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

God be with our boys to-night

words by Fred. G. Bowles ; music by Wilfrid Sanderson. For high medium voice and piano in C major (No. 3) Caption title. Copyrighted 1917 under title "Someday at last." Sung by: John McCormack. Advertisement for "We'll keep Old Glory flying" and two other songs: p. [8] Also published for: low voice and piano in A♭ major (No. 1), low medium voice and piano in B♭ major (No. 2), and high voice and piano in D♭ major (No. 4)

God be with our boys to-night

words by Fred. G. Bowles ; music by Wilfrid Sanderson. For low voice and piano in A♭ major (No. 1) Caption title. Copyrighted 1917 under title "Someday at last." Sung by: John McCormack. Advertisement for other songs: p. [8] Also published for: low medium voice and piano in B♭ major (No. 2), high medium voice and piano in C major (No. 3), and high voice and piano in D♭ major (No. 4)

God answers prayer

God answers prayer

Brown University

Printed in navy. Title printed within two lines of type ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God answers prayer

God answers prayer

Brown University

Printed in navy. Title printed within two lines of type ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God answers prayer

God answers prayer

Brown University

Printed in navy. Title printed within two lines of type ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God and our Union!

God and our Union!

Brown University

By Louis Dela ; melody and adaptation by Dr. Leopold Meignen. Text of song in five numbered eight-line stanzas, with last two lines repeated and two-line chorus beginning: God and our Union!--the hope of the free! Prose note at end praising song. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Goat songs by Ray Drew

Goat songs by Ray Drew

Brown University

Printed in dark red on cream paper. Illustration of two goats by R. Totten. Publisher's flier includes quotation by R. Eberhart.

Go, lovely rose!

Go, lovely rose!

Brown University

Printed on glossy card stock. Poem surrounded by hand-colored illustration of roses. Title from first line. At head of title: To [blank] Poem in five five-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Go when the morning shineth

Printed in orange and black on heavy white paper within orange ornamental border with vine. At head of text wood-engraving of little boy kneeling before a table. At head of text below illustration prose Biblical introduction beginning: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Title from first line of poem. Text of hymn in two eight-line stanzas. Name of author of hymn not given. At end of text: No. 44. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Go to Joseph

Go to Joseph

Brown University

Printed on lavender paper. Within colored ornamental border. At end of text: P.O. Box 5999, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15210.

Go now lightfooted into danger

Title from first line. Text within single line rubricated border; with red initial. At end of text: oyez. Beneath: From the animal kingdom by Mary Fabilli, published April 1975 by Oyez... Printed for Oakland Poetry Week courtesy of the Holmes Book Co.

Go lad and may God bless you: song

lyric by Haven Gillespie ; music by Henry I. Marshall. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Star dance folio No. 18B": p. [4] War slogans: p. 2-[4] Cover illustration: soldier embracing his mother, with bugler in background.

Go 'long, go 'long

Go 'long, go 'long

Brown University

words by Ella M. Burke; music by Jennie E. Lissenden For voice and piano Caption title Lyricist's name appears as E.M. Burre on cover Advertisement for another song: p. [6]

Glory to old Maine: Dedicated to the Twelfth Maine Regiment

To be sung to the tune: Glory hallelujah. Within single line border. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Glory! Glory! Glory to old Maine. At end of text below double rule: Sold by H.W. Bryant, Antiquarian Bookstore, 28 Exchange St. Portland. Suggested range of publication dates because song refers to the 12th Maine Regiment as ready to fight, and it was mustered out in 1864.

Glory to God in the highest

Processed copy. On blue paper. At end of text: Christmas 1945. Author's name from dealer and from signature on Brown Univ. copy. Possibly published in New Mexico, where author was born.

Glory

Glory

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: John Brown's body. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Glory, glory, Hallelujah. At end of text: A new marching song to the tune of "John Brown's Body." Copyright, 1918, by Wm. W.K. Nixon. Second Edition.