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Guide to the
Rosa Hart Papers
Ca. 1905-1964
50.13 linear feet
Collection Number 1
Prepared by Patricia A. Threatt
September 2012
CITATION: The Rosa Hart Papers, Collection No. 1, Box number, Folder number, Archives and
Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.
Archives and Special Collections Department
Frazar Memorial Library
McNeese State University
Biographical Sketch
Rosa Lucille Hart, 1900-1964, was born in Woodville, Mississippi, A graduate of Sophie
Newcomb College and purportedly the first female cheerleader, Hart founded the Lake Charles
Little Theatre in 1927 and directed all of the productions for 30 years. Hart was known as an
enthusiastic director and coached many local amateurs in acting. As a patron of the arts, Hart
corresponded with popular actors and writers, including Charles Laughton, H.L. Mencken, Lyle
Saxon, Weeks Hall, William Faulkner, Vincent Price, and many others. In her later years, Hart
opened the 3R’s Book Shop, where she continued her teaching and coaching in the dramatic arts.
Scope and Content Note
The Rosa Hart Papers consist of six series touching many key parts of Hart’s life. The largest
series, Series I: Scrapbooks (Subseries A: Little Theatre Seasons), contains documents
relating to the Lake Charles Little Theatre’s work and productions, 1927-1928; 1936-1942; 19461960; and 1964. These documents include notes, programs, photographs, clippings, and
correspondence about the productions.
The other scrapbooks relate to Hart’s other activities outside of the Little Theatre. Series I:
Scrapbooks (Subseries B: Postcards) contains postcards removed from an album, ca. 1905 –
ca. 1960, with most having no writing on them. Series I: Scrapbooks (Subseries C: Europe
Trip) contains a 1951 scrapbook of a trip to Europe and a 1956 travel diary. Series I:
Scrapbooks (Subseries D: Contest Notebooks) contains notes, correspondence, and
photographs regarding Hart’s contest entries and greeting card idea submissions, ca. 1940-ca.
1960. Series I: Scrapbooks (Subseries E: Newcomb Girls’ College) contains a scrapbook and
other memorabilia of Hart’s activities at Newcomb, Ca. 1920.
Series 2: Playbills and Programs contains programs and articles from performing arts
productions across the United States and Europe, 1939-ca. 1957. Series 3: Scripts contains
published and unpublished scripts, most typewritten, ca. 1950. Series 4: Correspondence
contains letters to and from Hart and others, ca. 1927-ca. 1955. Series 5: Photographs contains
family photographs, Little Theatre participants, and Lake Charles scenes, ca. 1950. Series 6:
Miscellaneous contains loose papers, biographical materials, articles, and artifacts, ca. 1940-ca.
1962.
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Container List
Series 1: Scrapbooks. Subseries A: Little Theatre Seasons.
Box Folder Description
1
1927-28 Season, Photographs from productions: Moonshine, Overtones, The
Cajun, Seventeen, The Trystin’ Place, and Two Crooks and a Lady.
Photograph of Lake Charles Little Theatre Orchestra, 1927-28.
1937-38 Season Scrapbook, Season Membership ticket, Listing of Officers and
Board of Directors, Committee Chairmen, form letter requesting members,
various LT clippings.
1937-38 Season: First Lady Masonic Temple programs, photographs from
Stanley's Studio, announcement, newspaper clippings, photograph of orchestra,
correspondence, announcement of Drawing Room meeting "Tonight at 8:30."
1937-38 Season: Kind Lady Masonic Temple program, photographs, clippings,
announcement, notes, several pages dealing with presentation of First Lady in
Beaumont, newspaper clippings, photographs.
1937-38 Season: Ceiling Zero Masonic Temple program, photographs,
announcement, clippings, correspondence, Drawing Room Meeting announcement for Susan and God and Victoria and Regina.
1937-38 Season: Stage Door photographs, clippings, announcement, programs.
Clippings about the death of Robert Leake.
Three large negatives of 1927-28? productions.
2
1
Photograph of Lake Charles Little Theatre Orchestra, 1927-28, with members
identified.
Photographs from productions: The Valiant, Ricky Runs Amok, El Christo,
Pierrott's Penny, The Cajun, Rita, Will O' the Wisp, The Flower Shop, For
Distinguished Service, Bagatelle, Overtones, and Moonshine.
2
1936-37 Season: Lightin' performed at the Masonic Temple program, newspaper
clippings, photographs of scenes of the play taken by Stanley's Studio in Lake
Charles, other clippings.
3
1936-37 Season: A Bill of Divorcement Masonic Temple program, newspaper
clippings, photographs by Stanley's Studio.
4
1936-37 Season: The Barker Masonic Temple program, clippings, photographs by
Stanley's Studio.
3
Box Folder Description
2
5
1936-37 Season: The Drunkard Majestic Hotel presented by the Junior Welfare
League program, newspaper clippings, photographs by Stanley's Studio, and an
announcement of a Drawing Room meeting Waiting for Lefty.
6
1936-37 Season: Cock Robin Masonic Temple program, clippings, photographs
by Stanley's Studio.
7
1936-37 Season: Three Cornered Moon Masonic Temple program, photographs,
newspaper clippings.
8
1936-37 Season: The Ghost Train Masonic Temple program, photographs.
9
1936-37 Season: Trial of Mary Dugan presented by Enterprise Club newspaper
clippings, photographs.
10
1936-37 Season: Newspaper clippings about the Little Theatre, announcement of
the LT Scavenger-Salvage Party, listing of officers, board of directors and
committee chairman, announcements and photograph of workshop one-act plays
The Revealing Moment and The Rehearsal, announcements of Drawing Room
meetings Mr. Antonio and Winterset.
11
1938-39 Season: Springtime for Henry Summer Intimate Theatre photographs.
12
1938-39 Season: Cradle Snatchers photographs, newspaper clippings, programs.
13
1938-39 Season: Personal Appearance photographs.
14
1938-39 Season: page from a scrapbook listing the season's performances,
Outward Bound photographs from play, newspaper clippings.
15
1940-41 Season: Elizabeth the Queen three programs (one autographed),
photographs of scenes, also of cast offstage, announcement, newspaper clippings,
notes.
16
1940-41 Season: “The Lake Charles Little Theatre presents the Junior Members
in Three One-Act Plays" program, photographs from Old Man Taterbug and The
Minuet, and Torchbearers, Act II.
17
1940-41 Season: Candle Light program, photographs, clippings Here Today
program, clippings Whistling in the Dark program, clippings.
18
1940-41 Season: The Women presented by the Junior Welfare League newspaper
clippings, photographs, negatives from scenes of the play, stage directions.
4
Box Folder Description
3
1939-40 Season: Scrapbook of You Can't Take It With You presented by Little
Theatre on Bilbo Street programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of rehearsals
by Camera Club, dress rehearsal pictures by Stanley's Studio, Levingston
production pictures, clippings about symphony performing at LT, and
correspondence.
1939-40 Season: Night Must Fall newspaper clippings, programs, photographs,
Photograph of LT Orchestra.
1939-40 Season: Little Women clippings, announcement, photographs, misc.
newspaper clippings about Florence Williams and Edward Everett Horton.
1939-40 Season: Room Service program, newspaper clippings, photographs The
Bat newspaper clippings, photographs, notes.
1941-42 Season: Scrapbook of The Man Who Came to Dinner program
(autographed), photographs, newspaper clippings.
1941-42 Season: What A Life two programs (one autographed), notes, newspaper
clippings, photographs, clippings about play going to Camp Polk.
1941-42 Season: Reserve Two For Murder program announcement, photographs
of scenes from play, photograph of audience, newspaper clippings,
correspondence.
1941-42 Season: My Sister Eileen program (autographed), photographs, newspaper
clippings.
1941-42 Season: Sweat and Culture clippings.
4
1946-47 Season
1
Stable Talk - 4 page newspaper put out by Little Theatre October 14-17, 1946 vol.
1 #2, (3 copies), contains short history of LT, note from New York Public Library
about receipt of copy, clippings about Harnett Kane appearing at the LT, page from
scrapbook listing season's performances, misc. clippings about LT.
2-3
Boy Meets Girl newspaper clippings, KPLC News Items, music for LT fanfare,
Stable Talk (autographed and used as Boy Meets Girl program), letter from Hart to
Dramatistics Play Service, and photographs.
4
I Remember Mama programs, insert to programs about volunteer workers,
clippings, KPLC News Items, scene sequences, cast notes, telegrams,
correspondence, box office reservation list.
5
Photographs from scenes of the play I Remember Mama, photograph of graduation
of make-up class.
6-7
Mary of Scotland newspaper clippings, (also clippings of 20th anniversary of LT),
programs, list of cast members, telegrams, glass plate, box office reservations,
correspondence, and photographs.
5
Box Folder Description
4
8-9
Biography presented by Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre of New Orleans
correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, ticket, telegrams, and
photographs.
10
George Freedley - drama critic from New York to lecture at LT, newspaper
clippings, telegrams, photographs (see correspondence file also).
11
Little Theatre expedition to New Orleans – theatrical studies with Ethel Brett,
photographs.
12-13 Arsenic and Old Lace newspaper clippings, program, cast notes, correspondence,
production notes, glass plate, KPLC News Items, Piano Recital at LT - program
and clippings, programs from the Barter Theatre of Virginia autographed by Robert
Porterfield, and photographs.
14
Little Theatre Picnic - newspaper clippings, photographs, negatives of picnic.
15
Summer Suckers - photographs, newspaper clippings.
5
1947-48 Season
1
Dear Ruth presented by Little Theatre of Shreveport list of props, newspaper
clippings, programs, photographs of scenes of play, correspondence.
2
Lions Club Minstrels performed by the Lions Club with the aid of the Little
Theatre photographs, notes, programs.
3
The Barretts of Wimpole Street autographed program, newspaper clippings,
photographs, KPLC News Items, correspondence, telegrams from Opelousas Little
Theatre.
4
Death Takes A Holiday program, photographs, newspaper clippings, also clippings
of piano recital held at LT, telegrams from Crowley and Beaumont.
5-6
State of the Union newspaper clippings, autographed program, script of play,
correspondence, also newspaper clippings about Ethel Barrymore, Dalton
Reymond, and article on Hart, photographs of Wells Fargo, and photographs of the
play.
6
Box Folder Description
6
1947-48 Season (continued)
The Great Big Doorstep Scrapbook - photographs of scenes, newspaper
clippings, telegrams from Life Magazine, other telegrams, photographs of house
before and during the move, photographs of stage being set up, Southwest News
article, "Stage and Screen" by Margery Wilson, photographs of Mary Ruth Wade
who won a contest and went to Hollywood, backstage sketches by Doug
Stapleton.
6
1
Correspondence, letter (1952) to Life editors about Michael Rougier (the
photographer from Life who came for the production), line changes, notes, light
and curtain call notes, notes on entertaining Life photographers, program from
LT in Shreveport.
2
Life Magazine articles, June 14, 1948 (4 copies), Southwest News article
3
Photographs from scenes of the play The Great Big Doorstep.
7
1-2
1948-49 Season: Glass Menagerie newspaper clippings, two programs (one
autographed), correspondence signed “Hunter” (Leake) and photographs.
3-4
1948-49 Season: Life With Father three programs (one autographed), newspaper
clippings, articles from Times-Picayune New Orleans State Magazine, article
from Houston Chronicle Magazine, correspondence, cast notes, and photographs
of the LT play and the movie version.
5
1948-49 Season: Seven Keys to Baldpate two programs (one autographed),
newspaper clippings, photographs from play.
6-7
1948-49 Season: Lovers and Madmen presented by Houston Little Theatre two
programs, newspaper clippings, pictures in Southwest News Magazine, telegram,
correspondence, notes, and photographs.
8
1948-49 Season: Blithe Spirit newspaper clippings, telegrams, Stable Talk (one
autographed which was used as the program for the play), clippings of Stage and
Screen by Margery Wilson and other clippings identifying various persons,
KPLC News Items, correspondence, photographs of the play.
9
1949-50 Season: Two Blind Mice two programs (one autographed), newspaper
clippings, photographs of the play.
10
1949-50 Season: Over 21 newspaper clippings, three programs (one
autographed), telegrams, correspondence, photographs of the play.
7
Box Folder Description
8
1
1949-50 Season: The Little Foxes newspaper clippings, telegrams, three
programs (one autographed), correspondence, photographs of the play.
2
1949-50 Season: The Pursuit of Happiness three programs (one autographed),
newspaper clippings, telegrams, correspondence, photographs of the play.
3
1949-50 Season: The Fatal Weakness presented by Memphis Little Theatre three
programs (one autographed), newspaper clippings, correspondence, and
photographs.
4
1950-51 Season: Medea newspaper clippings, notes, correspondence,
photographs of rehearsals and of the play.
5-6
1950-51 Season: Light Up the Sky telegrams, correspondence, newspaper
clippings, two programs, and photographs.
7-8
1950-51 Season: Peter Pan newspaper clippings telegrams, notes,
correspondence, three programs (one autographed), and photographs.
9
1
1950-51 Season: The Silver Whistle newspaper clippings, three programs (two
autographed), and photographs.
2-3
1950-51 Season: Goodbye, My Fancy presented by Tulsa Little Theatre
correspondence, newspaper clippings, program from Tulsa performance,
programs from Lake Charles performance, historical sketch of Tulsa Little
Theatre, stage directions, and photographs.
4
1950-51 Season: West From the Panhandle two programs, article.
5
1950-51 Season: "Charles Laughton Visits Lake Charles" notes, correspondence,
booklet on Laughton, newspaper clippings, contract, telegram, photographs of
Laughton and Rosa Hart.
6
1951-52 Season: 20th Century notes, newspaper clippings, telegrams,
correspondence, five programs (two autographed), Kansas City Southern Lines
News article on George Boudreaux.
7
1951-52 Season: photographs of the play 20th Century and of Silver Anniversary
fund raising, photographs of George Boudreaux.
8-9
1951-52 Season: Voice of the Turtle notes, copies of Stable Talk, copy of
magazine Anepuka, copy of Dixie Magazine from Times-Picayune,
correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the play and of the
Little Theatre building.
10
1951-52 Season: Rain presented by University of Houston Theatre newspaper
clippings, notes, correspondence, program.
10
1-5
1951-52 Season: Snow Queen newspaper clippings, telegrams, notes, eight
programs (two autographed), correspondence, and photographs.
8
Box Folder Description
11
1952-53 Season
1-4
Happy Time two programs, newspaper clippings, notes, script, reprint of article
from Shakespeare Quarterly, cover of booklet designed by Boyd Cruise,
correspondence, and photographs.
5-6
Come Back, Little Sheba presented by New Orleans Little Theatre in association
with Tulane University three programs, newspaper clippings, program from New
Orleans production, correspondence, notes, program from "The Milky Way" a
Playbox production from Texas, and photographs.
7-9
Darkness At Noon three programs (two autographed), notes, newspaper
clippings, pages from Time Magazine January 26, 1953, correspondence,
telegrams, booklet from Theatre Production Service, script, and photographs.
12
1952-53 Season (continued)
1-2
Remains To Be Seen newspaper clippings, three programs (one autographed),
notes, two letters about a contest concerning the play, copy of Pittsburgh People
with article about LT, and photographs.
3-5
Bell, Book and Candle book cover for Magic in Mexico, newspaper clippings,
four programs (two autographed), notes, correspondence, notes on Masque of
Kings at the Pioneer Club, KPLC News Item, photographs, and set description.
13
1-3
1953-54 Season: Out of the Frying Pan four programs (two autographed),
newspaper clippings, tickets, two scripts, notes, and photographs.
4-5
1953-54 Season: The Hasty Heart three programs (two autographed), newspaper
clippings, correspondence, railway receipt, and photographs.
6-7
1953-54 Season: Henry IV, Part I presented by McNeese State College's Bayou
Players newspaper clippings, three programs (two autographed), correspondence,
notes, article from Seventeen Magazine, and photographs.
14
1-2
1953-54 Season: Born Yesterday three programs (two autographed), telegrams,
newspaper clippings, negatives of the stage, and photographs.
3-5
1954-55 Season: Mr. Roberts newspaper clippings, notes, cast lists,
correspondence, telegrams, copy of contract for Jeffrey Lynn to perform, two
scripts, four programs (two autographed), and dogtags.
6-7
1954-55 Season: The Fourposter three programs (two autographed), newspaper
clippings, telegrams, correspondence, and photographs.
9
Box Folder Description
14
8-9
1954-55 Season: The Man presented by San Antonio Little Theatre two programs
(both autographed), one San Antonio program, notes, newspaper clippings,
correspondence, and photographs.
15
1-4
1954-55 Season: photographs from Mr. Roberts.
16
1-2
1954-55 Season: Le Carnival and Androcles and the Lion negatives,
correspondence, notes, three programs (two autographed), and photographs.
3-4
1954-55 Season: My 3 Angels newspaper clippings, five programs (one
autographed), notes of past history of LT, KPLC news items, and photographs.
5-8
1954-55 Season: Detective Story four programs (two autographed), newspaper
clippings, telegrams, and photographs.
17
1955-56 Season
1-2
Quality Street two programs (autographed), correspondence, newspaper clippings,
and photographs,
3-4
The Remarkable Mr. Penny Packer newspaper clippings, and photographs
5-6
Stalag 17 two programs (autographed), correspondence, contract for Hurd
Hatfield, telegrams, notes, newspaper clippings, program from the Utica
Community Theatre, and photographs.
7
High Ground newspaper clippings, two programs (autographed), and
photographs.
8
Happy Birthday presented by the Baton Rouge Little Theatre notes, newspaper
clippings, tickets, four programs, correspondence, telegrams, and photographs.
18
1956-57 Season
1-2
Barefoot in Athens two scripts, two articles on Socrates, newspaper clippings,
correspondence, notes, map of Athens, five programs (two autographed),
phonograph album of the reading of the play (outside of the folder), and
photographs.
3
Solid Gold Cadillac newspaper clippings and photographs.
4
The Fifth Season presented by the Stage, Inc. of Beaumont, Texas newspaper
clippings, program from production in Beaumont, two programs from the LT
production (autographed), and photographs.
5
The Lark newspaper clippings, notes, three programs (two autographed),
correspondence, letter from Lillian Hellman, two large photographs of scenes and
cast (outside of the folder).
19
1
1957-58 Season: Death of a Salesman four programs (two autographed), script,
notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
2
1957-58 Season: Teahouse of the August Moon four programs, sign from play,
notes, and newspaper clippings.
10
Box Folder Description
19
3
1958-59 Season: Sabrina Fair two programs (autographed), newspaper clippings,
and photographs.
4
1958-59 Season: White Sheep of the Family two programs (autographed),
newspaper clippings, photograph of Edward Everett Horton, hotel bill, and
correspondence from Horton.
5
1959-60 Season: The Rainmaker newspaper clippings.
6
1959-60 Season: Visit to a Small Planet newspaper clippings.
7
1964 Season: A Divertissment three programs, invitations, correspondence, and
photographs.
8
Once Upon a Mattress one program including photographs, notes
9
Camelot two programs including photographs, notes
Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries B Postcard Collection
Box Folder Description
1
Postcards
Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries C Europe Trip
Box Folder Description
1
Scrapbook of 1951 trip to Europe with Charlotte Tucker (donated by Tucker):
Photographs, playbills, postcards, brochures.
Travel diary of 1956 trip to Europe with Anne Belle Dees and Isabel Heinke,
vaccination certificate, Russian phrase book, passport and passport photographs,
itineraries, clippings, maps, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs of tourist
attractions.
Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries D Contest Notebooks
Box Folder Description
1
Notebooks, notes, correspondence, contest entries, and photographs (Rosa Hart,
Dick Pease, Alice Muth, and Charles Gardier), ca. 1940-ca. 1960.
Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries E Newcomb Girls' College
Box Folder Description
1
Scrapbook and other memorabilia of Hart’s activities at Newcomb, Ca. 1920.
Includes Hart's diploma, postcards, souvenirs from a trip to Mexico, photographs
of Hart as a Tulane cheerleader (2), and two Jambalaya yearbooks, 1920 and
1921.
11
Series 2 Playbills and Programs
Box Folder Description
1
1
New York City Ballet
2
Gotham Life Dec. 17-23, 1939
3
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1956
4
Maurice Evans Presents Shakespeare's Hamlet in its Entirety
5
Royal Shakespeare Theatre Measure for Measure
6
The Country Girl Omaha Community Playhouse
7
Clarence Day's Life With Father
8
Paul Robeson as Othello
9
Annie Get Your Gun
10
Summertime Light Opera presents Rudolph Friml's Rose Marie
11
Olsen and Johnson present Hellz a Poppin
12
A Midsummer Night's Dream California Festival Season 1934
13
Colonel W. deBasil's Ballets Russes
14
Mary of Scotland by Maxwell Anderson
15
The Pilgrimage Play Life of Jesus Christ
16
The Ten Chronicle Plays of W. Shakespeare
17
Katherine Cornell - Stage Portraits
18
Gilbert Miller presents Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina
19
American Shakespeare Festival Opening Soon 1955, Julius Caesar, The Tempest
20
Paul Gregory presents Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (2
copies)
21
Turnabout Theatre Souvenir Program
22
Municipal Auditorium Shreveport Herman Shumlin presents Tallulah Bankhead
in The Little Foxes
23
Peter Pan
24
Who Am I? Peter Pan
25
The Southern Shakespeare Repertory Theatre - Shakespeare
26
The Shipstads and Johnson - Ice Follies 1945
27
George White's Scandals
28
Michael Todd's Mexican Hayride
29
Oklahoma
2
1
Little Theatre of Shreveport The Silver Whistle
2
Studio M Playhouse presents Sweet Bird of Youth
3
Flat Rock Playhouse - The Vagabond Players
4
Theatre 54 The Purification and The Apollo of Bellac
5
Baton Rouge Civic Theatre Craig's Wife
6
Theatre Royal Haymarket Ross
12
Box Folder Description
2
7
Bulletin, Scottish Community Drama Association, Jan. 1957
8
Gallery Circle's Arena Presentation of Rope
9
The Curtain Call of the Little Theatre of Charlotte
10
Little L Theatre of Shreveport Reclining Figure
11
Provincetown Playhouse - Three Plays of the Sea
12
St. James Theatre Peter Pan
13
Music Box Theatre The Man Who Came to Dinner
14
Forty-Eighth Street Theatre Harvey
15
Empire Theatre Life With Father
16
Shubert Theatre The Philadelphia Story
17
Manhattan Center Cabaret Tac
18
Washington Civic Theatre presents Merrily We Roll Along
19
New Theatre Under Milk Wood
20
Grist Mill Playhouse Season of 1952
21
Community Theatre of Terre Haute presents The Shrike
22
Players Club The Great Big Doorstep
23
Alley Theatre presents Angelica
24
The Metropolitan Host
25
Showplace, The Magazine of Radio City Music Hall
26
Guild Theatre The World We Make
27
Adelphi Theatre See My Lawyer
28
Booth Theatre The Time of Your Life
29
Kungl Dramatiska Teatern Lang Dags Fard Mot Natt (Long Day's Journey Into
Night)
30
The Playhouse The Shop at Sly Corner
31
Morosco Theatre Skylark
32
Longacre Theatre Morning's at Seven
33
Ethel Barrymore Theatre Key Largo
34
The Music Box Theatre The Man Who Came To Dinner
35
National Theatre The Little Foxes
36
Imperial Theatre Too Many Girls
37
Chicago Stagebill, Selwyn Theatre My Dear Children
38
Martin Beck Theatre Ladies and Gentlemen
39
Hudson Theatre State of the Union
40
Bijou Theatre Life With Father
41
Empire Theatre O Mistress Mine
42
Barter Theatre's 17th Season June 20 to Sept. 3, 1949
43
Teatro Dell' Opera Terme Di Caracalla Stagione Lirica Estiva MCMLVI - La
Gioconda
44
Plymouth Theatre Margin for Error
13
Box Folder Description
2
45
Ethel Barrymore Theatre The Consul
46
Broadhurst Theatre The Barrier
47
Henry Miller Theatre The Cocktail Party
48
Coronet Theatre Hilda Crane
49
Shubert Theatre Kiss Me Kate
50
Empire Theatre The Member of the Wedding
51
Plymouth Theatre The Happy Time
52
Arena Theatre Arms and the Man
53
Nashville Community Playhouse Born Yesterday
54
Community Theatre of Terre Haute Stalag 17
55
Community Theatre of Terre Haute Lo and Behold
56
Alvin Theatre Mister Roberts
57
Morosco Theatre Death of a Salesman
58
Royale Theatre Affairs of the State
59
Majestic Theatre South Pacific
60
Martin Beck Theatre The Curious Savage
61
Forty-Eighth Street Theatre Black Chiffon
62
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Hope for the Best
63
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Much Ado About Nothing
64
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Over Twenty-One
65
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Out of the Frying Pan
66
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre The Visitor
67
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre When Ladies Meet
68
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre The Witching Hour
69
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Uncle Harry
70
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre For Keeps
71
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre A Bell for Adano
72
Fred Miller Theatre Sabrina Fair
73
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre The Merchant of Venice
74
Forty-Fourth Street Theatre Follow the Girls
75
Music Hall Hamlet
76
Alvin Theatre Something for the Boys
77
Longacre Theatre 3 Is A Family
78
Ziegfield Theatre Seven Lively Arts
79
Majestic Theatre Dream With Music
80
Shubert Theatre Catherine Was Great
81
Imperial Theatre Song of Norway
82
Forty-Eighth Street Theatre Pick-Up Girl
83
Biltmore Theatre Kiss and Tell
84
Chicago Stagebill of Blackstone Theatre Good Night Ladies
14
Box Folder Description
2
85
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Under Milk Wood
86
Bulletin, Scottish Community Drama Association, Sept. 1957
87
Cort Theatre The Diary of Anne Frank
88
Morosco Theatre Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
89
Theatre Royal Haymarket The Doctor's Dilemma
90
Cheltenham Little Theatre The Lady's Not for Burning
91
Civic Playhouse, Cheltenham Peer Gynt
92
The University Theatre of the University of Iowa Father Was President
93
Abbey Plays 1899-1948 Dublin, Ireland
94
Theatre Royal Haymarket The Chalk Garden
95
Turnabout Theatre The Playgoer
96
Pageantry Productions Limited presents A Fair White Tower
97
G.I. Joe presents Prop Wash
98
Martin Beck Theatre A Connecticut Yankee
99
Imperial Theatre Too Many Girls
100
Walnut St. Theatre Champagne For Everybody
101
SSSeamparohae Heserve???
102
On Stage, The Magazine for the Shubert Theatre in Detroit Two For the Seesaw
103
Dallas Theatre Center Julius Caesar
104
Landry Memorial School Beau Jesters
Series 3 Scripts
Box Folder Description
1
1-2
Untitled script of a play about New Orleans in the 1890s (labeled “Property of
E.J. Carstens”).
3
Lorena Bride - The Report Card
4
Alexander Fedoroff - A Beast is Dead
5
Keith R. Gates - Annals of a Palace, Don El Monto, Il Tempesta Di Norte
6
Henry David Wilson - The Snowy Dove
7
Untitled script of a play about Denver, 1859.
8
Untitled script of a play about a hotel.
9
Zoe Leger - The Deer Park, The Divining Rod
10
B.A. Kazan - Heaven Ltd., Reunion, The Schotkun, Ellis Island, My Uncle Mendle
11
Lt. Walter F. Grandy - I Married a Bachelor
12
Charles L. Yoder - Maelstrom
15
Box Folder Description
2
1
Seth Hathaway - Past Imperfect
2
Laurraine Goreau - Museum Piece
3
Mac's Camera Shop - Double Exposure
4
Louis Gaston Gardemal - When the Bough Breaks, Capital Idea
5
Jelks Jones - Actors Paradise
6
Elsa Neuberger - Louisa
7
Moonshine
8
Kate Jones Pickett - O Tempora! O Mores! or What's Wrong
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Episode One - Columbus at the Court of Queen Isabella
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When the Maid's Away, the Wife Can Play
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Untitled script of a play.
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Robert Howard - This One Thing
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Norman Corwin - Untitled
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Red Velvet Goat
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Raymond J. Martinez - Mr. Nobody
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Ernst Tyme - One More Wave
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William L. Shirer - The Traitor
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“An Interview with Distinguished Broadway Actors,” The Convict Returns, and
Dr. Bryce's Adventure.
Series 4 Correspondence
Box Folder Description
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1920's letters (6 items)
- Letters from Dorothy M. Ellis and from Robert Benchley - Life Magazine.
2
1930's letters (8 items):
- Letters from Emeru & Kaufman Insurance; Alexandria Little Theatre; and
Pitman Publishing Corp.
- Letter from Hart to Samuel French Co.
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Box Folder Description
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3
1940's Correspondence (79 items):
- Letters from Annie Laurie Williams Inc.; Lucien Doucet, Jr. of the Jennings
LT; Charles Martin; International Pictures Corp.; C.L. Shaver of the LSU Speech
Dept.; Virginia R. Moon; Irene Manning; Warren C. Odgen of the Times
Picayune; E.J. Carstens; Radie Harris; Walter McElroy of Hastings House Pub.;
J.F. Trump of The Play Box; Richard Owen of Eagle Lion Films; Stanley W.
Heath of Westminster Press; Doris M. Combre; Billie Trahan of the Teen
Tavern; LSU Bureau of Dramatic Activities; Crowley LT; Port Arthur LT;
Andrew J. Loeffler of the Dramatists Play Service; Carmen de Laureal Gardiner
of the N.O. Symphony Society; and Dorman E. Richardson of the Repertoire LT,
Toledo Ohio.
- Letters from Hart to Samuel French Co.; Eaves; John Wray Young of the
Shreveport Little Theatre; We, The People – CBS; Bob Weinman; J.L. Kaufman;
Mrs. T.A. Dees, Mrs. Margaret Doan, Mrs. L.L. Harris, Mrs. C.A. Lyons; (Eva?);
and Ethel.
- Correspondence between Hart and Lennen and Mitchell, Inc.
- Correspondence between Hart and Bert Elsas.
- Letter from John F. Elzey to Abner Horn.
- Letter from Esta L. Phillips to Marjorie Wilson.
- Letter from from Dick Suhre to Earl Crum (cc Hart).
- Letter from Marion K. Reed to Sugar Branch Office, N.O.
- Correspondence between Hart and Rhodes Scholarships Comm.in re: Herbert
Hadley.
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1940's Correspondence (continued) (48 items):
- Letters from S.E. Montgomery; the Vinton Literary Club; RKO Pathe Inc.;
Betty LeJeune; Katherine Doescher - sec. to Mordelo Vincent; Letitia D. Caffery;
Richard A. Anderson - Red Cross Award; Crowley LT - Mrs. Freda Scholl;
George Hale - Morristown, TN LT; Herb Voland - playbill attached; Sarah
Shufeldt - Thibodaux Literary Club; Dorothy M. Ellis; Philip Kaye - Theatre
Goers, S.D.; Stanley Ross - Sunday Star, Del.; Fritz Henle - NY photographer;
Mrs. Fran Yeargers - Opelousas Women's Club; Paul ? - Commercial Appeal,
Memphis, TN; Dottie Van Dyne; and the Winsbergs.-Letters from Hart to Frank
of Life Magazine; Mary of Life Magazine; Stanley Anderson;
- Letters from Marion Reed to RKO Pictures and to E.V. Richards
- Correspondence between Marion Reed and Warner Bros.
- Correspondence between Marion Reed and Irving Mack.
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Box Folder Description
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5
1950's Correspondence (117 items):
- Letters from Fritz Henle - NY photographer; Seth G. Hathaway; Sid Television Bureau of Advertising, NY; Sam Baum; Seymour - The Goldman;
W.M. Tugman; Betty Jane Nobe - Jennings LT; Mrs. E.J. Browning; Edwin T.
Connell; Mrs. A.R. Downing; Mary Nelson; Mary Lee Phillips; Mordelo
Vincent; Blair Wilcox - includes photo and clippings; Gaston L. Porterie;
Richard; Michael; Gene Broussard; Talbot Pearson; H.M. Taliaferro; Karl
Ashburn; William Schaefer - Warner Bros.; Bob Tallant; Brooks - N.Y. Times;
Wilbert Hammel; Elizabeth Schenk - concerning Bennett Cerf; Louisette Roser;
Loia Cheaney; John E. Lavery; Faye Emerson; E.V. Richards; Margaret Case
Harriman; Douglas Travers; J.M. Musgrave; Mrs. John J. Carroll; Beatrice
Burnaby; Christopher J. Blake; Jefferson Caffery; Elizabeth B. Gilbert; Mordelo
Vincent; Scott; Elsa Grossman; Mrs. W.C. Gardiner; Ethel Crumb Brett; Paul
Gregory; and Bert Elsas.
- Letters from Hart to Britain Travel Association; Mr. Atkinson - Times
Magazine - concerning 25th anniversary of the LT; Albert McCleery; Leonard
Goldenson; Bob O'Donnell; Charles Skouras; LT Enthusiasts; J. Douglas
Travers; Opera producer "Railroad" Hour; and Mr. Luce.
- Letter from Richard A. Anderson to Margaret Conover
- Letter from Talbot Pearson to Clark Weaver
- Letter from Loia Cheaney to J. Douglas Travers
- Letter from Newell Brock to Mrs. John J. Carroll
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Box Folder Description
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6
1950's Correspondence (continued) (66 items):
- Letters from Monroe Lippman; P.E. Bewshea - British Overseas Airways;
Louisette Roser; Pauline Syler - Ford Times; Buddy Wyatt; Blance Butler Shreveport Desk and Derrick; Hallmark Cards; Ray; P.D. Ginder - Camp Polk;
Edwin Loechel; Larry Guillory, Jo Ann Medrano, and Carol Ashburn; Mr. and
Mrs. A.G. Pierson; Mrs. B.N. Holt, Jr.; Shirley Gayle; Warren C. Odgen - Dixie
Roto Magazine; Gilmor Brown; Michele Reiner and Jane Amondsen; Loraine
Anderson; Emmett Rogers; Max Newman; Charles L. Yoder; Stephen Zoll; Betty
Carp; Claire; Jack F. Dailey; Elizabeth Burdick; Ruth R. Mayleas; Jacob J.
Brogger; A.L. Caney; George Kalenin; Henry R. Luce; Marie Darnels; and Harry
Wilcox - AT&T
- Letters from Hart to Louisette Roser
- Letter from “irate VP” to Fritizi Krause.
- Letter to Look Magazine.
- Letters from Richard Anderson to Annabel Aberle; George Hines; and William
Coleman.
- Letter from Daniel S. Mead to Richard B. McCaughan
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1
1960's Correspondence (78 items):
- Letters from Dorothy Olney Armand - Deuktsch Prod.; Harriet Hall; Beverly
Bennett - Life Magazine; Ruth Harrison Scurlock (Nobie); Sam "Tony Davis"
Depino; Elliott Chaze; John and Victoria Sandor; John; Danny Crockett; Editors
of Reader's Digest; Joseph Carroll - Sports Illustrated; Dorothy Richey; Margo C.
Boote - Norcross Inc.; Pinky; William Hunter; Barclay Peyton; Lady Leah
Hathaway; Jos. J. Vincent; Eric Lasher - This Week Magazine; and Ruth Sullivan.
- Letter from Hart to This Week Magazine.
- Letter from Barbara McClure to Mordelo Vincent
- Post cards from the Vincents and Wilcoxes.
- Letters from Mary Louise Stone to Hart and to “Mama and Bessie.”
- Letters from Warren C. Odgen - Dixie Roto Magazine.
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Box Folder Description
2
2
Undated correspondence (115 items):
- Letters from Mel Pomerantz; Carol; Peggy Mengis; Mrs. W.N. Cutcliff; Olivia;
Layne; Mrs. Ira A. Spear; Alice, Walt, and Diana Dunn; Louise Wabie; Bertha
Louisa; Alin; Raymond Titmouse; Don Evans; Alex Fadoff; Sid Mesibov; Don
Land; Jeannette Verduzco; St. Patrick's Hospital; Merita; Eleos; Hannah; Freda;
Mr. Valdes; M. Dees; R. Duffin; Kenneth K. Rose (letter signed “Rodney” with
clippings); Edward J. Crowley; Gene; Renie Riano (includes photographs); Jim
Miller (includes photographs); Amy Bullock; and L.S. Sardemal.
- Letters from Hart to Margery; Bill; MacPhersons; Milton, Norma and the baby;
Publishers - Ford Times; Lil; Loia Cheaney; Claude Rains; Rachel; Nathan; New
Yorker; Bert (Mrs. L.J. Elsas); Andrew Loeffier; Editor - Life Magazine; Cast &
Crew - all workers; Jack and Emily
- Correspondence between Hart and Robert C. Freeman - Simmons Co.
- Postcards from Virginia Harwood.
- Letter from J.W. to Bishop Manning.
- Letter from Emma Wilson to “Ideas.”
- Letter from George to “Travelers.”
- Letters, cards, clippings, photographs from Emily Kimbrough (16 items).
- Letters from George Freedley (includes manuscripts of "The Community
Theatre" publicity material, photographs, and other material) (28 items).
- Letters from Mrs. Parry F. Schippers (includes manuscripts and poetry) (31
items).
- Letters and manuscript from Frederic Nelson Little (16 items).
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Box Folder Description
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1
Letters from Harnett Kane (21 items)
2
Correspondence with Gene Cuny (23 items)
3
Letters from: Bette Davis - includes pamphlet, Vincent Price - includes clipping,
Art Linkletter, Bennett Cerf, Hunter C. Leake, Moss Hart, Peter Ustinov (12 items)
4
Letters from H.L. Mencken (12 items)
5
Letters from James McConnell includes clippings, manuscripts, copy of the Worm
Runner's Digest, copy of Science and Sanity (107 items)
6-7
Correspondence with Weeks Hall including a few snapshots and clippings, some
correspondence from others mentioning Hall, some undated, a few from the
1950's, most from the 1930's (201 items).
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Letters from Boyd Cruise including clippings (39 items).
Series 5 Photographs
Box Folder Description
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1-2
photographs from plays, LT workers, individuals
3
I-10 bridge; Ola Mae Dixon; Ken Dixon; Anne Smythe; Amy Bullock; E.V.
Richards; Z.G. Deutsch; Bob O'Donnell; Mrs. C.A. Richardson; Paramount
Theatre; George Ruckstuhl; Ed Daugherty and L.V. Harris; Jack Minnis; Arthur
Fanz; Wells Fargo - Little Theatre (before and after fire); Mary Ellie Leonhart;
Harry Bride and Mary Bono; William Ray, Maxine Ray, Wm. Ray, Jr., Pete
Novak, Augie Gromponi, Felix Scimineno, Charlotte Tucker, Hart, and other
females; Mrs. N.W. Read, Mrs. Carl Bankston, and Essa Mae Little; Bill
McClanahan; Gov. Sam Jones; Ellis Arnall; Jean Dalrymple and Maj. Gen. P.D.
Ginder; Agnes Moorehead, Hart, and others; Sir Hubert Wilkins; E.C. Hickson;
Hart with (Jean Kerr?); Evelyn Roberts; Joyce Cranford; Clyde Stewart; Alan
Dees; Ted Durham with Marjorie Wilson and Ed Daugherty, with Hart, and with
Charlotte Tucker and Gordon Gano; and Bill Merteno and Famsey McCleod.
4
Family photographs and friends, Hart, Fannie Hart, I.T. Hart, Jacobs family,
mostly unidentified, Lake Charles High School photo
5
Negatives
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Series 6 Miscellaneous
Box Folder Description
1
Associated Summer Suckers - pages from scrapbook, newspaper clippings,
minutes of meetings, and notes, ca. 1940-ca. 1960.
2
1-4
Committee and membership lists, financial records, clippings, short stories, play
production notes, notecards, tickets, membership drive material, etc., ca. 1940ca. 1962.
3
1-3
Committee and membership lists, financial records, clippings, short stories, play
production notes, notecards, tickets, membership drive material, etc., ca. 1940ca. 1962.
4
1
Nellie Lutcher - This Is Your Life clippings, correspondence, and telegrams,
1953.
2
American Magazine article about the Little Theatre, notes, and correspondence,
1950.
3
Pageant article about the Little Theatre by Harnett Kane, clippings, and
correspondence, 1950.
4
Tulane Conference notes, clippings, and correspondence, 1954.
5
Richard II, Beaumont Group clippings, correspondence, and notes, 1952.
6
John Mason Brown clippings, telegrams, correspondence, and photograph, 1952.
5
1
Rosa Hart biographical materials, newspaper clippings, awards, typescript of
article from the McNeese Review "Assert the Stage," also Little Theatre historical
material, list of plays performed, history of site locations, article from Players
Magazine, also some information on Fannie Hart, Rosa Hart's mother
2
River Road notebook of sketches by E.C. and Anne S. McGehee and illustrated
by Herbert Freeman, 1959 (inscribed to “Rosa,” 1961).
3
Little Theatre and Ted Durham - scholarship, clippings
Articles: Final Curtain (2 copies); Rosa; Encores on Main Street - misc. items:
necklace and ring; loving cup, 1951, McNeese Award for Cultural Leadership;
one roll of 16 mm motion picture film, appears to be children in an outside
performance of The Tempest with Rosa.
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