fool" (March 18) -- "Erminie" (March 21) -- "Nobody's Claim" (March 22) -- "Over the Sea" (March 23) -- "A Dream of Mars" (March 26) -- "Josselyn's Congress of Nations" (March 30-31) -- "Weary Willie Walker" (April 1) -- "Peck's Bad Boy" (April 2) -- "The Fatal Wedding" (April 4) -- "Lord and Lady Algy" (April 6) -- "The Rogers Brothers in London" (April 15) -- "The Burglar." "A Happy Pair" (April 18) -- "The Stain of Guilt" (April 19) -- "The Gambler's Daughter" (April 20) -- "As You Like It" (April 21) -- "The Hand of Man." "Alone in the World." "The Little Princess." "The Colonel." "Utah." "The Girl in White." "Struggle for Gold" (April 25-30).
• Theater programs and playbills, May 1904: "Life in New York" (May 2) -- "The Fatal Error" (May 3) -- "The Kentucky Colonel" (May 4) -- "A Lost Wife" (April 5 [i.e. May 5]) -- "A Womans Sacrifice" (April 6 [i.e. May 6]) -- "The World" (May 7).
• Theater programs and playbills, November-December 1903: "A Girl from Sweden" (Nov. 2) -- "A Pair of Pinks" (Nov. 3), -- "Carmen" (Nov. 4) -- "D'Arcy of the Guards" (Nov. 5) -- "Alexander the Great" (Nov. 9) -- "Alexander the Great" (Nov. 9) -- "The Peddler" (Nov. 10) -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Nov. 11) -- "The Game Keeper" (Nov. 13) -- "The Orphan's Prayer" (Nov. 14) -- "Mahara's Famous Operatic Minstrels" (Nov. 18) -- "Miss Johnson's Reception" (Nov. 18) -- "A Runaway Match" (Nov. 21) -- "Dare Devil Dorothy" (Nov. 24) -- "Zaza" (Nov. 25) -- "Facing the Music." "The Violin Maker of Cremona." "Robert Emmett: The Days of 1803" (Nov. 26) -- "Maloney's Wedding" (Nov. 28) -- "The Man From Missouri" (Dec. 1) -- "Lost River" (Dec. 2) -- "King Dodo" (Dec. 4) -- "The Taming of the Shrew" (Dec. 5) -- "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" (Dec. 7) -- "The Serenade" (Dec. 9) -- "The Power Behind the Throne" (Dec. 10) -- "Quincy Adams Sawyer" (Dec. 11) -- "The Katzenjammer Kids" (Dec. 12) -- "The Girl With the Green Eyes" (Dec. 14) -- "Hermann" (Dec. 15) -- "The Sleepy King" (Dec. 16) -- "Our Goblins" (Dec. 17) -- "The Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (Dec. 21) -- "The Spenders" (Dec. 22) -- "Was She to Blame, or, A Bitter Atonement" (Dec. 23) -- "The Professor's Love Story" (Dec. 25) -- "A Bunch of Keys, or, The Hotel" (Dec. 26) -- "The Wizard of Oz" (Dec. 29) -- "Wizard of the Nile" (Dec. 30).
• Theater programs and playbills, September-October 1903: "Her Only Sin" (Sept. 17) -- "Sweet Clover" (Sept. 21) -- "Zig Zag Alley" (Sept. 23) -- "At the Old Cross-Roads" (Sept. 24) -- "A Deserted Bride" (Sept. 28) -- "The Knight of '98" (Oct. 2) -- "For Mother's Sake" (Oct. 5) -- "A Gambler's Daughter" (Oct. 6) -- "We Are King" (Oct. 7-8) -- "Shamus O'Brien" (Oct. 9) -- "Uncle Josh Spruceby" (Oct. 10) -- "Don Caesar De Bazan." "Romeo and Juliet" (Oct. 12-13) -- "Under Southern Skies" (Oct. 14) -- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Oct. 17) -- "Gideon's Minstrel Carnival" (Oct. 17) -- "A Country Girl" (Oct. 20) -- "Resurrection" (Oct. 23) -- "Two Little Vagrants" (Oct. 24) -- "On the Bridge at Midnight" (Oct. 27) -- "When Knighthood Was in Flower" (Oct. 28) -- "The Irish Pawnbrokers" (Oct. 29) -- "Foxy Grandpa" (Oct. 30) -- "A Hidden Crime" (Oct. 31).

Headings

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

Genre

• Theater programs--1903
• Theater programs--1904
• Theater programs--Iowa--Cedar Rapids

Notes

• -  Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by Lincoln J. Carter, Pauline Phelps, Marion Short, W. E. Flack, Will R. Phillips, James Halleck Reid, Fitzgerald Murphy, Carrie Ashley-Clarke, Lieut. Gordon Kean, Richard L. Cresey, Owen Davis, Dave B. Levis, Lottie Blair Parker, Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Julian Edwards, Henry Bataille, Michael Morton, George Klimt, Pierre De Courcelle, Charles Klein, Paul Kester, Charles Major, Edgar Selden, Frank Dumont, Sol Bloom, R.M. Baker, Joseph Hart, John P. Lockney, J.M. Ward, Chas. W. Chase, Louis Evan Shipman, Rupert Hughes, Collin Kemper, Hal Reid, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Stetson, Edwin DeCoursey, F.L. Mahara, Wilfred Carr, S.P. Harris, Pierre Berton, Charles Simon, David Belasco, Jerome K. Jerome, Geo. V. Hobart, Edward E. Rose, Joseph Arthur, Frank Pixley, Gustav Luders, William Shakespeare, Al W. Martin, Harry Smith, Victor Herbert, Theodore Kremer, Chas. Felton Pidgin, Justin Adams, Blondell & Fennessy, Clyde Fitch, Edw. Thurnauer, G.E. Conterno, Alice Hegan Rice, Anne Crawford Flexner, Edward E. Rose, H.L. Wilson, J.M. Barrie, Chas. H. Hoyt, Willie Edouin, L. Frank Baum, Harry Smith, George Ade, William Loraine, Paul Wilstach, Augustus Thomas, Jingo, O'Dea and Adams, Herman Perlet, Henry M. Blossom, Jr., Alfred G. Robyn, Robert Marshall, O.D. Woodward, John F. Byrne, Alfred G. Wathall, James A. Herne, George W. Cable, Paul Kester, George Middleton, Arthur Sidman, Abby Sage Richardson, Grace L. Furniss, Jule Walters, Martin Sheeley, Fred S. Gibbs, A.R. Warner, C.A. Altman, John C. Fisher, Owen Hall, Leslie Stewart, Edgar Smith, John Stromberg, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lawrence Russell, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Guy Carleton, Harry Paulton, Ed Jacobowski, John Fowler, Geo. W. Peck, Charles F. Pidgin, R.C. Carton, John J. McNally, Max Hoffman, Melville Ellis, Ed. Gardenier and others.
• -  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 on inside front cover and signature "Chas. A. Laurance, Cedar Rapids, Iowa".
• -  In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
• -  Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc
• -  Thr. P14

Medium

• 1 v. ([118] items) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• Thr. P14

Digital Id

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• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.brgo03

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2012656481

Online Format

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2012656481

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