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

Programme

Programme

Brown University

A travesty on New York life, acted by the all-star caste of the 167th Brigade Machine Gun Company (Suicide Club), Section no. 1 Program of a play written and produced on the Western Front during World War I

Programme

Programme

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. Graduation exercises of unnamed school On verso Class hymn, beginning: Swiftly speed the precious moments, with words by Eva Mabel Sherman, a member of the graduating class. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Program: High jinks

Program: High jinks

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Program for "High" and "Low Jinks" at the Bohemian Club Theatre, December, 1899. This issue without cover.

Program: High jinks

Program: High jinks

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Program for "High" and "Low Jinks" at the Bohemian Club Theatre, December, 1899. This issue without cover.

Program of the Tercentenary Convocation: December 9, 11 and 12

Printed in reddish-brown on white paper. Below title seal of Providence Art Club and of the non-existent Burleigh College. Program of By slow degrees, or, I'd die for old Burleigh, by Roger T. Clapp, a Christmas show at the Providence Art Club based on ceremonies at Brown University. Includes text of two songs.

Professor George Bass, Rites and Reason Theatre

George H. Bass talks to the group during a break in rehearsal. George H. Bass talks to the group during a break in rehearsal. Professor George Bass, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, 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/)

Proem

Proem

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Eight line "Proem", followed by nine quotations. Appeared in collection "Poems" in 1893.

Proclamation!

Proclamation!

Brown University

Printed in five columns divided by curvilinear lines within border of type ornaments. Rhymed recipes.

Proclamation of the gospel of beauty

Text in two paragraphs under Roman numerals I and II. C.K. Byrd Check List...,No. 21 in "Indiana University Bookman" 5, December, 1960. Authorship and imprint from Johnson, Amer. 1st ed., p. 317 and Byrd, Check list, 21.

Proclamation of the gospel of beauty

Text in two paragraphs under Roman numerals I and II. C.K. Byrd Check List...,No. 21 in "Indiana University Bookman" 5, December, 1960. Authorship and imprint from Johnson, Amer. 1st ed., p. 317 and Byrd, Check list, 21.

Proclamation of the gospel of beauty

Text in two paragraphs under Roman numerals I and II. C.K. Byrd Check List...,No. 21 in "Indiana University Bookman" 5, December, 1960. Authorship and imprint from Johnson, Amer. 1st ed., p. 317 and Byrd, Check list, 21.

Processional of joy

Processional of joy

Brown University

by Malcolm Schloss. 1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Processional of joy by M. Schloss. Advertises book by same name in poetry and prose.

Processional of joy

Processional of joy

Brown University

by Malcolm Schloss. 1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Processional of joy by M. Schloss. Advertises book by same name in poetry and prose.

Pro-Germans, traitors we, forsooth

Page [4] blank. Initial blocks. Title from first line. Poetry and prose. At end of poem Life: From The Columbian lyre, 1828. Imprint information from dealer.

Private George Dilboy

Private George Dilboy

Brown University

Poem in fourteen lines. At end of text: Dedicated to James Pappaioannou, president of Altis Chapter No. 85 of The AHEPA, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. December 1929 A.D.

Private Flynn

Private Flynn

Brown University

words & music by Lloyd Garrett. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Additional verses: p. 3. Cover illustration: a soldier.

Printer's ink

Printer's ink

Brown University

Printed on green paper in red and black. Text on page [3] within red single line border. At head of text: Dedicated to Mr. Auguste Giraldi Publisher of Le Messager de New-York.

Princeton Songs

Princeton Songs

Brown University

Printed in orange and black. On cover: seal of Princeton University. 1924 Meeting National Alumni Association Princeton University Atlanta, Ga.