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UA2015.03

Anderson Playbill Collection Dates: 1927-1946, Undated Creator: Anderson Family Extent: 0.25 linear feet Level of description: Folder Processor & date: Matthew Norgard, June 2017

Administration Information Restrictions: None Copyright: Consult archivist for copyright information Citation: Loyola University . Archives & Special Collections. Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated. Box #, Folder #. Provenance: The collection was donated by James Anderson to the Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections on February 20, 2015. It was collected by his mother and grandmother. Separations: None See Also: Carrigan Collection, McEnany Collection, Autograph Collection, Kunis Collection, Stagebill Collection, Geary Collection, Anderson Collection, Schor Collection

Scope and Content The Anderson Playbill collection consists .25 linear feet of playbills spanning the years 1927-1946 and are for , ballets, musicals and plays that were performed at Chicago theaters. Included are two publications, one a pamphlet containing an excerpt from the Atlantic Monthly on all male performances and the other reviews are from the Harold Examiner. The series are arranged alphabetically.

Series Series 1: Publications, 1930-1936, Box 1 This series contains two publications, All Men Performance by Lewen Price and a copy of the Harold Examiner newspaper.

Series 2: Playbills, 1927-1946, Box 1 The Chicago theatre playbill series includes playbills from ballets, plays, musicals and operas from Chicago theatres including the at the Art Institute, Blackstone theatre, Erlanger theatre, Harris theatre, Selwyn theatre, Studebaker theatre, and . The playbills are grouped by theatre.

Subjects: Goodman Theatre Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 1

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Blackstone Theatre Erlanger Theatre Harris Theatre Selwyn Theatre Studebaker Theatre Auditorium Theatre Chicago

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Accession No.:UA2015.03 Creator: Anderson Family

Box Folder Title Dates

Publications, 1930-1936

1 1 Price, Lewen All-Men Performance 1936 1 2 Harold Examiner Newspaper 1930

Chicago Theatre Playbills, 1927-1946

1 3 8th Street Theatre “Hitch Your Wagon to a Star 1944

1 4 Art Institute of Chicago/Goodman Theatre “Hay Fever” 1936 “Holiday” 1934 “Merry Wives of Windsor” 1934 “He Who Gets Slapped” 1934 “George and Margaret” 1934 “Ah, Wilderness!” 1938 “The Little Foxes” 1938 “Graff Ballet” 1938 “Agnes de Mille and her Dance Ensemble” 1940 “Graff Ballet” 1940 “Katherine Dunham and Dance Group” 1939 “Hanya Holm and Company” 1939 “Hanya Holm and Company” 1941 “Goodbye Again” 1934 “The Father” 1930

1 5 Auditorium Theatre “Tito Schipa, Tenor” 1941 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1940 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1940 “Graduation Ball” 1940 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1941 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1941 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1941 “Original Ballet Russe” 1940 “Original Ballet Russe” 1940 “Original Ballet Russe” 1940 Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 3

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“Original Ballet Russe” 1940 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1940 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1940 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1935 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1935 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Tito Schipa, Tenor” 1935 “The Great Waltz” 1935 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1935 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1935 “Monte Carlo Ballet Russe” 1934 “Old Ironsides” 1927 “Beau Geste” 1927 “Cimarosiana” 1937 “Les Dieuz Mendiants” 1938 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1937 “Les Cent Baisers” 1937 “Jeux D’enfants” 1937 “Les Dieuz Mendiants” 1937 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1937 “Les Sylphides” 1937 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1937 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1937 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1937 “Argentinita and her Spanish Ensemble” 1937 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1936 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1938 Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 4

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“Ignace Paderewski” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1938 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1938 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1938 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1938 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1938 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1938 “Pilar Lopez, Federico Rey, Rogelio Machado, 1938 and Carlos Montoya” “Romeo and Juliet” 1940 “Hot Mikado” 1940 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1939

1 6 Allied Arts Corporation “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1943 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1943 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1943 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1943 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1944 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1944 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1944

1 7 The Ballet Theatre “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1946 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1946 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1946 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1945 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1944 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 5

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“S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943 “S. Hurok Ballet Theatre” 1943

1 8 Blackstone Theatre “The Winter’s Tale” 1945 “Good Night Ladies!” 1942 “Jacobowsky and the Colonel” 1945

1 9 Chicago City Co. “Thais” 1935 “Don Giovanni” 1935 “Turandot” 1933 “Madame Butterfly” 1933 “Martha” 1933 “Tito Schipa” 1936 “Lucia di Lammermoor” 1937 “Carmen” 1937 “Norma” 1937 “La Gioconda” 1937 “L’Amore Dei Tre Re” 1937 “Otello” 1936 “Lakme” 1936 “Aida” 1936 “Samson and Delilah” 1936 “Thais” 1936 “Martha” 1936 “L’Elisir D’Amore 1936 “The Tales of Hoffmann” 1938 “Turandot” 1938 “L’Amore Dei Tre Re” 1938 “Faust” 1938 “The Ballet Theatre” 1940 “The Ballet Theatre” 1940 “Don Giovanni” 1940 “Mignon” 1939 “Boris Godunoff” 1939 “Louise” 1939 “The Barber of Seville” 1939

1 10 “George White’s Scandals” 1932 “Argentinita” 1942 Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 6

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“Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1941 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1941 “Original Ballet Russe” 1942 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1942 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1942 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1943 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1943 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1942 “Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo” 1942 “Civic Opera House Program” 1938

1 11 Civic Theatre “The Thirteenth Chair” 1939 “Petticoat Fever” 1939

1 12 Erlanger Theatre “Othello” 1945 “Without Love” 1943 “The Three Sisters” 1943 “The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company” 1935 “Dodsworth” 1935 “Richard of Bordeaux” 1934 “Three’s a Crowd” 1931 “The Taming of the Shrew” 1930 “Jane Eyre” 1937 “Maurice Chevalier” 1937 “Victoria Regina” 1937 “The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company” 1937 “Idiot’s Delight” 1937 “The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company” 1937 “The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company” 1937 “The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company” 1937 “The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company” 1937 “The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company” 1937 “Wine of Choice” Undated “Dame Nature” 1938 “Ladies and Gentlemen” 1940 “The White Steed” 1939 “Springtime for Henry” 1939 “Private Lives” 1943 “Macbeth” 1942 “Candle in the Wind” 1942 “Louisiana Purchase” 1941 Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 7

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“Twelfth Night” 1941 “The Philadelphia Story” 1940

1 13 Ford Symphony Gardens “The Detroit Symphony Orchestra” 1934

1 14 Grand Opera House “At Home Abroad” 1936 “Mansion on the Hudson” 1936 “Laburnum Grove” 1935 “Ziegfeld Follies” 1934 “The Laugh Parade” 1932 “Of Thee I Sing” 1932 “Grand Hotel” 1931 “Yes, My Darling Daughter” 1937 “A Doll’s House” 1937 “Madame Bovary” 1937 “Hamlet” 1936 “Cyrano de Bergerac” 1936 “King Richard III” 1938 “Pins and Needles” 1938 “Our Town” 1939 “Knickerbocker Holiday” 1939 “I Married an Angel” 1939 “You Never Know” 1938 “There Shall Be No Night” 1940 “Hold on to Your Hats” 1940 “Hamlet” 1939 “Arsenic and Old Lace” 1939 “Watch on the Rhine” 1942 “The Rivals” 1942 “King Henry IV” 1939 “King Henry IV” 1939

1 15 Grant Park Band Shell “Chicago Civic Opera Orchestra” 1937

1 16 Great Northern Theatre “Maid in the Ozarks” 1946 “Sing Out, Sweet Land!” 1945 “The Third Little Show” 1931 “The Vagabond King” 1927 “Tropical Pinafore” 1940 Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 8

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1 17 Harris Theatre “Over Twenty-One” 1944 “You Can’t Take It With You” 1936 “Pride and Prejudice” 1936 “Petticoat Fever” 1934 “No Time for Comedy” 1939 “Skylark” 1939 “Edna His Wife” 1938 “Golden Boy” 1938 “Edna His Wife” 1938 “Susan and God” 1938 “Lady in Waiting” 1940 “Ladies in Retirement” 1940 “Outward Bound” 1939 “The Man Who Came to Dinner” 1939 “Junior Miss” 1942 “The Corn is Green” 1942 “Theatre” 1941

1 18 “Macbeth” – The Negro Unit (W.P.A.) “Macbeth 1936

1 19 Northwestern University “The Littlefield Ballet” 1939 “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe” 1935 “Samson and Delilah” 1935

1 20 Orchestra Hall 1935 “Ossip Gabrilowitsch” 1935

1 21 Selwyn Theatre “Zasu Pitts” 1944 “Rebecca” 1944 “Cornelia Otis Skinner in Her Repertory of 1935 Plays” “Hollywood Holiday” 1935 “The First Legion” 1935 “Tovarich” 1937 “Ruth Draper in her Character Sketches” 1936 “Of Mice and Men” 1938 “I Am Different” 1938 “The Sea Gull” 1938 Anderson Playbill Collection, 1927-1946, Undated Page 9

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“Here Today” 1940 “The Male Animal” 1940 “My Dear Children” 1939 “Candida” 1939 “Spring Again” 1942 “Blithe Spirit” 1942 “Boys and Girls Together” 1941 “Balieff’s Chauve-Souris” 1932

1 22 Studebaker Theatre “Foolish Notion” 1945 “A Connecticut Yankee” 1944 “The Patriots” 1944 “The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company” 1944 “Trudi Schoop and her Comic Ballet” 1936 “Trudi Schoop and her Comic Ballet” 1936 “Ted Shawn and his Ensemble of Men 1936 Dancers” “The Mikado” 1934 “Mordkin Ballet” 1937 “Cry Havoc” 1943 “New Pins and Needles” 1941 “The Boston Comic Opera Co.” 1943

1 23 Unidentified Theatre “One for the Money” 1939 “Mignon” 1944 “Ignace Paderewski” 1933 “Angela is Twenty-Two” 1939 “I’d Rather be Right” 1938 “Julius Caesar” 1938 “The Sea Gull” 1938 “Amphitryon 38” Undated “Ballet Impromptu” 1940

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