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.

This collection has the following subsets:

Items in this collection

I don't give

I don't give

Brown University

Printed on heavy orange paper. Title from first line. Eleven-line poem. Typesigned at end: Ed Sanders.

I don't care where they send me

I don't care where they send me

Brown University

words by Schuyler Greene ; music by Geoffrey O'Hara. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] War slogans: p. [6]

I didn't raise my dog to be a sausage: comic song

I didn't raise my dog to be a sausage: comic song

Brown University

lyric by Chas. McCarron ; music by Herman Paley. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "I'm on my way to Dublin Bay" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: dog and sausages, printed in dark brown ink / Starmer.

I didn't raise my dog to be a sausage: comic song

I didn't raise my dog to be a sausage: comic song

Brown University

lyric by Chas. McCarron ; music by Herman Paley. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "I'm on my way to Dublin Bay" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: dog and sausages, printed in dark brown ink / Starmer.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

lyrics by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son / [rose symbol]; photograph of Chee Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co. / White, N.Y. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Photographs on p. [6]: Kitty Gordon and Gus Van & Joe Schenck.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

Brown University

words by Alfred Bryan ; music by Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Respectfully dedicated to Every Mother--Everywhere." Professional copy.

I cannot sing as I used to sing

I cannot sing as I used to sing

Brown University

Pages [1]-[2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double leaves. Poem on page [3] printed in three columns. Title from first line. At end of text: Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Murphey. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because Brown University copy received with other holiday cards by Murphey dated 1936, 1937 and 1939; one of the cards has the Murpheys' address in Augusta.

I cannot bear to say good-bye

I cannot bear to say good-bye

Brown University

words and music by Anita Owen. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier and woman embracing / Barbelle.

I can't think ob nuthin' else but you, or, Luli Lu

I can't think ob nuthin' else but you, or, Luli Lu

Brown University

words and music by Harry Dacre For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: the Sisters Abbott Cover illustration: photograph of the Misses Abbott; floral design / [C.E.?] Advertisements for other music: p. [2], 4-[8]

I can see the shadowy lines of its trees

I can see the shadowy lines of its trees

Brown University

Poem describes landscape of poet's boyhood, with trees and islands. Poem describes landscape of poet's boyhood, with trees and islands. Postcard printed in purple within red border of type ornaments. At head of title reproduction of photograph of shore with sailboats, captioned: Fort Allen Park. Title from first line of five-line passage of poetry. Type-signed at end of poem: Longfellow. Place of publication suggested because Longfellow was born in Portland and because Brown University item was acquired with similar postcards illustrating scenes near Portland, Me. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

I can always find a little sunshine: in the Y.M.C.A

I can always find a little sunshine: in the Y.M.C.A

Brown University

by Irving Berlin. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Yip-yip-yaphank, a military musical "mess" cooked up by the boys of Camp Upton. Advertisement for "I'll take you back to Italy" and another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: a soldier.

I can always find a little sunshine: in the Y.M.C.A

I can always find a little sunshine: in the Y.M.C.A

Brown University

by Irving Berlin. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Yip-yip-yaphank, a military musical "mess" cooked up by the boys of Camp Upton. Advertisement for "I'll take you back to Italy" and another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: a soldier.