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Title: True Story
Description: Advertisement for a play about the romance between a male Grinnell College history professor and a female Grinnell College English professor performed at the Colonial Theater in Grinnell, Iowa. Probably 1925. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:6114

Title: Carmen
Description: Theater program. Ralph Dunbar Productions, Inc. present The Dunbar English Opera Company in an American production of Bizet's masterful Carmen. Colonial Theatre, Friday, October 7, 1921. Cast: John Knox, James Stevens, Lester Spring, Jack Bean, Lee Bright, Lorna Doone Jackson, Louise Gilbert, Elizabeth Myers, Winifred Wiley, George Shields, Harry Raschig, Gilbert Jackson. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:6120

Title: Martha
Description: Theater program. The Redpath Vawter Management presents, "Martha," an opera in five scenes, by the Aborn Opera Company. Libretto by St. George and Friedrich; music by Friedrich von Flotow. Grinnell, Iowa, High School Auditorium, Monday, Nov. 3. Cast: Ethel Harrison, Estelle Engler, Chester Bright, Frederic Taggart, Chas. D'Altoni, Margery Morrison, Chester Bright. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6118

Title: Martha
Description: Theater program. Martha, comic opera in four acts by Fredrich von Flotow. Text by St. George and Friedrich. Tuesday, May 31, 1921, Colonial Theater, Grinnell, Iowa. Given by the Faculty of the Grinnell School of Music, assisted by the Glee Clubs and Orchestra. Benefit of the Endowment Fund. Cast: Jean Young Currie, Mrs. Margery Warner Bouma, Elias Blum, Arthur Faguy-Cote, David E. Peck, L.D. Hartson. Girls' Glee Club and Men's Glee Club. Grinnell College Orchestra, George L. Pierce, conductor. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:6117

Title: Mr. Innes and His Band
Description: J.E. Bayer and H.F. Lanphere present Mr. Innes and his Band in combination with scenes from Grand Opera by Grand Opera Artists (not in costume); the whole under the direction of F. N. Innes. Performers: Helene Noldi, Frances Boyden, Edgardo Zerni, Wilhelm A. Xanten, Achille Alberti, S. P. Vernon, Bohumir Kryl, Henry Heidelberg. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6110

Title: Passers-by
Description: Theater program. The Kiwanis Club presents the Community Playmakers of Grinnell, Iowa in Passers-by, a four-act play by Haddon Chambers, Colonial Theater, Grinnell, Dec. 14, 1921, at 8:00 o'clock. General Director, W.H. Bridge. Cast: Clarence Richards, E.E. Harris, Delmar Sitton, Tom Burroughs, Mrs. M.A. Bridge, Mrs. E.W. Virden, Doris, Virden, Joan Chandos Bridge. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:6116

Title: Penrod
Description: Theater program. The Class of 1923 Grinnell High School presents Penrod, a comedy in four acts adapted for the stage from Booth Tarkington's Penrod Stories by Edward E. Rose. High School Auditorium, Thursday, May 31, 1923, Eight O'Clock. Cast: Marion Kingsland, Mary Cox, Louella Hoyt, Clare Schuyler, Verne Selle, P.J. Edwards, Virginia Swisher, Dayton Barber, Mary Matlack, Foster Rinefort, Glen Pilgrim, Lyle Ewart, Alice Spaulding, Maurice Crabb, Edwin Green, Oscar Davidson, David Talbott, Cleon Russell, Lilly Watson. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:6113

Title: Project Interaction : What Was Life Like for a Child Sixty Years Ago?, What Was Life Like for a Child Sixty Years Ago?
Description: Interviews conducted with Grinnell senior citizens by the various clubs of the Poweshiek Council of Campfire Girls. Interviews with Henry Alden, Katherine Kintzinger Cramer, Elizabeth Hempstead Ernst, Lucille Potts, George Ernst, Hester Sperling Wells, Mrs. Van Nimwigian, Edna Tinnes, Vera Hyde, Dorothy Elliott Sisco, Doris White Anderson, Lola Clark Fields, and Harvey Marcum.
Date Created: 1979
PID: grinnell:6050

Title: Red Riding Hood's Rescue
Description: Red Riding Hood's Rescue, or the Dangers of Disobedience by John Astor Broad. Miss M. Verbeck, directress; Stella Westbrook, pianist. Preston's Opera House, Tuesday eve., July 9th, 1878 at 8 o'clock. Cast: Carrie Botelle, Clara Hill, Ervin Ladd, Willie Newman, Lulu Carson, Mabel Worthington, Cora Conner, Susie Bayer, Cora Graham, Jessie Rouse. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1878
PID: grinnell:6111

Title: Rural School Experiences
Description: Reminiscences of teachers and students in the rural schools of Iowa, primarily Poweshiek County, during the first half of the twentieth century.
Date Created: 1989
PID: grinnell:6083