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

Bring the answer back to me

words by Harry Dillon ; music by John Dillon. For voice and piano. Caption title. At head of title on cover: "Keep a guessing, children." "Words by John Dillon ; music by Harry Dillon"--Cover.

Bring me a letter from my old home town: ballad

words by A.G. Delamater ; music by Will R. Anderson. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. 2-[4] War slogans: p. 2-3. Cover illustrations: photograph of a family writing letters.

Bring back the boys from over there

words & music by Lodoiska Gardette D'Arensbourg. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: the U.S. Army. Also published for: orchestra.

Bring back my soldier boy to me

words by Walter Hirsch ; music by Frank Magine. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. cavalry soldier in battle scene / Natwick.

Bring back my daddy to me

words by William Tracey & Howard Johnson; music by George W. Meyer. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement A76 for songbook "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madge Evans; drawing of soldier silhouettes / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Bring back my daddy to me

words by William Tracey & Howard Johnson; music by George W. Meyer. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement A76 for songbook "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madge Evans; drawing of soldier silhouettes / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Bring back my daddy to me

words by William Tracey & Howard Johnson; music by George W. Meyer. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement A76 for songbook "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madge Evans; drawing of soldier silhouettes / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Bring back my daddy to me

words by William Tracey & Howard Johnson; music by George W. Meyer. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement A76 for songbook "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madge Evans; drawing of soldier silhouettes / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Bring back a Belgian baby to me

words and music by Ben Black. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Mummy mine" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier holding a Belgian child / W.R.

Bright republic: a song and chorus

written for the National jubilee, July 4th, 1865 by Rev. J. F. Bingham; music by William Krauskopf. Text within double lines. Music by William Krauskopf.

Breakfast in Hollywood song

Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Text on recto superimposed on photographs of Tom Breneman wearing different hats, captioned: Hollywood's Mad Hatter--Tom Breneman. Text of song in two four-line stanzas. To be sung to the tune: My bonnie lies over the ocean. "Listen to Tom Breneman's Breakfast in Hollywood Monday through Friday over the American Broadcasting Company"--Verso.

Brasilia

Brasilia

Brown University

Poetry. Broadsheet printed in black and tan, with deckled left and bottom edges. At head of t.p.: Specimen. Vignette in tan of dove and rainbow on recto. Printed on the verso of a single sheet of paper, with the t.p. of the author's Lyonnesse on the recto. As published, Lyonnesse is a collection of the author's poems that was printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Cf. Tabor, S. Plath, A13.