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

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.

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.

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.

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 Sammy: song

So long Sammy: song

Brown University

lyric by Benny Davis & Jack Yellen ; music by Albert Gumble. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Ain't you coming back to Dixieland" and other music: p. [5] Cover illustration: women watching U.S. soldiers marching.

So long Sammy: song

So long Sammy: song

Brown University

lyric by Benny Davis & Jack Yellen ; music by Albert Gumble. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Ain't you coming back to Dixieland" and other music: p. [5] Cover illustration: women watching U.S. soldiers marching.

So long Sammy: song

So long Sammy: song

Brown University

lyric by Benny Davis & Jack Yellen ; music by Albert Gumble. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Ain't you coming back to Dixieland" and other music: p. [5] Cover illustration: women watching U.S. soldiers marching.

So long Rhode Island

So long Rhode Island

Brown University

by Joe Cronson and Charles Ruddy. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers parading in Providence, R.I.

So like the silence after his bell

Broadsheet printed on heavy ivory paper. On recto poem in five four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Gon-rah-gonh O-doh-ne-yoh Go-wah "Great White Eagle." On verso, headed: Wallace Havelock Robb (May 19, 1888-January 29, 1976), notice signed: Joe Robb that his father wanted this poem printed and sent to family and friends at his death.

So like the silence after his bell

Broadsheet printed on heavy ivory paper. On recto poem in five four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Gon-rah-gonh O-doh-ne-yoh Go-wah "Great White Eagle." On verso, headed: Wallace Havelock Robb (May 19, 1888-January 29, 1976), notice signed: Joe Robb that his father wanted this poem printed and sent to family and friends at his death.

So dress up your dollars in khaki: (and help win democracy's fight)

words by Lister R. Alwood ; music by Richard A. Whiting. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by National War Saving Committee. War slogan: p. [4] Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of scenes promoting sale of war savings stamps (WSS) / MS ; Wayne plates.

Snowdrop

Snowdrop

Brown University

Easter card. French fold; printed on double page. Pages [2,4] blank.

Snow

Snow

Brown University

Pages [3] & [4] blank.

Smiling

Smiling

Brown University

Printed in green on white paper within border of type ornaments. Poem in four lines. At end of text: (Compliments of The Wayside Traveler) Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Smile as you kiss me good-bye

lyric by Raymond Egan ; music by Art. Gillham. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Just you": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier and his sweetheart / Barbelle.

Smile as you kiss me good-bye

lyric by Raymond Egan ; music by Art. Gillham. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Just you": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier and his sweetheart / Barbelle.