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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. 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: 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: Countryside Community Theatre, Bulletin no. 3, Three Pills in a Bottle, Suppressed desire, The Florist Shop, The Twelve Pound Look, The Pot Boiler, Hearts to Mend, Rosalie, Op O' Me Thumb
Description: Theater program. The Countryside Community Theatre, Grinnell, Iowa. Summer season, 1921. Plays performed include: Three pills in a bottle, by Rachel Lyman Field and Suppressed desires, by Geo. Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell on Wednesday, Aug. 24 and Friday, Aug. 26 at 8 p.m.; The Florist shop, by Winifred Hawksbridge and The Twelve pound look, by J.M. Barrie, with an interlude, Rainbow dance, performed by Alice Spaulding, Henryetta Spaulding, Ruth Somers, Virginia Swisher, and Maxine Abel on Wednesday, Aug. 31 and Friday, Sep. 2 at 8 p.m.; The Pot boiler by Alice Gristenburg and 'Op o' me thumb on Wednesday, Sep. 7 and Friday, Sep. 9 at 8 p.m.; Hearts to mend, by Harry A. Overstreet and Rosalie, by Max Maurey on Wednesday, Sept., 14, and Friday Sep. 16. W.H. Bridge, general director; Hallie Flanagan, Mrs. Arthur Child, Doris Virden, and Joe Kelly, assistant directors. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:6122

Title: Tyranny of Tears
Description: Theater program. Drama League of America, Grinnell Centre, reading rehearsal The Tyranny of Tears, a comedy in four acts by Haddon Chambers. High School Auditorium, Grinnell, Iowa, January 31, 1921. Cast: William H. Bridge, Cutler McGrew, Harold L. Beyer, Naomi Bordwell, Mrs. William H. Bridge, Stella Carse. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:6119