[Charles LaHood scrapbook of theater programs additional laid-in items]
Contributors: National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); Shubert-Belasco Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1919
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Specimens; Theater programs
Other titles: Henry V (Motion picture : 1944)
Description: Additional theater programs, playbills, souvenir programs and newspaper clippings originally laid in scrapbook compiled by Mr. Charles LaHood. Includes selected playbills and programs for performances in Washington, D.C. at the National Theatre from 1931-1943 and for some concerts and other performances from Washington, D.C. from 1919-1955.
Notes: Title devised by Library staff.

Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by William Shakespeare, Paul Green, Pearl S. Buck, Owen Davis, Donald Davis, Noel Coward, Charlotte Bronte, Helen Jerome, Rachel Crothers, Thomas Job, Franz Werfel, S.N. Behrman, Norman Krasna, Clarence Day, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Tennessee Williams, Paul Bowles, William Congreve, Sidney Howard, Will Irwin, Raymond Scott, Bernard Hanighen, John Van Druten, Ferenc Molnar, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd, J.B. Priestley, P.G. Wodehouse, John St. Ervine, Mary Chase, Paul Osborn, John P. Marquand, Jan de Hartog, James Branch Cabell, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Pietro Mascagni, C.B. Fernald, Franco Leoni, John L. Long, David Belasco, Giacomo A. Puccini, Umberto Giordano, Giuseppe Verdi and others.

Includes programs for performances by Burton Holmes, The Group Theatre, Inc., Gertrude Lawrence, Noel Coward, Katharine Hepburn, Osgood Perkins, Eva Le Gallienne, Joseph Schildkraut, Walter Hampden, Cecil Humphreys, Julie Haydon, Guy Sorel, Louis Calhern, Annabella, Oscar Karlweis, J. Edward Bromberg, The Theatre Guild, The Theatre Guild Shakespeare Company, Jessie Royce Landis, Romney Brent, Gina Malo, David Powell, Charles Francis, Howard Smith, Leona Powers, Lois Wheeler, William Talman, Edwin Maxell, Betty Alden, Laurence Olivier, Pauline Lord, John Gielgud, Dolly Haas, Yul Brynner, Louis Hector, Virginia Gilmore, Augustin Duncan, Marian Leeds, Charlotte Greenwood, Kurt Katch, Thomas Mitchell, Melville Cooper, Doris Lloyd, Rene Ray, John Buckmaster, Faye Emerson, Arthur Margetson, Ernest Cossart, Claud Allister, Francis Compton, Richard Hylton, Jane Cowl, Reginald Mason, Anne Meacham, Richard Verney, Frank Fay, Henry Fonda, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Joan Bennett, Zachary Scott, Ruth Draper and others.

Includes clippings from theater magazines from 1932: "Guild Notes" with pictures of Judith Anderson, Florence Reed, Crane Wilbur and scenes from "Mourning Becomes Electra" and views of scenes from "Springtime for Henry". Also includes articles "Summer Theatre, Ford's Eye View" by Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick;  "They crashed the stage door" by Howard Barnes and article "For Board and Lodging and Love of the Theatre: the cooperative actors at Hedgerow work fifty-two weeks of every year" and column "Events Abroad". Clippings include portraits of Wayland Rudd, Ann Harding, Jasper Deeter, Edith Barrett, and Anny Ahlers and scenes from "The Streets of New York," "Springtime for Henry," "Another Language," "The Bride the Sun Shines On," "When We Dead Awaken," and "The Emperor Jones". Includes newspaper clippings with reviews of 1936 plays "Tonight at 8:30" by Noel Coward at the National Theatre and "The Patriots" with Julie Haydon from 1943 with her portrait. Includes newspaper clipping from unknown newspaper [1936?] with caption "Think for Yourself" and clipping from The Washington Star from Dec. 4, 1943 about Jackson Place, Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. Also includes order form for tickets for Ruth Draper performance from the National Theatre.

LC copy: Gift: Mr. Charles LaHood, June 29, 1983.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Theater programs and playbills: National Theatre, Washington, D.C.: All Over Italy ([Nov.? 1931]); title: The Real Hollywood (Nov.? 1931]); title: The House of Connelly (week of Jan. 25, 1932); title: Too True to be Good (week of March 14, 1932); title: The Good Earth (week of Oct. 10, 1932); title: Tonight at Eight-Thirty (two weeks commencing Nov. 9, 1936); title: Jane Eyre (week of March 22, 1937); title: Ruth Draper in her Character Sketches (week of May 3, 1937) [2 copies]; title: Susan and God (week of Sept. 20, 1937); title: Uncle Harry (two weeks beginning Nov. 15, 1943; title: The Patriots (two weeks beginning Nov. 29, 1943); title: Jacobowsky and the Colonel (two weeks beginning Feb. 28, 1944); title: The Merry Wives of Windsor (two weeks, beginning April 29, 1946); title: Dear Ruth (week of July 29, 1946); title: Life With Father (week of Aug. 19, 1946); title: The Glass Menagerie (two weeks, beginning Feb. 3, 1947); title: Love for Love (two weeks, beginning May 13, 1947); title: Lute Song (three weeks, beginning May 26, 1947); title: I Remember Mama (week of Dec. 22, 1947); title: Carousel (week of Dec. 29, 1947); title: An Inspector Calls (two weeks beginning March 29, 1948); title: The Play's the Thing (two weeks beginning April 12, 1948); title: The First Mrs. Fraser (week of May 3, 1948); title: Harvey ([May 17-July 10, 1948]); title: Point of No Return (2 weeks beginning Dec. 1, 1952); title: The Fourposter (week of Jan. 12, 1953); title: Bell, Book and Candle ([Feb. 16-28, 1953]).; title: Theater programs and playbills: Washington, D.C.: Rhapsody in Black (Shubert-Belasco Theatre, week of April 14, 1931); title: Consideration of the Henry VI Plays / William Allen Wilbur. King Henry VI, part 3 (Shakespeare Society of Washington, Dec. 7, 1931); title: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Society of Washington, Oct. 5, 1931); title: Winters Tale (Shakespeare Society of Washington, Jan. 11, 1932); title: Henry V [motion picture] (Little Theatre, Nov. 7, 1946); title: Ruth Draper and her Company of Characters (Sam S. Shubert Theatre, week beginning Jan. 17, 1955).; title: Souvenir programs: Scotti Grand Opera Company. Performances of "Cavalleria Rusticana," "L'Oracolo," "Madam Butterfly" [1919?]; title: "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1932); title: "Dear Ruth" [between 1944-1946]; title: Jane Cowl in "The First Mrs. Fraser" (1947).; title: Concert and other programs: Wardman Park Hotel Orchestra, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 16, 1921); title: National Woman's Party Gardens, performance given by Miss Jean Wold for the benefit of the Woman's Party, includes performances of 2 one-act plays: The Jewel Merchants and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Washington, D.C. (Friday, May 25, [1923?]); title: The Music Circle of the Greensburg Department Club (Oct. 21, 1924); title: Chicago Civic Opera Company, Washington Auditorium, Washington, D.C. (Feb. 9-10, 13-14, 1925); title: The National Geographic Society, music by the United States Army Band. Presentation of the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh by the President of the United States [Calvin Coolidge], Washington, D.C. (Nov. 14, 1927); title: Recital: Mina Spaulding, Barbara Carson, Dorothy Girder Bailey. Women's City Club, Washington, D.C. (Sunday, March 10, [1929?]); title: The Metropolitan Opera Company, Fox Theatre, Washington, D.C. Performances of "La Boheme," "Andrea Chenier," "La Traviata" (April 23-25, 1930); title: Philadelphia Orchestra (Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 1931).