Arnold Moss papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2100
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; Theater; Acting; Crossword puzzles; Drama; Library of Congress; Repertory theater; Production and direction; Shakespeare Festival Players; United States. Dept. of State; Universities and colleges
Description: General correspondence; theater file (1953-1987) comprising, correspondence, contracts. scripts, playbills and programs, financial records, clippings, and other papers; and subject file containing correspondence, notes, speeches, writings, drafts of crossword puzzles, clippings, and printed matter.  The collection documents Moss's career primarily as a stage actor, producer, and director and includes records of the Shakespeare Festival Players, a touring repertory company that Moss founded, and files on his adaptation and production of Bernard Shaw's play, Back to Methuselah (1957-1958), in which he played Shaw.   Also includes material on his activities as a specialist in theater for the U.S. Dept. of State traveling to Latin America, Africa, and the Far East; and his dramatic readings and presentations at the Library of Congress and at colleges and universities.  Correspondents include Philip Burton, Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, and Harold Prince.
Notes: Open to research.

In part, photocopies (positive).

Gift, Arnold Moss, 1966-1975.

Deposit, Arnold Moss, 1975-1987.

Converted to gift, 1999.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Actor, director, theatrical producer, and crossword puzzle maker.  Died 1989.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.