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

Good Will hose song

Good Will hose song

Brown University

Song boasts of fire fighters' prowess in fighting and singing. Song boasts of fire fighters' prowess in fighting and singing. Within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Jessier, the flower of Dunblane. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text below rule within lower border: Thomas M. Scroggy, Publisher, No. 443 Vine St., below Thirteenth, Philadelphia, where all the new songs can be had wholesale and retail. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Good will

Good will

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Page [1]: To my friends Christmas greetings and a New Year's wish.

Good resolutions

Good resolutions

Brown University

Printed in gold on heavy cream paper within gold ornamental border. At head of title colored lithograph of head and shoulders of little boy in sailor suit pasted onto item. Poem in three four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Good night

Good night

Brown University

At head of text: Read by Major Edward Bowes, Capitol Theatre "Family," Sunday, January 12th, 1930. First line: Sleep sweetly in this quiet room.

Good night

Good night

Brown University

Text of song in three seven-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Good morning: May we present your menu

1 broadsheet. Poetry and prose printed in purple on grey paper. Contains hospital menu selection for the day with explanations for daily dietary requirements and the role sodium plays as body balancer.

Good morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!

written around a Fort Niagara fragment by Robert Lloyd. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman in military uniform / Henry Hutt. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Good morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!

written around a Fort Niagara fragment by Robert Lloyd. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman in military uniform / Henry Hutt. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Good morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!

written around a Fort Niagara fragment by Robert Lloyd. For voice and piano. Caption title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement for "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman in military uniform. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Good morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!

written around a Fort Niagara fragment by Robert Lloyd. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogan: cover. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman in military uniform / Henry Hutt. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Good luck to the U.S.A.

Good luck to the U.S.A.

Brown University

words by Arthur J. Lamb ; music by Frederick V. Bowers. March for voice and piano. Cover title. "Respectfully Dedicated to my friend, Frank N. Cobb."--Caption. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: people waving at a parade of soldiers.

Good luck for the New Year

Printed in gold and colors within blue and gold border on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial block. Illustration of garland of four-leafed clover inside borders. Facsimile author autograph at end of poem: Mary C. Low. "No. 111W. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Good friend, for pity's sake forbear

Four-line poem urging diners not to eat pigs needed in France. Four-line poem urging diners not to eat pigs needed in France. Title from first line of poem. At head of title colored illustration signed "B.D. Hoxie" of jumping pigs below bar of music inscribed: We're going over; illustration of Uncle Sam in lower right corner initialed "B.D.H.". Double printing on heavy paper, probably intended to be folded and placed on restaurant table. At end of text: W.E.K.

Good evening

Good evening

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper. On page [4] map showing location of Schroeder's Cafe on Front Street. Prose and poetry. Includes questionnaire, weekly menu and poem in six four-line stanzas beginning: My husband is a changed man. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Good bye, dear sunny France

At head of title cut of American flag; at end of text cut of marching soldiers. At head of text: (Copyright by Leo B. Trask, 1918) Text of song in five four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: Ye comrades brave, ye comrades true, we formed an endless chain.

Good bye my soldier boy

Good bye my soldier boy

Brown University

words by David Rosenwein ; music by J. Ernest Reels. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Cover illustration: drawing of soldier bidding goodbye to mother / Edward Brooks.

Gone with a handsomer man

Page [4] blank. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas divided between John and Jane. At end of text: Will Carlton's Farm Ballads. Suggested range of publication dates because several editions of Farm ballads were published in the 1870s.