Rosa Hart Papers - McNeese State Universityereserves.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/pdfs/Hart001.pdfRosa Lucille Hart, 1900-1964, was born in Woodville, Mississippi, A graduate of Sophie

Guide to the

Rosa Hart Papers Ca. 1905-1964

50.13 linear feet

Collection Number 1

Prepared by Patricia A. Threatt

September 2012

CITATION: The Rosa Hart Papers, Collection No. 1, Box number, Folder number, Archives and

Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.

Archives and Special Collections Department

Frazar Memorial Library

McNeese State University

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Biographical Sketch

Rosa Lucille Hart, 1900-1964, was born in Woodville, Mississippi, A graduate of Sophie

Newcomb College and purportedly the first female cheerleader, Hart founded the Lake Charles

Little Theatre in 1927 and directed all of the productions for 30 years. Hart was known as an

enthusiastic director and coached many local amateurs in acting. As a patron of the arts, Hart

corresponded with popular actors and writers, including Charles Laughton, H.L. Mencken, Lyle

Saxon, Weeks Hall, William Faulkner, Vincent Price, and many others. In her later years, Hart

opened the 3R’s Book Shop, where she continued her teaching and coaching in the dramatic arts.

Scope and Content Note

The Rosa Hart Papers consist of six series touching many key parts of Hart’s life. The largest

series, Series I: Scrapbooks (Subseries A: Little Theatre Seasons), contains documents

relating to the Lake Charles Little Theatre’s work and productions, 1927-1928; 1936-1942; 1946-

1960; and 1964. These documents include notes, programs, photographs, clippings, and

correspondence about the productions.

The other scrapbooks relate to Hart’s other activities outside of the Little Theatre. Series I:

Scrapbooks (Subseries B: Postcards) contains postcards removed from an album, ca. 1905 –

ca. 1960, with most having no writing on them. Series I: Scrapbooks (Subseries C: Europe

Trip) contains a 1951 scrapbook of a trip to Europe and a 1956 travel diary. Series I:

Scrapbooks (Subseries D: Contest Notebooks) contains notes, correspondence, and

photographs regarding Hart’s contest entries and greeting card idea submissions, ca. 1940-ca.

1960. Series I: Scrapbooks (Subseries E: Newcomb Girls’ College) contains a scrapbook and

other memorabilia of Hart’s activities at Newcomb, Ca. 1920.

Series 2: Playbills and Programs contains programs and articles from performing arts

productions across the United States and Europe, 1939-ca. 1957. Series 3: Scripts contains

published and unpublished scripts, most typewritten, ca. 1950. Series 4: Correspondence

contains letters to and from Hart and others, ca. 1927-ca. 1955. Series 5: Photographs contains

family photographs, Little Theatre participants, and Lake Charles scenes, ca. 1950. Series 6:

Miscellaneous contains loose papers, biographical materials, articles, and artifacts, ca. 1940-ca.

1962.

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Container List

Series 1: Scrapbooks. Subseries A: Little Theatre Seasons.

Box Folder Description

1 1927-28 Season, Photographs from productions: Moonshine, Overtones, The

Cajun, Seventeen, The Trystin’ Place, and Two Crooks and a Lady.

Photograph of Lake Charles Little Theatre Orchestra, 1927-28.

1937-38 Season Scrapbook, Season Membership ticket, Listing of Officers and

Board of Directors, Committee Chairmen, form letter requesting members,

various LT clippings.

1937-38 Season: First Lady Masonic Temple programs, photographs from

Stanley's Studio, announcement, newspaper clippings, photograph of orchestra,

correspondence, announcement of Drawing Room meeting "Tonight at 8:30."

1937-38 Season: Kind Lady Masonic Temple program, photographs, clippings,

announcement, notes, several pages dealing with presentation of First Lady in

Beaumont, newspaper clippings, photographs.

1937-38 Season: Ceiling Zero Masonic Temple program, photographs,

announcement, clippings, correspondence, Drawing Room Meeting -

announcement for Susan and God and Victoria and Regina.

1937-38 Season: Stage Door photographs, clippings, announcement, programs.

Clippings about the death of Robert Leake.

Three large negatives of 1927-28? productions.

2 1 Photograph of Lake Charles Little Theatre Orchestra, 1927-28, with members

identified.

Photographs from productions: The Valiant, Ricky Runs Amok, El Christo,

Pierrott's Penny, The Cajun, Rita, Will O' the Wisp, The Flower Shop, For

Distinguished Service, Bagatelle, Overtones, and Moonshine.

2 1936-37 Season: Lightin' performed at the Masonic Temple program, newspaper

clippings, photographs of scenes of the play taken by Stanley's Studio in Lake

Charles, other clippings.

3 1936-37 Season: A Bill of Divorcement Masonic Temple program, newspaper

clippings, photographs by Stanley's Studio.

4 1936-37 Season: The Barker Masonic Temple program, clippings, photographs by

Stanley's Studio.

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2 5 1936-37 Season: The Drunkard Majestic Hotel presented by the Junior Welfare

League program, newspaper clippings, photographs by Stanley's Studio, and an

announcement of a Drawing Room meeting Waiting for Lefty.

6 1936-37 Season: Cock Robin Masonic Temple program, clippings, photographs

by Stanley's Studio.

7 1936-37 Season: Three Cornered Moon Masonic Temple program, photographs,

newspaper clippings.

8 1936-37 Season: The Ghost Train Masonic Temple program, photographs.

9 1936-37 Season: Trial of Mary Dugan presented by Enterprise Club newspaper

clippings, photographs.

10 1936-37 Season: Newspaper clippings about the Little Theatre, announcement of

the LT Scavenger-Salvage Party, listing of officers, board of directors and

committee chairman, announcements and photograph of workshop one-act plays

The Revealing Moment and The Rehearsal, announcements of Drawing Room

meetings Mr. Antonio and Winterset.

11 1938-39 Season: Springtime for Henry Summer Intimate Theatre photographs.

12 1938-39 Season: Cradle Snatchers photographs, newspaper clippings, programs.

13 1938-39 Season: Personal Appearance photographs.

14 1938-39 Season: page from a scrapbook listing the season's performances,

Outward Bound photographs from play, newspaper clippings.

15 1940-41 Season: Elizabeth the Queen three programs (one autographed),

photographs of scenes, also of cast offstage, announcement, newspaper clippings,

notes.

16 1940-41 Season: “The Lake Charles Little Theatre presents the Junior Members

in Three One-Act Plays" program, photographs from Old Man Taterbug and The

Minuet, and Torchbearers, Act II.

17 1940-41 Season: Candle Light program, photographs, clippings Here Today

program, clippings Whistling in the Dark program, clippings.

18 1940-41 Season: The Women presented by the Junior Welfare League newspaper

clippings, photographs, negatives from scenes of the play, stage directions.

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3 1939-40 Season: Scrapbook of You Can't Take It With You presented by Little

Theatre on Bilbo Street programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of rehearsals

by Camera Club, dress rehearsal pictures by Stanley's Studio, Levingston

production pictures, clippings about symphony performing at LT, and

correspondence.

1939-40 Season: Night Must Fall newspaper clippings, programs, photographs,

Photograph of LT Orchestra.

1939-40 Season: Little Women clippings, announcement, photographs, misc.

newspaper clippings about Florence Williams and Edward Everett Horton.

1939-40 Season: Room Service program, newspaper clippings, photographs The

Bat newspaper clippings, photographs, notes.

1941-42 Season: Scrapbook of The Man Who Came to Dinner program

(autographed), photographs, newspaper clippings.

1941-42 Season: What A Life two programs (one autographed), notes, newspaper

clippings, photographs, clippings about play going to Camp Polk.

1941-42 Season: Reserve Two For Murder program announcement, photographs

of scenes from play, photograph of audience, newspaper clippings,

correspondence.

1941-42 Season: My Sister Eileen program (autographed), photographs, newspaper

clippings.

1941-42 Season: Sweat and Culture clippings.

4 1946-47 Season

1 Stable Talk - 4 page newspaper put out by Little Theatre October 14-17, 1946 vol.

1 #2, (3 copies), contains short history of LT, note from New York Public Library

about receipt of copy, clippings about Harnett Kane appearing at the LT, page from

scrapbook listing season's performances, misc. clippings about LT.

2-3 Boy Meets Girl newspaper clippings, KPLC News Items, music for LT fanfare,

Stable Talk (autographed and used as Boy Meets Girl program), letter from Hart to

Dramatistics Play Service, and photographs.

4 I Remember Mama programs, insert to programs about volunteer workers,

clippings, KPLC News Items, scene sequences, cast notes, telegrams,

correspondence, box office reservation list.

5 Photographs from scenes of the play I Remember Mama, photograph of graduation

of make-up class.

6-7 Mary of Scotland newspaper clippings, (also clippings of 20th anniversary of LT),

programs, list of cast members, telegrams, glass plate, box office reservations,

correspondence, and photographs.

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4 8-9 Biography presented by Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre of New Orleans

correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, ticket, telegrams, and

photographs.

10 George Freedley - drama critic from New York to lecture at LT, newspaper

clippings, telegrams, photographs (see correspondence file also).

11 Little Theatre expedition to New Orleans – theatrical studies with Ethel Brett,

photographs.

12-13 Arsenic and Old Lace newspaper clippings, program, cast notes, correspondence,

production notes, glass plate, KPLC News Items, Piano Recital at LT - program

and clippings, programs from the Barter Theatre of Virginia autographed by Robert

Porterfield, and photographs.

14 Little Theatre Picnic - newspaper clippings, photographs, negatives of picnic.

15 Summer Suckers - photographs, newspaper clippings.

5 1947-48 Season

1 Dear Ruth presented by Little Theatre of Shreveport list of props, newspaper

clippings, programs, photographs of scenes of play, correspondence.

2 Lions Club Minstrels performed by the Lions Club with the aid of the Little

Theatre photographs, notes, programs.

3 The Barretts of Wimpole Street autographed program, newspaper clippings,

photographs, KPLC News Items, correspondence, telegrams from Opelousas Little

Theatre.

4 Death Takes A Holiday program, photographs, newspaper clippings, also clippings

of piano recital held at LT, telegrams from Crowley and Beaumont.

5-6 State of the Union newspaper clippings, autographed program, script of play,

correspondence, also newspaper clippings about Ethel Barrymore, Dalton

Reymond, and article on Hart, photographs of Wells Fargo, and photographs of the

play.

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6 1947-48 Season (continued)

The Great Big Doorstep Scrapbook - photographs of scenes, newspaper

clippings, telegrams from Life Magazine, other telegrams, photographs of house

before and during the move, photographs of stage being set up, Southwest News

article, "Stage and Screen" by Margery Wilson, photographs of Mary Ruth Wade

who won a contest and went to Hollywood, backstage sketches by Doug

Stapleton.

6 1 Correspondence, letter (1952) to Life editors about Michael Rougier (the

photographer from Life who came for the production), line changes, notes, light

and curtain call notes, notes on entertaining Life photographers, program from

LT in Shreveport.

2 Life Magazine articles, June 14, 1948 (4 copies), Southwest News article

3 Photographs from scenes of the play The Great Big Doorstep.

7 1-2 1948-49 Season: Glass Menagerie newspaper clippings, two programs (one

autographed), correspondence signed “Hunter” (Leake) and photographs.

3-4 1948-49 Season: Life With Father three programs (one autographed), newspaper

clippings, articles from Times-Picayune New Orleans State Magazine, article

from Houston Chronicle Magazine, correspondence, cast notes, and photographs

of the LT play and the movie version.

5 1948-49 Season: Seven Keys to Baldpate two programs (one autographed),

newspaper clippings, photographs from play.

6-7 1948-49 Season: Lovers and Madmen presented by Houston Little Theatre two

programs, newspaper clippings, pictures in Southwest News Magazine, telegram,

correspondence, notes, and photographs.

8 1948-49 Season: Blithe Spirit newspaper clippings, telegrams, Stable Talk (one

autographed which was used as the program for the play), clippings of Stage and

Screen by Margery Wilson and other clippings identifying various persons,

KPLC News Items, correspondence, photographs of the play.

9 1949-50 Season: Two Blind Mice two programs (one autographed), newspaper

clippings, photographs of the play.

10 1949-50 Season: Over 21 newspaper clippings, three programs (one

autographed), telegrams, correspondence, photographs of the play.

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8 1 1949-50 Season: The Little Foxes newspaper clippings, telegrams, three

programs (one autographed), correspondence, photographs of the play.

2 1949-50 Season: The Pursuit of Happiness three programs (one autographed),

newspaper clippings, telegrams, correspondence, photographs of the play.

3 1949-50 Season: The Fatal Weakness presented by Memphis Little Theatre three

programs (one autographed), newspaper clippings, correspondence, and

photographs.

4 1950-51 Season: Medea newspaper clippings, notes, correspondence,

photographs of rehearsals and of the play.

5-6 1950-51 Season: Light Up the Sky telegrams, correspondence, newspaper

clippings, two programs, and photographs.

7-8 1950-51 Season: Peter Pan newspaper clippings telegrams, notes,

correspondence, three programs (one autographed), and photographs.

9 1 1950-51 Season: The Silver Whistle newspaper clippings, three programs (two

autographed), and photographs.

2-3 1950-51 Season: Goodbye, My Fancy presented by Tulsa Little Theatre

correspondence, newspaper clippings, program from Tulsa performance,

programs from Lake Charles performance, historical sketch of Tulsa Little

Theatre, stage directions, and photographs.

4 1950-51 Season: West From the Panhandle two programs, article.

5 1950-51 Season: "Charles Laughton Visits Lake Charles" notes, correspondence,

booklet on Laughton, newspaper clippings, contract, telegram, photographs of

Laughton and Rosa Hart.

6 1951-52 Season: 20th Century notes, newspaper clippings, telegrams,

correspondence, five programs (two autographed), Kansas City Southern Lines

News article on George Boudreaux.

7 1951-52 Season: photographs of the play 20th Century and of Silver Anniversary

fund raising, photographs of George Boudreaux.

8-9 1951-52 Season: Voice of the Turtle notes, copies of Stable Talk, copy of

magazine Anepuka, copy of Dixie Magazine from Times-Picayune,

correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the play and of the

Little Theatre building.

10 1951-52 Season: Rain presented by University of Houston Theatre newspaper

clippings, notes, correspondence, program.

10 1-5 1951-52 Season: Snow Queen newspaper clippings, telegrams, notes, eight

programs (two autographed), correspondence, and photographs.

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11 1952-53 Season

1-4 Happy Time two programs, newspaper clippings, notes, script, reprint of article

from Shakespeare Quarterly, cover of booklet designed by Boyd Cruise,


5-6 Come Back, Little Sheba presented by New Orleans Little Theatre in association

with Tulane University three programs, newspaper clippings, program from New

Orleans production, correspondence, notes, program from "The Milky Way" a

Playbox production from Texas, and photographs.

7-9 Darkness At Noon three programs (two autographed), notes, newspaper

clippings, pages from Time Magazine January 26, 1953, correspondence,

telegrams, booklet from Theatre Production Service, script, and photographs.

12 1952-53 Season (continued)

1-2 Remains To Be Seen newspaper clippings, three programs (one autographed),

notes, two letters about a contest concerning the play, copy of Pittsburgh People

with article about LT, and photographs.

3-5 Bell, Book and Candle book cover for Magic in Mexico, newspaper clippings,

four programs (two autographed), notes, correspondence, notes on Masque of

Kings at the Pioneer Club, KPLC News Item, photographs, and set description.

13 1-3 1953-54 Season: Out of the Frying Pan four programs (two autographed),

newspaper clippings, tickets, two scripts, notes, and photographs.

4-5 1953-54 Season: The Hasty Heart three programs (two autographed), newspaper

clippings, correspondence, railway receipt, and photographs.

6-7 1953-54 Season: Henry IV, Part I presented by McNeese State College's Bayou

Players newspaper clippings, three programs (two autographed), correspondence,

notes, article from Seventeen Magazine, and photographs.

14 1-2 1953-54 Season: Born Yesterday three programs (two autographed), telegrams,

newspaper clippings, negatives of the stage, and photographs.

3-5 1954-55 Season: Mr. Roberts newspaper clippings, notes, cast lists,

correspondence, telegrams, copy of contract for Jeffrey Lynn to perform, two

scripts, four programs (two autographed), and dogtags.

6-7 1954-55 Season: The Fourposter three programs (two autographed), newspaper

clippings, telegrams, correspondence, and photographs.

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14 8-9 1954-55 Season: The Man presented by San Antonio Little Theatre two programs

(both autographed), one San Antonio program, notes, newspaper clippings,


15 1-4 1954-55 Season: photographs from Mr. Roberts.

16 1-2 1954-55 Season: Le Carnival and Androcles and the Lion negatives,

correspondence, notes, three programs (two autographed), and photographs.

3-4 1954-55 Season: My 3 Angels newspaper clippings, five programs (one

autographed), notes of past history of LT, KPLC news items, and photographs.

5-8 1954-55 Season: Detective Story four programs (two autographed), newspaper

clippings, telegrams, and photographs.

17 1955-56 Season

1-2 Quality Street two programs (autographed), correspondence, newspaper clippings,

and photographs,

3-4 The Remarkable Mr. Penny Packer newspaper clippings, and photographs

5-6 Stalag 17 two programs (autographed), correspondence, contract for Hurd

Hatfield, telegrams, notes, newspaper clippings, program from the Utica

Community Theatre, and photographs.

7 High Ground newspaper clippings, two programs (autographed), and

photographs.

8 Happy Birthday presented by the Baton Rouge Little Theatre notes, newspaper

clippings, tickets, four programs, correspondence, telegrams, and photographs.

18 1956-57 Season

1-2 Barefoot in Athens two scripts, two articles on Socrates, newspaper clippings,

correspondence, notes, map of Athens, five programs (two autographed),

phonograph album of the reading of the play (outside of the folder), and

photographs.

3 Solid Gold Cadillac newspaper clippings and photographs.

4 The Fifth Season presented by the Stage, Inc. of Beaumont, Texas newspaper

clippings, program from production in Beaumont, two programs from the LT

production (autographed), and photographs.

5 The Lark newspaper clippings, notes, three programs (two autographed),

correspondence, letter from Lillian Hellman, two large photographs of scenes and

cast (outside of the folder).

19 1 1957-58 Season: Death of a Salesman four programs (two autographed), script,

notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

2 1957-58 Season: Teahouse of the August Moon four programs, sign from play,

notes, and newspaper clippings.

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19 3 1958-59 Season: Sabrina Fair two programs (autographed), newspaper clippings,

and photographs.

4 1958-59 Season: White Sheep of the Family two programs (autographed),

newspaper clippings, photograph of Edward Everett Horton, hotel bill, and

correspondence from Horton.

5 1959-60 Season: The Rainmaker newspaper clippings.

6 1959-60 Season: Visit to a Small Planet newspaper clippings.

7 1964 Season: A Divertissment three programs, invitations, correspondence, and

photographs.

8 Once Upon a Mattress one program including photographs, notes

9 Camelot two programs including photographs, notes

Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries B Postcard Collection


1 Postcards

Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries C Europe Trip


1 Scrapbook of 1951 trip to Europe with Charlotte Tucker (donated by Tucker):

Photographs, playbills, postcards, brochures.

Travel diary of 1956 trip to Europe with Anne Belle Dees and Isabel Heinke,

vaccination certificate, Russian phrase book, passport and passport photographs,

itineraries, clippings, maps, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs of tourist

attractions.

Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries D Contest Notebooks


1 Notebooks, notes, correspondence, contest entries, and photographs (Rosa Hart,

Dick Pease, Alice Muth, and Charles Gardier), ca. 1940-ca. 1960.

Series 1 Scrapbooks Subseries E Newcomb Girls' College


1 Scrapbook and other memorabilia of Hart’s activities at Newcomb, Ca. 1920.

Includes Hart's diploma, postcards, souvenirs from a trip to Mexico, photographs

of Hart as a Tulane cheerleader (2), and two Jambalaya yearbooks, 1920 and

1921.

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Series 2 Playbills and Programs


1 1 New York City Ballet

2 Gotham Life Dec. 17-23, 1939

3 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1956

4 Maurice Evans Presents Shakespeare's Hamlet in its Entirety

5 Royal Shakespeare Theatre Measure for Measure

6 The Country Girl Omaha Community Playhouse

7 Clarence Day's Life With Father

8 Paul Robeson as Othello

9 Annie Get Your Gun

10 Summertime Light Opera presents Rudolph Friml's Rose Marie

11 Olsen and Johnson present Hellz a Poppin

12 A Midsummer Night's Dream California Festival Season 1934

13 Colonel W. deBasil's Ballets Russes

14 Mary of Scotland by Maxwell Anderson

15 The Pilgrimage Play Life of Jesus Christ

16 The Ten Chronicle Plays of W. Shakespeare

17 Katherine Cornell - Stage Portraits

18 Gilbert Miller presents Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina

19 American Shakespeare Festival Opening Soon 1955, Julius Caesar, The Tempest

20 Paul Gregory presents Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (2

copies)

21 Turnabout Theatre Souvenir Program

22 Municipal Auditorium Shreveport Herman Shumlin presents Tallulah Bankhead

in The Little Foxes

23 Peter Pan

24 Who Am I? Peter Pan

25 The Southern Shakespeare Repertory Theatre - Shakespeare

26 The Shipstads and Johnson - Ice Follies 1945

27 George White's Scandals

28 Michael Todd's Mexican Hayride

29 Oklahoma

2 1 Little Theatre of Shreveport The Silver Whistle

2 Studio M Playhouse presents Sweet Bird of Youth

3 Flat Rock Playhouse - The Vagabond Players

4 Theatre 54 The Purification and The Apollo of Bellac

5 Baton Rouge Civic Theatre Craig's Wife

6 Theatre Royal Haymarket Ross

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2 7 Bulletin, Scottish Community Drama Association, Jan. 1957

8 Gallery Circle's Arena Presentation of Rope

9 The Curtain Call of the Little Theatre of Charlotte

10 Little L Theatre of Shreveport Reclining Figure

11 Provincetown Playhouse - Three Plays of the Sea

12 St. James Theatre Peter Pan

13 Music Box Theatre The Man Who Came to Dinner

14 Forty-Eighth Street Theatre Harvey

15 Empire Theatre Life With Father

16 Shubert Theatre The Philadelphia Story

17 Manhattan Center Cabaret Tac

18 Washington Civic Theatre presents Merrily We Roll Along

19 New Theatre Under Milk Wood

20 Grist Mill Playhouse Season of 1952

21 Community Theatre of Terre Haute presents The Shrike

22 Players Club The Great Big Doorstep

23 Alley Theatre presents Angelica

24 The Metropolitan Host

25 Showplace, The Magazine of Radio City Music Hall

26 Guild Theatre The World We Make

27 Adelphi Theatre See My Lawyer

28 Booth Theatre The Time of Your Life

29 Kungl Dramatiska Teatern Lang Dags Fard Mot Natt (Long Day's Journey Into

Night)

30 The Playhouse The Shop at Sly Corner

31 Morosco Theatre Skylark

32 Longacre Theatre Morning's at Seven

33 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Key Largo

34 The Music Box Theatre The Man Who Came To Dinner

35 National Theatre The Little Foxes

36 Imperial Theatre Too Many Girls

37 Chicago Stagebill, Selwyn Theatre My Dear Children

38 Martin Beck Theatre Ladies and Gentlemen

39 Hudson Theatre State of the Union

40 Bijou Theatre Life With Father

41 Empire Theatre O Mistress Mine

42 Barter Theatre's 17th Season June 20 to Sept. 3, 1949

43 Teatro Dell' Opera Terme Di Caracalla Stagione Lirica Estiva MCMLVI - La

Gioconda

44 Plymouth Theatre Margin for Error

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2 45 Ethel Barrymore Theatre The Consul

46 Broadhurst Theatre The Barrier

47 Henry Miller Theatre The Cocktail Party

48 Coronet Theatre Hilda Crane

49 Shubert Theatre Kiss Me Kate

50 Empire Theatre The Member of the Wedding

51 Plymouth Theatre The Happy Time

52 Arena Theatre Arms and the Man

53 Nashville Community Playhouse Born Yesterday

54 Community Theatre of Terre Haute Stalag 17

55 Community Theatre of Terre Haute Lo and Behold

56 Alvin Theatre Mister Roberts

57 Morosco Theatre Death of a Salesman

58 Royale Theatre Affairs of the State

59 Majestic Theatre South Pacific

60 Martin Beck Theatre The Curious Savage

61 Forty-Eighth Street Theatre Black Chiffon

62 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Hope for the Best

63 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Much Ado About Nothing

64 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Over Twenty-One

65 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Out of the Frying Pan

66 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre The Visitor

67 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre When Ladies Meet

68 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre The Witching Hour

69 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Uncle Harry

70 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre For Keeps

71 Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre A Bell for Adano

72 Fred Miller Theatre Sabrina Fair

73 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre The Merchant of Venice

74 Forty-Fourth Street Theatre Follow the Girls

75 Music Hall Hamlet

76 Alvin Theatre Something for the Boys

77 Longacre Theatre 3 Is A Family

78 Ziegfield Theatre Seven Lively Arts

79 Majestic Theatre Dream With Music

80 Shubert Theatre Catherine Was Great

81 Imperial Theatre Song of Norway

82 Forty-Eighth Street Theatre Pick-Up Girl

83 Biltmore Theatre Kiss and Tell

84 Chicago Stagebill of Blackstone Theatre Good Night Ladies

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2 85 Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Under Milk Wood

86 Bulletin, Scottish Community Drama Association, Sept. 1957

87 Cort Theatre The Diary of Anne Frank

88 Morosco Theatre Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

89 Theatre Royal Haymarket The Doctor's Dilemma

90 Cheltenham Little Theatre The Lady's Not for Burning

91 Civic Playhouse, Cheltenham Peer Gynt

92 The University Theatre of the University of Iowa Father Was President

93 Abbey Plays 1899-1948 Dublin, Ireland

94 Theatre Royal Haymarket The Chalk Garden

95 Turnabout Theatre The Playgoer

96 Pageantry Productions Limited presents A Fair White Tower

97 G.I. Joe presents Prop Wash

98 Martin Beck Theatre A Connecticut Yankee

99 Imperial Theatre Too Many Girls

100 Walnut St. Theatre Champagne For Everybody

101 SSSeamparohae Heserve???

102 On Stage, The Magazine for the Shubert Theatre in Detroit Two For the Seesaw

103 Dallas Theatre Center Julius Caesar

104 Landry Memorial School Beau Jesters

Series 3 Scripts


1 1-2 Untitled script of a play about New Orleans in the 1890s (labeled “Property of

E.J. Carstens”).

3 Lorena Bride - The Report Card

4 Alexander Fedoroff - A Beast is Dead

5 Keith R. Gates - Annals of a Palace, Don El Monto, Il Tempesta Di Norte

6 Henry David Wilson - The Snowy Dove

7 Untitled script of a play about Denver, 1859.

8 Untitled script of a play about a hotel.

9 Zoe Leger - The Deer Park, The Divining Rod

10 B.A. Kazan - Heaven Ltd., Reunion, The Schotkun, Ellis Island, My Uncle Mendle

11 Lt. Walter F. Grandy - I Married a Bachelor

12 Charles L. Yoder - Maelstrom

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2 1 Seth Hathaway - Past Imperfect

2 Laurraine Goreau - Museum Piece

3 Mac's Camera Shop - Double Exposure

4 Louis Gaston Gardemal - When the Bough Breaks, Capital Idea

5 Jelks Jones - Actors Paradise

6 Elsa Neuberger - Louisa

7 Moonshine

8 Kate Jones Pickett - O Tempora! O Mores! or What's Wrong

9 Episode One - Columbus at the Court of Queen Isabella

10 When the Maid's Away, the Wife Can Play

11 Untitled script of a play.

12 Robert Howard - This One Thing

13 Norman Corwin - Untitled

14 Red Velvet Goat

15 Raymond J. Martinez - Mr. Nobody

16 Ernst Tyme - One More Wave

17 William L. Shirer - The Traitor

18 “An Interview with Distinguished Broadway Actors,” The Convict Returns, and

Dr. Bryce's Adventure.

Series 4 Correspondence


1 1 1920's letters (6 items)

- Letters from Dorothy M. Ellis and from Robert Benchley - Life Magazine.

2 1930's letters (8 items):

- Letters from Emeru & Kaufman Insurance; Alexandria Little Theatre; and

Pitman Publishing Corp.

- Letter from Hart to Samuel French Co.

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1 3 1940's Correspondence (79 items):

- Letters from Annie Laurie Williams Inc.; Lucien Doucet, Jr. of the Jennings

LT; Charles Martin; International Pictures Corp.; C.L. Shaver of the LSU Speech

Dept.; Virginia R. Moon; Irene Manning; Warren C. Odgen of the Times

Picayune; E.J. Carstens; Radie Harris; Walter McElroy of Hastings House Pub.;

J.F. Trump of The Play Box; Richard Owen of Eagle Lion Films; Stanley W.

Heath of Westminster Press; Doris M. Combre; Billie Trahan of the Teen

Tavern; LSU Bureau of Dramatic Activities; Crowley LT; Port Arthur LT;

Andrew J. Loeffler of the Dramatists Play Service; Carmen de Laureal Gardiner

of the N.O. Symphony Society; and Dorman E. Richardson of the Repertoire LT,

Toledo Ohio.

- Letters from Hart to Samuel French Co.; Eaves; John Wray Young of the

Shreveport Little Theatre; We, The People – CBS; Bob Weinman; J.L. Kaufman;

Mrs. T.A. Dees, Mrs. Margaret Doan, Mrs. L.L. Harris, Mrs. C.A. Lyons; (Eva?);

and Ethel.

- Correspondence between Hart and Lennen and Mitchell, Inc.

- Correspondence between Hart and Bert Elsas.

- Letter from John F. Elzey to Abner Horn.

- Letter from Esta L. Phillips to Marjorie Wilson.

- Letter from from Dick Suhre to Earl Crum (cc Hart).

- Letter from Marion K. Reed to Sugar Branch Office, N.O.

- Correspondence between Hart and Rhodes Scholarships Comm.in re: Herbert

Hadley.

4 1940's Correspondence (continued) (48 items):

- Letters from S.E. Montgomery; the Vinton Literary Club; RKO Pathe Inc.;

Betty LeJeune; Katherine Doescher - sec. to Mordelo Vincent; Letitia D. Caffery;

Richard A. Anderson - Red Cross Award; Crowley LT - Mrs. Freda Scholl;

George Hale - Morristown, TN LT; Herb Voland - playbill attached; Sarah

Shufeldt - Thibodaux Literary Club; Dorothy M. Ellis; Philip Kaye - Theatre

Goers, S.D.; Stanley Ross - Sunday Star, Del.; Fritz Henle - NY photographer;

Mrs. Fran Yeargers - Opelousas Women's Club; Paul ? - Commercial Appeal,

Memphis, TN; Dottie Van Dyne; and the Winsbergs.-Letters from Hart to Frank

of Life Magazine; Mary of Life Magazine; Stanley Anderson;

- Letters from Marion Reed to RKO Pictures and to E.V. Richards

- Correspondence between Marion Reed and Warner Bros.

- Correspondence between Marion Reed and Irving Mack.

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- Letters from Fritz Henle - NY photographer; Seth G. Hathaway; Sid -

Television Bureau of Advertising, NY; Sam Baum; Seymour - The Goldman;

W.M. Tugman; Betty Jane Nobe - Jennings LT; Mrs. E.J. Browning; Edwin T.

Connell; Mrs. A.R. Downing; Mary Nelson; Mary Lee Phillips; Mordelo

Vincent; Blair Wilcox - includes photo and clippings; Gaston L. Porterie;

Richard; Michael; Gene Broussard; Talbot Pearson; H.M. Taliaferro; Karl

Ashburn; William Schaefer - Warner Bros.; Bob Tallant; Brooks - N.Y. Times;

Wilbert Hammel; Elizabeth Schenk - concerning Bennett Cerf; Louisette Roser;

Loia Cheaney; John E. Lavery; Faye Emerson; E.V. Richards; Margaret Case

Harriman; Douglas Travers; J.M. Musgrave; Mrs. John J. Carroll; Beatrice

Burnaby; Christopher J. Blake; Jefferson Caffery; Elizabeth B. Gilbert; Mordelo

Vincent; Scott; Elsa Grossman; Mrs. W.C. Gardiner; Ethel Crumb Brett; Paul

Gregory; and Bert Elsas.

- Letters from Hart to Britain Travel Association; Mr. Atkinson - Times

Magazine - concerning 25th

anniversary of the LT; Albert McCleery; Leonard

Goldenson; Bob O'Donnell; Charles Skouras; LT Enthusiasts; J. Douglas

Travers; Opera producer "Railroad" Hour; and Mr. Luce.

- Letter from Richard A. Anderson to Margaret Conover

- Letter from Talbot Pearson to Clark Weaver

- Letter from Loia Cheaney to J. Douglas Travers

- Letter from Newell Brock to Mrs. John J. Carroll

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1 6 1950's Correspondence (continued) (66 items):

- Letters from Monroe Lippman; P.E. Bewshea - British Overseas Airways;

Louisette Roser; Pauline Syler - Ford Times; Buddy Wyatt; Blance Butler -

Shreveport Desk and Derrick; Hallmark Cards; Ray; P.D. Ginder - Camp Polk;

Edwin Loechel; Larry Guillory, Jo Ann Medrano, and Carol Ashburn; Mr. and

Mrs. A.G. Pierson; Mrs. B.N. Holt, Jr.; Shirley Gayle; Warren C. Odgen - Dixie

Roto Magazine; Gilmor Brown; Michele Reiner and Jane Amondsen; Loraine

Anderson; Emmett Rogers; Max Newman; Charles L. Yoder; Stephen Zoll; Betty

Carp; Claire; Jack F. Dailey; Elizabeth Burdick; Ruth R. Mayleas; Jacob J.

Brogger; A.L. Caney; George Kalenin; Henry R. Luce; Marie Darnels; and Harry

Wilcox - AT&T

- Letters from Hart to Louisette Roser

- Letter from “irate VP” to Fritizi Krause.

- Letter to Look Magazine.

- Letters from Richard Anderson to Annabel Aberle; George Hines; and William

Coleman.

- Letter from Daniel S. Mead to Richard B. McCaughan


- Letters from Dorothy Olney Armand - Deuktsch Prod.; Harriet Hall; Beverly

Bennett - Life Magazine; Ruth Harrison Scurlock (Nobie); Sam "Tony Davis"

Depino; Elliott Chaze; John and Victoria Sandor; John; Danny Crockett; Editors

of Reader's Digest; Joseph Carroll - Sports Illustrated; Dorothy Richey; Margo C.

Boote - Norcross Inc.; Pinky; William Hunter; Barclay Peyton; Lady Leah

Hathaway; Jos. J. Vincent; Eric Lasher - This Week Magazine; and Ruth Sullivan.

- Letter from Hart to This Week Magazine.

- Letter from Barbara McClure to Mordelo Vincent

- Post cards from the Vincents and Wilcoxes.

- Letters from Mary Louise Stone to Hart and to “Mama and Bessie.”

- Letters from Warren C. Odgen - Dixie Roto Magazine.

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2 2 Undated correspondence (115 items):

- Letters from Mel Pomerantz; Carol; Peggy Mengis; Mrs. W.N. Cutcliff; Olivia;

Layne; Mrs. Ira A. Spear; Alice, Walt, and Diana Dunn; Louise Wabie; Bertha

Louisa; Alin; Raymond Titmouse; Don Evans; Alex Fadoff; Sid Mesibov; Don

Land; Jeannette Verduzco; St. Patrick's Hospital; Merita; Eleos; Hannah; Freda;

Mr. Valdes; M. Dees; R. Duffin; Kenneth K. Rose (letter signed “Rodney” with

clippings); Edward J. Crowley; Gene; Renie Riano (includes photographs); Jim

Miller (includes photographs); Amy Bullock; and L.S. Sardemal.

- Letters from Hart to Margery; Bill; MacPhersons; Milton, Norma and the baby;

Publishers - Ford Times; Lil; Loia Cheaney; Claude Rains; Rachel; Nathan; New

Yorker; Bert (Mrs. L.J. Elsas); Andrew Loeffier; Editor - Life Magazine; Cast &

Crew - all workers; Jack and Emily

- Correspondence between Hart and Robert C. Freeman - Simmons Co.

- Postcards from Virginia Harwood.

- Letter from J.W. to Bishop Manning.

- Letter from Emma Wilson to “Ideas.”

- Letter from George to “Travelers.”

- Letters, cards, clippings, photographs from Emily Kimbrough (16 items).

- Letters from George Freedley (includes manuscripts of "The Community

Theatre" publicity material, photographs, and other material) (28 items).

- Letters from Mrs. Parry F. Schippers (includes manuscripts and poetry) (31

items).

- Letters and manuscript from Frederic Nelson Little (16 items).

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3 1 Letters from Harnett Kane (21 items)

2 Correspondence with Gene Cuny (23 items)

3 Letters from: Bette Davis - includes pamphlet, Vincent Price - includes clipping,

Art Linkletter, Bennett Cerf, Hunter C. Leake, Moss Hart, Peter Ustinov (12 items)

4 Letters from H.L. Mencken (12 items)

5 Letters from James McConnell includes clippings, manuscripts, copy of the Worm

Runner's Digest, copy of Science and Sanity (107 items)

6-7 Correspondence with Weeks Hall including a few snapshots and clippings, some

correspondence from others mentioning Hall, some undated, a few from the

1950's, most from the 1930's (201 items).

8 Letters from Boyd Cruise including clippings (39 items).

Series 5 Photographs


1 1-2 photographs from plays, LT workers, individuals

3 I-10 bridge; Ola Mae Dixon; Ken Dixon; Anne Smythe; Amy Bullock; E.V.

Richards; Z.G. Deutsch; Bob O'Donnell; Mrs. C.A. Richardson; Paramount

Theatre; George Ruckstuhl; Ed Daugherty and L.V. Harris; Jack Minnis; Arthur

Fanz; Wells Fargo - Little Theatre (before and after fire); Mary Ellie Leonhart;

Harry Bride and Mary Bono; William Ray, Maxine Ray, Wm. Ray, Jr., Pete

Novak, Augie Gromponi, Felix Scimineno, Charlotte Tucker, Hart, and other

females; Mrs. N.W. Read, Mrs. Carl Bankston, and Essa Mae Little; Bill

McClanahan; Gov. Sam Jones; Ellis Arnall; Jean Dalrymple and Maj. Gen. P.D.

Ginder; Agnes Moorehead, Hart, and others; Sir Hubert Wilkins; E.C. Hickson;

Hart with (Jean Kerr?); Evelyn Roberts; Joyce Cranford; Clyde Stewart; Alan

Dees; Ted Durham with Marjorie Wilson and Ed Daugherty, with Hart, and with

Charlotte Tucker and Gordon Gano; and Bill Merteno and Famsey McCleod.

4 Family photographs and friends, Hart, Fannie Hart, I.T. Hart, Jacobs family,

mostly unidentified, Lake Charles High School photo

5 Negatives

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Series 6 Miscellaneous


1 Associated Summer Suckers - pages from scrapbook, newspaper clippings,

minutes of meetings, and notes, ca. 1940-ca. 1960.

2 1-4 Committee and membership lists, financial records, clippings, short stories, play

production notes, notecards, tickets, membership drive material, etc., ca. 1940-

ca. 1962.

3 1-3 Committee and membership lists, financial records, clippings, short stories, play

production notes, notecards, tickets, membership drive material, etc., ca. 1940-

ca. 1962.

4 1 Nellie Lutcher - This Is Your Life clippings, correspondence, and telegrams,

1953.

2 American Magazine article about the Little Theatre, notes, and correspondence,

1950.

3 Pageant article about the Little Theatre by Harnett Kane, clippings, and

correspondence, 1950.

4 Tulane Conference notes, clippings, and correspondence, 1954.

5 Richard II, Beaumont Group clippings, correspondence, and notes, 1952.

6 John Mason Brown clippings, telegrams, correspondence, and photograph, 1952.

5 1 Rosa Hart biographical materials, newspaper clippings, awards, typescript of

article from the McNeese Review "Assert the Stage," also Little Theatre historical

material, list of plays performed, history of site locations, article from Players

Magazine, also some information on Fannie Hart, Rosa Hart's mother

2 River Road notebook of sketches by E.C. and Anne S. McGehee and illustrated

by Herbert Freeman, 1959 (inscribed to “Rosa,” 1961).

3 Little Theatre and Ted Durham - scholarship, clippings

Articles: Final Curtain (2 copies); Rosa; Encores on Main Street - misc. items:

necklace and ring; loving cup, 1951, McNeese Award for Cultural Leadership;

one roll of 16 mm motion picture film, appears to be children in an outside

performance of The Tempest with Rosa.

Documents

Rosa Hart Papers - McNeese State Universityereserves.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/pdfs/Hart001.pdfRosa Lucille Hart, 1900-1964, was born in Woodville, Mississippi, A graduate of Sophie