The Bohemian girl
Contributors: Bunn, Alfred, 1796?-1860; Balfe, M. W. (Michael William), 1808-1870; Pahnke, Richard J., donor; National Sylvan Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1934
Language: eng
Description: Third Summer Festival program. The Estelle Wentworth Opera Group in "The Bohemian Girl," words by Alfred Bunn, music by Michael William Balfe, staged and direccted by Estelle Wentworth. Estelle Wentworth at the piano, lighting and stage effects by Harold Snyder, amplification by the National Electrical Supply Company of Washington.
Notes: Washington Sylvan Theatre, Washington Monument, Wednesday, June 27, 1934, 8:15 P.M.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Ira P. Meyer, Eugene Stevens, Evelyn Yeide, Mary Bruton, J. Raymond Baine, Harry E. Yeide, R.R. Edwards, Melville Veitch, Thomas Zepp, Mildred Sherman, Alma Harris, John Dulin, Walter Snellings, Clyde Phillis, Vincent Pisciotta, Richard Smith, Adrian Smith, Dave Carter, Paul Wagner, George Hayes, Mary Day and Betty Yoder of the Lisa Gardiner Dance Group, Lucy Chacones, Alice Foust, Margaret Horn, Germaine Johnson, Mary Kelly, Carolyn Milheim, Margaret Phillips, Florence Snellings, Stefania Shimon, Helen Tucker, Margaret Vogt, Irene White, Anne Wilson, Perfield Connor, R.R. Edwards, Jack Hasler, Carl Horn, Bill Hutton, John Dulin, Dick Lamb, Edwin Ludwig, CLyde Phillips, Vincent Pisciotta, Walter Snellings, Joseph Stapleton, Charles Strickler, Thomas Zepp.

LC copy has handwritten note on back of program: "Fairly well presented but a single piano cannot take the place of an orchestra. Voices [pretty?] good. R.J. Pahnke, Washington, D.C., June 28, 1934. Accompanied by 2 newspaper clippings "Unit to sing Balfe opera under stars" from The Washington Herald, June 24, 1934 and "Sylvan Theater throng charmed by Bohemian Girl" from the Washington Herald, June 28, 1934.

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