A midsummer night's dream
Contributors: Pahnke, Richard J., donor; National Sylvan Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1934
Language: eng
Description: Seventh Summer Festival 1934, National Sylvan Theatre, Washington Monument, Monday and Tuesday, July 30 and 31. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" presented by the Washington Community Players under the auspices of the Community Center Department and the Office of National Capital Parks. George Farrington, director, assisted by Esther Galbraith, John Sikken. Howard Whitfield, stage manager, W.S. Jackson, amplified recordings, Alice Louise Hunter, dance director, William Cornell, amplification, Dorothy Hobley, pianist, Louise Wynne Costumes, Harold Snyder, lighting and stage effects, Louis Noreteau, lighting.
Notes: Washington Sylvan Theatre, Washington Monument, Monday and Tuesday, July 30 and 31, 1934.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Thomas M. Cahill, Maurice Jarvis (Chester Ring), Herman P. Riess, John Kendrick, William P. Kilgore, Kent Dyer, W.W. Heintz, Jesse Veitch, James M. Rawls, Stanley Protheroe, William Austin Davis, Jean Smith, Cynthia Hathaway, Adele Whiteside, John Lloyd Sikken, Nancy Hall, Howard Whitfield, Georgia Hiden, Frances Rands, Lora Wills, Fillis Speich, Kenneth Frisbie, Terry MacPhearson, Aaron Kaplan, Allen Stephens, Christine Irish, Mary Apple, Mildred Archer, Winifred Bowman, Betty Galbraith, Jean Munn, Alice Louise Runter, Lora Allen, Marjorie Beall, Beryl Cancelose, Kathleen Davis, Leila Curley, Marjorie McGann, Jeanne Milette, Kathleen Piazza, Polly Prickett, Marie St. John, Anne Vucinovich, Charlotte Walton, Barbara Worrell.

LC copy has handwritten note on program: "Good a. enjoyable. R.J. Pahnke, July 30-34". Accompanied by 2 newspaper clippings from the Washington Herald, August 5, 1834 "Crowds fill hillside for play in open" by Jessie MacBride and "Shakespeare play here tonight" (no date, source unidentified, incomplete).

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