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.

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Items in this collection

Ivy ode

Ivy ode

Brown University

Tune: Bright college years.

Italia

Italia

Brown University

Broadsheet; folded to create three panels. Cover title. Poetry printed in brown on beige paper. Type-signed at end of each poem: Edith Orthwein Burr. Colored flag of Italy below title on title page. Date from stamp on page [2]

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

Brown University

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Harry Tierney. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Somewhere on Broadway" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier, U.S. Capitol, Abraham Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson / LPN.

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

Brown University

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Harry Tierney. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Somewhere on Broadway" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier, U.S. Capitol, Abraham Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson / LPN.

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

Brown University

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Harry Tierney. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Somewhere on Broadway" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier, U.S. Capitol, Abraham Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson / LPN.

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

Brown University

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Harry Tierney. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Somewhere on Broadway" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier, U.S. Capitol, Abraham Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson / LPN.

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

It's time for every boy to be a soldier: song

Brown University

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Harry Tierney. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Somewhere on Broadway" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier, U.S. Capitol, Abraham Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson / LPN.

It's the same old chow

It's the same old chow

Brown University

lyric by Edward Anthony ; music by Lou. G Merrill. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Good luck, Sam! Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: a horseshoe.

It's the flag!

It's the flag!

Brown University

words and music by Lottie Wallace Simmons. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers marching through a city, with American flags / E.H. Pfeiffer.

It's simple

It's simple

Brown University

David Meltzer. Caption title. Title and first line same. Poetry in twenty lines printed in brown on copper laid paper. Type-signed at end: David Meltzer. At end of text: A free poem for Seattle, May 1971. Arranged by Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcas Islands.

It's simple

It's simple

Brown University

Caption title. Title same as first line. Poetry in twenty lines printed in black within green border of type ornaments. Type-signed at end: David Meltzer. At end of text: Mudra Windrose Series / Printed at Hermes Free Press. Not later than 1972 when acquired with another edition dated "1972."

It's only Pennsylvania: most respectfully dedicated to the "Powers that be"

It's only Pennsylvania: most respectfully dedicated to the "Powers that be"

Brown University

by John Phœnix, Jr. Poetry. Printed area: 19.4 x 7.7 cm. Poem in nine stanzas complaining of badly-made uniforms issued, after long wait, to Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment in Washington. Cannot be by George Horatio Derby who used pseudonym of John Phoenix, since he was not a Civil War soldier. First line: On the sixteenth of April, four weeks ago.

It's Morgan's

It's Morgan's

Brown University

Advertises books written by Cooke and others.

It's mighty hard luck to be dead broke

It's mighty hard luck to be dead broke

Brown University

Text of song in two twelve-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: It's mighty hard luck to be dead broke. At end of text: Copyright 1906 by H.H. Jones.

It's dark outside

It's dark outside

Brown University

Title from first line. On verso: A free poem in the public interest from WCDC-TV.

It's America first

It's America first

Brown University

composed by G. Goodson Wright ; arranged by H.O. Wheeler. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: drawing of American revolutionary soldier and figure of Columbia, with American eagle and banner with stars and stripes.

It's all up in Dixie: song and chorus

It's all up in Dixie: song and chorus

Brown University

written and composed by Henry Tucker. Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano. Verses 4-5 printed as text at bottom of p. 4. Title set within an ornamental frame / Warren, Music Stereotyper. Advertisement for "A careful selection of songs and ballads ..." published by Wm. A. Pond & Co. on back cover dated 1864.

It's a long, long way-from the U.S.A.

It's a long, long way-from the U.S.A.

Brown University

text for U.S.A., H.A. Parker ; words and music by Langton Marks. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the Honorable Mrs. Pleydell-Bouverie." "Origianal title: It's a Long, Long Way--(From the Colonies to London Town), Copyright 1917 by Cary & Co."--P. 2. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: soldier standing at attention.

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

Brown University

words by Val Trainor ; music by Harry Von Tilzer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Says I to myself, says I" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier dreaming of woman's face / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer. Photograph of Harry Von Tilzer: p. [4]

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

Brown University

words by Val Trainor ; music by Harry Von Tilzer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Says I to myself, says I" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier dreaming of woman's face / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer. Photograph of Harry Von Tilzer: p. [4]

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

Brown University

words by Val Trainor ; music by Harry Von Tilzer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Says I to myself, says I" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier dreaming of woman's face / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer. Photograph of Harry Von Tilzer: p. [4]

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

It's a long, long way to the U.S.A. and the girl I left behind

Brown University

words by Val Trainor ; music by Harry Von Tilzer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "That's the meaning of I-R-E-L-A-N-D" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier dreaming of woman's face / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer. Two photographs of Harry Von Tilzer: p. [4]