Racketty-Packetty House
Contributors: Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924; Corning, John Herbert, d. ca. 1940, donor; Washington Center of the Drama League of America. Junior Department; Belasco Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1914
Language: eng
Description: "Racketty Packetty House". Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C. The Junior Department of the Washington Center of the Drama League for the benefit of The House of Play will present "Racketty Packetty House" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, under direction of Clinton Hamilton, as at Children's Theatre, in New York, at this theatre. Original Children's Theatre production, supplemented by 35 Washington children in cast. Mr. Clintin Hamilton staged the play, Mrs. Glenna S. Tinnin collected the children, Mr. Vivian Burnett, son of the author, composed the little airs. C. Alexander Ramsey made the cute little costumes, Gates and Morange did the scene painting, William Moore made the furniture; in fact, all the properties. Charles Hennion built the scenery, Benjamin Gregory fashioned the tiny wigs, Mr. Frank N. Brown, stage manager.
Notes: Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C. [1914], five matinees: Saturday morning, April 18, at 11 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, April 21, at 4 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, April 23, at 4 o'clock, Friday afternoon, April 24, at 4 o'clock, Saturday morning, April 25, at 11 o'clock.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Miss Rebecca Fordam Chany, Dorothy Brown, Katherine Foster, D. Chas. Morganthal, Helen Harter, Doris Vorkoeper, Clyde Sargent, Margaret Stewart, Edith Woodruff, Charles Foster, Ruth McKey, Marjorie Brown, Ruth Hall, George Edwards, Herbert E. Bradburn, Master Kingdon Brown, Hiram Johnson, Edith Atkinson, Martha Livingston, Ethel Sorrell, Ione Darcey, Frances Fuller, Phillipa McKey, Romana Rabak, Doris Eaton, George Monk, Denny Godwin, William Jones, Sarah Meyers, Mary Hemming, Mary Josephine Hornaday, Florence Anne Chambers, Vivian Woodruff, Miss Adeline Kent, Miss Marcia Murdock, Miss Margarete Fechteler, Miss Ruth Anderson.

LC copy: Gift: Est. of J.H. Corning, June 20, 1940.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).