The straw
Contributors: Rickabaugh, Clive; Sutherland, Victor; O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953; Dean, W. Tucker, donor; Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.); Blackstone Theatre (Organization : Chicago, Ill.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1937
Language: eng
Description: Blackstone Theatre, 7th and Michigan Ave. The Federal Theatre, USA Work program WPA, Hallie Flanagan, national director, Harry Minturn, acting director for Chicago presents the first Chicago performance of Eugene O'Neill's "The Straw," directed by Harry Minturn, asst. director Victor Sutherland, settings by Clive Rickabaugh, scenery constructed by Messrs. Schlesinger, Jackson, Neiglick of the Federal Theatre Workshop, costumes by Margaret Rand, made in Federal Theatre Costume Shop, lighting by Duncan Whiteside.
Notes: Blackstone Theatre [Chicago, Illinois], starting Tuesday evening, October 26, 1937.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Glen Beveridge, Constance Belmont, Lorraine Walsh, Charlie Ackerman, Aaron Ruben, Otis Gordinier, Lester Podewell, Beverly Younger, Don Koehler, Fannie Ellien Vivian Holt, Vincent Coleman, Maurice Cazdan, Alfred Clark, Hazel Haslam, Herbert Slade, Violet LeClair, Patricia O'Hearn, Leslie Spears, Myrtle Bigden, Dorothy Karl, Marion Cashman, Josephine Flynn, Belle Hickman, Lila Dean Lee, Felicia Terry, Elizabeth Sexton, May Adams, Carlotta Pacelli, Ruth Smyth, Vera Pollitt, Chas. N. Lum, Patrick Butler, Chas. Ernst, Thomas J. Browne, Edgar Tegner, Jack Herman, John W. Bean, Chas. Gordinier, Forrest Smith, Earl George, William Courneen, Michael Ferrall.

"Next attraction: a revival of George Bernard Shaw's 'The Devil's Disciple'"

LC copy: Gift: W. Tucker Dean, Jan. 23, 1941.

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