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NEWSLETTER OF THE THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Volume 10, Number 4 Spring 1983 New Series

TLA AT ALA IN LA TRANSITION FREEDLEYITLA AWARDS

On Tuesday, June 28, the Theatre Li- "Due to circumstances beyond our con- The Theatre Library Association pre brary Association will conduct an all-day trol. . . " It has been a pleasure to be editor sented its annual book awards at a cock- program at the annual convention of the of Broadside for the past two years; how- tail reception on Thursday, May 17, in the American Library Association. The subject ever, my TLA involvement will be cur- Vincent Astor Gallery, The New York will be filmltelevision resources in Los tailed temporarily by the arduous task of Public Library at Lincoln Center. This Angeles. From 9:30-12:30there will be a completing a Ph.D. dissertation. While year's awards were presented by Erik Bar- panel discussion moderated by Anne C. Broadside has been passed into the cap nouw, Alfred Drake, Frank Perry and Schlosser, Director of the Louis 8. Mayer able hands of Alan Pally, I remain, with Carole Shelley. Library, American Film Institute. Partici- Barbara Naomi Cohen-Stratyner, an editor J.C. Furrus received the 1982 George pants will include Leith Adams, Archivist of Performing Arts Resources. Freeley Memorial Award for Fanny Kem of the Warner Brothers Collection, USC - Ginnine Cocuzza ble: Leading Lady of the Nineteenth Cerr Special Collections Library; Miles Kreuger, tury Stage (Dial) from Miss Shelley, a Tony President, the Institute of the American I am pleased, with this issue, to succeed Award winner for her portrayal of Mrs. Musical; Audree Malkin, Head, UCLA The- Cinnine Cocuzza as Editor of Broadside, Kendal in The Elephant Man. laumnce atre Arts Library; Bonnie Rothbart, Man- and shall endeavor to maintain the high Senelick received the Freedley Award ager, Picture Research Library, MCM; and standards which she has set. All communi- Honorable Mention for Cordon Craig's Bruce Torrence, Senior Vicepresident, cations previously sent to Cinnine may be Moscow Hamlet: A Reconstruction (Gem Federal Savings and Loan. The discussion mailed to me c/o Theatre Library Associa- wood) from Mr. Drake, who won a Tony will be followed by a lunch at Variety Arts tion, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, for Kismet and played Claudius in the 1964 Center (no host, $5.W$6.00)or on own. New York 10023. Burton Hamlet. The afternoon portion of the program -Alan Pally jay Ley& and Zina Voynow received will consist of a tour of the Variety Arts the Theatre Library Association Award for Center and Library, the Academy of Mo- the outstanding book in the field of me tion Picture Arts and Sciences Library, and tion pictures and broadcasting for Eiserr the Louis B. Mayer Library of the Amer- stein at Work (Pantheon/MOMA). The ican Film Institute. There will be a wine award was presented by Eric Barnouw, and cheese reception at the AFI, to end by former Chief of the Motion Picture, Broad- 6:30,at which time the tour bus will return casting and Recorded Sound Division of to the Convention Center or a main con- the Library of Congress, author of A ference hotel. This program has been History of Braadcasting in the United planned in cooperation with the ACRL Cin- States, and ceauthor of Indian Film. A ema Librarians Discussion Croup. Theatre Library Association Honorable At present the afternoon event is com- Mention was presented to Thomu Nehon, pletely subscribed. In the event of cancel- for Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze(lt+ lations, tickets will be made available at diana) by noted film director and screem the morning session. writer Frank Perry. The George Freedley Award was estab lished in 1968 to honor the distinguished PERFORMING ARTS founder of the Theatre Library Associa- RESOURCES tion-a theatre historian, critic, and the first curator of the Theatre Collection of NEW OFFICERS Performing Arts Resources, Volume Eight, the The New York Public Library. It is given has been put into production with Book- for excellence in writing about the live The Board of Directors of the Theatre Crafters, Inc. of Chelsea, Michigan. Book- theatre. The Theatre Library Association Library Association has elected Dorothy 1. Crafters began their association with TLA Award was established in 1972 to ac- Swerdlove, Curator of the Billy Rose The with the publication of PAR 7, Lazzi: The knowledge excellence in writing in the atre Collection, The New York Public Li- Comic Routines of the Commedia del'Arte. fields of motion pictures and broad- brary at Lincoln Center, as President for Thanks to an extremely favorable review 1983-1983.Mary Ann Jenron, Curator of in the American Reference Books Annual, the William Seymour Collection, Prince PAR 7 is on its way to becoming a "best- ton University Libraries, has been elected seller." PAR 8 is Stage Design: Papers from as Vice-president. Continuing in their pres- the 15th SIBMUS Congress which was held ent positions will be Richard M. Buck as in New York in the fall of 1982. It is hoped Secretary-Treasurer and Brigitte Kueppers that TLA members will receive their copies as Recording Secretary. of PAR 8 in mid-summer. EXHIBITIONS

Show koppers opened on March 16 at bition, which is part of the Library's parti- documents the accomplishments of black the Theatre Museum of the Museum of cipation in the "Britain Salutes New York" artists are displayed and the history of the City of New York, located in the Min- festival, focuses on the great theatrical black theatre in the twentieth century skoff Theatre Arcade, 1515 Broadway be- performers of London and New York, as is told. The exhibition will be on view hveen 44th and 45th Streets. This exhibi- well as the impact each had on the other. through September 12. tion features more than fifty of those fa- The wide variety of exhibited material bled moments when the show literally ranges from playbills and early prints por- stopped as audiences erupted into sponta- traying Edmund Kean as a Huron Indian neous and prolonged applause to express and Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle, their &light with a musical or dance to photographs and sheet music from number. Funny Face starring Fred and Adele The first show stopper on the New York Astaire and Lew Leslie's Blackbirds featur- stage occurred 160 years ago at the Park ing Bill Robinson. The exhibition also in- Theatre in lower Manhattan. The song was cludes oil paintings, ceramic figures, "Home, Sweet Home" from a now for- manuscripts, posters, rare materials, and gotten operetta, Clari, the Mail of Milan. pamphlets. Featured performers include In 1891 the operetta Robin Hood included The Booth Familv. William Charles a song with which Jessie Bartlett Davis Macready and ~dwinForrest, Ira Aldrich, stopped the show. It was called "Oh, Fanny Kemble, T.D. Rice, Gertrude Law- CALLS FOR PAPERS Promise Me and has since become rence, Beatrice Lillie, Jessie Matthews, FIRTIIFTR CONGRESS familiar to generations of brides and Bert Williams, and many others. Materials grooms. were drawn primarily from the Library's As has been previously reported, the Xth Many of the show stoppers are re- . Billy Rose Theatre Collection but addi- World Congress of the International Foun- created through vivid photographs from tional items were loaned by the Armstead- dation .for Theatre Research will take original productions. For example, the Johnson Foundation for Theatrical Re place in Clasgow from September lG23, exhibition includes three huge views of search, the Haward Theatre Collection, 1985. Delegates will arrive on Monday the dance sequence choreographed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pier- September 16 and depart on Monday Sep George Balanchine to Richard Rodgers' pont Morgan Library, and others. The con- tember 23. The conference itself opens on "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from On cept, selection and much of the organiza- Tuesday September 17 and closes on Sun- )bur Toes. tion of the exhibition were the work of day September 22. Ten great show-stopping numbers are TLA members William Appleton and Ba- The theme is the mise en scene since depicted through the costumes worn by bette Craven. The exhibition, which was 1945 and papers are now called for. They the show-stopping performers. Included designed by Donald Vlack, runs through must be submitted in English and French are Bert Lahfs costume for "The Song of July 2. by November 1984, and should be approxi- the Woodman" from The Show Is On, Bar- mately 2,000 words in length. Possible sub bara Streisand's for "You Are Woman" jects include a particular production, a from Funny Girl, and Glynis Johns' for Scenes from the 20th Century Stage: series of productions of a given play, or an "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Black Theatre in Photographs opened on important, specific aspect of the work of a Music. Mary Martin's lynx jacket, which April 22 at the Schomburg Center for Re director. Late essays will only be received she wore while singing "My Heart Belongs search in Black Culture, 51 5 Lenox Avenue if notification has been given in advance to Daddy" in Leave It To Me, is on exhibit, (corner 135th Street) in New York City. and if they include material not available as is Joel Grey's master of ceremonies out- From the Williams and Walker musicals before September 1984. Catalogues, lists fit from Cabaret. The dress worn by of the early 1900s to A Soldier's Play, the of productions and non-thematic essays Andrea McArdle as she sang "Tomorrow" 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner, this exhibition will not be accepted. Speakers should sug- in Annie is also there. scans black productions and plays featur- gest a number of debating topics arising Other objects in the exhibition include ing black performers. There are more than from their presentation. Tony Award winner Robin Wagner's set 100 photographs as well as scripts, play- For further information contact Claude bow fa On the Tmnticth Century, Saul bilk 4 pertnt from the Center's cdlu- Schumacher, Xth World Congress of FIRTI BdunYs stunning portrait of Lotte Lenya tions. IFTR, The Drama Department, The Univer- m k Threepenny Opera, and, on loan Spotlighted early plays include Lulu sity, Glasgow GI2 8RZ Scotland. from the National Portrait Gallery, Jacob Belle, which in 1926 was one of the first Epstein's majestic bronze of Paul Robe Broadway plays with an integrated cast; Film Historian/Archivist Anthony Slide son, who sang "01' Man River" in Show the 1930 production of Lew Leslie's Black- is presently editing a book entitled Inter- Baat There is also a sound and light show, birds, featuring Josephine Baker and the national Film, Radio and Television lour- narrated by Alfred Drake, tracing the his- Berry Brothers; and Orson Welles' 1936 nals which will be part of the Greenwood tory of show stoppers, and a videotape black version of Macbeth, with Jack Press series, Historical Guides to the about Ethel Merman, who probably Carter in the title role. Later productions World's Periodicals and Newspapers. The stopped more shows than just about featured include Lorraine Hansberry's volume will contain essays of between 500 anyone. 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun, the first and 1500 words on more than 150 period- The exhibition, which also includes work written by a black woman to reach icals, including detailed publishing infor- authentically costumed character dolls by Broadway; the Negro Ensemble Com- mation, location and index sources, etc., Ron Kron, artistic renderings by Leroy pany's The River Niger, Home, and First on each. Theatrical periodicals will not be Nieman and recordings of original show Breeze of Summcr; Weep Not for .Me, included unless they contain considerable stoppins songs, was organized by Dr. Mary about a black family in the South Bronx; material on film, radio and television. C. Hcndcnon and will k on view through and Do Lord Remember Me, a 1982 play Potential contributors, interested in kptcmbcr 25. drawn from slave narratives done in the writing essays on both current and defunct 1930s. periodicals, may contact Mr. Slide at 4118 At Home Ahd:hgk+American Stage Many of the photographs on display Rhodes Avenue, Studio City, California Stzn, 17631933 qendon April 19 in the coming the period since 1960 are by Bert 9l604. All contributors will be listed in Vincent Astoy Gdly of the New York Andrews, a key documentarian of black the book and will receive a complimentary Wic Library at Lidncenter. This exhk theatre. Thnnrgh these photographs and copy. BOOK REVIEWS PUBLICATION OF NOTE

American Actors and Actresses. Edited by city applications; as an educational envi- London Theatre Index 7982 is of great Stephen Archer. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Re- ronment for young audiences; puppetry in value to anyone interested in the cunent search, 1983. 710 pp. $42.00. education; and future directions in educa- West End and Fringe theatrical scene. It tional drama and theatre. A bibliography serves primarily as index to London The British Dramatists Since World War 11. and resource list follows each section. atre Record (see Broadside 10:3) and irr Edited by Stanley Weintraub. Detroit, Also included are a directory of specialists cludes a complete list of productions nn Mich.: Gale Research, 1982. 2 vols. 670 pp. and a directory of selected programs in ning at the start of 1982 and a full throne $148.00. educational drama and theatre. This book logical listing of 1982 productions, giving Both these works are potentially valu- is a complete and useful directory for any- information as to venue and opening and able additions to the bookshelves of those one interested in the field. closing dates. The 333 productions of 1982 who specialize in British and American -Elizabeth Long are assigned numbers so that one may theatre, whether their interest is history, then examine the index of names and criticism, biography, or performancelpre The London Stage 7970-1919: A Calendar venues. This makes it possible to discover duction. Archer's volume, part of the Gale of Plays and Players. By J.P. Wearing. who played, or choreographed, or directed bibliography series, is not, like Wein- Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982. 2 (etc.) which show, and where it was per- traub's collection of critical-biographical vols. 1,370 pp. 165.00. formed. Authors are included as well, and essays, a reading text. Yet, thanks to it is therefore possible to look up Chekhov This calendar, third in a series which will Archefs careful research and terse but in the index of names to see how many of cover the period from 1890 to the present often witty style, one can scan the entries his plays were performed in 1982. One is (the first being the 2-volume The London on such theatre families as the Booths, the further referred to the appropriate pages Drews, and the Hallams-or on individual Stage 78907899, the second a companion of London Theatre Record, where cast lisb for 1900-1909, available for $50.00 each), performers such as llka Chase, Frank and reviews may be found. Bacon, and James O'Neill- with interest. furnishes a day-byday listing of plays pm Other features of note in the Index in- Archer not only summarizes the content duced at the major London theatres be- clude personal views of the year from tween 1910 and 1919. New to this edition and intent of various books and magazine some of the distinguished critics whose re- are citations for works performed at the articles by or about the stars, he also notes views are reprinted every two weeks in the Old Vic and the Lyric, Hammersmith. briefly but forcefully the relative value of London Theatre Record; brief summaries Some 3.m productions totaling over the reference to researchers. In addition to of the year, showing sequence of produc- 122,000 performances (both increases Archef s detailed review of materials about tions, theatre by theatre; awards given over the previous volumes) are listed in some 250 specific performers on the Amer- both at the start of 1982 for 1981 produc- chronological arrangement of playbills ican stage from the 1700's to the present, tions and those given more recently for according to a standard format: title of his book begins with a helpful survey of 1982 shows; list of honon; necrology; hg play, genre, place and length of run, cast, general theatre references and indexes, as runs; and, insofar as the information is production staff, and bibliographical de well as books and serials which cover a available, a list of agents hdding rights to tails of contemporary reviews. A compre- large number of actors and actresses. some of the productions of 1982. hensive index allows for extensive cross- Following his Gale survey of British dra- London Theatre Index 1982 is compiled indexing and correlation of information matists, 19001945, Weintraub's new study and edited by Ian Herbert and available without references to the main section of of more recent talents such as John Arden, from London Theatre Record, 4 Cross playbills, so that one can tell.who acted Edward Bond. David Hare and Caryl Deep Gardens, Twickenham TW1 4QU with whom, in what and where and when, Churchill provides not only play/produc- England. Although it is supplied automat- and so on. Thirty-nine theatres represent- tion chronologies, bibliographies, and in- ically to Record subscribers, it is available ing playwrights such as Ibsen, Pinero, teresting illustrations; but also thoughtful separately at 5 pounds1U.S. $10.00. Shaw, and Galsworthy are included as well essays on the writers by leading academ- -h* ics. Peter Barnes, for instance, is discussed as revivals of the classics and opera and ballet productions. The calendar will be by Bernard Dukore, a Barnes expert. especially welcomed by scholars and ref- Audrey Williamson surveys the work of Christopher Fry, Peter Ustinov, and John erence staff. Adele Belllnger Whiting. Many of the essays are rewarding - in their perceptions, as well as in their fac- tual content. Some are, unfortunately, merely serviceable, possibly because editor Weintraub did not, or could not, get the best informed experts for those essays. TLA CELEBRATES -Glm, Locwy Dr. Mary Hcndmocl, Curator of the Handbook of Educational Drama and The Theatre Collection of the Museum of the atre. By Robert I. Landy. Westport, Conn.: City of New York, has been awarded a Greenwood Press, 1982. 282 pp. S35.00. John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for This book attempts "to specify many 1983. She will taking a yeaf s leave of ab and various applications of drama and sence from the museum to work on her theatre to the education of all human be- book on American theatre, which is to be AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL ings." As such, the author surveys the published by Harry Abrams Inc. in 1985. many uses of educational drama and the- The 25th American Film Festival, span- atre as they occur in schools, commv Muy Asbe, TLA Executive Board rnem- sored by the Educational Film Library nities, and theatres for young audiences. ber and Head of the Art and Music Divi- Association, was held in New Yorlr City Using interviews with experts in the field, sion of the San Francisco Public Library, from May 30 through Jw4. Winrnn in the author presents his subject in several has been elected to the position of Vice categories of interest to TLA members will parts: the school; the community, which Chainnan/Chairmanslect of ARLIS/NA, be announced in the next iuue of Bmd includes drama in museums, churches, use the Art Libraries Society of North America. side. We also hope to include micm of with the disabled and elderly, and inner new, relevant educational films. RECENT ACQUISITIONS QUERIES

READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP COLLECTION POPS UP IN BOSTON Mr. Martin Litvin is gathering material for a biography of Julian Eltinge, the The Humanities Research Center in The personal collection of Arthur noted female impersonator of yesteryear. Austin, Texas, has acquired a 100,OO@item Fiedler, former conductor of the Boston Any information as to the whereabouts of collection of correspondence and docu- Pops Orchestra, has been acquired by the original materials relative to Mr. Eltinge's ments related to the career of Gloria Mugar Memorial Library of Boston Univer- life and work should be sent to Mr. Martin Srr~~n.Included in the collection, sity. The collection consists of 6,000 Litvin, Rural Route Two, Box 15, Watage, which covers the years 1913 to 1983, are scores, sound recordings, manuscripts and Illinois 61488. handwritten notes for Miss Swanson's photographs. autobiography, scripts, photographs, pro- Brian N.S. Cooch and David S. Thatcher fessional and personal correspondence, of the University of Victoria are now pre videocassettes, audiocassettes, scrap paring A Shakespeare Music Catalogue, an books, diaries, business records and press SAA ANNUAL MEETING annotated bibliography of all music which clips. There are also three-dimensional Some of the unique problems facing sets words by Shakespeare or which is con- works such as paintings by Miss Swanson nected with his work or name. They would and paintings of her by friends. performing arts archivists/curators will be discussed at a session of the annual meet- welcome any information which readers Certain items in the collection, notably can offer. Communications should be sent correspondence with the Kennedy family, ing of the Society of American Archivists, to be held in Minneapolis from October to Odean Long, Shakespeare Music Cata- will remain sealed until the year 2000. logue, University of Victoria. P.O. Box Pity. 4-9, 1983. The session, which will take place on Friday, October 7, is entitled 1700, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada "Performing Arts Collections: Issues and V8W ZY2. Challenges" and will cover such topics as the definition of documentation, working with haphazardly collected and processed materials, directions for the future and the OBITUARY possibilities of cooperation among archival institutions. A panel will consist of We are sorry to report the death, Brigitte Kueppers of the Shubert Archive; on November 22, 1982, of Professor J.R. Martha Mahard of the Harvard Theatre Arnott (19141982). "Jim" Arnott was the Collection; Vanessa Piala of the Theatre first Professor of Drama at the University Collection, The New York Public Library; of Clasgow, from which he retired in 1979. and Leslie H. Kopp of the Dance Notation He was an active member of the Interna- Bureau. They will discuss rehabilitation of tional Federation for Theatre Research, collections, library versus archival tech- and served as Chairman and as Editor of niques, and problems of contemporary the Journal. Professor Arnott was co- documentation. For further information author (with J .W. Robinson) of English The- contact SAA, 330 5. Wells Street, Suite atrical Literature, 155SC1900: a Bibliog- 810, Chicago, Illinois 60606. raphy, published by ASTR in 1970.

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