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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: L'Aiglon, Hour-Glass
Description: Theater program. Chrestomathian-Ellis Literary Societies of Iowa College present L'Aiglon, a romantic drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand; preceded by The Hour-Glass, a morality play in one act by W. B. Yeats. Souvenir program of dramatics presented by Chrestomathian-Ellis Societies at the Colonial Theatre, Grinnell, Iowa, Friday evening, May 11, 1906. Cast of The Hour-Glass: Edd O. Hunting, Louis D. Hartson, Neva D. Armstrong. Cast of L'Aiglon: Emma M. Suckow, Lucia M. Carter, Amy G. Collins, Beth I. Ames, Clare M. Lyon, Blanche Bray, Clarence E. Lyon, Arie Muyskens, Harry C. Seeds, Warren W. Tuttle, Harold W. Rice, Arthur K. Beik, Dwight Campbell, Earl P. Carney, Harry H. Wheaton. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1906
PID: grinnell:6109

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: 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: 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: Little Minister
Description: Theater program. The Calocagathia-Institute Societies present The Little Minister, a comedy in four acts dramatized from the novel by J.M. Barrie. Performed at the Colonial Theatre, Grinnell, Iowa, on Friday Evening, March 25, 1904. Cast: Leonard T. Carney, Hallie C. Rerick, Verna Chase, L.J. Merrill, E.J. Jaqua, Allen Kenyon, Roscoe Brown, Milo Smith, Parker Fillmore, Cecil Vest, Morse Rew, Rush Denise, Earle Brundage, Oda Hall, Helen Sayles, Agnes Knowlton. Photo of cast on cover. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:6112

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