Performance and Entertainment

Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

Items in this collection

Soldiers of America

Soldiers of America

Brown University

words by Wm. H. McMasters ; music by Lillian G. McMasters. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of shield with star.

Soldier's memento

Soldier's memento

Brown University

Printed in red, blue and superimposed red and blue on page [1] within red ornamental border on sides and bottom; pages [2]-[4] blue-lined writing paper. At head of title wood-engraving of flying eagle carrying flag and music scroll. Poem in five eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: Camp [blank] Co. [blank] Regiment. In lower margin: By James P. Herron.

Soldier lad

Soldier lad

Brown University

words by W.H. Stringer ; music by Chas. W. Lorriman. Cover title. As sung by: The Brooks Sisters. Cover illustration: drawing of Canadian flag.

Soldier boy: march song

Soldier boy: march song

Brown University

by Bernard E. Fay. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: a bugler, a tent and a house.

Soldier boy

Soldier boy

Brown University

words by D.A. Esrom ; music by Theodore Morse. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement A-40 for other songs: p. [2] Advertisement for "Beatrice Fairfax" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: woman kissing one of several soldiers marching / Harry--.Lewis--

Soldier boy

Soldier boy

Brown University

words by D.A. Esrom ; music by Theodore Morse. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement A-40 for other songs: p. [2] Advertisement for "Beatrice Fairfax" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: woman kissing one of several soldiers marching / Harry--.Lewis--

Soldier boy

Soldier boy

Brown University

words by D.A. Esrom ; music by Theodore Morse. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the National Guards of the U.S.A." Advertisement for "Sweet cider time when you were mine": p. [4] Cover illustration: woman kissing one of several soldiers marching / Harry--.Lewis-- Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Soiree Artistique au Palais Royal

Page [4] blank. Page [1] within colored ornamental borders. Printed in dark green on buff paper. Announcement of club's annual costume party for 1936.

Soft morning

Soft morning

Brown University

Poetry printed in two columns; type-signed at end of each poem. Mimeographed typescript on gold paper. At head of second column in two lines "Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free Poems among Friends, Vol. 1, p. [3]") This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Soda lyric

Soda lyric

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Caption title. Advertisement for Sheldon's Drug Store, Providence and Newport. Date from internal evidence.

Sod and begorra

Sod and begorra

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in black and green on glossy white card stock in postcard format. On recto at head of text illustration of shamrock plant. On verso: Jonathan Williams with A. Doyle Moore.

Sock and Buskin Presents The Brown University Modern Dance Group in An Evening of Dance

Andy Roth remained in the dance field as a performer on Broadway and in film. Ruby Shang danced with Paul Taylor before establishing her own company. Jane Desmond remained in the dance field as a dance historian. Dancer, Sheryl Grooms Brissett Chapman, Ed.D, ACSW, received an Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Brown in 2019. The student choreographers for this show were: Andy Roth, Ellen Anderson, Jeffrey Kerner, Kaaren Ragland, Ruby Shang, Jane Desmond, Phil Bond. Andy Roth remained in the dance field as a performer on Broadway and in film. Ruby Shang danced with Paul Taylor before establishing her own company. Jane Desmond remained in the dance field as a dance historian. Dancer, Sheryl Grooms Brissett Chapman, Ed.D, ACSW, received an Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Brown in 2019. The student choreographers for this show were: Andy Roth, Ellen Anderson, Jeffrey Kerner, Kaaren Ragland, Ruby Shang, Jane Desmond, Phil Bond. Faunce House Theatre Sock and Buskin Presents The Brown University Modern Dance Group in An Evening of Dance, Department of Theatre Arts records, OF.1Q.T1, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Social resurrection

Social resurrection

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: John Brown's March. Text of song in eight four-line stanzas with two-line chorus; imitates Julia Ward Howe's Battle hymn of the Republic. Type-signed at end: Thomas Lake Harris. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

So up

So up

Brown University

Michael Basinski. Printed on blue paper. Cover title. Poetry.

So that year, another year, came to its end

Bill Barich ; art by Michael Myer Printed in blue, red and black on white paper. Below text illustration of fish. Title is first line of piece. At end of text: The New Year, 1977. Author and publisher information from dealer.

So long, Mother: Al. Jolson's mother song

lyric by Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. soldier embracing his mother; photograph of Al Jolson. Variant advertisements.

So long, Mother: Al. Jolson's mother song

lyric by Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. soldier embracing his mother; photograph of Al Jolson. Variant advertisements.

So long, Mother: Al. Jolson's mother song

lyric by Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. soldier embracing his mother; photograph of Al Jolson. Variant advertisements.

So long, Mother: Al. Jolson's mother song

lyric by Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. soldier embracing his mother; photograph of Al Jolson. Variant advertisements.