http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8j967wd No online items Lester Donahue Performing Arts Collection William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 Los Angeles, CA 90045-8200 Phone: (310) 338-5710 Fax: (310) 338-5895 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.lmu.edu/ © 2013 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Lester Donahue Performing Arts 011 1 Collection Lester Donahue Performing Arts Collection Collection number: 011 William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California Processed by: Unknown Librarian Date Completed: perhaps 1995 Encoded by: Alvaro González © 2013 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Lester Donahue Performing Arts Collection Dates: 1852-1963 Collection number: 011 Creator: Donahue, Lester Collection Size: 7 archival document boxes and 14 oversize boxes 20 linear feet Repository: Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90045-2659 Abstract: The Lester Donahue Collection consists of materials on performing artists that Donahue, himself a concert pianist, collected. The collection also contains a substantial amount of material pertaining to Madame Helena Modjeska, the nineteenth-century actress who immigrated from Poland to the Orange County area in 1876 and became a star of theater in the United States. Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University. Publication Rights Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or executors. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Series number, Box and Folder number, Lester Donahue Performing Arts Collection, Collection 011, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University. Acquisition Information Lester Donahue originally collected the materials in this collection. Loyola Marymount University (then Loyola University) acquired them in 1964 from Count Daniel and Countess Bernardine Donohue, who had been close friends of Donahue and who served as executors of his estate. Lester Donahue had stipulated in his will that the materials go to Loyola University (now Loyola Marymount University). Accession number 1995.18. Lester Donahue Biography Lester Donahue (1892-1964) was a Los Angeles-born concert pianist. A protégé of the actress Madame Helena Modjeska, Donahue studied piano in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Switzerland. His first concert tour was in the United States, with the coloratura soprano Ellen Beach Yaw; this was only the first of many tours throughout the United States and also Europe for Donahue in the 1910s and 1920s. Lester Donahue Performing Arts 011 2 Collection Donahue also served as the president of the Los Angeles Municipal Arts Commission. His interest in autographs and concert and musical programs and ephemera is reflected in the content of this collection. Collection Description This collection consists of several boxes of playbills, programs, and clippings pertaining to theater and film personalities from circa 1880 to circa 1950, with an emphasis on artists of 1910-1930.. Also in the collection are journal issues pertaining to performing arts, papers of Lester Donahue (including correspondence, certificates, articles written by him, etc.), sheet music, book jackets and artifacts The collection also contains a substantial amount of material pertaining to Madame Helena Modjeska (1840-1909), the nineteenth-century actress who immigrated from Poland to the Orange County area in 1876 and became a star of theater in the United States. This fact reflects Lester Donahue's status as a protégé of Modjeska. Materials on Madame Modjeska include books, photographs, letters, playbills, scrapbooks, typescript biographies, and several artifacts belonging to the actress. See: Series One: Clippings, box 3, folder 171. Series Two: Programs, Box 5, folders 24, 42, and 43; box 6, folder 62; box 14ov, folder 8. Series Five: Portraits, Subseries B: Helena Modjeska; Series Seven: Music Box 9ov, folders 1 and 2. Series Eight: Scrapbooks Series. Nine: Artifacts, Box 12ov, folders 13-16. NOTE: These books, shelved by call number, are part of the Lester Donahue Collection. 1995.18.15 Robida, A. The City of Carcassonne. [192-?]. DC801 .C24 R6313 1920 1995.18.16 Ford. DuBarry. c. 1902. DC135 .D8 F6 1902 1995.18.17 Drew. Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew. 1899. PN2287 .D63 A3 1899 1995.18.18 Amiens La Cathédrale. 1918. NA5551 .A45 L4 1918 1995.18.19 Lee. A Life of William Shakespeare. PR2894 .L4 1899 1995.18.20 Brown. Joint Owners in Spain. PS1127 .J6 1925 1995.18.21 Agard. The Glory that Was Greece. DF 77 .A5 1930 1995.18.22 Patterson. Maude Adams. c1907. PN2287 .A4 P38 1907 The collection is arranged in the following series and subseries based on subject and format of materials. This may be the original order that Lester Donahue conceived. Series One Clippings Subseries A: People Subseries B: Miscellaneous Series Two Programs Series Three Serials Series Four Book Jackets Series Five Portraits Subseries A: General Subseries B: Helena Modjeska Series Six Lester Donahue Papers Series Seven Music Series Eight Scrapbooks Series Nine Artifacts Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Donahue, Lester, 1892-1964 Modjeska, Helena, 1840-1909 Entertainers -- Biography Actors -- Biography Actresses -- Biography Lester Donahue Performing Arts 011 3 Collection Series 1:Clippings. Undated Series 1, Subseries A: People undated Series 1: Clippings. Undated Series Description This series consists of newspaper clippings arranged into two subseries. Subseries A is "People," and contains items on actors and actresses, musicians, and authors. Series 1, Subseries A: People undated Box:Folder 1:1 Adams, Maude Box:Folder 1:2 Alda, Frances Box:Folder 1:3 Anderson, Mary Box:Folder 1:4 Anglin, Margaret Box:Folder 1:5 Antheil, George Box:Folder 1:6 Arditi, Luigi Box:Folder 1:7 Arliss, George Box:Folder 1:8 Armsby, Leonora Wood Box:Folder 1:9 Arnold, Edward Box:Folder 1:10 Arthur, Julia Box:Folder 1:11 Auer, Leopold Box:Folder 1:12 Bailey, Frankie Box:Folder 1:13 Baring, Maurice Box:Folder 1:14 Barry, Philip Box:Folder 1:15 Barrymore, Diana Box:Folder Barrymore, Ethel 1:16-17 Box:Folder 1:18 Barrymore, John Box:Folder 1:19 Barthelmess, Richard Box:Folder 1:20 Basil, Wassily de Box:Folder 1:21 Bauer, Harold Box:Folder 1:22 Beecham, Sir Thomas Box:Folder 1:23 Beerbohm, Max Box:Folder 1:24 Beethoven Box:Folder 1:25 Belasco, David Box:Folder 1:26 Berlioz, Hector Box:Folder 1:27 Bernhardt, Sarah Box:Folder 1:28 Boardman, Eleanor Box:Folder 1:29 Bond, Carrie Jacobs Box:Folder 1:30 Booth, Edwin Box:Folder 1:31 Bordoni, Irene Box:Folder 1:32 Bori, Lucrezia Box:Folder 1:33 Bos, C.V. Box:Folder 1:34 Boulanger, Nadia Box:Folder 1:35 Brady, William A. Box:Folder 1:36 Brian, Donald Box:Folder 1:37 Buhlig, Richard Box:Folder 1:38 Burke, Billie Box:Folder 1:39 Calvé, Emma Box:Folder 1:40 Campbell, Mrs. Patrick Box:Folder 1:41 Carpenter, John Box:Folder 1:42 Carreno, Teresa Box:Folder 1:43 Caruso, Enrico Box:Folder 1:44 Casals, Pablo Box:Folder 1:45 Castle, Irene Box:Folder 1:46 Cather, Willa Box:Folder 1:47 Cavallieri, Lina Box:Folder 1:48 Chaliapin, Feodor Box:Folder 1:49 Chaplin, Charlie Lester Donahue Performing Arts 011 4 Collection Series 1:Clippings. Undated Series 1, Subseries A: People undated Box:Folder 1:50 Chatfield, Taylor, Hobart Box:Folder 1:51 Chatterton, Ruth Box:Folder 1:52 Chenal, Marthe Box:Folder 1:53 Cochran, Charles B. Box:Folder 1:54 Cohan, George M. Box:Folder 1:55 Collier, Constance Box:Folder 1:56 Colton, John Box:Folder 1:57 Cornell, Katherine Box:Folder 1:58 Cortot, Alfred Box:Folder 1:59 Coward, Noel Box:Folder 1:60 Cowles, Eugene Box:Folder 1:61 Craig, Edward Gordon Box:Folder 1:62 Crane, William H. Box:Folder 1:63 Cuevas, Marquis de Box:Folder 2:64 Damrosch, Walter Box:Folder 2:65 Danilova, Alexander Box:Folder 2:66 Debussy, Claude Box:Folder 2:67 DeFalla, Manuel Box:Folder 2:68 DeMille, Agnes Box:Folder 2:69 Donahue, Lester Box:Folder 2:70 Draper, Muriel Box:Folder 2:71 Dressler, Marie Box:Folder 2:72 Drew, John Box:Folder 2:73 Duchin, Eddy Box:Folder 2:74 Duncan, Isadora Box:Folder 2:75 Duse, Eleonora Box:Folder 2:76 Eagles, Jeanne Box:Folder 2:77 Eames, Emma Box:Folder 2:78 Elliott, Maxine Box:Folder 2:79 Fairbanks, Douglas Box:Folder 2:80 Farrar, Geraldine Box:Folder 2:81 Fiske, Harrison Grey Box:Folder 2:82 Fiske, Minnie Maddern Box:Folder 2:83 Fitch, Clyde Box:Folder 2:84 Flagstad, Kirsten Box:Folder 2:85 Fokine, Michel Box:Folder 2:86 Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston Box:Folder 2:87 Forrest, Edwin Box:Folder 2:88 Forrester, Izola Box:Folder 2:89 Fowler, Gene Box:Folder 2:90 Frank, Herman W. Box:Folder 2:91 Fremstad, Olive Box:Folder 2:92 Friedman, Ignaz Box:Folder 2:93 Fry, Christopher Box:Folder 2:94 Galli-Curci, Amelita Box:Folder 2:95 Garden, Mary Box:Folder 2:96 Gentle, Alice Box:Folder 2:97 Gershwin, George Box:Folder 2:98 Godowsky, Leopold Box:Folder 2:99 Golden, John Box:Folder 2:100 Goldwyn, Samuel Box:Folder 2:101 Grainger, Percy Box:Folder 2:102 Granville-Barter, Harley Box:Folder 2:103 Greene, Patterson Box:Folder 2:104 Guilbert, Yvette Box:Folder 2:105 Guitry, Sacha Box:Folder 2:106 Hammond, John Hays, Jr.